
Yasiin Bey
Filmography

Amy
Documentary Music Biographical Documentary Backstage & Showbiz Music2015•2h 8min
United Kingdom
Director: Asif Kapadia
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

Begin Again
Comedy Music Romance Drama Narrative Musical2014•1h 44min
United States
Director: John Carney
Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.

Life of Crime
Comedy Crime Dark Comedy Con Artist Crime2013•1h 34min
United States
Director: Daniel Schechter
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.

Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Comedy Documentary Music Music Documentary Satire2005•1h 40min
United States, France
Director: Michel Gondry
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adventure Comedy Science Fiction Adventure Epic Parody2005•1h 49min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Garth Jennings
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

The Woodsman
Drama Crime Tragic Drama Prison Crime2004•1h 27min
United States
Director: Nicole Kassell
After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.

Something the Lord Made
TV Movie Drama True-Story TV Movie Historical Drama2004•1h 50min
United States
Director: Joseph Sargent
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

The Italian Job
Action Crime Vehicle-Driven Action Heist2003•1h 50min
France, United Kingdom
Director: F. Gary Gray
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

Brown Sugar
Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy Buddy Comedy2002•1h 49min
United States
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

Monster's Ball
Drama Romance Relationship Drama Passionate Romance2001•1h 53min
United States
Director: Marc Forster
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.