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Best Octavia Spencer movies

Today we present the best Octavia Spencer movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Octavia Spencer:

TOP 25: The Great Gilly Hopkins

Character: Miss Harris
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 2015
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...


TOP 24: Small Town Crime

Character: Kelly Banks
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2018
Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.

TOP 23: The Soloist

Character: Troubled Woman
Genre: Drama, Music
Release: 2009
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.


TOP 22: Luce

Character: Harriet Wilson
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2019
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.


TOP 21: Get on Up

Character: Aunt Honey
Genre: Drama
Release: 2014
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

TOP 20: Snowpiercer

Character: Tanya
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 2013
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.


TOP 19: Black or White

Character: Rowena Jeffers
Genre: Drama
Release: 2014
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.


TOP 18: Dolittle

Character: Dab-Dab (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2020
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

TOP 17: The Shack

Character: Papa / Elouisa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Release: 2017
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.


TOP 16: Spider-Man

Character: Check-In Girl
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Release: 2002
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, nerdy high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the Amazing superhero known as Spider-Man.


TOP 15: The Shape of Water

Character: Zelda Fuller
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2017
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

TOP 14: A Time to Kill

Character: Roark's Nurse
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.


TOP 13: Fathers and Daughters

Character: Dr. Corman
Genre: Drama
Release: 2015
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.


TOP 12: Being John Malkovich

Character: Woman in Elevator
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 1999
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.


TOP 11: Coach Carter

Character: Mrs. Battle
Genre: Drama
Release: 2005
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

TOP 10: Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

Character: Dr. Evilini
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2008
When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove their manhood.


TOP 9: Fruitvale Station

Character: Wanda
Genre: Drama
Release: 2013
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.


TOP 8: Instant Family

Character: Karen
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2018
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.


TOP 7: Seven Pounds

Character: Kate the Home Health Care Nurse
Genre: Drama
Release: 2008
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.


TOP 6: Zootopia

Character: Mrs. Otterton (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2016
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.

TOP 5: Onward

Character: The Manticore (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2020
In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.


TOP 4: Gifted

Character: Roberta Taylor
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 2017
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.


TOP 3: Hidden Figures

Character: Dorothy Vaughn
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2016
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.


TOP 2: The Help

Character: Minny Jackson
Genre: Drama
Release: 2011
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.


TOP 1: Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé

Character: Herself
Genre: Documentary, Music
Release: 2019
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.

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