Anthony Anderson films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 31 films on Boxlist

Known for The Departed, Beats and Misty Green.

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Starring Anthony Anderson

The Departed
2006 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises...
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Beats
2019 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
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Misty Green
2026 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Years after her Hollywood breakthrough, a talented actress whose career has stalled fights for her second act.
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Barbershop: The Next Cut
2016 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
To survive harsh economic times, Calvin and Angie have merged the barbershop and beauty salon into one business. The days of male bonding are gone as Eddie and the crew must now contend with sassy female co-workers and spirited clientele...
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Barbershop
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan...
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
2004 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Nerdy accountant Harold and his irrepressible friend, Kumar, get stoned watching television and find themselves utterly bewitched by a commercial for White Castle. Convinced there must be one nearby, the two set out on a late-night odyssey...
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Ferdinand
2017 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one...
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Scream 4
2011 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate...
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Life
1999 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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G20
2025 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After the G20 Summit is overtaken by terrorists, President Danielle Sutton must bring all her statecraft and military experience to defend her family and her fellow leaders.
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Hoodwinked!
2005 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Little Red Riding Hood: A classic story, but there's more to every tale than meets the eye. Before you judge a book by its cover, you've got to flip through the pages. In the re-telling of this classic fable, the story begins at the end of...
Me, Myself & Irene
2000 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named...
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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Scary Movie 3
2003 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.
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The Big Year
2011 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important...
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Romeo Must Die
2000 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or...
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The Star
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the greatest story ever told, the first Christmas.
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You People
2023 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
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Scary Movie 4
2006 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
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Malibu's Most Wanted
2003 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
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Grudge Match
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn...
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Cradle 2 the Grave
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Gang leader Tony pulls off a major diamond heist with his crew, but cop-turned-criminal Ling knows who has the loot and responds by kidnapping Tony's daughter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, Tony's lost the diamonds as well. As...
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Exit Wounds
2001 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of...
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Big Momma's House
2000 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
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Scary Movie
2026 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer's crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe.
The Back-Up Plan
2010 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how...
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Kangaroo Jack
2003 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Hot Bot
2016 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Hot Bot is the hilarious journey of two sexually repressed and unpopular teenage geeks who accidentally discover a life-like super-model sex bot.
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.
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Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, someone is determined to win the best film award at any cost - even if it means eliminating...
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