Ben Kingsley films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 65 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Schindler's List, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Shutter Island.

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Starring Ben Kingsley

Schindler's List
1993 · Film
8.6/10 · TMDB
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Shutter Island
2010 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
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The King of Kings
2025 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vivid imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus, witnessing His miracles, facing His...
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Young Washington
2026 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Before he led a nation, George Washington was a young soldier thrown into a global conflict. With alliances crumbling and war closing in, he must choose who to trust and confront the leader he's becoming.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
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Jules
2023 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.
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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current...
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Gandhi
1982 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a...
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Maurice
1987 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Spielberg
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
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The Physician
2013 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to...
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Hugo
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and...
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House of Sand and Fog
2003 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the...
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Poison
2023 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
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Death and the Maiden
1994 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
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Wonder Man
2026 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
Simon and Trevor, two actors at opposite ends of their careers, chase life-changing roles.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for...
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The Walk
2015 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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Sexy Beast
2001 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to...
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Iron Man 3
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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The Jungle Book
2016 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear...
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Sneakers
1992 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his...
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The Red Sea Diving Resort
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a...
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Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
2014 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
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The Thursday Murder Club
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.
Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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The Boxtrolls
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
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Operation Finale
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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Oliver Twist
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are...
Dalíland
2022 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
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Ender's Game
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
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Dave
1993 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A 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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Night Hunter
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.
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The Killer's Game
2024 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of...
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Self/less
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the...
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TransSiberian
2008 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
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Bugsy
1991 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all...
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Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten...
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its...
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
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Rules of Engagement
2000 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.
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You Kill Me
2007 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
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Deep Water
2026 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A group of international passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. The terrified group is forced to work together and overcome their differences if they hope to...
Backstabbing for Beginners
2018 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grizzly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.
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The Dictator
2012 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder, Woodruff, when she...
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Security
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl...
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Learning to Drive
2014 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other's company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.
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Species
1995 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can...
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William Tell
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, desiring more land, invades neighbouring Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation...
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
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War Machine
2017 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
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The Last Legion
2007 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
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Knight of Cups
2015 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to...
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Suspect Zero
2004 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
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War, Inc.
2008 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand...
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Collide
2016 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's autobahns.
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Locked Down
2021 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.
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What Planet Are You From?
2000 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the...
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Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse
2015 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
When aspiring knight Gareth goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead find the dragon Drago. After Drago saves Gareth's life the two become intricately bonded, and must work together to defeat an...
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Thunderbirds
2004 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben...
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A Sound of Thunder
2005 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
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The Love Guru
2008 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on...
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BloodRayne
2005 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, Kagan, the evil vampire king. When she's discovered by three vampire hunters, she manages...
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Desert Warrior
2026 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
In 7th-century Arabia, Princess Hind becomes a warrior to defy the ruthless Emperor Kisra. Forged into a warrior and aided by legendary bandit Hanzala, Hind unites warring tribes for a last stand—the historic Battle of Dhi Qar—that will...

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