Here are the movies made by Tupac Shakur.
(1992) Juice
In this crime drama about a group of friends who get involved
in a robbery. Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends
who spend their days skipping school, getting in fights, and casually shoplifting. The only member of the group who has plans
for the future is Q, who dreams of becoming a dj. But one day Bishop happens to see James Cagney in White Heat and the film
inspires him to buy a gun. His plan is to rob a corner store and split the money. Everyone goes along with the plan except
for Q, who is competing that night in a dj contest. At the club, Q is a rousing success, but he spies the stern faces of his
friends through the cheering crowd and realizes that he has to go along with the robbery, which goes completely wrong.
(1993) Poetic Justice
R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut
in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. Justice uses her poetry to deal
with her grief after her boyfriend is killed in a shooting incident at a drive-in. Hired to work at a hair stylists' event
in Oakland, Justice is stranded when her car breaks down, until she remembers that her friend Ieasha (Regina King) was going
to hop a ride down to Oakland with her boyfriend Chicago (Joe Torry), a postal worker who is heading there with a truck full
of mail. Justice tags along to discover that Chicago's driving partner is Lucky (Tupac Shakur), the postman who delivers mail
to her shop and keeps asking her out. Ieasha and Chicago have to deal with their own rocky relationship while Justice has
to decide if she's ready for a new love -- and if Lucky is the man she's waiting for.
(1994) Above the Rim
A young aspiring professional basketball player must make
some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle-Lee is a talented basketball player in high school. While he waits to
find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground basketball
tournament. He must decide whether to follow his good-hearted coach or Birdie, the local gangster. Kyle is also feeling resentment
for the security guard his mother is falling for. The coach also wants the guard to play, but due to the tragic death of a
friend, the guard cannot bear the thought of playing again.
(1996) Bullet
Mickey Rourke stars as Butch "Bullet" Stein, a Jewish junkie
from the mean streets of Brooklyn who is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer,
Tank (Tupac Shakur), and is soon right back into his old habits of snorting coke and shooting up heroin with his best friend
Lester (John Enos III). Enraged by Butch's affront and already determined to get revenge on him for a past wrong, Tank sets
about getting even with his old enemy by hiring a hulking brute, Gates (Ray Mancini) to beat Butch. When the confrontation
occurs, however, Gates breaks his hand on the battle-hardened Butch. Besides Lester, the only people in Butch's corner are
his two brothers, the mentally-unhinged Vietnam War veteran Louis (Ted Levine) and aspiring artist Ruby (Adrien Brody), neither
of whom can be counted on to help him in the inevitable showdown.
(1997) Gridlock'D
In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of
dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two friends who share both a passion for music and a dependence
on heroin. Stretch and Spoon play in a jazz combo with Cookie (Thandie Newton), and after a New Year's Eve gig, they score
drugs and get high together. Cookie lacks her friends' experience with hard drugs and soon ends up in the hospital after a
severe overdose. Cookie's brush with death turns out to be a serious reality check for Stretch and Spoon, and they decide
that it's time to kick drugs and get clean and sober. But both men know that they can't get off heroin on their own, and therein
lies the problem; as they try to navigate a complex maze of social service agencies (who can't help them get treatment because
they aren't on welfare), drug treatment facilities (one of which turns them away because they're only equipped to handle alcoholics),
and hospitals (where, in order to be admitted as emergency patients, Stretch and Spoon ponder how to go about stabbing each
other) in search of a detox program. The two friends begin to wonder if it might simply be easier to stay on drugs than to
get healthy.
(1997) Gang Related
A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way
that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Divinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York
undercover cops with serious money problems: Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Divinci wants to retire to Hawaii
but lacks the cash. To stretch their paychecks, the partners pose as drug dealers, using narcotics confiscated as evidence;
they sell the dope, and after receiving payment, they kill the buyers in carefully arranged drive-by shootings, always collecting
the drugs afterward so that they can be sold again. The men try to morally justify their actions by claiming that they only
kill people who need to be taken off the street anyway. Divinci's girlfriend, an exotic dancer named Cynthia (Lela Rochon),
helps set the cops up with their latest victim, but after they've made the transaction, Divinci and Rodriguez discover the
tables have been turned -- the purchaser is actually an undercover DEA agent. The DEA man winds up dead, and Divinci and Rodriguez
are assigned to investigate the killing. Needing a fall guy, they try to frame a homeless man for the murder, but before long,
their web of deception begins to collapse like a house of cards.
(2003) Tupac Resurrection
A documentary about the pivotal hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur
that is narrated entirely in the words of the deceased artist himself. Through a variety of interviews, journal readings,
poetry performances, private home movies, and never-before-seen concert footage, the film serves as a "self-portrait" of a
cultural icon whose career and persona, both, continue to grow from beyond the grave.
