Yasiin Bey

Yasiin Bey

Birthday:Dec 11, 1973
Place of birth:Brooklyn, New York, USA

Filmography

2015
Amy

Amy

Documentary Music Biographical Documentary Backstage & Showbiz Music
7.8

20152h 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.

2014
Begin Again

Begin Again

Comedy Music Romance Drama Narrative Musical
7.4

20141h 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.

2013
Life of Crime

Life of Crime

Comedy Crime Dark Comedy Con Artist Crime
5.8

20131h 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.

2005
Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Comedy Documentary Music Music Documentary Satire
7.2

20051h 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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Adventure Comedy Science Fiction Adventure Epic Parody
6.7

20051h 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."

2004
The Woodsman

The Woodsman

Drama Crime Tragic Drama Prison Crime
7.1

20041h 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

Something the Lord Made

TV Movie Drama True-Story TV Movie Historical Drama
8.0

20041h 50min

United States

Director: Joseph Sargent

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

2003
The Italian Job

The Italian Job

Action Crime Vehicle-Driven Action Heist
7.0

20031h 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.

2002
Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy Buddy Comedy
6.5

20021h 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.

2001
Monster's Ball

Monster's Ball

Drama Romance Relationship Drama Passionate Romance
7.0

20011h 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.