| 2025 | Thunderbolts* | Dr. Bill Foster | ★ 8.1 |
| 2025 | Sneaks | Issac / The Collector (voice) | ★ 1.0 |
| 2025 | The Amateur | Henderson | ★ 6.7 |
| 2025 | The Astronaut | General William Harris | ★ 0.0 |
| 2024 | Cellar Door | Emmett | ★ 6.1 |
| 2024 | Megalopolis | Fundi Romaine | ★ 5.3 |
| 2024 | Transformers One | Alpha Trion (voice) | ★ 8.1 |
| 2024 | Slingshot | Captain Franks | ★ 6.1 |
| 2023 | Lynch/Oz | Morpheus (archive footage) (uncredited) | ★ 7.2 |
| 2023 | John Wick: Kapitel 4 | Bowery King | ★ 7.7 |
| 2022 | Hollywoods Casting-Queen: Bonnie | Self | ★ 5.0 |
| 2022 | The School for Good and Evil | School Master | ★ 7.0 |
| 2022 | Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Self | ★ 7.4 |
| 2022 | black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special | Self | ★ 10.0 |
| 2022 | Der Anruf | Vick Wallinger | ★ 6.0 |
| 2021 | Death to 2021 | Narrator (voice) | ★ 6.0 |
| 2021 | The Ice Road | Goldenrod | ★ 6.8 |
| 2021 | Under the Stadium Lights | Harold Christian | ★ 6.6 |
| 2020 | Death to 2020 | Narrator (voice) | ★ 6.5 |
| 2020 | Ricky Powell: The Individualist | Self | ★ 4.8 |
| 2020 | Our Lady of 121st Street | Rooftop | ★ 0.0 |
| 2019 | Imprisoned | Daniel Calvin | ★ 5.4 |
| 2019 | Running with the Devil | The Man | ★ 5.4 |
| 2019 | Bernadette | Paul Jellinek | ★ 6.6 |
| 2019 | John Wick: Kapitel 3 | Bowery King | ★ 7.4 |
| 2018 | The Mule | Special Agent in Charge | ★ 6.9 |
| 2018 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Dr. Bill Foster | ★ 6.9 |
| 2017 | Last Flag Flying | Reverend Richard Mueller | ★ 6.8 |
| 2017 | John Wick: Kapitel 2 | Bowery King | ★ 7.3 |
| 2016 | Passengers | Gus Mancuso | ★ 7.0 |
| 2016 | Ein verschneiter Tag | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.0 |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Perry White | ★ 6.0 |
| 2016 | Standoff - Die einzige Zeugin | Sade | ★ 6.0 |
| 2015 | Getting the Old Scent Again: Reimagining Red Dragon | Self | ★ 10.0 |
| 2015 | Sean Connery: In His Own Words | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 2015 | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2014 | Rudderless | Del | ★ 7.2 |
| 2014 | The Signal | Dr. Wallace Damon | ★ 6.0 |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.0 |
| 2014 | Ride Along | Omar | ★ 6.3 |
| 2013 | Khumba - Das Zebra ohne Streifen am Popo | Seko (voice) | ★ 6.0 |
| 2013 | Man of Steel | Perry White | ★ 6.6 |
| 2013 | The Colony - Hell Freezes Over | Briggs | ★ 5.4 |
| 2012 | Slavery by Another Name | Narrator | ★ 7.2 |
| 2011 | Damit ihr mich nicht vergesst | Henry Covington | ★ 6.5 |
| 2011 | A Man's Story | Self | ★ 6.9 |
| 2011 | Contagion | Ellis Cheever | ★ 6.6 |
| 2011 | The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' | Self | ★ 2.0 |
| 2011 | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | ★ 6.3 |
| 2010 | Predators: The Chosen | Noland | ★ 5.9 |
| 2010 | Predators: Moments of Extraction | Noland (Voice) | ★ 4.3 |
| 2010 | Predators | Noland | ★ 6.3 |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.8 |
| 2010 | Rappin' With The Rickster | Self | ★ 2.0 |
| 2009 | Armored | Baines | ★ 5.7 |
| 2009 | Black Water Transit | Jack | ★ 4.0 |
| 2009 | The Black List: Volume Two | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 2008 | Days of Wrath | Mr. Stafford | ★ 10.0 |
| 2008 | Tortured | Archie Green | ★ 5.4 |
| 2008 | 21 | Cole Williams | ★ 6.7 |
| 2007 | Kill Bobby Z - Ein Deal um Leben und Tod | Tad Gruzsa | ★ 6.1 |
| 2007 | Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer | Norrin Radd / Silver Surfer (voice) | ★ 5.6 |
| 2007 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Narrator (voice) | ★ 6.1 |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | ★ 8.5 |
| 2006 | Bobby | Edward Robinson | ★ 6.4 |
| 2006 | Five Fingers | Ahmat | ★ 6.0 |
| 2006 | Akeelah ist die Größte | Dr. Larabee | ★ 7.1 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Theodore Brassel | ★ 6.7 |
| 2006 | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | ★ 7.4 |
| 2005 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Bear in Genaros Beer Commercial (voice) (uncredited) | ★ 7.2 |
| 2005 | Ashes and Snow | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.2 |
| 2005 | Das Ende - Assault on Precinct 13 | Marion Bishop | ★ 6.2 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self | ★ 7.4 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self | ★ 6.7 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase | Himself | ★ 7.0 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | ★ 6.7 |
| 2003 | Matrix Revolutions | Morpheus | ★ 6.7 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | ★ 6.1 |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Whitey Powers | ★ 7.7 |
| 2003 | Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend | Self | ★ 4.5 |
| 2003 | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty | Self | ★ 7.5 |
| 2003 | The Soul of a Man | Self - Narrator | ★ 6.4 |
| 2003 | Matrix Reloaded | Morpheus | ★ 7.1 |
| 2003 | MTV Reloaded | Morpheus (archive footage) | ★ 7.3 |
| 2003 | Biker Boyz | Smoke | ★ 6.2 |
| 2003 | Behind the Action in 'Biker Boyz' | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2003 | A History of Sex | Self | ★ 5.4 |
| 2001 | Matrix - Rückblicke, Einblicke, Ausblicke | Self - Morpheus | ★ 6.8 |
| 2001 | Spooge | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2001 | Osmosis Jones | Thrax (voice) | ★ 6.5 |
| 2000 | Mit aller Härte | 20 / 20 Mike | ★ 4.4 |
| 2000 | Sex and the Matrix | Morpheus (archive footage) | ★ 6.4 |
| 2000 | Michael Jordan to the Max | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.3 |
| 1999 | Making 'The Matrix' | Self | ★ 7.3 |
| 1999 | Matrix | Morpheus | ★ 8.2 |
| 1998 | Welcome to Hollywood | Laurence Fishburne | ★ 3.9 |
| 1998 | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | ★ 6.5 |
| 1997 | Black Hollywood | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1997 | Harlem, N.Y.C. | Bumpy Johnson | ★ 6.4 |
| 1997 | Event Horizon - Am Rande des Universums | Miller | ★ 6.5 |
| 1997 | Miss Evers' Boys - Die Gerechtigkeit siegt | Caleb Humphries | ★ 6.3 |
| 1996 | Fled - Flucht nach Plan | Piper | ★ 5.6 |
| 1995 | Othello | Othello | ★ 6.4 |
| 1995 | Die Ehre zu fliegen - Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | ★ 7.1 |
| 1995 | Im Sumpf des Verbrechens | Sheriff Tanny Brown | ★ 6.2 |
| 1995 | Bad Company | Nelson Crowe | ★ 4.8 |
| 1995 | Higher Learning - Die Rebellen | Professor Maurice Phipps | ★ 6.4 |
| 1993 | Das Königsspiel - Ein Meister wird geboren | Vinnie | ★ 7.1 |
| 1993 | Tina - What's Love Got to Do with It | Ike Turner | ★ 7.1 |
| 1992 | Jenseits der weißen Linie | Russell Stevens Jr. / John Hull | ★ 6.8 |
| 1991 | Reise ins Herz der Finsternis | Self | ★ 7.9 |
| 1991 | Boyz n the Hood - Jungs im Viertel | Furious Styles | ★ 7.6 |
| 1991 | Das Gesetz der Macht | Nick Holbrook | ★ 6.3 |
| 1991 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Self | ★ 4.3 |
| 1990 | Purple Heart - Die Stunde des Helden | Michael Waring, DOD Man | ★ 7.3 |
| 1990 | Ein fremder Klang | Roosevelt Stokes | ★ 6.8 |
| 1990 | King of New York - König zwischen Tag und Nacht | Jimmy Jump | ★ 6.7 |
| 1988 | Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special | Cowboy Curtis | ★ 7.4 |
| 1988 | Red Heat | Lt. Stobbs | ★ 6.2 |
| 1988 | School Daze | Vaughn 'Dap' Dunlap | ★ 5.8 |
| 1987 | Cherry 2000 | Glu Glu Lawyer | ★ 6.0 |
| 1987 | Der steinerne Garten | Sgt. Flanagan | ★ 6.3 |
| 1987 | Nightmare 3 - Freddy Krueger lebt | Max | ★ 6.7 |
| 1986 | Die gnadenlose Clique | Cream | ★ 6.4 |
| 1986 | Quicksilver | Voodoo | ★ 5.6 |
| 1985 | Die Farbe Lila | Swain | ★ 7.8 |
| 1984 | Cotton Club | Bumpy Rhodes | ★ 6.5 |
| 1983 | Rumble Fish | Midget | ★ 7.0 |
| 1983 | For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers | Jimbo Collins | ★ 0.0 |
| 1983 | I Take These Men | Hank Johnson | ★ 0.0 |
| 1982 | Death Wish 2 - Der Mann ohne Gnade | Cutter | ★ 6.3 |
| 1980 | Willie & Phil | High School Student | ★ 4.4 |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | Tyrone 'Clean' Miller | ★ 8.3 |
| 1979 | Die Chance seines Lebens | Street Kid | ★ 5.2 |
| 1975 | Cornbread, Earl and Me | Wilford Robinson | ★ 7.3 |
| 1972 | If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band | Fish | ★ 0.0 |
| The Little Bedroom | | ★ 0.0 |
| Blacksmith | Mather | ★ 0.0 |
| The Blacksmith | | ★ 0.0 |
| Crimson Blues | Mills | ★ 0.0 |
