Movies with Mos Def
Movies found: 12, viewing from 1 to 12
16 Blocks
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Richard Fitzpatrick, Cylk Cozart, Peter McRobbie, Hechter Ubarry
Directors: Richard Donner
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2006
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
In New York, the alcoholic and decadent detective Jack Mosley is assigned to deliver a prisoner to the court sixteen blocks far from his precinct in 118 minutes. Eddie Bunker made a deal with the D.A. office and will identify and testify against a dirty detective. While driving to the tribunal, Jack is attacked by a group of corrupt cops and protects Eddie.
Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
Genres: Documentary, Music
Starring: Ice Cube, Mos Def, Common, Anthony 'Treach' Criss, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Chuck D.
Directors: Ice Cube
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2012
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to revea...
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
Genres: Documentary, Music
Starring: Mos Def, Michael Rapaport, Common, Ludacris, Q-Tip, Mary J. Blige, Angie Martinez
Directors: Michael Rapaport
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called Quest' have kept a generation hungry for more of their groundbreaking music since their much publicized breakup in 1998. Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows the band to this day. He explores what's next for, what many claim, are the pioneers of alternative rap.
Monster's Ball
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Peter Boyle, Heath Ledger, Billy Bob Thornton, Mos Def, John McConnell, Halle Berry, Marcus Lyle Brown
Directors: Marc Forster
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 2001
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.
Cadillac Records
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Gabrielle Union, Eamonn Walker, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Adrien Brody, Columbus Short, Cedric the Entertainer
Directors: Darnell Martin
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
In this tale of sex, violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, "Cadillac Records" follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Be Kind Rewind
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Jack Black, Arjay Smith, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Chandler Parker
Directors: Michel Gondry
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Jerry is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant he suspects of causing his headaches. But he inadvertently causes his brain to become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in his friend's store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, an elderly lady with a tenuous grasp on reality, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Driving Miss Daisy, and Robocop, putting themselves and their townspeople into it. They become the biggest stars in their neighborhood.
Journey to the End of the Night
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Mos Def, Brendan Fraser, Scott Glenn, Alice Braga, Milhem Cortaz, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ruy Polanah
Directors: Eric Eason
Country: Germany, USA, Brazil
Year: 2006
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs. In the night that they have scheduled a negotiation with African buyers, their African liaison dies while having sex with the travesty Nazda. Sinatra proposes to the Nigerian dishwasher of the brothel, Wemba, to travel to the harbor of Santos, close the business with the drug dealers and in return he would receive ...
Next Day Air
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Mike Epps, Mos Def, Shawn Michael Howard, Omari Hardwick, Darius McCrary, Lobo Sebastian, Donald Faison
Directors: Benny Boom
Country: USA
Year: 2009
When a misguided delivery driver inadvertently delivers a package containing concealed bricks of cocaine to the wrong address, it sets in motion a desperate search and battle for the coke between the furious dealer that sent it, the fearful intended recipients that missed it, and the conniving accidental recipients that plan to flip it. Time is running out and everyone's trying to get their hands on the package that's been sent...Next Day Air! DVD Quality PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
Showtime
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Mos Def, Eddie Murphy, Nestor Serrano, Alex Borstein, Robert De Niro, Marshall Manesh, Rachael Harris
Directors: Tom Dey
Country: USA, Australia
Year: 2002
Mitch Preston is a hard-nosed, hardworking police detective. Following in the reality-based TV trend, TV producer Chase Renzi wants Mitch to star in her new show about the day-to-day activities of a real cop (think COPS). Not a moment will go by when he isn't on camera, whether at work or at home. Mitch doesn't particular like the idea, especially working with his new partner Trey Sellars, a cop who spends much of his time mugging for the cameras mounted inside the car he shares with Mitch. The two never get along -- Mitch is trying to investigate the whereabouts of a criminal who possesses a mythical "big gun" that has enough firepower to co...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Starring: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Bill Bailey, Anna Chancellor, Warwick Davis, Zooey Deschanel, Stephen Fry
Directors: Garth Jennings
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2005
Waking up one morning, a British man named Arthur Dent awakes and find his house is going to be demolished. But for Arthur, the demolition of his house is only the beginning, Arthur's friend eccentric Ford Prefect reveals to Earth that he is not human and he is a alien from a planet called Bettleguise and is a researcher of a electronic book called "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Ford saves Arthur when Earth is wiped out by the Vogons who have demolished the Earth to make way for a new intergalactic motorway. Embarking on a intergalactic adventure, Arthur and Ford are joined by two-headed former president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeble...
The Italian Job
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Mos Def, Charlize Theron, Seth Green, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham
Directors: F. Gary Gray
Country: USA, UK, France
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A gang of robbers, lead by career criminal Charlie Croker, create the largest traffic jam in Los Angeles history, giving them time to pull off a theft of gold bullion. They get away in their Mini Coopers, which are small enough to drive on sidewalks so they can make a clean get away before the traffic jam clears. One HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE
The Woodsman
Genres: Drama
Starring: Michael Shannon, Benjamin Bratt, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Mos Def, David Alan Grier, Eve
Directors: Nicole Kassell
Country: USA
Year: 2004
After twelve years in prison, the child molester Walter is released in probation. He starts a new life, getting a small and simple apartment near a school, and a job in a lumberyard. The tormented Walter tries to be and act normal, haunted by his past demons and having sessions with a shrink, while the snoopy gossip colleague Mary-Kay investigates his life. He has an affair with another suffered colleague, Vicki, while is also stalked by a suspicious detective, Sgt. Lucas.