Ving Rhames

Ving Rhames
Date of Birth: 12 May 1959
Country: USA
Biography: Irving Rameses "Ving" Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor best known for his work in Bringing Out the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Baby Boy, Don King: Only in America, and the Mission: Impossible film series. (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 98 (Actor)
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Baby Boy
This is the story of Jody, an unemployed young black man, who's been living with his mother for several years, even though he's got a child of his own. Romantically, he's having relationships with two women: the mother, Yvette of his son, and a new interest. (imdb)
Bringing Out the Dead
Surrounded by the injured and the dying, EMS paramedic Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world, crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing lives. The film follows Frank over the course of fifty-six hours in his life as he reaches the very brink of spiritual collapse and redemption.
Con Air
A prison parolee (Cage) on his way to freedom faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he's on is skyjacked by the most vicious criminals in the country. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
Dark Blue
Over the course of four days, a brutal murder and a racially charged trial trigger and explosive chain of events that resonate throughout Los Angeles. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., two of the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad officers (Russell, Speedman) must track down cold-blooded killers and also face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. (MGM)
Dawn of the Dead
A nurse, a policeman, a street gang member, his wife, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall. (imdb)
Entrapment
An insurance agent is sent by her employer to track down and help capture an art thief.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Set on Earth in the year 2065, an invasion threatens to extinguish the remains of mankind and quite possibly every living creature on the planet. The fate of all life on Earth relies on one woman's determination. But time is running out. (Columbia Tristar)
Lilo & Stitch
A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually an notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law. (imdb)
Mission: Impossible
Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. (Paramount)
Mission: Impossible 2
A secret agent is sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera" (imdb)
Out of Sight
A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in. (imdb)
Pulp Fiction
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these and other characters prove to be woven together in ways none of them could ever fully understand.
Undisputed
The story of an undefeated world champion prize fighter (Rhames) who is convicted of rape and sent to prison, where he must confront and ultimately fight the reigning prison boxing champion (Snipes). (Miramax)
Jacob\
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him. (imdb)
Casualties of War
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. (imdb)
Striptease
A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her. (imdb)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
A tough detective's mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career. (imdb)
Dave
To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance, is put in his place.
The People Under the Stairs
Juvenile burglars break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their inbred children. (imdb)
Kiss of Death
A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster. (imdb)
Mission: Impossible III
Tom Cruise returns as Special Agent Ethan Hunt, who faces the mission of his life and a new villain (Hoffman) in Mission: Impossible III. Director J. J. Abrams ("Lost," "Alias") brings his unique blend of action and drama to the billion-dollar franchise. (Paramount Pictures)
Flight of the Intruder
After his co-pilot is killed, Jake Grafton, a carrier-based Intruder pilot, questions the purpose of Navy bombing missions... (imdb)
Holiday Heart
A drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter. (imdb)
Idlewild
Set against the backdrop of a 1930s southern speakeasy, Idlewild explores the lives of Percival (Benjamin), the club's shy piano player, and Rooster (Patton), the club's showy lead performer and manager. Idlewild synthesizes drama, music, cinema and style to bring the tale of struggling singers to life. (Universal)
Homicide
Policeman Bob Gold has to capture a murder that not even the FBI has been able to find. But before he can even start he is re-assigned to the murder of an old lady in a black area. The evidence points at a Jewish group and he discovers connections between them and his previous case. (imdb)
Animal
Animal (2005) - Direct-to-Video
Animal is a violent gang member sentenced to prison, leaving his young son to grow up alone on the streets. While in prison, Animal meets an aging black revolutionary who changes the way Animals sees himself and his place in the world. When Animal returns home many years later, now a reformed man, he discovers his son has assumed his life of crime and must find a way to tear down the gangster legacy that he created himself. (imdb)
Sins of the Father
Thirty years ago a tragic event shocked the nation. Now, one son must find the courage to tell the truth and bring his father to justice.
Blood In, Blood Out
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself.(imdb)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station: two guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Grateful Chuck owes Larry his life, and Larry, a widower, calls in that favor big time when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All Chuck has to do is claim to be Larry's domestic partner on some city forms. Easy.
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead (2008) - Direct-to-Video
When the world is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors head to an underground military bunker in a last ditch effort to stay alive. (imdb)
Sin
Ving Rhames goes after the men who raped and tried to kill his sister.
Beef
A documentary on the evolution of MC battles from verbal one-upmanship to street warfare. (imdb)
Patty Hearst
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture. (imdb)
A Broken Life
Tortured by his own mediocrity, Max decides to commit suicide and recruits his only friend Bud, a struggling filmmaker, to record his last day on earth. Bent on exacting revenge, Max tracks down and finally confronts his overbearing Boss and his ex-wife. His rage builds until his last day is turned upside down by the kindness of a young woman in a wheelchair. Just moments from his own end, Max finds hope but is it too late to fix what is broken? (imdb)
Body Count
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own. (imdb)
Shooting Gallery
Shooting Gallery (2005) - Direct-to-Video
A street-smart pool player falls in with a pack of hustlers. As he rises in the underground circuit, he lands in the middle of a match between his boss and a crooked cop. (imdb)
Native Son
In the Chicago of the 1930s, a young black man goes to work as a chauffeur for a wealthy white family, and tragedy ensues.
The Long Walk Home
Mary Steenburgen narrates this quiet but powerful film from the point of view of a young white girl recollecting the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Whoopi Goldberg plays Odessa Carter, a maid working in the house of Miriam Thompson, played by Sissy Spacek. With the start of a secret car-pool, threats from the white establishment, including Spacek's husband Norman (played by Dwight Schultz), threaten these two woman during a most tumultuous time in American history.
Stitch! The Movie
Stitch! The Movie (2003) - Direct-to-Video
Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley are all living with Lilo and Nani, but no one knows that Jumba had secretly deactivated all 625 of his other experiments and brought them with him. The ex-captain Gantu, hired by Jumba's former partner Dr. Jacques von Hamsterveil, goes to find them and captures Jumba to interrogate him into telling where they are. Now, Lilo and Stitch have to save Stitch's "ohana" from being used for chaos. (imdb)
Leroy & Stitch
Leroy & Stitch (2006) - Direct-to-Video
Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo. But Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong, and it's finally time to say "aloha." (imdb)
The Saint of Fort Washington
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness. (imdb)
Echelon Conspiracy
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth -- then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
Rosewood
Rosewood is the true story of an almost unknown incident in a small Florida town, (fictionalized, but faithful to the known facts, as documented in a 1994 report by the Florida Legislature). The town was inhabited almost entirely by quiet, "middle-class" African- Americans (most of them home and land owners and better off than average at the time.) On New Year's day, 1923, the town was wiped off the face of the earth by angry whites from a neighboring community. (Allmovie.com)
Give \
A tough private investigator squares off with gangsters and their thugs to protect a valuable secret. He goes through hell to protect the information but he dishes some hell as well.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event.
Saving God
Convicted felon Rev. Armstrong returns back to his neighborhood a changed man looking to take over his father's old church. The neighborhood is tough and full of drugs and gangs. Through Armstrong's tough demeanor and strong faith he tries to make a difference with Norris - a youth on the edge of falling into a lifetime of drugs and gangs. Also Armstrong must deal with his past history of violence and make sure he doesn't fall again. (imdb)
Surrogates
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
The Tournament
Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag. (imdb)
The Bridge to Nowhere
Centers on the rise and fall of four blue-collar men who team with a destitute prostitute to create a high-priced escort service. (imdb)
Piranha
A tremor under the surface of Lake Victoria unleashes scores of prehistoric piranhas, an event which rallies the local sheriff (Shue) who will risk everything to save her townsfolk.
Operation Endgame
A dry action-comedy about two teams of government assassins working out of a top-secret underground facility using code names from the Tarot deck. When our hero--The Fool--arrives for his first day at work to find that the boss has been killed under mysterious circumstances, he must find the killer before the whole place blows up. (imdb)
Death Race 2
Death Race 2 (2010) - Direct-to-Video
An origin story for convicted cop killer Frankenstein. (imdb)
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Comparisons between the films of Quentin Tarantino and older works, claiming that he borrow things from them without proper recognition.
American Playhouse
The River Murders
A homicide detective (Ray Liotta), while investigating a series of murders, becomes the prime suspect when the FBI uncovers his close personal ties to all the victims. (imdb)
Piranha 3DD
After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into a newly opened waterpark. (imdb)
American Tragedy
Behind the scenes look at O.J Simpson's legal team. What started out as the dream team ended up a fractured nightmare.
Zombie Apocalypse
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina. (imdb)
Animal 2
Years after being shot by his eldest son Darius and taking the fall for his crimes, former gangster James "Animal" Allen serves a life sentence at Folsom Prison. When a riot breaks out between the Blacks and Mexicans, Animal is transferred to Susanville Prison. While serving his time, Animal learns that his son, James Jr., is framed for murder and the one responsible for calling the shots is on the inside. (imdb)
Caged Animal
Feared criminal kingpin Miles "Cain" Skinner finds his violent past returning with a vengeance after being sentenced to life in prison, and seeing his lifelong nemesis Redfoot (Robert LaSardo) transferred to the same penitentiary. Now, as Cain and Redfoot prepare to clash behind bars, word that Cain's son may be destined for a life of confinement prompts the unrepentant convict to fight back with everything he's got. (allrovi.com)
Evil Angel
Set in present day Chicago, the ancient avenging demon Lilith, attempts to destroy a young paramedic's life while destroying anyone who interferes with her plan. (imdb)
7 Below
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior. (imdb)
Submission
This full-contact action drama, loaded with authentic mixed martial arts, is a transcending inspirational story of redemption. (imdb)
Don King: Only In America
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager. (imdb)
RFK
RFK (2002) - TV Movie
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be. (imdb)
Won\
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. (imdb)
Soldiers of Fortune
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.
Back in the Day
In BACK IN THE DAY, Reggie Cooper, a young man from the rough side of the tracks who lives with his divorced, affluent father in order to avoid the gang activity that almost claimed his teenage life in his mother's neighborhood. When Reggie reconnects with a recently paroled friend from his past, he slips back into a life of crime with fatal consequences. Reggie becomes involved in the murder of a local preacher and in the aftermath of this crime, he falls in love with the preacher's daughter. (imdb)
Drop Squad
Political satire about an underground militant group that kidnaps African-Americans who have sold out their race. (imdb)
Death Race 3: Inferno
Death Race 3: Inferno (2013) - Direct-to-Video
The world's deadliest race moves to South Africa in this sun-scorched, high-octane sequel that finds champion driver Frankenstein competing for his own freedom, and the freedom of his pit crew. Now a major celebrity thanks for his formidable driving skills, Frankenstein (Luke Goss) learns that his latest opponents will do anything to win as they speed across the Kalahari Desert, destroying anything and everything in their path. (imdb)
Phantom Punch
The fascinating life story of Sonny Liston, the controversial heavyweight boxing champion of the world. (imdb)
Force of Execution
Steven Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. (amazon.com)
Mafia
It's the 70s and criminal boss Renzo and his crew wreak havoc across the streets, leaving bodies wherever they go. Detective Womack with partner Dupree will stop at nothing to bring these thugs to justice, even if it means breaking the law. (imdb)
Jamesy Boy
A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor. (imdb)
In Security
Living in a crime-free neighbourhood is a dream for most people - unless you run a home security company. That's the problem for Kevin and Bruce who, as domestic safety experts in America's safest town, decide to turn to robbery to boost their ailing business. Unfortunately, their larcenous activities set the alarm bells ringing for local cops and low-lying criminals alike. (watch.nowtv.com)
Deadly Whispers
When Kathy Acton is found dead, her parents, Tom and Carol, swear they will find her assailant. But as the investigation gets under way, it appears that the only remaining suspect is the girl's father. Carol is torn between the love for her husband and the story the police tells. (imdb)
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. (imdb)
Operator
When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator, Pamela, and her estranged husband, Jeremy, a Senior Police Officer, are kidnapped and held hostage, they are left with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rule. Now they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives: save the city, or save their daughter. (imdb)
A Sunday Horse
After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship. (imdb)
Father Figures
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him. (imdb)
The Star
A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas.
Con Man
The story of Barry Minkow, a young charismatic business man who becomes a wealthy CEO by lying, cheating and stealing his way to the top. (imdb)
Percentage
In Miami, two hustlers on the run set up a credit fraud operation that soon attracts the attention from the police and the city's top criminals. (imdb)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Gravity
Gravity (2010) - TV Series
Black comedy about a group of eccentric individuals in an out-patient program for suicide survivors. (imdb)
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world, from her relationship with her husband to the lives of her four children and grandchildren. She must contend with sibling rivalry, teen pregnancy and drug addiction. Additionally, her jailbird son needs to learn how to be a better father, her granddaughter is in bigger trouble than her daughter is willing to admit and Viola's es
Aquaman
Aquaman (2006) - TV Movie
Dive shop owner Arthur "A.C." Curry begins to grasp his amazing destiny as he perfects his abilities with a time-hardened lighthouse keeper. A.C. knows that he must risk everything to protect the world's vast oceans, even if it brings him into conflict with alluring Navy pilot Rachel Torres. As he trains with his haunted mentor and relies on his close confidant Eva, A.C. grows to embrace an even bigger mission: an ominous, invisible war between the world A.C. inhabits and the one that bore him.
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Hally (Freddie Highmore), an adolescent white South African, deals with his father's racism while learning important life lessons from Sam (Ving Rhames), a black waiter.
Wendell & Wild
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raul. However, Raul cannot see them so Kat helps Wendell and Wild to help him (imdb.com).
The Locksmith
A thief fresh out of prison tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance. (imdb)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Ethan Hunt faces a relentless new enemy and a high-stakes mission: to retrieve a dangerous weapon before it devastates humanity. As dark shadows from his past emerge, he must choose whether to put the mission above all else, even those he holds dear.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather. (imdb)
The Garfield Movie
Garfield is about to go on a wild outdoor adventure. After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father - the cat Vic - Garfield and Odie are forced to abandon their pampered life to join Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist. (imdb)
Monday Mornings
Follows the lives of five surgeons as they push the limits of their personal and professional feelings. (imdb)
The Instigators
Follows two robbers who must go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a theft doesn't go as planned. (imdb)
The Wild Robot
A robot — ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
Kojak
Kojak (2005) - TV Series
A bald fedora-wearing police lieutenant with a righteous attitude who enjoys lollipops battles crime and injustice in a big city with the help of his police squad. (imdb)
Dope Thief
Dope Thief (2025) - TV Series
Follows long-time friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob a house in the countryside, but end up unintentionally revealing and unraveling the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard.