Amari Cheatom

Acting

Amari Cheatom

Born 1986-01-19 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Amari Cheatom is known for Night Catches Us (2010), Detroit (2017) and Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017).

Acting credits

Django Unchained poster
8.2

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Django Unchained

2012

Crown Heights poster
6.6

When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.

Crown Heights

2017

Judas and the Black Messiah poster
7.3

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021

Roman J. Israel, Esq. poster
6.3

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017

Relaxer poster
6.0

Y2K is approaching fast, but Abbie can’t get off the couch until he beats an unbeatable level on Pac-Man.

Relaxer

2019

Night Catches Us poster
5.4

After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. Interfering with Marcus's good intentions are the neighborhood's continuing racial and social conflicts, as well as old enemies and friends -- both with scores to settle.

Night Catches Us

2010

Knucklehead poster
7.0

When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now under the control of his abusive mother (Alfre Woodard) Langston must take his future into his own hands. He sets out to find the one doctor he believes can cure him, a celebrity magazine columnist who touts questionable prescription drug cocktails. If Langston can become "mentally excellent", it will mean moving into an apartment of his own with his girlfriend, who may herself be a creation of his wishful thinking. Landing in the unscrupulous world of pharmaceutical marketing, the search for his mysterious doctor and hero leads to some unwanted discoveries. Langston strives for independence from his prior life; from his mother, from his neighborhood and from his fractured mind - while all around him people are not who they seem.

Knucklehead

2015

Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story poster
6.6

Story of Miki Howard, an American R&B and Jazz singer, whose hits include "Ain't Nobody Like You" and "Ain't Nuthin' in the World."

Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story

2016

Moths & Butterflies poster
NR

After a chance encounter with a bubbly old friend, socially awkward Lenny decides to try to live a little. The only problem is himself.

Moths & Butterflies

2017

The Alchemist Cookbook poster
5.2

Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.

The Alchemist Cookbook

2016

Newlyweeds poster
4.2

A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane.

Newlyweeds

2013

Betty & Blue poster
1.0

A Black musician, now in the later stages of his life, harks back to the magical moments in his childhood, career, and his relationship with his father who introduced him to his first true love: his trumpet named Betty.

Betty & Blue

2024