Derek Luke films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 18 films on Boxlist

Known for Friday Night Lights, Captain America: The First Avenger and Pieces of April.

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Starring Derek Luke

Friday Night Lights
2004 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant...
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Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an...
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Pieces of April
2003 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan...
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Antwone Fisher
2002 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful...
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Definitely, Maybe
2008 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
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Glory Road
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
2012 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
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Notorious
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The...
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Spartan
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to...
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Darby and the Dead
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high school, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare time. When an unexpected...
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Lions for Lambs
2007 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two...
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American Refugee
2021 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A story of a family seeking shelter in a neighbor’s bunker while the American economy is in collapse and the nation under martial law. There they find the danger inside is potentially greater than the danger outside.
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Madea Goes to Jail
2009 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway lands a case that's too personal to handle: that of a young prostitute and former...
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Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
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Alone Together
2022 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Strangers June and Charlie wind up double-booked in the same upstate New York Airbnb during the start of COVID-19. Exasperating the situation, the lockdown forces them both to stay and confront the unexpected feelings that develop between...
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Self/less
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the...
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Biker Boyz
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange...
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Baggage Claim
2013 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé.
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