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Mekhi Phifer
Actor 51 years old

Mekhi Phifer

New York City, New York, USA

Mekhi Thira Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his multi-year role as Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER and his co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film 8 Mile. He was a regular on the Fox crime... Read full bio →

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Allegiant

Allegiant

Robert Schwentke 2016 2h 5.6

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Insurgent

Insurgent

Robert Schwentke 2015 1h 59m 5.7

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

A Talent for Trouble

A Talent for Trouble

Marvis Johnson 2015 1h 2m

Set in the early 2000's when hip hop video's meant something. Sean Wellington, a neurotic music video director who was just given the opportunity of a lifetime to direct his first feature film.

Divergent

Divergent

Neil Burger 2014 2h 20m 6.4

In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Stephen Tolkin 2014 1h 30m

When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.

The Suspect

The Suspect

Stuart Connelly 2013 1h 29m

Two African American social scientists pose as bank robbers in an effort to understand the racial dynamics of small-town law enforcement. However, their experiment takes an unplanned turn.

The Love Section

The Love Section

Ronnie Warner 2013 1h 40m

Ali (Lawrence B. Adisa) is a struggling real estate agent and ladies' man who has never desired to commit to anyone or anything.

Key and Peele

Key and Peele

2012 20m

Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.

House of Lies

House of Lies

2012 30m

A charming management consultant and his crack team use every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals.

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

Ernest R. Dickerson 2011 1h 24m

Abby Collins's quiet life as a wife and mother shows no trace of her past work as a military special-ops expert -- until the day her husband is kidnapped. With no alternative, Abby must resort to her long-dormant lethal skills to save her spouse.

Husbands

Husbands

2011

Husbands is an American sitcom written and created by Brad Bell and Jane Espenson, which premiered September 13, 2011 via super syndication on platforms such as Blip, YouTube, and Roku. The series stars Brad Bell and Sean Hemeon as the newly married couple.

Flypaper

Flypaper

Rob Minkoff 2011 1h 27m 6.6

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

White Collar

White Collar

2009 44m 8.0

In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.

Lie to Me

Lie to Me

2009 44m 7.7

Dr. Cal Lightman teaches a course in body language and makes an honest fortune exploiting it. He's employed by various public authorities in various investigations, doing more when the police etc. fail to go the extra mile. So he can afford to constitute a team of his own, which like clients and others has to put up with his mind-games.

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life

Sticky Fingaz 2009 1h 30m

Bad blood between two urban crime families explodes into an all-out turf war in this gritty, hard-hitting drama set to rap and starring music legend Sticky Fingaz.

Nora's Hair Salon II

Nora's Hair Salon II

Jill Maxcy 2008 1h 20m

After inheriting her aunt's LA hair salon, Simone faces off with a headstrong stylist who has different plans for the business.

This Christmas

This Christmas

Preston A. Whitmore II 2007 1h 57m

A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family's first holiday together in four years.

Torchwood

Torchwood

2006 45m

The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

Puff, Puff, Pass

Puff, Puff, Pass

Mekhi Phifer 2006 1h 34m 4.0

Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big after the duo sours on rehab.

Psych

Psych

2006 43m 8.5

When a novice sleuth convinces the police he has psychic powers, he and his reluctant best friend are hired on as consultants to help solve complicated cases.

Slow Burn

Slow Burn

Wayne Beach 2005 1h 33m 6.0

A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) and a cryptic stranger.

Dawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Zack Snyder 2004 1h 41m 7.5

A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

Honey

Honey

Bille Woodruff 2003 1h 34m 3.5

Honey (Alba) is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry.

The Other Brother

The Other Brother

Mandel Holland 2002 1h 34m

A frustrated writer (Mekhi Phifer) reluctantly turns to his womanizing brother (Andre Blake) for advice about the opposite sex.

Paid in Full

Paid in Full

Charles Stone III 2002 1h 38m

Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world.

8 Mile

8 Mile

Curtis Hanson 2002 1h 51m 7.1

The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary boundaries to fulfill his dream of success in hip hop. With future and the three one third all he has to do is not choke.

O

O

Tim Blake Nelson 2001 1h 35m 5.3

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi.

Impostor

Impostor

Gary Fleder 2001 1h 42m 6.4

Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Robert Townsend 2001 1h 25m

A contemporary, urban retelling of the classic story, Carmen: A Hip Hopera follows the life of a police sergeant whose world is turned upside down when an irresistible woman enters his life.

Brian's Song

Brian's Song

John Gray 2001 1h 28m

The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease

Shaft

Shaft

John Singleton 2000 1h 39m 5.9

A remake of the 1971 Blaxploitation classic. Samuel L. Jackson played in Richard Roundtree’s roll as John Shaft – the dark-skinned super-cop Afro-American hero who only follows his own rules.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000 30m 8.8

He's got it all: a loving wife, good friends, a successful career, a great home..what could possibly go wrong for Larry David? Seinfeld co-creator Larry David stars as himself in this hilarious, off-kilter comedy series that presents an unflinching, self-depreciating depiction of his life.

An Invited Guest

An Invited Guest

Timothy Wayne Folsome 1999 1h 56m

During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple's house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the stranger is an escaped convict who demands that the wife leave the country with him and threatens to kill anyone who stands in his way.

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

Joseph Sargent 1999 1h 41m

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Danny Cannon 1998 1h 40m 5.3

Ever since killing the Fisherman one year ago, Julie James is still haunted by images of him after her. When her best friend Karla wins free tickets to the Bahamas, Julie finds this a perfect opportunity to finally relax. But someone is waiting for her. Someone who she thought was dead. Someone who is out again for revenge.

Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

Tony Cinciripini 1998 1h 35m 4.0

When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years...

Soul Food

Soul Food

George Tillman Jr. 1997 1h 54m

One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.

SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground

SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground

Bob Balaban, Patricia Benoit 1997 1h 21m

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

Hav Plenty

Hav Plenty

Christopher Scott Cherot 1997 1h 32m

Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her home for New Year's Eve, they start to build up a romance.

Sureshot

1996
High School High

High School High

Hart Bochner 1996 1h 26m 5.0

Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.

Girl 6

Girl 6

Spike Lee 1996 1h 48m 4.5

An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen

Robert Markowitz 1995 1h 46m

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program.

Clockers

Clockers

Spike Lee 1995 2h 8m 6.8

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer.

New York Undercover

New York Undercover

1994 44m

New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.

Models Inc.

Models Inc.

1994 42m

Models Inc. is an American prime time soap opera that aired on the Fox television network during the 1994-1995 television season. It is the third series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. The series was created by Charles Pratt, Jr. and Frank South, and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, Charles Pratt, Jr., Frank South, and E. Duke Vincent.

ER

ER

1994 45m 8.3

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993 45m

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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