Billy Bob Thornton films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 40 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Sling Blade, Landman and A Simple Plan.

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Bound by Honor
1993 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos"...
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Landman
2024 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West-Texas and a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a boom so big it’s...
Tombstone
1993 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious...
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The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to...
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Sling Blade
1996 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the...
The Judge
2014 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
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Dead Man
1995 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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A Simple Plan
1998 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan...
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Love Actually
2003 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
'Love Actually' follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
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The Gray Man
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
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Friday Night Lights
2004 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant...
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Armageddon
1998 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the...
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Monster's Ball
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to...
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U Turn
1997 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After...
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Bad Santa
2003 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
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A Million Little Pieces
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
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Puss in Boots
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is...
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Eagle Eye
2008 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their...
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Faster
2010 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
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Indecent Proposal
1993 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.
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Bandits
2001 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
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Primary Colors
1998 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the...
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Entourage
2015 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they...
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war...
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The Astronaut Farmer
2006 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to...
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Parkland
2013 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second...
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The Ice Harvest
2005 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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The Baytown Outlaws
2012 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
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Intolerable Cruelty
2003 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
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Pushing Tin
1999 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
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Our Brand Is Crisis
2015 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
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The Alamo
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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Bad News Bears
2005 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the...
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Cut Bank
2014 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the...
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Devil's Peak
2023 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves.
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School for Scoundrels
2006 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
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Bad Santa 2
2016 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine...
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Into the Grizzly Maze
2015 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.
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Mr. Woodcock
2007 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
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On Deadly Ground
1994 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making...
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The Informers
2008 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and...
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