53 Michael K. Williams Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The movie is adapted from the memoirs of Solomon Northup, an Afro-American violinist who lived freely in New York in 1841 when two conmen kidnapped and sold him into slavery. For twelve years, he is forced to work in plantations and bear the abusive behaviour of his masters. His hope for release comes when he meets Canadian abolitionist Bass.

Ben Affleck’s directorial debut is about two Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, who are hired by the aunt of a kidnapped little girl. The trail takes the detectives on a perilous ride through hazardous neighborhoods teeming with gangs, drug dealers, and pedophiles, finally leading to a personal distress that threatens their relationship.  

The Road is a thriller-drama revolving around a man and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world by going on a journey along the coast to the south. Viggo Mortensen stars as the father, who scavenges for food and protects himself and his son, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, from cannibals, with only two bullets left in his gun.

Kill the Messenger is a mystery thriller film, which tells the story of Gary Webb, a journalist who discovers that the CIA is actually involved in a drug racket. However, the high officials force him not to publish the story. 

A superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk, The Incredible Hulk follows the story of a man who unwittingly becomes the “Hulk” following a botched-up military program. Though praised for its visuals and action sequences, the film failed to impress at the box office. 

Frank Pierce, a Manhattan paramedic working on two-man ambulance team, is exhausted and worn out after witnessing deaths and near-death patients. He starts losing his sanity, and hallucinates about the patients he couldn’t save. While working with three different eccentric colleagues, he even tries to get fired. Then, he clutches to a ray of hope as he befriends a heart-patient’s daughter, Mary.  

Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello is a good-hearted but inept stoner who works as a private investigator. His former lover, Shasta suddenly shows up and asks him to prevent her rich lover, Wolfmann, from being committed to insane asylum by Wolfmann’s wife. Doc soon finds himself tangled in the psychedelic world of drugs and corrupt LAPD. 

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. 

Bullet is a crime drama action film which tells the story of Butch Stein aka Bullet, who is released from prison on parole after spending eight years.  He finds himself back on the streets of Brooklyn, and soon he returns to his old life. Things get ugly when he assaults a drug dealer, along with two of his customers, after which one of the dealer's toughest men are sent after Butch.  

In this second movie in The Purge franchise, the authoritarian government of the US annually allows its citizen a twelve hour period to commit any crime without getting penalized. During one such Purge night, off duty LAPD sergeant Leo Barnes, decides to kill the man responsible for his son’s death. However, he ends up with a group of people who are struggling to survive the deadly night.

Jason Collins is framed into accepting the delivery of a package containing drugs and arrested by the DEA. When his father, John Matthews, finds out about this, John makes a deal with government authorities to go undercover and bring down bigger players. Unfortunately, lives are put at risk when vicious cartel kingpin Pintera gets involved. 

Life During Wartime is a comedy drama film which tells the story of three sisters Trish, Joy and Helen, as they struggle to find love, forgiveness as well as purpose in a world that has been torn apart by war.

The Red Sea Diving Resort is a historical drama thriller film which revolves around a deserted retreat in Sudan, which was used to smuggle refugees to Israel, by several international agents.

The story focuses on a bunch of criminals and two corrupt corps working for a convicted Jewish-Russian mafia boss.  They have just completed a successful bank robbery and as told by their boss’s wife have retrieved a safe deposit box containing information that can overturn the conviction of their boss. However, the wife is not happy. 

Set in the near future in crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, the movie centers on police officer Alex Murphy who is murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived as the superhuman cyborg law enforcer RoboCop. A critical and commercial hit, it spawned a franchise that included two sequels, a television series, and a remake.

Miracle at St Anna is a war drama film which takes us to the time of the Second World War, and revolves around four soldiers stationed in Tuscany. They find themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them puts his life at risk to save an Italian boy.       

Jim Bennett, a literature professor, is addicted to high-stake gambling which has led him to borrow money from a gangster with his own life as collateral. As he slides down more into the underground gambling world, a loan-shark takes paternal interest in him. Jim is getting increasingly involved with one of his students. He has much at stake and can’t afford to lose.

Callum Lynch learns that he is descendent of a 15th century Spanish Assassin, Aguilar de Nerha, who belonged to a secret Assassins Society. With the help of an innovative technology that unlocks genetic memories, he re-lives the life and exploits of Aguilar. As Lynch acquires tremendous knowledge and skills, he gets set to fight the tyrannical Templar organization of present day. 

Richard is a married man, but thinks of spending time with other women. His morals are tested when he is visited by the former mistress of an old friend.

The remake of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters, follows paranormal researchers Abigail Yates, Erin Gilbert, Jilian Holtzman, and Patty Tolan. They take up the mantle of the Ghostbusters to stop occultist Rowan North who is summoning an army of deadly ghosts to bring an end to the world. 

After seven severed hands are discovered over several years, with a number tattooed on the palms, Captain Swaggert finds himself investigating the case himself. Soon, a special investigator named Audrey is assigned to team up with him, and she soon comes across an autistic boy named Jordan Thomas. When she sees seven hands that the boy has drawn, she realizes that the boy is connected to whoever the killer is.