Loading Page
Fences(2016)
Status: Released
Date: 2016-12-16
69%
2770 Votes
Time: 2h 19m
Some people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in.
Overview:
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Languages: English.
Countries:
Canada,
United States of America
Budget: $24,000,000.00
Revenue: $64,400,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Fences
Top 10 Billed Cast
Denzel Washington
Troy Maxson
Viola Davis
Rose Maxson
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Jim Bono
Jovan Adepo
Cory Maxson
Russell Hornsby
Lyons Maxson
Mykelti Williamson
Gabriel Maxson
Saniyya Sidney
Raynell Maxson
Lesley Boone
Evangelist Preacher
Christopher Mele
Deputy Commissioner
Video Trailer Fences
Video: Teaser Trailer
Teaser Trailer
Trailer 2
UK Trailer 1
"Denzel as Director" Featurette
"Same Spot As You" Full Scene
"The Marrying Kind" Clip
"Why Don't You Like Me" Clip
Academy Conversations: Fences
Denzel proud of 'Fences' Oscar nominations
Denzel Washington on making Fences
All 13 videos
Teaser Trailer - Trailer
Trailer 2 - Trailer
UK Trailer 1 - Trailer
"Denzel as Director" Featurette - Featurette
"Same Spot As You" Full Scene - Clip
"The Marrying Kind" Clip - Clip
"Why Don't You Like Me" Clip - Clip
Academy Conversations: Fences - Featurette
Denzel proud of 'Fences' Oscar nominations - Featurette
Denzel Washington on making Fences - Featurette
Ruben Santiago-Hudson announces FENCES for AFI Movie Club - Featurette
Viola Davis wins Best Supporting Actress | 89th Oscars (2017) - Featurette
Viola Davis wins Supporting Actress | BAFTA Film Awards 2017 - Featurette
Recommendations Movies
74%
Moonlight(en)
2016-10-21
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
66%
The Birth of a Nation(en)
2016-09-09
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
80%
Hidden Figures(en)
2016-12-10
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.
60%
Man Down(en)
2015-09-12
When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.
66%
From the Land of the Moon(fr)
2016-10-19
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
67%
Florence Foster Jenkins(en)
2016-05-06
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
67%
Loving(en)
2016-11-04
In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard and Mildred fall in love, they are aware of the eyes staring at them and the words said behind their backs. It's when they get married, however, that words and looks become actions, and the two are arrested. The couple decide to take their case all of the way to the Supreme Court in order to fight for their love. Based on a true story.
73%
Hell or High Water(en)
2016-08-11
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
72%
The Great Debaters(en)
2007-12-25
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
67%
Young Sherlock Holmes(en)
1985-12-04
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
65%
Jackie(en)
2016-12-02
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
76%
Manchester by the Sea(en)
2016-11-17
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
73%
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop(ja)
2021-07-22
After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.
70%
Toni Erdmann(de)
2016-07-14
Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.
70%
Heaven Will Wait(fr)
2016-09-08
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
70%
Operation Carwash: A Worldwide Corruption Scandal Made in Brazil(pt)
2017-09-07
2013. During Operation Bidone, the Federal Police seized a truck loaded with palm heart, which contained 697 kg of cocaine. The investigation falls on the team assembled by Ivan Romano, based in Curitiba and composed by Beatriz, Júlio and Ítalo. The traffic connections lead them to the dower Alberto Youssef and later to the former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who reveals an immense structure involving builders and the government, in order to divert public money. As the investigation progresses, the group led by Ivan is increasingly approaching some of the country's most influential politicians.
61%
The After Party(en)
2018-08-24
When an aspiring rapper goes viral for the wrong reasons, he thinks his career is sunk. But a wild party gives him one more chance to make it right.
Similar Movies
62%
Paper Towns(en)
2015-06-18
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.
0%
Can't Piss(zh)
2014-01-01
A divorced man must deal with his son's delicate issue after his ex-wife drops him off. So much for his bachelor's life.
50%
Wait Until Dark(en)
1982-06-20
A videotaped production of the Frederick Knott play in which three criminals play an elaborate scam on a blind woman who is in possession of a doll that, unbeknownst to her, is very incriminating. The play had already been famously adapted for the screen in 1967 starring Audrey Hepburn. This 1982 version was frequently shown on HBO in the 1980s.
60%
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk(en)
2016-11-10
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
0%
Father and Son(cn)
1954-01-07
After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father, a minor white-collar worker Ng Kwun-sing, vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. However, Shrimpy is constantly bullied and discriminated against by his classmates. Ng has not the means to be a social climber and finally realises his mistake. He sends his son to a voluntary school so that he may grow up happily. This poignant father-son drama shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
37%
The Dodgers(ru)
1988-04-11
Based on the play by Oleg Perekalin “I Demand a Court.” The organizers of constant fraud and theft in the suburban village of Kantirovka are Metel and brigadier Sanin, members of a gangster group at the regional level. In order to somehow attract the attention of the public, the worker, known for his integrity and partial attitude to embezzlement, arranges a traffic jam on the roadway. Investigator Streltsova thoughtfully and leisurely undertakes to investigate the causes of hooliganism of the worker and does not yet know who she will have to face in this, at first glance, harmless matter...
0%
About an investigation(fr)
1931-06-05
During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
40%
The Thief(en)
1955-01-04
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
0%
King of the Bingo Game(en)
1999-01-26
Harlem, 1943. Sonny is a struggling African American who frequents the bingo parlor in a desperate attempt to provide for his family in post-Depression era New York.
58%
Ned Rifle(en)
2015-04-01
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
68%
99 Homes(en)
2015-09-25
After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
76%
The Father(tr)
1971-01-02
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
70%
Parfum Fraise(fr)
2017-07-07
Makoto is doing his best to raise his 7-year-old son Kazuki. Despite his best intentions, the violence that was once his life comes back to bite him, and he will have no choice but to face it, before the eyes of his son, who he always tried to protect.
100%
Rabbits(en)
2020-01-25
Set in late 1960's Australia, Henry and his father George are two different kinds of men, yet the pressures of an overbearing father divert both their futures.
68%
Far from Men(fr)
2015-01-14
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
71%
Dear Etranger(ja)
2017-08-26
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
75%
Four Daughters(fr)
2023-07-05
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
20%
Hamlet(en)
2005-11-19
A young Prince is visited by the Ghost of his father and compelled to vengeance - but can he stop thinking for long enough to do it?
46%
Firehouse(en)
1973-01-02
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974.