Ashton Sanders films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 8 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Moonlight, Judas and the Black Messiah and Straight Outta Compton.

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Starring Ashton Sanders

Wu-Tang: An American Saga
2019 · TV
8.3/10 · TMDB
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the...
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Straight Outta Compton
2015 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all...
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Moonlight
2016 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
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Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
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The Equalizer 2
2018 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when a long-time girl friend is murdered.
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All Day and a Night
2020 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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Brothers Under Fire
2026 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Captain Jordan Wright's squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico encounters a murderous cartel. As Jordan tries to lead survivors to safety, war erupts between his squad and the cartel, forcing him into a battle to save his men.
Captive State
2019 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased...
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