Brian Cox films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 57 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Dexter: Resurrection, Her and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

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Dexter: Resurrection
2025 · TV
8.5/10 · TMDB
Set 10 weeks after Dexter: New Blood, Dexter Morgan chases a missing Harrison to New York City, where Captain Angel Batista is hot on their trail from way down in Miami.
Succession
2018 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
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Braveheart
1995 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up...
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Her
2013 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system...
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Penny Dreadful
2014 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological...
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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
The gang of Mystery Inc. take a trip to Japan and find themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate, an ancient blade...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
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Zodiac
2007 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for three men as their lives and careers are...
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The Bourne Identity
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters...
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Adaptation.
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt...
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Rushmore
1998 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to...
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25th Hour
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying...
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That Christmas
2024 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caeser has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caeser decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.
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The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised...
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Match Point
2005 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that...
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The Independent
2022 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young...
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Troy
2004 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his...
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Trick 'r Treat
2007 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old...
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Rob Roy
1995 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood...
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The Rookie
2002 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him...
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RED
2010 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying...
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Super Troopers 3
2026 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When Farva’s wildly over-the-top Indian engagement to Thorny’s sister spirals into chaos, the Super Troopers must navigate Thorny’s schemes to break up the relationship, while trying to crack a pernicious new drug ring — all to save the...
Little Wing
2024 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
For 13-year-old Kaitlyn, her world threatens to collapse when she learns that her parents want to get a divorce, especially because it threatens the loss of the house they shared in Portland, which had always been Kaitlyn's home. The...
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The Ring
2002 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the...
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Super Troopers
2001 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she...
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For Love of the Game
1999 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
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RED 2
2013 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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Kiss the Girls
1997 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail...
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.
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Anna
2013 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
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Mending the Line
2023 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to terms with his physical and emotional trauma.
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The Electric State
2025 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
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The Water Horse
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
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Red Eye
2005 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
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Ironclad
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter...
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The Escapist
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and...
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Battle for Terra
2007 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
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Prisoner's Daughter
2023 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max’s violent past comes back to haunt them...
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The Corruptor
1999 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
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Desperate Measures
1998 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the...
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Forsaken
2015 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
John Henry returns to his hometown in hopes of repairing his relationship with his estranged father, but a local gang is terrorizing the town. John Henry is the only one who can stop them, however he has abandoned both his gun and...
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Separation
2021 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
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Blood
2012 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.
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Running with Scissors
2006 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of...
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The Parenting
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.
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The Campaign
2012 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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Morgan
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
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Super Troopers 2
2018 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
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Strange but True
2019 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
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Pixels
2015 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
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Chain Reaction
1996 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project forced on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
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The Ringer
2005 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics and bring home...
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Quasi
2023 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A hapless hunchback who only yearns for love, finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.
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Last Moment of Clarity
2020 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
A normal New Yorker's life is upended when his girlfriend is murdered by the Bulgarian mob. He flees to Paris to hide from her killers. But three years later, he sees a similar looking woman on the silver screen. Obsession with past love...
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The Glimmer Man
1996 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim...
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The Anomaly
2014 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.
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The Bay of Silence
2020 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
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