Movies with Lela Rochon
Movies found: 10, viewing from 1 to 10
Fatal Secrets
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Lea Thompson, Ed Begley Jr., Ernie Hudson, Dina Meyer, Tess Harper, Lela Rochon, Vincent Spano
Directors: Meir Sharony
Country: USA
Year: 2009
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, seems to have it all - except the right guy in her life. Her friends urge her to "get back out there." But they don't yet know about Scott - a charming man with a secret background whose true colors paint a streak of pain and fear through Julia's life. When Scott's effect on Julia reaches the breaking point, she and her friends take matters into their own hands... and underestimate the consequences. The outcom...
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Bill Nunn, Isaiah Washington, Timothy Hutton, Lawrence Dane, Lela Rochon, Ruby Dee, Karen Robinson
Directors: Richard Friedenberg
Country: USA
Year: 1996
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
Blood Done Sign My Name
Genres: Drama
Starring: Michael Rooker, Nick Searcy, Omar Benson Miller, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Lela Rochon, Rick Schroder, Rhoda Griffis
Directors: Jeb Stuart
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Tells the true story of the the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow in a rural North Carolina town by Robert Teel and his sons, the aftermath of the murder and the eventual acquittal of the Teels by an all white jury, in spite of multiple eye witnesses to the murder.
Harlem Nights
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Starring: Vic Polizos, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Della Reese, Michael Lerner, Lela Rochon, Stan Shaw
Directors: Eddie Murphy
Country: USA
Year: 1989
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!
Waiting to Exhale
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Mykelti Williamson, Gregory Hines, Donald Faison, Lela Rochon, Angela Bassett, Wendell Pierce
Directors: Forest Whitaker
Country: USA
Year: 1995
This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some of the problems and struggles the modern women face in today's world.
The Chamber
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Richard Bradford, Gene Hackman, Harve Presnell, David Marshall Grant, Raymond J. Barry, Lela Rochon, Faye Dunaway
Directors: James Foley
Country: USA
Year: 1996
A top cast consisting of veteran aces Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway can't rescue this way-too-long, dreadfully earnest version of John Grisham's equally gimpy novel. There are several problems in this story of an intertwined Southern family who must disentangle themselves from the past and the dark shadow of a 1967 bombing. That terrorist attack led to the deaths of two Jewish children and was pinned on the black-sheep patriarch of the family, a racist, card-carrying Klansman named Sam Cayhall (Hackman), who is now serving time on death row for the hate crime. Years later, the savior grandson cometh. Young-buck lawyer Adam Hall--played with r...
Knock Off
Genres: Action, Thriller
Starring: Rob Schneider, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Paul Sorvino, Mark Houghton, Jeff Wolfe, Lela Rochon, Michael Wong
Directors: Hark Tsui
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Aruba
Year: 1998
A Hong Kong fashion designer (Jean Claude Van Damme, if you can believe that billing) who had previously been involved in knock offs of major label merchandise, such as "Pumma" running shoes, attempts to go straight with the help of his new partner (Rob Schneider), who is secretly an undercover CIA agent involved in an investigation of the black market. Their main product, jeans, is involved in the knock offs, which brings a representative (Lela Rochon) of the American company to investigate. Paul Sorvino also appears as the head of the CIA operation in Hong Kong. However, just as Schneider is not as he initially seems, everyone in the film s...
The Big Hit
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Elliott Gould, Mark Wahlberg, Lainie Kazan, Robin Dunne, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks
Directors: Kirk Wong
Country: USA
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fianc
Any Given Sunday
Genres: Drama, Sport
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Diaz, Al Pacino, LL Cool J, Lauren Holly, Jamie Foxx
Directors: Oliver Stone
Country: USA
Year: 1999
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact t...
Boomerang
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, David Alan Grier, Robin Givens, Lela Rochon, Halle Berry
Directors: Reginald Hudlin
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill. But then Jacqueline's more quietly attractive assistant Angela, who has been dating Marcus' best friend, shows herself more than a little concerned by his parlous state.