61 Don Cheadle Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The intergalactic warlord from Titan, Thanos, is on a quest to collect the six Infinity Stones that will empower him to destroy half of all life in the universe. The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy must come together to stop Thanos and save the world.

At the time of Rwandan genocide in 1994, Paul Rusesabagina worked as a manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines. When the political situation grew bad, he not only struggled to keep his family safe, but also gave shelter to thousands of Tutsi refugees in the hotel thereby saving their lives.

Immediately after release on parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean gathers a team of eleven specialist criminals and devises a sophisticated plan for the biggest casino heist in history. However, midway through the arrangements, it is revealed that his ex-wife, Tess, is the girlfriend of the target, Terry Benedict, owner of all the three casinos.

A period drama film that focuses on the life of a young nightclub employee who enters the pornographic film industry and becomes a popular star before eventually suffering a downfall, Boogie Nights is an expansion of Paul Thomas Anderson's mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story. 

A mission of Avengers results in the loss of civilian lives, hence political pressure mounts to have regulations for the superhero team. This causes the team to split into two groups – Team Captain America favouring freedom of superheroes and Team Iron Man backing the government. Meanwhile, Captain America’s old friend Bucky Barnes is accused of the murder of King T'Chaka of Wakanda.

Crash revolves around a few Los Angeles citizens as their lives get overturned by racial tensions and bigotry. Characters like a racist district attorney and his wife, racist cops, a victimized Middle Eastern store owner, two black carjackers, an African-American couple, a Hispanic locksmith, all serve as a thrilling commentary of the racial injustice running in the USA.  

The movie explores America’s drug fight through four stories. The US drug czar discovers that his own daughter is an addict. The wife of a drug lord discovers her husband’s true profession and tries to protect it. A witness familiar with her husband’s activities is protected by two DEA agents. A committed cop begins to doubt his superior’s true motives in drug war.

Ray Nettles is a narcotics agent who teams up with Detective Art Rice, a police officer, to investigate a series of horrific bombings. They soon discover that Northern Irish terrorists are behind the attack. They decide to enlist the help of explosives expert Frank Glass to help them bring the terrorists to justice.  

Charlie Fineman is so grief-stricken after the sudden loss of his family that he leaves job and goes into a shell. He happens to meet his old college roommate Alan Johnson who has his own stress regarding job and family. Rediscovering their old bond, Alan resolves to help Charlie pull out of his isolation, and in the process Alan too gets rejuvenated. 

After the Avengers retrieve Loki's scepter from a Hydra facility, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner use it to complete Stark's Ultron global defense program. However, Ultron turns against humans realizing their wrongdoings, and attacks the Avengers, eliminating Stark's A.I. J.A.R.V.I.S. The Avengers must stop a global extinction with mysterious superhuman twins, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff.

Lyle Jensen is a teen who suffers from sudden and violent outbursts. Eventually, he is committed to the Northwood Mental Institution, in the juvenile wing. He starts interacting with some of the other patients, who also suffer from varieties of serious problems.   

Talk to Me is a biographical drama film which tells the story of a radio personality named Ralph Greene, an ex-convict who becomes a talk show host and community activist in the 1960s. He expresses himself quite freely on his radio show and over time, he manages to gain a lot of popularity, even surpassing the popularity of his colleagues Nighthawk and Sunny Jim.     

Pilot Whip Whittaker is hailed as a hero for landing his plane with almost no casualties after it suffers a mid-air mechanical failure. A routine investigation after the fact reveals another story, however; that of a man struggling with substance abuse.

The buddy-cop comedy finds crass but good-hearted Irish police officer, Sergeant Gerry Boyle, team up with straight-laced FBI agent, Wendell Everett, to investigate police corruption and to hunt down drug traffickers led by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. Opposite to each other in nature, the two lawmen must form an uneasy alliance. 

After separating from her husband, hardworking single mother, Maggie, and her adoptive son, Oliver, move in next door to Vincent MacKenna, a grumpy and alcoholic Vietnam War veteran. When Maggie is forced to leave Oliver in Vincent's care due to work pressure, the naive boy and his flawed mentor develop an unlikely bond with each other.

Based on actual events, Rosewood is a drama film which takes us to 1923, Rosewood, Florida, a small peaceful town with mostly middle-class African-American people.  Things get ugly when a lynch mob from a neighboring white community storms the town. Few people take a stand against the invaders, in order to help the people of the town escape.

The seventh film in the Iron Man film series, Iron Man Three sees Tony Stark suffering from stress, anxiety and insomnia after the battle of New York. Soon, he finds himself pitted against a powerful and mysterious foe, Mandarin. When his close ones get attacked, Tony goes after those responsible and in process discovers that an event from past is connected to the present. 

Since revealing himself as Iron Man, Tony Stark is being pressured by the government and weapon contractors to reveal the technology behind his powerful suit. He must find a way to fight them while also tackling his other enemies.

Samir, an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim, was a Special Forces Engineer Sergeant with the U.S. Army. Currently he is seen operating as an arm dealer, who gets involved with a terrorist group. Very soon, he comes under the scanner of a US intelligence contractor, who starts tracking him. But is Samir what he appears to be?

In this final film in the Ocean's trilogy, Danny Ocean and his team set out to bring down hotelier and casino owner Willy Bank after the latter betrayed Reuben Tishkoff. His audacious plan, if successful, will lead to the failure of Bank’s new casino on its opening day itself.

Jack Campbell, a bachelor and prosperous Wall Street executive, wakes up in a parallel universe beside Kate, the girlfriend he had left 13 years earlier, who is now his wife and mother of his two children. He struggles with his modest life as a car tire salesman, but gradually learns to appreciate what he had missed in life.

Jack Foley, a bank robber, breaks out of jail along with a friend, and ends up kidnapping Federal Marshal Karen Sisco, who happens to witness their escape. But the mutual attraction, which develops as they both travel in the same car-trunk, doesn’t deter Sisco from hunting him as he plots his final big job. Can she bring herself up to arrest him? 

The United States of Leland is an American drama film, which revolves around the life of an ordinary teenage boy, who is sent to a juvenile detention center after he commits a murder. The murder deeply impacts the people involved in it, and therefore his teacher decides to write a book on it.

Based on real events, this crime thriller film tells the story of a furniture salesman in 1972, who comes up with a plan to kill the then-President of the US, Richard Nixon. His plan involves hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House in order to drop a gas bomb.

Jimmy is an ex-crook who is trying his best to leave his life of crime behind but he is dragged back into the world of crime for one last simple mission. All he has to do is intimidate a target, but due to a series of mistakes, it results in the death of a woman who is connected to a powerful gangster. A hitman is therefore sent to eliminate Jimmy and his associates.  

Colors is an action crime drama film which tells the story of an experienced cop and his hot-tempered rookie partner, who patrol the streets of Los Angeles, while attempting to keep the gang violence under control. While doing their job, both cops deal with issues such as racism.

During the Vietnam War in May 1969, for 11 days an infantry squad of 14 soldiers under Lt. Frantz wedges a brutal war to conquer Hill937, making repeated attempts against the Vietnamese holding the fortified hill. Apart from the battle casualties, the soldier must deal with stress of racism between white and African-American soldiers, psychological traumas, including the desperation and the futility of war.

The movie revolves around the lives of three of Brooklyn’s law officers: cynical officer, Edward Duggan, is close to retirement, detective, Sal Procida, is stealing drug money from raids to support his big family, andnd undercover black cop, Clarence ‘Tango’ Butler, feels more loyal to his drug dealer friend than to the racist police superiors. 

Bulworth is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a suicidal and disillusioned politician who puts out a contract killing on himself, so that his family will be able to benefit from his insurance policy. He also decides to be honest with his voters, but soon after he falls in love with a young woman, he rethinks his decision.    

Devil in a Blue Dress is a mystery drama film which tells the story of Easy Rawlins, a World War II veteran, who finds himself in need of a job after he is laid off from Champion Aircraft. He soon meets DeWitt Albright, a white man who has been looking for a woman, and he decides to hire Easy to find her.

The second installment in the Rush Hour series doesn’t fail to deliver in comedy and high-intensity action. Chief Inspector Lee and LAPD Detective James Carter pursue Fu-Cang-Long triad boss Ricky Tan, who masterminds a bomb attack at the US Embassy in Hong Kong. 

Gabriel wants the huge amount of illegal government funds to finance the counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell. He hires a convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who wants to be back with his daughter Holly, for the job. However, Stanley soon realises that Gabriel and Ginger, his associate, have a far bigger plan. Meanwhile a federal agent, Roberts, is suspicious about Gabriel.

Following the success Ocean’s Eleven, the sequel Ocean’s Twelve sees the return of Danny Ocean’s heist-gang who need to return the millions, they stole from Terry Benedict. They are also being pursued by Europol detective Isabel Lahiri and are up against master-thief Night Fox, François Toulour as they try to steal the first-ever stock certificate. 

This biographical musical drama is about the life of well-known jazz musician Miles Davis. The film shows how he had decided to go and live in isolation after dealing with physical and emotional pain. However, after meeting a music reporter, he finds his love for music reviving once again.

After the Sunset is an action-comedy crime film, which revolves around two jewel thieves, Burdett and Lola, who decide to retire after stealing three priceless diamonds. After successfully stealing two of them, they set eyes on the third one, which is located in a cruise ship. Although it should be a simple job for them, an FBI agent shows up and makes things complicated. 

Stand-up comedian Kevin Hart performs at a football stadium at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, in front of an audience of 50,000 people. He provides a humorous insight into parenting, people on the edge, as well as hardships that we encounter in our everyday lives.

The first manned mission to Mars ends in disaster when after landing, Commander Luke Graham, gets sucked into a giant opening with a humanoid face. When the rescue mission Mars II reaches Luke on the red planet, they decide to investigate the opening and discover the origins of humanity. 

Hotel for Dogs is a comedy film which tells the story of two orphaned siblings Andi and Bruce, who are not allowed to take any pets home. Therefore they decide to take in stray dogs along with their family dog at a vacant hotel.  The hotel is soon transformed into an ideal shelter for dogs.

Following an earthquake, geologist Amy Barnes warns Los Angeles citizen of an approaching disaster. When Emergency Management Chief, Mike Roark, decides to investigate with Amy Barnes, they realize that a new volcano has formed beneath La Brea Tar Pits. As the endless tide of erupting white-hot lava threatens to engulf the city, can the two find a way to avert the devastation? 

After a meteor shower, a mild mannered school teacher obtains super-human powers. This enables him to bring a group of criminals to justice, who has been terrorizing the streets.