All movies starring Samuel L. Jackson

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) poster

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) ★ 7.6

On the streets of New York City, police officer John McClane has seen everything possible. This time, in order to get back at McClane, the terrorist Simon, a virtuoso bomb-maker, forces him to play a deadly game. The stakes are the city of New York.

McClane is forced to roam the city, following Simon's telephone orders, ready to blow up half of New York for the slightest deviation from his demands. And while the entire police force of the city is busy searching for terrorists, the criminals steal the gold reserve of the U.S. National Bank.

1408 (2007) poster

1408 (2007) ★ 6.8

Well-known writer Mike Enslin, author of horror novels, writes another book about unusual phenomena and poltergeist in hotels. Not believing in the existence of an afterlife, Enslin decides to settle in the infamous room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, which has been empty for years - rumor has it that it is haunted. Despite a warning from the hotel manager, the stubborn man insists, not even knowing what kind of nightmare the coming night will turn out to be.
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) poster

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) ★ 6.9

Steve Rogers volunteers to take part in an experiment that will turn him into the super-soldier known as the First Avenger. Rogers joins the U.S. armed forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to fight the hostile organization HYDRA, run by the ruthless Red Skull.
Changing Lanes (2002) poster

Changing Lanes (2002) ★ 6.5

Genres: Drama Thriller

Gavin Banek, a successful Wall Street lawyer, and Doyle Gipson, an insurance company representative returning to normal life after alcoholism, become the perpetrators of an accident. There are no casualties, but the quarrel of these different men will have great consequences for each of them.

Unicorn Store (2017) poster

Unicorn Store (2017) ★ 5.5

A woman named Kit receives a mysterious invitation that will fulfill her childhood dreams.

The Banker (2020) poster

The Banker (2020) ★ 7.3

Genres: Biography Drama
In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Jumper (2008) poster

Jumper (2008) ★ 6.1

A young man has a genetic anomaly that allows him to teleport anywhere. He uses his powers to rob banks and eventually comes into the attention of The Paladins, who intend on killing him.
The Protege (2021) poster

The Protege (2021) ★ 6.2

When she was rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna became an incredibly talented contract killer. However when he is brutally murdered while away from her side one day on business; she vows to take revenge for him and everything that they had shared together over these years.
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) poster

The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) ★ 6.1

The unlicensed hitman and bodyguard duo, Michael Bryce and Darius Kincaid are in for another life-threatening mission. This time the two have to protect their volatile wife from a mad man's sinister plot that threatens Europe.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) poster

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) ★ 7.7

Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, the chubby son of a deceased secret agent with serious anger issues and an impending jail sentence. However, dapper British spy Harry Hart sees potential in him and recruits him to be part of his top-secret covert agency training program. Meanwhile Richmond Valentine's evil plan to solve climate change has already begun as he sets out on kidnapping celebrities for their DNA code while also endangering many lives along the way.
Kong: Skull Island (2017) poster

Kong: Skull Island (2017) ★ 6.6

After the Vietnam war, a team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.
The Hateful Eight (2015) poster

The Hateful Eight (2015) ★ 7.8

In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) poster

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) ★ 6.7

When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
Twisted (2004) poster

Twisted (2004) ★ 5.3

Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.
Unbreakable (2000) poster

Unbreakable (2000) ★ 7.3

A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
Glass (2019) poster

Glass (2019) ★ 6.6

Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
Sphere (1998) poster

Sphere (1998) ★ 6.1

A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
Shaft (2000) poster

Shaft (2000) ★ 6.0

New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
Deep Blue Sea (1999) poster

Deep Blue Sea (1999) ★ 5.9

Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) poster

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) ★ 6.9

With his reputation in tatters after the painfully unsuccessful delivery of a distinguished Japanese client, the former triple-A protection agent, Michael Bryce, is now reduced to a mere second-class bodyguard for hire, two years after the disgraceful incident. Under those circumstances, Bryce would do anything to prove his worth, and, before long, he accepts an offer from Interpol to escort the international assassin, Darius Kincaid, from Manchester to the Hague. The task seems simple: Bryce needs to transport him from point A to point B; nevertheless, the trip to the Netherlands is long and hazardous, and Kincaid--as the only one with the guts and enough hard evidence to testify against a tyrannical Belarusian dictator--is an obvious target. Undoubtedly, it's a tough job, as the mismatched duo will have to put aside their grudges, and race against the clock in a non-stop concerto for bullets. Can the hitman's bodyguard carry through the most important mission in his career?
Coach Carter (2005) poster

Coach Carter (2005) ★ 7.3

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
Barely Lethal (2015) poster

Barely Lethal (2015) ★ 5.4

Genres: Action Comedy
A teenage special ops agent coveting a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that surviving the treacherous waters of high school is more challenging than international ...
Pulp Fiction (1994) poster

Pulp Fiction (1994) ★ 8.9

Genres: Crime Drama
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
A Time to Kill (1996) poster

A Time to Kill (1996) ★ 7.4

In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.
S.W.A.T. (2003) poster

S.W.A.T. (2003) ★ 6.0

An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody, and only the L.A.P.D.'s Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) poster

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ★ 7.8

As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.
Captain Marvel (2019) poster

Captain Marvel (2019) ★ 6.9

Six years ago, Air Force pilot Carol Danvers crashed an experimental aircraft and was found by the Kree. They trained her as a member of their elite Starforce Military under the command of Yon-Rogg. After escaping to Earth while being attacked by Skrulls six years later, she started discovering more about her past with help from S.H.I.E.L D agent Nick Fury; they set out to unravel what is true for this woman who seems too good at everything yet has no idea where it comes from or why it's happening.
Jackie Brown (1997) poster

Jackie Brown (1997) ★ 7.5

The middle-aged stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolet and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange of her freedom. Meanwhile Ordell asks the 56-year-old Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects of Ordell's intention and plots a complicated confidence game with Max to steal half a million dollars from Ordell.
Lakeview Terrace (2008) poster

Lakeview Terrace (2008) ★ 6.1

In California, Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move into a house in a gated community. Their racist, dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.
I Am Not Your Negro (2016) poster

I Am Not Your Negro (2016) ★ 7.9

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
Fluke (1995) poster

Fluke (1995) ★ 6.6

After a man dies in a car crash, he is reincarnated as a dog and attempts to reconnect with his family.
Shaft (2019) poster

Shaft (2019) ★ 6.4

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr. (Usher), may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft (Jackson) agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather coat, there's no denying family. Besides, Shaft's got an agenda of his own, and a score to settle that's professional and personal.
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022) poster

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022) ★ 7.8

Genres: Drama
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy experiences a seismic shift when he's given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew's death and come to terms with his past.