Amari Cheatom

Amari Cheatom

Born: January 19, 1986
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Amari Cheatom is known for Night Catches Us (2010), Detroit (2017) and Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017).

Movies for Amari Cheatom...

Betty & Blue
Title: Betty & Blue
Character: Pops
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
A Black musician, now in the later stages of his life, harks back to the magical moments in his childhood, career, and his relationship with his father who introduced him to his first true love: his trumpet named Betty.
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Judas and the Black Messiah
Title: Judas and the Black Messiah
Character: Collins
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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Relaxer
Title: Relaxer
Character: Cortez
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Y2K is approaching fast, but Abbie can’t get off the couch until he beats an unbeatable level on Pac-Man.
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Title: Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Character: Carter Johnson
Released: November 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.
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Crown Heights
Title: Crown Heights
Character: Leon Grant
Released: August 25, 2017
Type: Movie
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
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Moths & Butterflies
Title: Moths & Butterflies
Character: Leonard Young
Released: May 21, 2017
Type: Movie
After a chance encounter with a bubbly old friend, socially awkward Lenny decides to try to live a little. The only problem is himself.
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Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story
Title: Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story
Character: Eddie
Released: June 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Story of Miki Howard, an American R&B and Jazz singer, whose hits include "Ain't Nobody Like You" and "Ain't Nuthin' in the World."
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The Alchemist Cookbook
Title: The Alchemist Cookbook
Character: Cortez
Released: March 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
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Knucklehead
Title: Knucklehead
Character: Julian
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother (Alfre Woodard) Langston must take his future into his own hands. He sets out to find the one doctor he believes can cure him, a celebrity magazine columnist who touts questionable prescription drug cocktails. If Langston can become "mentally excellent", it will mean moving into an apartment of his own with his girlfriend, who may herself be a creation of his wishful thinking. Landing in the unscrupulous world of pharmaceutical marketing, the search for his mysterious doctor and hero leads to some unwanted discoveries. Langston strives for independence from his prior life; from his mother, from his neighborhood and from his fractured mind - while all around him people are not who they seem.
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Newlyweeds
Title: Newlyweeds
Character: Lyle
Released: September 18, 2013
Type: Movie
A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane.
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Django Unchained
Title: Django Unchained
Character: Roy
Released: December 25, 2012
Type: Movie
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Georgetown
Title: Georgetown
Character: Jack McManus
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Centers around the young people behind the power of Washington, DC. Un aired pilot/TV film
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Night Catches Us
Title: Night Catches Us
Character: Jimmy Dixon
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. Interfering with Marcus's good intentions are the neighborhood's continuing racial and social conflicts, as well as old enemies and friends -- both with scores to settle.