Best Queen Latifah movies
We present our ranking of the best Queen Latifah movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Queen Latifah.
TOP 25: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Queen Latifah as: Ellie (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family, TV Movie
Release: 2011
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!
TOP 24: Just Wright
Queen Latifah as: Leslie Wright
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2010
A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.
TOP 23: Jungle Fever
Queen Latifah as: Lashawn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1991
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
TOP 22: Ice Age: Continental Drift
Queen Latifah as: Ellie (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2012
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
TOP 21: Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
Queen Latifah as: Ellie (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, TV Movie
Release: 2016
A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny, Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint’s twin brother assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world’s first Easter egg hunt.
TOP 20: Hoodlum
Queen Latifah as: Sulie
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1997
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
TOP 19: Joyful Noise
Queen Latifah as: Vi Rose Hill
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 2012
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
TOP 18: My Life
Queen Latifah as: Theresa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1993
It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time to see his first child's birth. To cleanse himself of demons in his remaining days, Bob makes a video diary, hoping to pass along some wisdom to his future child. Along the way, he discovers a lot about himself.
TOP 17: Hairspray
Queen Latifah as: Motormouth Maybelle
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.
TOP 16: Ice Age: The Meltdown
Queen Latifah as: Ellie (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2006
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster prompts them to reunite and warn all the other beasts about the desperate situation.
TOP 15: Bringing Out the Dead
Queen Latifah as: Dispatcher Love (Voice)
Genre: Drama
Release: 1999
Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
TOP 14: The Bone Collector
Queen Latifah as: Thelma
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Release: 1999
Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.
TOP 13: Last Holiday
Queen Latifah as: Georgia Byrd
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2006
After she's diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation.
TOP 12: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Queen Latifah as: Ellie (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2009
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
TOP 11: Bessie
Queen Latifah as: Bessie Smith
Genre: Drama, Music, TV Movie
Release: 2015
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
TOP 10: Brown Sugar
Queen Latifah as: fracine
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2002
Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.
TOP 9: Girls Trip
Queen Latifah as: Sasha Franklin
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2017
Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.
TOP 8: 22 Jump Street
Queen Latifah as: Mrs. Dickson (uncredited)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2014
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
TOP 7: Set It Off
Queen Latifah as: Cleo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
Four black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.
TOP 6: Juice
Queen Latifah as: Ruffhouse M.C.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1992
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
TOP 5: The Wiz Live!
Queen Latifah as: The Wiz
Genre: TV Movie, Music
Release: 2015
Winner of 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Wiz was a massive Broadway hit which spawned a dismal feature film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Executive Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have assembled a Tony-winning creative team, the imaginative Cirque du Soleil Theatrical and a diverse cast of showstoppers designed to create an eye-popping new take on the musical unlike anything ever seen.
TOP 4: Stranger Than Fiction
Queen Latifah as: Penny Escher
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2006
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
TOP 3: Chicago
Queen Latifah as: Matron Mama Morton
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
TOP 2: Miracles from Heaven
Queen Latifah as: Angela Bradford
Genre: Drama
Release: 2016
When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.
TOP 1: The Secret Life of Bees
Queen Latifah as: August Boatwright
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Release: 2008
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.