Terrence Howard films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 38 films on Boxlist

Known for Prisoners, Iron Man and Ray.

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Starring Terrence Howard

Prisoners
2013 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the...
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Iron Man
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
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Ray
2004 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the...
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Crash
2004 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
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The Princess and the Frog
2009 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
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St. Vincent
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
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Shirley
2024 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.
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The Butler
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten...
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The Best Man
1999 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs) attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is...
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August Rush
2007 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
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Cut Throat City
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino...
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The Best Man Holiday
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
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The Hunting Party
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
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Four Brothers
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.
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Dead Presidents
1995 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist...
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The Brave One
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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The Company You Keep
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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Hart's War
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to...
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On the Road
2012 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
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Idlewild
2006 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love...
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Triumph
2021 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.
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Fighting
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting...
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The System
2022 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
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Red Tails
2012 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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Angel Eyes
2001 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.
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Dead Man Down
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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Sabotage
2014 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
John "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the...
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Awake
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering...
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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Crescent City
2024 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When a ruthless serial killer terrorizes a small Southern town, everyone becomes a suspect -- including local authorities. As the body count rises and the dark mystery deepens, the chief detective becomes haunted by the horrors of his past.
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Big Momma's House
2000 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
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The Ledge
2011 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
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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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Term Life
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on...
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Movie 43
2013 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
Fifteen directors and an all-star cast created this twisted comedy that follows three teens on the hunt for the world's most banned film.
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Gully
2021 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
A slightly dystopian vision of LA, we follow three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin and Nicky, all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.
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Glitter
2001 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.

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