Movies directed by Daniels

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Butler, The

Calling Forrest Gump… Calling Forrest Gump… With The Butler, director Lee Daniels has managed to "Gump" the Civil Rights movement. That's not necessarily a bad thing but there are times when so many famous cameos threaten to become a distra...

Run Time: 2:07
U.S. Release Date: 2013-08-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, ...
Everything Everywhere All at Once

These days, everyone wants a multiverse movie – Marvel, DC, and now the guys who made Swiss Army Man. If nothing else, Everything Everywhere All at Once shows that it can be done without committing a nine-figure sum to the production budget. Tha...

Run Time: 2:19
U.S. Release Date: 2022-04-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Action
Director: Daniels
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, ...
Paperboy, The

Whatever else it may be cited for, The Paperboy, Lee Daniels' follow-up to Precious, is not going be called "the feel-good movie of 2012." An unsettling period piece mystery (the period being the late 1960s), The Paperboy is steeped in the so-calle...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, ...
Precious

Precious (saddled with the unwieldy subtitle: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire) manages the task of being both heartbreaking and heart-warming, all without resorting to the kind of manipulation so often evident in dramas about underprivileged ki...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabby Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paul Patton, ...