Bill Cobbs films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 25 films on Boxlist

Known for Trading Places, That Thing You Do! and A Mighty Wind.

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Starring Bill Cobbs

Trading Places
1983 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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That Thing You Do!
1996 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
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A Mighty Wind
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for...
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The Color of Money
1986 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming...
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The Muppets
2011 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save...
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Get Low
2010 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
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The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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Silkwood
1983 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
New Jack City
1991 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Demolition Man
1993 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been...
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The Ultimate Gift
2007 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get...
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The Hard Way
1991 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with...
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The People Under the Stairs
1991 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
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Night at the Museum
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. However, after two trials, De La Beckwith is acquitted twice by a jury of...
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The Bodyguard
1992 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension...
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Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
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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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The Search for Santa Paws
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In the tradition of disney's classic holiday tales comes a heartwarming movie about the power of giving and the true meaning of christmas. Discover how the legendary friendship of Santa Claus and Santa Paws began in the inspiring original...
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Air Bud
1997 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.
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Hope Floats
1998 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but she's...
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Enough
2002 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden...
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Beyond the Law
2019 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened streets he once knew so well. Armed, dangerous and with nothing to lose, he must take on the ruthless local mob in his mission for revenge.
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Random Hearts
1999 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash, Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and realize that the two were having an affair and they must figure out all...
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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1998 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Unfinished business with coed Julie James brings the murderer to the Bahamas to terrorize her and her friends, Karla, Tyrell and Will, during a vacation. Can Ray Bronson who survived a bloody attack alongside Julie two summers ago, get to...
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