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The Best Ice Cube Movies
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List of the best Ice Cube movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. The order of this Ice Cube movies list is decided by how many votes each film receives, so only his most highly rated movies will be at the top of the list. If you and a friend are arguing about what the greatest Ice Cube movie of all time is, then use this list of the most entertaining Ice Cube films to end the squabble once and for all.
If you think the best Ice Cube role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Ice Cube performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.
List films include The Players Club, Chuck D's Hip Hop Hall of Fame and more and answers the questions, "What are the best Ice Cube movies?" and "What are the greatest Ice Cube roles of all time?"
Ice Cube has worked with many famous directors, including big names like Rob Cohen and Brian Levant. Movie fans who love Ice Cube have also been known to enjoy films starring Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
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- 1Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: F. Gary Gray
It's Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) has just gotten fired for stealing cardboard boxes. To make matters worse, rent is due, he hates his overbearing girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), and his ...more - 2Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding
- Released: 1991
- Directed by: John Singleton
Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is sent to live with his father, Furious Styles (Larry Fishburne), in tough South Central Los Angeles. Although his hard-nosed father instills proper values and respect in him, ...more - 3O'Shea Jackson, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell
- Released: 2015
- Directed by: F. Gary Gray
In 1988, a groundbreaking new group revolutionizes music and pop culture, changing and influencing hip-hop forever. N.W.A's first studio album, "Straight Outta Compton," stirs controversy with its ...more - 4Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Steve Carr
Craig (Ice Cube) bails his friend out of trouble, survives a climatic confrontation with Debo, the neighborhood bully, and ends up with the girl. In "Next Friday" the bully is back as Debo, who spent ...more - 5Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
When cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go under cover as high-school students. They trade in their guns and ...more - 6Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Tim Story
A smart comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a ...more - 7Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Marcus Raboy
Finds Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) back in the old neighborhood where it all began. It's Christmas time and a ghetto Santa Claus breaks into their run-down apartment, stealing all their ...more - 8Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo
- Released: 2014
- Directed by: Tim Story
For two years, security guard Ben (Kevin Hart) has tried to convince James (Ice Cube), a veteran cop, that he is worthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben is finally accepted into the police academy, ...more - 9Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Tim Story
Rookie lawman Ben Barber (Kevin Hart) aspires to become a detective like James Payton (Ice Cube), his future brother-in-law. James reluctantly takes Ben to Miami to follow up on a lead that's ...more - 10Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Eva Mendes
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Kevin Bray
Bounty hunter Bucum Jackson (Ice Cube) teams with the small-time con artist, Reggie Wright (Mike Epps), that he is pursuing, in an attempt to locate a missing stash of diamonds and a lottery ticket ...more - 11Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
This sequel to the 2002 film returns to the Chicago barbershop owned by Calvin Palmer Jr. (Ice Cube). His employees -- Isaac (Troy Garity), Terri (Eve), Ricky (Michael Ealy), Dinka (Leonard Earl ...more - 12Ice Cube, Nia Long, Jay Mohr
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Brian Levant
Attempting to win the favor of the newly divorced Suzanne (Nia Long), Nick (Ice Cube) offers to accompany her children, Lindsey (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Philip Bolden), on a flight from Portland, ...more - 13George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: David O. Russell
Just after the end of the Gulf War, four American soldiers decide to steal a cache of Saddam Hussein's hidden gold. Led by cynical Sergeant Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), three of the men are ...more - 14Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: John Singleton
In John Singleton's powerful portrait of college life in the 1990s, a group of incoming freshmen at Columbus University -- including varsity athlete Malik Williams (Omar Epps), awkward outcast Remy ...more - 15Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: David E. Talbert
Petty thieves Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) face a big problem: The two must come up with $17,000 in one week, or Durell will no longer be able to see his son. The goofy scoundrels ...more - 16Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Steve Carr
Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Nia Long) decide to move to the suburbs to create a better life for children Lindsey (Aleisha Allen) and Kevin (Philip Bolden). The contractor (John C. McGinley) they ...more - 17Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Lee Tamahori
When the government finds out that a group of terrorists has infiltrated its ranks, and the group is being trained by high-ranking official George Deckert (Willem Dafoe), NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons ...more - 18Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Luis Llosa
Filmmaker Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) is traveling deep in the Amazon jungle looking for a forgotten tribe. Terri and her crew, which includes an anthropologist (Eric Stoltz) and a cameraman (Ice ...more - 19LisaRaye McCoy, Bernie Mac, Monica Calhoun
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Ice Cube
Single mother Diana Armstrong (LisaRaye) takes to sliding down a stripper pole in order to pay for college -- and make a better life for her child. But taking off her clothes for a paying audience is ...more - 20Shad "Bow Wow" Moss, Brandon T. Jackson, Naturi Naughton
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Erik White
Kevin Carson (Bow Wow), an ordinary guy living in the projects, wins a $370 million lottery. Unfortunately, the claim office is closed for a long holiday weekend, and he must keep his good fortune a ...more - 21Ice Cube, Keke Palmer, Tasha Smith
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Fred Durst
Curtis Plummer (Ice Cube), a down-on-his-luck former football player, becomes the new coach of the Minden, Illinois, Pop Warner football team. With his niece Jasmine (Keke Palmer) installed as the ...more - 22Bill Paxton, Ice-T, William Sadler
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Walter Hill
Firefighters Vince (Bill Paxton) and Don (William Sadler) venture into gang-infested territory to find gold that's been hidden inside an abandoned building. But when they witness a murder, they ...more - 23Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Neal H. Moritz, Brad Luff
When biker Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) discovers some motorcycles filled with crystal meth, he stows them away. But it turns out that villainous gangster Henry James (Matt Schulze) has plans to ...more - 24Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Darrell James Roodt
Thirteen years after his anti-apartheid activism forced him to leave South Africa, Vusi Madlazi (Ice Cube) returns home for his father's funeral. There, he finds his youngest brother, Ernest (Sechaba ...more - 25Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Christina Hendricks
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Richie Keen
Fist Fight is a 2017 comedy film directed by Richie Keen. It is a loose remake of the 1987 teen comedy film Three O'Clock High. After high school teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) accidentally gets ...more
