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Elisabeth Williams-Omilami is a Actor American born on 18 february 1951 at Atlanta (USA)
Elisabeth Williams-Omilami (born February 18, 1951) is an African-American human rights activist and an actress.
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The Bill Collector (2010)
, 1h37Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Danny Trejo, Brandon Hardesty, Elisabeth Williams-Omilami
Roles Wanda
Rating32%
Uncle Frankie (Danny Trejo) is not the kind of guy you want to meet in a dark alley. Especially when you owe him money and have been giving him the slip for a few years. Such is the fate of Lorenzo Adams (Gary Ray Moore), a top bill collector at Lump Sum Collections. Uncle Frankie has tracked Lorenzo to Norfolk, Virginia and is coming to collect. With his back to the wall, Lorenzo finds no one to help but Pastor Kevin (Ron Kenoly) and desperate down-and-outers from an inner city mission, who serve as unwitting pawns in Lorenzo’s scam to pay Frankie back. Lots of laughs, gaffes, twists and turns later, Lorenzo discovers unexpected grace when it’s time to pay his due.
Bloodworth (2010)
, 1h45Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Val Kilmer, Kris Kristofferson, Hilary Duff, Dwight Yoakam, W. Earl Brown, Reece Thompson
Rating60%
It's been 40 years since E. F. Bloodworth (Kris Kristofferson) abandoned his loving wife and sons for a life on the road as a full-time traveling musician. Now at the end of the line, Bloodworth reappears, forced to reckon with the stale aftermath of his departure. With his ex-wife Julia (Frances Conroy) mentally destroyed and his three sons, Warren (Val Kilmer), Boyd (Dwight Yoakam) and Brady (W. Earl Brown) soured by years of anger toward both him and each other, Bloodworth's only solace is a budding relationship with Fleming, the grandson he never knew. But when Fleming meets Raven (Hilary Duff), the woman of his dreams, will Bloodworth's presence force history to repeat itself?
The Blind Side (2009)
, 2h9Directed by John Lee Hancock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Kathy Bates, Jae Head, Lily Collins
Rating76%
In 2003, Michael "Big Mike" Oher (Aaron) has been living in foster care with different families in Memphis, Tennessee. Every time he is placed in a new home, he runs away. His friend's father, on whose couch Michael has been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the coach of Wingate Christian School, to help enroll his son and Michael. Impressed by the boy's size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite a poor academic record. Michael is befriended by a young boy named Sean Jr. "S.J." Tuohy, who is unintimidated by his size. S.J.'s mother Leigh Anne Tuohy (Bullock), a strong-minded interior designer, begins to take notice of Michael as a troubled and lonely boy.
The List (2007)
, 1h49Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Chuck Carrington, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Will Patton, Pat Hingle, Mary Beth Peil
Roles Mama A
Rating38%
Renny Jacobsen is shaken by the news of his father's mysterious death and mystified by the reference in his will to an obscure entity called "The Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd." He sets out on a quest to learn the truth about "The List" and finds that he must fulfill a prophecy spoken in 1863 or risk losing the true treasure that has changed his life.
Glory Road (2006)
, 1h58Directed by James Gartner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about racism, Sports films, Basketball films, Children's films
Actors Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Jon Voight, Austin Nichols, Alphonso McAuley, Mehcad Brooks
Rating72%
Newly appointed men's basketball coach Don Haskins (Lucas) from Texas Western College in El Paso, lacking necessary financial resources, makes an effort to recruit the best players regardless of race to form a team that can compete for a national championship. Some of the young men he brings in possess skill, but are raw in talent when it comes to organized teamwork focusing on defense and ball distribution. In the end, his Texas Western Miners team comprises seven black and five white athletes; a balance that raises eyebrows among university personnel. Haskins puts his players through a rigorous training program, threatening to cut anyone who doesn't work as hard as he demands, while trying to integrate his players into a single team with a common goal.
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
, 1h47Directed by Tyler Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Blair Underwood, Tyler Perry, Lynn Whitfield, Jenifer Lewis, Rochelle Aytes, Boris Kodjoe
Rating53%
While planning her family reunion, the pistol-packing grandma, Madea (Tyler Perry), must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care and her troubled nieces, half-sisters Lisa and Vanessa. Her niece Lisa is engaged and has an abusive fiancé and informs her mother but is ignored due to her mother's greed. Vanessa is trying to find love while struggling to forgive her mother for allowing her stepfather to rape her numerous times in her younger teen years. Madea is on to help fix their problems and help them realize who they are.
We Are Marshall (2006)
, 2h11Directed by McG
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, Arlen Escarpeta, Kate Mara
Rating69%
On the evening of November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 chartered by Marshall University to transport the Thundering Herd football team back to Huntington, West Virginia following their 17–14 defeat to the East Carolina University Pirates, clips trees on a ridge just one mile short of the runway at Tri-State Airport in Ceredo, West Virginia, and crashes into a nearby gully, killing all 75 people on board. The deceased included the 37 players; head coach Rick Tolley and five members of his coaching staff; Charles E. Kautz, Marshall's athletics director; team athletic trainer Jim Schroer and his assistant, Donald Tackett; 25 boosters; and five crew members.
Ray (2004)
, 2h32Directed by Taylor Hackford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Le blues, Musical films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Sharon Warren, Harry Lennix, Terrence Howard
Rating76%
Raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles Robinson went blind at the age of seven, shortly after witnessing his younger brother drown. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the chitlin circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation before exploding onto the worldwide stage when he pioneered the incorporation of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, country, jazz and orchestral influences into his inimitable style.
, 2h8Directed by Rowdy Herrington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Golf films
Actors Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Devon Gearhart, Jeremy Northam, Malcolm McDowell, Aidan Quinn
Rating65%
In 1936, golfer Bobby Jones comes to Scotland to visit the Old Course at St. Andrews. Unsure of his reception, he is warmly welcomed by many spectators.
Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
, 1h34Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about racism, Children's films
Actors Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Clifton Powell, Ella Joyce, Yolanda King, Elisabeth Williams-Omilami
Rating73%
Sheyann Webb meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one day while playing outside with her friends. They are told that Dr. King has come to Selma, Alabama to help the Negro people get voting rights. Sheyann learns many things from Dr. King. He teaches her and her friend Rachel (Stephanie Zandra Peyton) that when asked, "Children, what do you want?" their answer should be "Freedom." He also teaches her that everyone deserves to be treated with fairness, regardless of the color of their skin, and that children also have a battle to fight. Sheyann wants to get involved and skips school to sneak into the meetings. One night a friend of Sheyann's named Jimmie Lee Jackson is killed. To draw attention to the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, it is decided that a 54-mile march to the state capital of Alabama will take place. Marchers will present a petition to Governor Wallace to protest that Negroes are not being treated fairly. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, a day that comes to be called Bloody Sunday, Sheyann and other African-American protesters march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery, and are attacked by police. Sheyann is the youngest person to attempt to march.
Last Dance (1996)
, 1h43Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson, Jayne Brook
Rating57%
Cindy Liggett (Sharon Stone) is waiting on death row for a brutal double murder she committed in her teens, 12 years earlier. Clemency lawyer Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow) tries to save her, based on the argument that she was under the influence of crack cocaine when she committed the crime of which she was found guilty and that she is no longer the same person she had been at the time of the murder.
A Time to Kill (1996)
, 2h29Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about capital punishment
Actors Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd, Donald Sutherland
Rating74%
Two white supremacists (Nicky Katt and Doug Hutchison) come across a ten-year-old black girl named Tonya (Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly) in rural Mississippi. They violently rape and beat Tonya and dump her in a nearby river after a failed attempt to hang her; she survives, and the men are arrested.