Tyler PerryFilmography

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton, Mo'nique, Mariah Carey

Synopsis: Monster's Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire's best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American teen from Harlem who discovers an alternate path in life after she begins attending a new school. Read More

Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Tyler Perry, Hope Olaide Wilson, Mary J. Blige

Synopsis: A hard-living nightclub singer discovers the importance of family with the help of a handsome Mexican immigrant in this inspirational comedy drama from writer/director Tyler Perry. When pistol-packing granny Madea (Perry) awakens to the sound of her home being ransacked by wayward teen Jennifer Read More

Star Trek

Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Karl Urban

Synopsis: Mission: Impossible III director and Alias creator J.J. Abrams resurrects the classic science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry with this feature film that embraces the rich history of the influential television and film series while also exploring some uncharted territory. Heroes star Zachary Quinto Read More

Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke, Tamela Mann, David Mann

Synopsis: Tyler Perry transitions another one of his hit plays to the big screen with this adaptation of Madea Goes to Jail. The successful filmmaker stars once again as the mischief-prone older woman whose exploits this time lead her to jail, where she befriends and reforms a prostitute named Candy (The Cosby Show Read More

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Sanaa Lathan, Tyler Perry, Rockmond Dunbar

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates star in writer/director Tyler Perry's family drama about an upper-crust family and their working-class counterparts, who discover that scandal knows no social boundaries. Charlotte Cartwright (Bates) and Alice Pratt (Woodard) may be from different sides of the tracks Read More

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Margaret Avery, Frankie R. Faison, Jennifer Lewis

Synopsis: Prolific playwright Tyler Perry adapts his popular stage play of the same name in this family-oriented comedy concerning a desperate mother who connects with the family she never knew. Brenda is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling for years to keep her kids off of the streets. Read More

The Marriage Counselor

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Executive Producer, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tamar Davis, Palmer Williams, Jr., Tony Grant, A.T. Grayson, Myra Beasley

Synopsis: Acclaimed urban playwright Tyler Perry explores the hardships of marriage and the benefits of working through our daily problems in this stage drama about the stressful union between a hard-working accountant and his loving wife, a harried marriage counselor. Roger Jackson works hard to support Read More

What's Done in the Dark...

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Mann, Christian Keyes, Tamela Mann, D'Atra Hicks, Chandra Currelley-Young

Synopsis: Stage and screen multi-hyphenate Tyler Perry returns to the helm for this lively tale of emergency room bedlam that finds a group of doctors, nurses, and patients desperately struggling to keep their secrets in the dark. Unfortunately for this crew, these things always find a way of coming to Read More

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tyler Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Richard T. Jones

Synopsis: A couple (Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson) that goes on a therapeutic annual winter vacation designed to help couples work through their marital problems in a group setting finds the usual routine thrown into chaos when one of the wives arrives with a sexy young temptress in tow. Now, as the Read More

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett, Jr., Tasha Smith, Tracee Ellis Ross

Synopsis: Diary of a Mad Black Woman mastermind Tyler Perry turns the familiar Cinderella tale on its head with this story concerning a successful female attorney who falls in love with a financially strapped mechanic. Monty (Idris Elba) is struggling mechanic and single father of three from a poor Read More

Tyler Perry's House of Payne [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons

Synopsis: Actor and playwright Tyler Perry returns as Madea, a brash but loving African-American grandmother with her own way of doing things in this screen adaptation of his popular stage comedy drama. Madea has her work cut out for her when she finds herself dealing with a handful of family crises the Read More

Why Did I Get Married?

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Play Author, Producer, Set Designer, Stage Director

Actors: Tyler Perry, Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley, LaVan Davis, Donna Stewart, Cordell Moore

Synopsis: Laugh along with Tyler Perry as the award-winning playwright examines the love, joy, faith, and trials of marriage in a hilarious and touching examination of the powerful bond shared between husband and wife. A marriage has been threatened by the advancements of a sexy and alluring young Read More

Madea Goes to Jail

Actors: Tyler Perry

Synopsis: The outspoken Southern matriarch of Tyler Perry's wildly popular stage show finally lands in the one place where talking won't do her any more good in this release of a performance originally captured on camera before a live audience. Madea (Perry) has a reputation for being able to talk herself Read More

Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Lisa Marcos

Synopsis: A woman has to learn how to love and trust men all over again in this comedy drama. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) would seem to have it all -- she's been married for 18 years to Charles (Steve Harris), and over the course of their time together, he's become one of Atlanta's most successful Read More

Meet the Browns

Crew: Director, Play Author

Actors: David Mann, Tamela Mann

Synopsis: When Pop Brown went to meet his maker at the ripe old age of 107, the 400 dollars he left to his grieving family wasn't even enough to cover the cost of his modest funeral. For the past eleven years, eldest son L.B. and his wife Sarah were the only ones who cared for Pop, but when the funeral Read More

Madea's Class Reunion

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer

Actors: Tyler Perry

Synopsis: The race is on for everyone's favorite ganja smoking, gun toting granny to attend her 50th class reunion, and the only thing standing in her way is the law as Tyler Perry's hit stage play makes its way from the stage to your living room in this release that's sure to tickle your funny bone. A Read More

Madea's Family Reunion

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer

Actors: Tyler Perry

Synopsis: From playwright Tyler Perry, the man who brought audiences Madea's Class Reunion and the number one box-office hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman, comes this touchingly comic tale about family, friendship, and the cycle of life. Madea, everyone's favorite pistol-packin' granny is back, and this time Read More

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Tyler Perry

Synopsis: Experience the origins of playwright/actor Tyler Perry's number-one box-office smash in this filmed performance of the original stage hit. Featuring none other than Perry himself in the dual roles of Daddy Charles and Madea, this comic tale of love lost and life reclaimed is sure to warm the soul Read More

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Crew: Director, Play Author, Producer

Actors: Tyler Perry

Synopsis: I Can Do Bad All by Myself was the first play by Tyler Perry to feature his soon-to-be-famous comedic creation Madea. The storyline concerns how Madea keeps her family from being torn apart when sisters begin acting selfishly. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More