Obba Babatundé films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 16 films on Boxlist

Known for The Silence of the Lambs, That Thing You Do! and Philadelphia.

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Starring Obba Babatundé

The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder...
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That Thing You Do!
1996 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
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Philadelphia
1993 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he...
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The Notebook
2004 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately...
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Black Dynamite
2009 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to...
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Dead Again
1991 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate...
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Married to the Mob
1988 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for...
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Life
1999 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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Multiplicity
1996 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds...
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After the Sunset
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers.
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Undercover Blues
1993 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a...
John Q
2002 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of...
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How High
2001 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in...
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The Eye
2008 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
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Material Girls
2006 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

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