Ozzie Areu

Production

Ozzie Areu

Cuban-American producer Ozzie Areu is the Founder & CEO of Areu Bros. Studios, the first Latino-owned and operated film and television studio in the United States.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Madea's Witness Protection poster
6.1

For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea's house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.

Madea's Witness Protection

2012

Acrimony poster
6.7

Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot let it go.

Acrimony

2018

A Madea Family Funeral poster
6.0

A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unpleasant family secrets.

A Madea Family Funeral

2019

Boo! A Madea Halloween poster
5.8

Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a hilarious, haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.

Boo! A Madea Halloween

2016

The Single Moms Club poster
6.0

A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.

The Single Moms Club

2014

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor poster
6.7

Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

2013

Peeples poster
5.5

Hoping to propose to his upper-crust girlfriend, Wade Walker crashes her family's annual reunion and lands in a face-off with her dad.

Peeples

2013

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween poster
5.8

Madea and the gang encounter monsters, goblins and boogeymen at a haunted campground.

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

2017

Good Deeds poster
6.3

For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begins to change, however, when he meets Lindsey Wakefield, a struggling single mother who works as a night janitor for his corporation and has just been evicted. He offers to help Lindsey get back on her feet and, though he's already engaged, romantic sparks begin to fly. Suddenly, he finds himself torn between what is expected of him and what he really wants.

Good Deeds

2012

A Madea Christmas poster
6.4

Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.

A Madea Christmas

2013