Aqeel Ash-Shakoor

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Aqeel Ash-Shakoor

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Hayseed
1h 47m
Movie 2023

Hayseed

Following the discovery of a reverend’s body, a retired detective uncovers corruption and murder in a Rust Belt community.

On Sacred Ground
1h 54m
Movie 2023

On Sacred Ground

Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist and Afghanistan War military veteran, and Elliot, an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline.

Street Code Broken
1h 48m
Movie 2022

Street Code Broken

It follows two friends who come to a crossroads when one of them decides that street life isn't what he wants.

These Men for Everybody
1h 43m
Movie 2022

These Men for Everybody

Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer; but sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. When disloyalty, deceit, jealousy and betrayal infiltrate a circle of close friends, secrets are revealed. Bonds are broken, lives are destroyed, everyone is out for revenge and the only person left to trust is yourself.

These Men for Everybody
1h 43m
Movie 2022

These Men for Everybody

Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer; but sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. When disloyalty, deceit, jealousy and betrayal infiltrate a circle of close friends, secrets are revealed. Bonds are broken, lives are destroyed, everyone is out for revenge and the only person left to trust is yourself.

Cain and Abel
1h 40m
Movie 2021

Cain and Abel

The traumas of childhood differences and disappointments leads two brothers on totally different paths. Finding their way back to one another, will the childhood traumas they've endured be too much and drive them even further apart?

He Played Me
1h 43m
Movie 2021

He Played Me

This is a TRUE STORY of how lust, love, lies, and sex can lead you down a dark path full of passion, jealousy, hate, betrayals, and ultimately your demise. Yazmin has been in a sexless, loveless marriage for the past two years. She is content but not happy. That is until the charming and powerful Jai comes strolling into her life. He is everything she desires in a man; charming, handsome and with just the right amount of street swag. Little does Yazmin know; Jai is not the man he portrays himself to be. Jai is controlling, abusive and used to getting what he wants by using his power and money to control the people around him. When their two worlds collide, a whirlwind romance will quickly turn into the fight of Yazmin's life.

He Played Me
1h 43m
Movie 2021

He Played Me

This is a TRUE STORY of how lust, love, lies, and sex can lead you down a dark path full of passion, jealousy, hate, betrayals, and ultimately your demise. Yazmin has been in a sexless, loveless marriage for the past two years. She is content but not happy. That is until the charming and powerful Jai comes strolling into her life. He is everything she desires in a man; charming, handsome and with just the right amount of street swag. Little does Yazmin know; Jai is not the man he portrays himself to be. Jai is controlling, abusive and used to getting what he wants by using his power and money to control the people around him. When their two worlds collide, a whirlwind romance will quickly turn into the fight of Yazmin's life.

Jumanji: Level One
0h 23m
Movie 2021

Jumanji: Level One

Set in 1869, two children receive a mysterious game after their father goes missing in the jungles of Africa. They unravel both the secret of their father’s disappearance and the origin of Jumanji. See how it all began.

Turn of the Cheek
2h 18m
Movie 2020

Turn of the Cheek

Teen son of black couple is murdered during a robbery. Murderer gets 40 years and has cute son (6-8yrs). Mother of murdered son wants to take-in/adopt the boy, husband objects. Kid's dad objects.

Biography

Aqeel Taahir Ash-Shakoor was born in Murfreesboro, NC. He is known for Law & Order: SVU Season 24 (NBC) Precinct Commander Inspector Borsits; FBI Season 5 (CBS) as Geoff, MTA Mechanic; Chicago Med Season 4 (NBC) as Shrapnel Man and Season 7 as FBI Agent Russo; The Staircase (HBO Max) as State Police 2; and A League of Their Own (Prime Original Series) as Pastor Donald Turner. In 2022, in his first major industry big screen production, Aqeel played Frank, a construction worker with great concerns, in "On Sacred Ground." In 2023, Aqeel will play James Farmer in the John Ridley directed "Shirley," based on the life of Shirley Chisholm, played by Regina King.