Bruce Dern films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 44 films on Boxlist

Known for Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and The Peanut Butter Falcon.

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Starring Bruce Dern

Django Unchained
2012 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
2019 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising...
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
2019 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
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Nebraska
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
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The Hateful Eight
2015 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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Monster
2003 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.
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The Mustang
2019 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
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Family Plot
1976 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler is asked to locate a missing heir, whom she pursues with her cab driver boyfriend George Lumley, an unemployed actor.
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Our Souls at Night
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbour.
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Freaks
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really...
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Marnie
1964 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
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Hang 'em High
1968 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list...
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Coming Home
1978 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and...
The Driver
1978 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the...
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He...
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QT8: The First Eight
2019 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight...
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The 'Burbs
1989 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray...
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Small Soldiers
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
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Silent Running
1972 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused...
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White Boy Rick
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Emperor
2020 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
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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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The Cake Eaters
2007 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed...
Last Shoot Out
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Soon after a newlywed learns that her husband had her father shot down, she flees from the Callahan ranch in fear. She's rescued by a gunman who safeguards her at a remote outpost as he staves off her husband's attempts to reclaim his...
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son...
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Ravage
2020 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
When a nature photographer explains to the Police how she fought her way out of the Watchatoomy Valley, they dismiss her crazed and violent story as a meth-induced nightmare. But when they discover that she's telling the truth, it's too...
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Badland
2020 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
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The Great Gatsby
1974 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to...
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Last Man Standing
1996 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts...
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The Gateway
2021 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns from prison and lures them into a life of crime.
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Old Dads
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
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Mulholland Falls
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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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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Hickok
2017 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
Legendary Lawman and Gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the West, while delivering his own brand of frontier Justice and infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the West is put to the...
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Twixt
2011 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
A declining writer arrives in a small town where he gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl.
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Inherit the Viper
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Since the death of their father, the Riley siblings have kept their heads above water by illegally dealing in painkillers. Josie is managing the business with an iron fist, when her brother, War veteran Kip, is concerned that the risky...
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Bloodline Killer
2024 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
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Down Periscope
1996 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a submarine that can barely keep afloat. To add insult to injury, the Stingray is to...
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The Glass House
2001 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After the parents of Ruby and her younger brother, Rhett, are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends, Erin and Terry Glass, become their guardians. The children hear promises of a world of opulence and California fun -- all...
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The Weapon
2023 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Dallas is a one-man killing machine on a mysterious rampage. His attacks on biker gangs and meth labs anger the Vegas mob boss who’s holding Dallas’ girlfriend hostage. But who is Dallas working for? Even torture won’t make him talk, and...
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The Haunting
1999 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Dr. David Marrow invites Eleanor Vance, Luke Sanderson, and Theo to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion...
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Mid-Century
2022 · Film
4.4/10 · TMDB
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
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