Movies by John Singleton
As a director:
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Abduction (2011)
Cast: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina …
Directed by: John Singleton
When teenager Nathan comes across his own childhood picture while scrolling through a missing persons website, he begins to question everything he ever took for granted -- including the…
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30 for 30: Marion Jones: Press Pause (2010)
Cast: Marion Jones
Directed by: John Singleton
Marion Jones's amazing run of Olympic success at the 2000 Games in Sydney provided a standout story, fueled by her unique personal style and the athletic dominance that earned her…
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Four Brothers (2005)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre 3000 …
Directed by: John Singleton
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered. What seems like a robbery gone wrong turns out to be a hit, and the men vow to exact revenge on the killers.
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2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes …
Directed by: John Singleton
It's a major double-cross when former police officer Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) teams up with his ex-con buddy Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) to transport a shipment of "dirty"…
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Baby Boy (2001)
Cast: Tyrese Gibson, AlexSandra Wright, Taraji P. Henson …
Directed by: John Singleton
Drawing an incisive picture, this gritty urban drama follows 20-year-old Jody Summers, an unemployed man-child who lives with his mother in South Central Los Angeles and embraces…
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Shaft (2000)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree, Christian Bale …
Directed by: John Singleton
In John Singleton's update of the 1970s classic, New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for murder, but he jumps bail to Switzerland, returning to face trial two…
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Rosewood (1997)
Cast: Paul Benjamin, Mark Boone Junior, Muse Watson …
Directed by: John Singleton
Ving Rhames and Don Cheadle headline this fictionalized retelling of the Rosewood massacres, a 1923 incident in which a white mob used a white woman's false rape allegations as the…
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Higher Learning (1995)
Cast: Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport …
Directed by: John Singleton
A California college becomes a battleground as several students make their way through school and find themselves traversing a minefield of racism and sexism in this provocative drama from…
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Poetic Justice (1993)
Cast: Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Maya Angelou …
Directed by: John Singleton
Pop superstar Janet Jackson makes her big-screen debut in this sensitive urban drama. Justice (Jackson) sacrifices her dream of attending college and becomes a cosmetologist after her…
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Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube …
Directed by: John Singleton
In this thoughtful drama, a South Central Los Angeles high schooler struggles to stay straight in a community polluted by drugs, violence and racism -- and his cynical but devoted father will…