Arnold Schwarzenegger books, films and TV shows, ranked by your taste
Author and actor · 1 book, 49 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist
Best known for Total Recall.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on screen
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDBNearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance...

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDBFor decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.

Arnold
2023 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDBThis intimate docuseries follows Arnold Schwarzenegger's multifaceted life and career, from bodybuilding champ to Hollywood icon to politician.

The Terminator
1984 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBIn the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical...

Predator
1987 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBA team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

The Long Goodbye
1973 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBDetective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Total Recall
1990 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBConstruction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories. Something goes wrong during his memory implant turning Doug's life upside down and even to question what is...

The Game Changers
2019 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBFrom the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berlin and the bushlands of Zimbabwe, the world is introduced to elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and...
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBA documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Sly
2023 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBHis love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.

Andre the Giant
2018 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDBAn ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the entertainment world.

Pumping Iron
1977 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBPumping Iron is a 1977 documentary film about the run-up to the 1975 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition. The film focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger and his competitors, Lou Ferrigno and Franco Columbu. The documentary was co-directed by...

True Lies
1994 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBA fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

Milius
2013 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBThe life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.
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Conan the Barbarian
1982 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBA film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the...

FUBAR
2023 · TV
6.8/10 · TMDBWhen a father and daughter discover they both secretly work for the CIA, an already dicey undercover mission turns into a dysfunctional family affair.

Escape Plan
2013 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBRay Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's...

Commando
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBJohn Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks...
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Dave
1993 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBA sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
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Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBDecades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced...

The Running Man
1987 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBBy 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals...

Last Action Hero
1993 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBDanny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to...
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The Rundown
2003 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBWhen Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely...

The Expendables 2
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBMr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
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Iron Mask
2019 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBThe Russian Czar Peter the Great commissions Jonathan Green, an English traveller, to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire. Green sets off on yet another long journey, full of unbelievable adventures, which eventually leads...

The Expendables
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBBarney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious...
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The Expendables 3
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBBarney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or...
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBIt's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000...

Conan the Destroyer
1984 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBConan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagon. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she...

Red Heat
1988 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBA tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
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The Last Stand
2013 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBRay Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton...
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Twins
1988 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBJulius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an...

Eraser
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBU.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to...
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End of Days
1999 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBOn 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride—a 20-year-old...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
I Am Greta
2020 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBGreta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike...

Terminator Genisys
2015 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBThe year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack...

The 6th Day
2000 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBFuturistic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

Jingle All the Way
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBHoward Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite...

Around the World in 80 Days
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBA bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.

The Villain
1979 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBHandsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Jones wants the money, and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing...

Raw Deal
1986 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBMark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in...

Aftermath
2017 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBA fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and...

Collateral Damage
2002 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBFirefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.

Sabotage
2014 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDBJohn "Breacher" Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the...

Maggie
2015 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDBThere's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to...

Dr. Dolittle 2
2001 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDBA group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't...

Red Sonja
1985 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDBThe tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.
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Junior
1994 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDBAs part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
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Killing Gunther
2017 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDBA group of eccentric assassins are fed up with Gunther, the world's greatest hitman, and decide to kill him – but their plan turns into a series of bungled encounters as Gunther seems to always be one step ahead.

Batman & Robin
1997 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDBBatman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

Hercules in New York
1970 · Film
3.7/10 · TMDBHercules has grown tired of his life on Mount Olympus, and wishes to visit Earth. His father Zeus forbids such a voyage, but a misdirected thunderbolt sends Hercules tumbling down the mountain and into New York City, where he's befriended...
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