Roger Guenveur Smith
Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.203 |
Birthday | 1955-07-27 |
Place of Birth | Berkeley, California, USA |
Also Known As |
2021
Real Talk
10/2
While humorous, sarcastic and sometimes harsh, Dominique the Dame brings to the forefront America's contemporary views on race, sex, drugs, religion a...
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Real Talk
2007
American Gangster
7.585/5322
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem dist...
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American Gangster
2022
Till
7.457/270
The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his...
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Till
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
5.2/8
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
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A Huey P. Newton Story
1993
Poetic Justice
6.9/248
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to att...
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Poetic Justice
1990
King of New York
6.7/636
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and...
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King of New York
2006
Mercenary for Justice
4.4/96
Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're tryi...
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Mercenary for Justice
1995
Panther
6.2/36
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Pa...
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Panther
2003
Shade
6.2/225
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean...
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Shade
1997
Eve's Bayou
6.4/126
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve...
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Eve's Bayou
2007
Fist of the Warrior
4.8/13
First-class assassin Lee Choe has spent years working for the mob. When his handler turns on him by killing his girlfriend and framing him for the mur...
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Fist of the Warrior
2009
Fighting
5.908/662
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck chan...
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Fighting
2010
Page 36
0/0
To save his ailing son from certain death, a father voluntarily sells himself into slavery through an underground corporation. After entering into a c...
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Page 36
2013
They Die by Dawn
4.3/3
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhe...
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They Die by Dawn
2011
Joy Road
7/1
Tony Smalls is a burned out lawyer looking for a new direction in life. He's forced to put his plans on hold when his sister Nia asks him to defend he...
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Joy Road
2010
Salvation Road
0/0
Business becomes unusual for an unsuspecting hitman who senses that he's been witnessed murdering his traitorous mentor by a 9 year old boy.
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Salvation Road
2004
Justice
6/1
Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system. Over the objections of his wife, Sharice (Monica...
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Justice
1999
The Color of Courage
5.5/4
Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose...
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The Color of Courage
2013
Empire State
5.389/673
After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis settles for a security guard job with an armoured truck company. After he makes the mist...
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Empire State
1999
Facade
3.667/6
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth...
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Facade
2017
Exhortation
0/0
The divisional director of a large firm attempts to motivate his staff.
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Exhortation
2000
Final Destination
6.602/5526
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, on...
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Final Destination
2015
Dope
7.082/1451
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A ch...
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Dope
1995
Tales from the Hood
6.273/154
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
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Tales from the Hood
2016
The Birth of a Nation
6.554/522
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation...
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The Birth of a Nation
1994
Cosmic Slop
6/2
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative...
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Cosmic Slop
2002
All About the Benjamins
5.9/159
Bucum Jackson (Cube) is a bounty hunter with a lot of attitude and no interest in taking on a partner. Working at Martinez Bail Bonds, Jackson has uno...
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All About the Benjamins
1996
Get on the Bus
6.576/59
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of character...
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Get on the Bus
1999
Incognito
0/0
A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her when an ex-convict begins stalking her.
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Incognito
2016
Where is Rocky II?
5/2
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.
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Where is Rocky II?
2023
Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
0/0
Garland Jeffreys, the mixed-race Brooklyn native whose music defied industry norms, receives long-overdue recognition in this enlightening documentary...
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Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between
1995
The O.J. Simpson Story
3.6/8
Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brow...
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The O.J. Simpson Story
2007
I Believe in America
0/0
Three generations of one family, all involved at different levels with the Puerto Rican underground movement for independence, struggle with their nee...
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I Believe in America
2011
Abduction
5.866/2845
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the tru...
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Abduction
1992
Malcolm X
7.534/1613
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...
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Malcolm X
2018
The Clapper
4.888/268
Eddie Krumble works as a paid audience member for infomercials and experiences a whirlwind of overnight fame after a late-night talk show host publici...
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The Clapper
2006
Fatwa
1.5/2
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
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Fatwa
1989
Do the Right Thing
7.76/1735
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer...
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Do the Right Thing
2012
The Son of No One
5.091/287
A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved m...
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The Son of No One
2017
Rodney King
4.9/10
25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, aroun...
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Rodney King
2001
The Warden
7/1
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The Warden
1992
Deep Cover
6.7/204
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian fore...
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Deep Cover
2016
Dirty
4/2
Two dirty cops find themselves relieved of over two million dollars in stolen drugs and money, forcing them into a bizarre and mysterious investigatio...
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Dirty
2015
Supermodel
3.5/4
A young girl from the Brooklyn housing projects goes from the subway to the runway becoming one of the most sought after models in the fashion industr...
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Supermodel
2018
Burning Shadow
6.2/17
Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie...
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Burning Shadow
2017
Bitch
5.377/77
A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attempts to keep the family together.
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Bitch
2007
Cover
4.9/13
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that h...
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Cover
2017
Marshall
7.256/604
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Marshall
2018
Behind the Movement
0/0
Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boy...
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Behind the Movement
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.9/5
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors wer...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2018
The Queen of Hollywood Blvd
5.1/11
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her...
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd
1999
Summer of Sam
6.467/450
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
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Summer of Sam
2017
Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks
2/1
Estranged siblings Marcus and Michelle Brinks are reunited after the sudden death of their parents, two globe-trotting aid workers who they barely kne...
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Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks
2018
The Other Side
1.8/2
A man must fight for his fiancée's affection, after her old college friend visits with plans of rekindling more than just a friendship.
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The Other Side
2013
Better Mus' Come
4.6/5
The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their politica...
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Better Mus' Come
2019
Hollow Point
6.5/117
When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the...
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Hollow Point
2006
Confessions
3/0
Confessions of a Call Girl is a revealing story of a women's struggle for balance as she battles a secret addiction while fighting to save her family...
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Confessions
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
7/3
In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a twenti...
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Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2000
Hamlet
3.5/2
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
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Hamlet
2006
God's Waiting List
2/1
A gritty, heartfelt drama about a brother and sister who both start out with the American Dream of running their own business and being successful. Te...
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God's Waiting List
1998
He Got Game
6.742/689
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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He Got Game
2020
Influence
6/3
Carl Weber introduces us to the Hudsons, a family of African-American lawyers lead by famed attorney Bradley Hudson. They are handed the task to defen...
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Influence
1988
School Daze
5.9/96
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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School Daze
2015
Chi-Raq
5.8/197
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
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Chi-Raq
2011
CornerStore
7/1
Chronicles one eventful hot summer day at a convenience store along Detroit's Six Mile Road. Owned by the Jenkins family, the store is operated by Ear...
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CornerStore
2012
In Sickness and in Health
6.5/2
Young and gorgeous with a fiancé who adores her, Faith seems to have it all. But with just days before their wedding, she's hiding a serious secret ab...
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In Sickness and in Health
2020
The Five Rules Of Success
3.5/4
An enterprising ex-convict overcomes tragedy by designing his own path to success within a society that failed him.
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The Five Rules Of Success
2019
It's Not About Jimmy Keene
0/0
The police shooting of an unarmed black teen causes friction within a mixed-race Los Angeles family. Ivan, the youngest sibling, is stalked by visions...
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It's Not About Jimmy Keene
2020
The Available Wife
2.75/4
When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While leav...
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The Available Wife
2019
I’ll See You Around
6.5/2
Lucas, an everyman, navigates complicated personal relationships in the context of a drug crisis that grips the nation and his own family, now and in...
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I’ll See You Around
2020
The Business of Christmas
0/0
The Franklin kids come home for Christmas to find that their childhood home and the family business is in jeopardy. While trying to save their home an...
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