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Akosua Busia is a Actor and Writer British born on 30 december 1966
Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, film director and songwriter who lives in the U.K.
(1986)
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Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, film director and songwriter who lives in the U.K.
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On 12 October 1996, Akosua Busia married the American film director John Singleton, with whom she has a daughter Hadar Busia-Singleton born (3 April 1997); the couple divorced on 15 June 1997.Best films
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Filmography of Akosua Busia (17 films)
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Tears of the Sun (2003)
, 2h1Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker, Johnny Messner, Tom Skerritt
Roles Patience
Rating66%
Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his U.S. Navy SEAL detachment Zee (Eamonn Walker), Slo (Nick Chinlund), Red (Cole Hauser), Lake (Johnny Messner), Silk (Charles Ingram), Doc (Paul Francis), and Flea (Chad Smith), are sent by Captain Bill Rhodes (Tom Skerritt) to Nigeria to extract a "critical persona", one Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a U.S. citizen by marriage. Their secondary mission is to extract the mission priest (Pierrino Mascarino) and two nuns (Fionnula Flanagan & Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy).
Mad City (1997)
, 1h54Directed by Costa-Gavras
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about television, Political films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Ted Levine, William Atherton
Roles Diane
Rating62%
After being sacked from his job at a museum, former security guard Sam Baily returns to the place with a shotgun and dynamite and takes his former boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages.
Rosewood (1997)
, 2h20Directed by John Singleton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Films about racism
Actors Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Elizabeth Rolle
Roles Jewel
Rating71%
A married white woman, Fanny Taylor, claims to have been beaten and raped by a black man. The movie shows a white man, not Fanny’s husband, in her bedroom where they have sex. They have an argument and strike each other. Some black workers outside heard what was happening but did not think they should intervene in white people's business. The white residents readily believe Fanny's claim. Hearing of an escaped black convict, a posse and other unaffiliated white men from Sumner and nearby towns go to Rosewood to investigate. The black residents of Rosewood quickly become targeted by a white mob, including men from out of state and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
New Jack City (1991)
, 1h37Directed by Mario Van Peebles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Russell Wong, Allen Payne
Roles Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Rating65%
Nino Brown and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, become the dominant drug ring in New York City once crack cocaine is introduced to the streets during the late 1980s. His gang consists of his best friend, Gee Money; enforcer Duh Duh Duh Man; gun moll Keisha; Nino's girlfriend, Selina, and her tech-savvy cousin, Kareem. Nino converts the Carter, an apartment complex, into a crack house. Gee Money and Keisha kill rival Fat Smitty, the CMB throws out the tenants, and Nino forces the landlord out onto the streets naked. Undercover detective Scotty Appleton attempts to make a deal with stick-up kid Pookie, but Pookie runs off with the money. Scotty chases Pookie and shoots him in the leg, but the police let him go.
Brother Future (1991)
, 1h43Directed by Roy Campanella II
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Time travel films
Actors O'Neal Compton, Carl Lumbly, Akosua Busia, Phill Lewis, Moses Gunn, Vonetta McGee
Roles Caroline
Rating60%
The movie begins with TJ (Phill Lewis), a high school student from Detroit, selling stolen items to other members of his neighborhood. Upon returning to class, TJ finds he has to write a paper on a famous black person for his Black History class. TJ is later seen selling more stolen material while talking to his friend, but a police officer starts to chase him. While running, TJ gets hit by a car and is knocked unconscious.
The Seventh Sign (1988)
, 1h37Directed by Carl Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films set in the future, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Friedman, John Heard, John Taylor
Roles Penny Washburn
Rating58%
Signs of the apocalypse are appearing, along with a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci (Peter Friedman) is the Vatican official investigating them. He dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn (Demi Moore) believes that they are real.
The George McKenna Story (1988)
, 1h40Directed by Eric Laneuville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about education
Actors Denzel Washington, Lynn Whitfield, Richard Masur, Earl Billings, Ray Buktenica, Akosua Busia
Roles Cynthia Byers
Rating60%
Saxo (1988)
, 1h56Directed by Ariel Zeitoun
Genres Drama
Actors Gérard Lanvin, Akosua Busia, Richard L. Brooks, Laure Killing, Roland Blanche, Clément Harari
Roles Puppet
Rating52%
Le directeur d'une maison de disques est au bord de la faillite. Il rencontre deux musiciens, un saxophoniste (Joe) et sa sœur (Puppet), chanteuse et guitariste, qu'il va lancer avec succès. Mais Puppet va être assassinée.
The Color Purple (1986)
, 2h34Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about children, Feminist films, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films about domestic violence, Political films, Films about child abuse, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong
Roles Nettie Harris
Rating77%
Taking place in the Southern United States between Winter 1909 and Autumn 1937, the movie tells the life of a poor African American woman named Celie Harris (Whoopi Goldberg) whose abuse begins when she is young. By the time she is 14, she has already had two children by her father Alphonso "James" Harris (Leonard Jackson). He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces the young Celie (Desreta Jackson) to marry a wealthy young local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as "Mister" (Danny Glover), who treats her like a slave. Albert makes her clean up his disorderly household and take care of his unruly children. Albert beats and rapes her often, intimidating Celie into submission and near silence. Celie's sister Nettie (Akosua Busia) comes to live with them, and there is a brief period of happiness as the sisters spend time together and Nettie begins to teach Celie how to read. This is short-lived; after Nettie refuses Albert's predatory affections once too often, he kicks her out. Before being run off by Albert, Nettie promises to write to Celie saying, "Nothing but death can keep me from it!".
Crossroads (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Le blues, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Tim Russ, Dennis Lipscomb
Roles Woman at Boardinghouse
Rating71%
Eugene Martone (Ralph Macchio) is a classical guitar student at the Juilliard School for Performing Arts in New York City who has an obsession for the blues, especially the famed Robert Johnson. Most intriguing are the legends surrounding exactly how Johnson became so talented most notably the one claiming he "sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads" along with a supposed lost song that Johnson never recorded.
Native Son (1986)
, 1h51Directed by Jerrold Freedman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Matt Dillon, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Page, Akosua Busia, Carroll Baker
Roles Bessie
Rating59%
Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Bigger Thomas, an African American who lives in an impoverished neighborhood, is employed by a prosperous white family who live in the suburbs of a major city. The money Bigger makes at his new job will be used to supplement his mother's income. As a chauffeur, he is directed by the father of the family to take Mary, the daughter, to the university. Instead, Mary decides to pick up her Socialist boyfriend, Jan, and to spend the time drinking and partying.
A.D. (miniseries) (1985)
, 5hDirected by Stuart Cooper
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman, Richard Kiley
Roles Acte
Rating71%
The story tells the life histories about Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus after the crucifixion of Jesus, and their individual fates in old Rome in the time of the persecution of Christians. Events in the New Testament Book of Acts by Luke and in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius are dramatized and interwoven with the contrasting histories of political intrigues in the public and private lives of the Caesars from Tiberius through Nero related in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, together with the fictional drama of the lives of two Jews and two Romans: Caleb the Zealot and his sister Sarah, and Julius Valerius the Imperial Guard and Corinna the patrician woman who has chosen to be a gladiator.
Badge of the Assassin (1985)
, 2hDirected by Mel Damski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Politic
Actors James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, Pam Grier, David Harris, Steven Keats
Roles Ruth
Rating60%
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The policemen were gunned down in cold blood by the self-styled terrorists, who first elude to the law and then, for want of crucial evidence, conviction for their crime. Assistant District Attorney, Robert Tanenbaum, the man responsible for bringing the three cop killers to justice leads a tireless nationwide investigation that moves to San Francisco, New Orleans and Mississippi and finally back to a climax in a New York courtroom, during the desperate search for the killers. Tanenbaum is aided by his partner, a resourceful and equally determined detective, Cliff Fenton.
Louisiana (1984)
, 3h7Directed by Jacques Demy, Philippe de Broca, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Actors Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Andréa Ferréol, Victor Lanoux, Lloyd Bochner, Len Cariou
Roles Ivy
Rating53%
L'action se situe en Louisiane au milieu du XIX siècle. Virginia va se battre pour entrer en possession du domaine de Bagatelle.
The Final Terror (1983)
, 1h22Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Rachel Ward, Daryl Hannah, Adrian Zmed, Mark Metcalf, Joe Pantoliano, Lewis Smith
Roles Vanessa
Rating52%
A young couple loses control of their motorbike while riding in a forest. Jim is badly hurt, so Lori runs to find some help. Only finding an abandoned cabin, she runs back to Jim only to find him dead hanging upside down from a tree. Terrified, she tries to run back to the cabin but is killed she steps on a trap full of sharp objects.