Samuel L. Jackson

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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School Daze (1988): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn…; Spike Lee's black high–school musical is perhaps over–ambitious, but the disorder is compensated in sheer exuberance and…
Def by Temptation (1990): Dir. James Bond III
Feat. Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn, Samuel L. Jackson…; A vampiress uses her smouldering sexuality to lure male victims in this effective update of the '70s blaxploitation genre.
Juice (1992): Dir. Ernest Dickerson
Feat. Omar Epps, Samuel L. Jackson, Tupac Shakur…; Innocence is lost and tragedy strikes as it does in these tales of black male youths in lethal conflict with rival peers and…
White Sands (1992): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke…; When Deputy Willem Dafoe discovers a dead man and half a million bucks, we know something is mighty queer. Enter Mickey Rourke and all is explained.
Amos and Andrew (1993): Dir. E. Max Frye
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson; Cage and Jackson are unwitting abductor and hostage in an exclusive but crazy white neighbourhood. Sharply exacted racial satire is littered with…
Menace II Society (1993): Dir. Hughes Brothers
Feat. Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson; A ghetto drama about young men on a no–win cycle of guns and drugs in south central L.A., this covers simlar geographical and philosophical…
Pulp Fiction (1994): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman…; With just his second film, Quentin Tarantino not only became a household name but a massive cultural phenomenon. He miraculously surpasses…
Kiss of Death (1994): Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson…; David Caruso (NYPD Blue) does fine in his big–screen debut as a redeemed petty crook lured back into the void between the cops and the…
Against the Wall (1994): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Frederic Forrest…; Gruelling true story of the uprising at Attica Prison in 1971 in which a new recruit to the prison service, along with several of his colleagues get…
Die Hard with a Vengeance (Die Hard 3) (1995): Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons; Third chapter in the big loud adventures of a white–vested cop goes to a ridiculous extreme to top what is increasingly seeming like an…
Fresh (1995): Dir. Boaz Yakin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson; The best, and dare we say it, freshest, of the Black–American street fables to emerge in recent years, a fascinating story evolves from a young…
Losing Isaiah (1995): Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn…; Jessica Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned black child a new chance at life, but the birth mother (Halle Berry) has cleaned up her…
Great White Hype, The (1996): Dir. Reginald Hudlin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg…; Samuel L. Jackson and Jeff Goldblum star in this ham–fisted comic tale of ringside corruption. Jackson goes OTT as an opportunistic Don…
Time to Kill, A (1996): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock…; A blue–eyed lawyer comes to the defence of a black man (Samuel L. Jackson) who murdered his daughter's rapists in the Deep South. This…
Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson; Heroic chemistry between Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson fuels this spectacular actioner, with more than a few eyebrows raised sardonically along…
Hard Eight (Sydney) (1996): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow…; Cucumber–cool first feature set in the thick of Reno's casino culture, boasts four superb character–based performances and extended…
187 (1997): Dir. Kevin Reynolds
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson; The school–as–hellhole drama gets taught tough new lessons from Samuel L. Jackson, a teacher whose idealism is bitterly exhausted in the…
Eve's Bayou (1997): Dir. Kasi Lemmons
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Vondie Curtis Hall; A sassy, old–fashioned Southern melodrama quite unlike how we've seen it before – this is affluent African–American life in 60s…
Jackie Brown (1998): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier…; Quentin Tarantino follows–up the fireworks of PULP FICTION with a laidback ode to lowlife dreamers and schemers that reclines comfortably into…
Sphere (1998): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson; Back in the ocean depths, a 300yr–old alien spacecraft lies silently waiting for the team to investigate. Michael Crichton's story unavoidably…
Negotiator, The (1998): Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, J.T. Walsh; A touch angry after being framed for corruption, Samuel L. Jackson kidnaps the responsible party and squares off against the formidable eyeballs of…
Red Violin, The (1998): Dir. Francois Girard
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi; The contemporary auction of a prized antique violin becomes another suspenseful, passionate chapter in its lifespan as we learn of its 300 year…
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson…; Po–faced revival of the billion–dollar STAR WARS money–spinner, jammed full of digital landscapes, excessive political exposition,…
Rules of Engagement (2000): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones, Guy Pearce…; Colonel Samuel L. Jackson interprets the 'rules' when the US Embassy in Yemen is attacked by terrorists. But after the smoke has cleared 83…
Unbreakable (2000): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright; The sceptre of THE SIXTH SENSE hangs over this follow–up from writer/director Shyamalan, whose status as a Hollywood golden boy has arguably…
Shaft (2000): Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Richard Roundtree, Toni Collette…; Despite the excellent pedigree of those involved – Samuel L Jackson, Richard Roundtree, dir. John Singleton, Toni Collette – this revival…
Caveman's Valentine, The (2000): Dir. Kasi Lemmons
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Ann Magnuson; Dir. Lemmons follows up EVE’s BAYOU with an ambitious portrayal of classical–composer–turned–paranoid–schizophrenic Samuel…
Formula 51 (The 51st State) (2001): Dir. Ronnie Yu
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer…; Super drug–chemist Jackson embarks to the UK on the deal of a lifetime, but is quickly embroiled in murky underworld plots in…
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002): Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen…; The attack of the most successful–ever movie franchise continues, with Lucas’ space–opera following further galactic struggles, in…
Changing Lanes (2002): Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck, Toni Collette…; After a rush hour fender–bender between lawyer Ben Affleck and insurance agent Samuel L Jackson, a tit for tat game of ‘get even’ for high…
Basic (2003): Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen…; Slick jungle thriller kept interesting by a far from basic storyline involving US troops on a training mission in Panama. When the squad runs into…
S.W.A.T. (SWAT) (2003): Dir. Clark Johnson
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez…; Competent, but hardly special updating of the 70s cop show (Special Weapons And Tactics), which mixes credible action assignments with personality…
Twisted (2004): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia…; Judd plays a detective hunting a serial killer on the San Francisco waterfront in this overly shadowy thriller. It's chief distinction occurs when…
Incredibles, The (2004): Dir. Brad Bird
Feat. Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson…; Living up to its title, this stunner from Pixar studios sets the benchmark in children's entertainment yet again, while being their most…
In My Country (Country of my Skull) (2004): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson; One of the first stabs at dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in South Africa, here used as a grueling backdrop for romance…
Coach Carter (2005): Dir. Thomas Carter
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown; Fact–based story of a Californian high school basketball coach (Jackson) who brought a fresh approach to motivating his young players,…
xXx - The Next Level (xXx - State of the Union) (2005): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Ice-Cube, Willem Dafoe, Peter Strauss…; Bridge–burning sequel to the extreme–sports–spy hit, kills off the original star (Vin Diesel) in the opening scene, before ramping…
Man, The (2005): Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy; Manic–aggressive comedy concerning a foul–mouthed Detroit policeman (Jackson) who ends up conscripting an innocent salesman (Levy) to his…
Extras - Series 1 (TV Series) (2005): Dir. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Feat. Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Ben Stiller…; Gervais' self–proclaimed "difficult second album" is a more conventional but no less assured comedy success recalling the misadventures of Andy…
Freedomland (2006): Dir. Joe Roth
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco…; An unsettling race–drama about a bedraggled woman (Moore) who turns up at a New Jersey hospital alleging that her young son has been kidnapped…
Snakes on a Plane (2006): Dir. David R Ellis
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Margulies, Rachel Blanchard…; Shamelessly egregious B–movie actioner with Samuel L. Jackson playing an FBI agent escorting a federal murder witness (Phillips) on a…
Farce of the Penguins (2006): Dir. Bob Saget
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Applegate, Bob Saget…; Two potty–mouthed penguin bros tire of cheap sex and traverse Antarctica for true love in this mockumentary answer to 2005's earnest,…
Afro Samurai (2007): Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Perlman; The perpetually cool Samuel L. Jackson reeks of attitude as the voice of an Afro–American samurai hellbent on revenge. In the spirit of KILL…
Black Snake Moan (2007): Dir. Craig Brewer
Feat. Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake; Christina Ricci stars as a scrawny, Southern–fried nympho whose demons get her deep into trouble in the deep, deep South the minute her doting…
1408 (2007): Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson; This good, old–fashioned horror adapts a latter–day Steven King story of the same name. True to genre, it's about a sceptical,…
Cleaner (2007): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes…; Noir–ish thriller stars Sam Jackson as an ex–cop–turned–crime–scene–cleaner who inadvertently finds himself…
Resurrecting the Champ (2007): Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Dakota Goyo; Character–driven drama focused on a young sports reporter (Hartnett) who tries to resurrect the career of a homeless man (Jackson) who he…
Jumper (2008): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell; Pea–brained, wildly disjointed sci–fi chase flick from the director of THE BOURNE IDENTITY centres on a 'jumper' (Christensen) whose…
Gospel Hill (2008): Dir. Giancarlo Esposito
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover, Julia Stiles…; Well–meaning, but congested melodrama set in the Deep South where a corporation selling out the underclass to white developers reignites racial…
Spirit, The (2008): Dir. Frank Miller
Feat. Jaime King, Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes…; Hollow directorial debut from comic book artist Miller centered around a rookie cop who comes back from the dead to fight crime as the stylish…
Lakeview Terrace (2008): Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington; Creepy suburban thriller focused on obsessive cop Abel Turner (Jackson) who will stop at nothing to rid his 'perfect' neighbourhood of an interracial…
Soul Men (2008): Dir. Malcolm D Lee
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sean Hayes…; Fitfully amusing musical comedy with Jackson and Mac starring as two estranged soul singers traveling cross–country together to sing at a…
Afro Samurai Resurrection (2009): Dir. Fuminori Kizaki
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Mark Hamill; Stylish sequel reprises the Samuel L. Jackson–voiced Afro Samurai, here coming out of retirement to fend off a sadistic villainess. Garnished…
Astro Boy (2009): Dir. David Bowers
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell…; A gleaming Hollywood update of the classic Japanese serial about a young robot traveling the world and discovering what it means to be human.…
Mother and Child (2009): Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington…; Thoughtfully handled ensemble drama focuses on the maternal and filial ties that bind, centered around three women; an unhappy therapist, the…
Other Guys, The (2010): Dir. Adam McKay
Feat. Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson…; Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg make for incompatible partners in this absurdist buddy–cop homage from the dir. of STEP BROTHERS and TALLADEGA…
Iron Man 2 (2010): Dir. Jon Favreau
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson…; Spiffy, if routine blockbuster sequel finds Robert Downey Jr. reveling in his new–found celebrity as Iron Man while attracting the unwanted…
Unthinkable (2010): Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen…; Troubling psychological thriller with Sheen as a terrorist suspect who won't divulge the whereabouts of rogue nuclear weapons, Jackson and Moss…
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): Dir. Joe Johnston
Feat. Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones…; Marvel's iconic superhero is reborn in this big, brash blockbuster, about a feeble military reject who is transformed into an ultimate solider by a…
Sunset Limited, The (2011): Dir. Tommy Lee Jones
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson; Cormac McCarthy's one–room play is animated by the mesmerizing acting of Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson in this intense two–hander…
Avengers, The (Marvel's Avengers) (2012): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson…; Barnstorming blockbuster with Marvel's premier superheroes joining forces to combat Thor's evil brother Loki and his alien army. Skilfully helmed…
Django Unchained (2012): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio…; A cracking blaxploitation western from Quentin Tarantino, about a liberated slave who, with the help of a German bounty hunter, sets out to rescue…
Adventures in Zambezia (Zambezia) (2012): Dir. Wayne Thornley
Feat. Leonard Nimoy, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum…; A wing–tipped animated adventure set in Africa, about a spirited young falcon who, with the help of his bird friends, must rescue his father…
Turbo (2013): Dir. David Soren
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Pena…; Fuel–injected snails race to compete in the Indy 500 in this zippy animated adventure, firmly in the spirit of Pixar's winning CARS.
Old Boy (2013): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley…; Spike Lee remakes Park Chan–wook's devastating revenge film about a man kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years without…
Robocop (2014): Dir. José Padilha
Feat. Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton…; Paul Verhoeven's electric blockbuster about a tormented robotic supercop is rebooted for the 21st century.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): Dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Feat. Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson…; The Marvel juggernaut rolls on with this colossal sequel to the Captain America storyline, in which Steve Rogers must clear his name after being…
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014): Dir. Matthew Vaughn
Feat. Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson…; Good–natured, violent spoof in which gentleman spy Colin Firth recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the ultra–competitive…
Big Game (2014): Dir. Jalmari Helander
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Felicity Huffman…; Bonkers actioner with Sam Jackson as the U.S. President relying on a teenager for aid after Air Force One crash lands in Finnish forest.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo…; More Marvel mayhem has the team forced to reassemble after Tony Stark and Bruce Banner awaken a long dormant peacekeeping program.
Hateful Eight, The (2015): Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh…; An extremely bloody western from Tarantino that features a typically stellar cast as a group of miscreants and misanthropes holed up in a cabin in a…
Chi-Raq (2015): Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris…; Brilliant Spike Lee musical transposing the classical Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes into the setting of a Chicago neighbourhood beset by gang…
Legend of Tarzan, The (2016): Dir. David Yates
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson…; Alexander Skarsgard swings into the role of Tarzan who having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to…
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson…; Tim Burton's spectacular adaptation of the young adult fantasy novel about a teenager who discovers a portal to a different time in coastal Wales…
Kong: Skull Island (2017): Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson…; When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster…
Hitman's Bodyguard, The (2017): Dir. Patrick Hughes
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman…; Smart–ass action shennanigans with Ryan Reynolds hired as a bodyguard to protect hitman Samuel L. Jackson who has to testify at the…
Glass (2018): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy…; An ambitious, unconventional superhero thriller that provides an intersection between the director M. Night Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable…
Captain Marvel (2019): Dir. Anna Campion, Ryan Fleck
Feat. Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn…; Thoroughly enjoyable entry into the bloated Marvel Franchise, notable for being the first one to be female–led and female co–directed.…
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019): Dir. Jon Watts
Feat. Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal…; Marvel–lous sequel to the hugely successful reboot 'Spider–Man: Homecoming', this follows the events of 'Avengers: Endgame', with Peter…

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Filmography (All Films)