All movies starring Cuba Gooding Jr.

Men of Honor (2000) poster

Men of Honor (2000) ★ 7.2

Genres: Biography Drama

The film is based on the true story of the legendary diver Carl Brashear. His mentor and senior officer Bill Sunday is convinced that blacks have no business in the Navy, and in the most cruel and inhumane ways bullies and "screws" the ambitious newcomer.

However, he does not succeed, and moreover, he soon begins to feel sympathy for this extremely stubborn guy, who would rather die than show weakness. Together they try to resist the bureaucrats of the Navy Command, who are not happy with the hero's skin color.

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Life in a Year (2020) ★ 6.1

Genres: Drama Romance
The movie follows 17-year-old Daryn who finds out that his girlfriend is dying. He sets out to give her an entire life in the last year she has left.
Jerry Maguire (1996) poster

Jerry Maguire (1996) ★ 7.3

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
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Daddy Day Camp (2007) ★ 3.1

Genres: Comedy Family
Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
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Boyz n the Hood (1991) ★ 7.8

Genres: Crime Drama
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) poster

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) ★ 7.6

Genres: Biography Drama
Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.
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Radio (2003) ★ 6.9

The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
What Dreams May Come (1998) poster

What Dreams May Come (1998) ★ 6.9

Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her.
The Fighting Temptations (2003) poster

The Fighting Temptations (2003) ★ 5.5

Genres: Comedy Drama Music
A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect.
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Boat Trip (2002) ★ 4.9

Genres: Comedy
Jerry and Nick are two best buddies whose love lives have hit rock bottom, Jerry's especially, having just vomited all over his fiancée on a hot air balloon trip prior to proposing to her. To escape their troubles and find women, they book a trip on-board a cruiseliner, unaware the travel agent has just played a horrid trick on them in retaliation for Nick offending his secret gay lover. And that's the trick; it's a gay cruiseliner for gay men to meet and mingle. Slowly but surely, the two main characters begin to realize this and in turn get into a lot of humorous predicaments.