The Help
Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily b...
Why you'll love it
Viola Davis stars in this film about African-American maids working in white households in the 1960s.
12 Years a Slave
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Why you'll love it
Viola Davis has a supporting role in this powerful film about slavery in America.
Doubt
Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Why you'll love it
Viola Davis gives a powerful performance in this film about a nun who suspects a priest of inappropriate behavior.
Fences
Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Why you'll love it
Viola Davis won an Academy Award for her performance in this film about a working-class African-American father trying to raise his family in the 1950s.
Widows
Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Why you'll love it
Viola Davis leads a group of women who take their fate into their own hands after their criminal husbands are killed.