Isaach de Bankolé
17 titles
Filmography
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No Fear, No Die
(1990)
Mother of George
(2013)Adenike and Ayodele (The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira and veteran actor Isaach De Bankol) are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child - a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural expectations, leading Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save her family or destroy it. Acclaimed director Andrew Dosumnu (Restless City) captures the nuances of this unique and fascinating culture by creating a beautiful, vibrant, and moving portrait of a couple whose joys and struggles are at once intimate and universal.

The Limits of Control
(2009)HD. A well-traveled espresso-drinker makes his way around Spain for a peculiar job in this Jim Jarmusch film.

Chocolat
(1988)Claire Denis drew on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her multilayered, languorously absorbing feature debut, which explores many of the themes that would recur throughout her work. Returning to the town where she grew up in Cameroon after many years living in France, a white woman (Mireille Perrier) reflects on her relationship with Protée (Isaach De Bankolé), a Black servant with whom she formed a friendship while not fully grasping the racial divides that governed their worlds.

Mirage
(2014)Un futbolista africano que huye encuentra refugio en una granja remota, pero pronto se da cuenta de que la granja es un campamento de esclavos.

Snakeeater
(2024)An unstable private investigator suddenly awakens on a train to find himself plunging deep into a nightmare that may very well be of his own making.

Where the Road Runs Out
(2014)A scientist in the Netherlands returns to Africa after the death of a dear friend, where his work in the jungle is interrupted by a cheerful orphan.

Manderlay
(2005)A difficult yet rewarding film from the equally complex Danish provocateur Lars von Trier! This fiercely polemical, little-seen sequel to Dogville tackles a topic as sensitive as slavery, all the while maintaining its predecessor’s Brechtian premise, anti-American bent, and yes, its brilliance.

The Fifth Patient
(2007)A man (Nick Chinlund) awakes in an African hospital suffering from severe memory loss while a military leader (Isaach de Bankolé) tries to determine if he's a spy.

From Other Worlds
(2004)A depressed housewife from Brooklyn is numb to life until she’s abducted by UFOs, inspiring her to find out why and also finding love in the process.

The Keeper
(1995)
Cherry
(1999)10 years after being left at the alter and swearing men off forever, a young woman decides she'd like to have a child.

White Material
(2010)Isabelle Huppert plays a plantation owner clinging to her land as civil war creeps ever closer, in Claire Denis' memserising rumination on the effects of colonialism.

Calvary
(2014)A good man intent on making the world a better place, Father James (Brendan Gleeson), is continually shocked and saddened by the spiteful and confrontational inhabitants of his small country town. One day his life is threatened during confession.

Night on Earth
(1991)LA, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki are the stage for encounters between cabbies and their fares in this 1991 Jim Jarmusch comedy.

The Brutalist
(2024)A Jewish Hungarian architect flees to the US from postwar Europe and attracts the attention of an industrialist who enlists him for an ambitious project.

The People We Hate at the Wedding
(2022)In this hilariously raunchy comedy, dysfunctional American siblings Alice (Kristen Bell) and Paul (Ben Platt) along with their ever-optimistic mom (Allison Janney), are invited to the British wedding of their estranged half-sister Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) as a chance for them to reconnect as – more or less – adults, and learn to love each other like they once did