Christopher Plummer films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 44 films on Boxlist

Known for Knives Out, Up and Twelve Monkeys.

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Knives Out
2019 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his...
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Up
2009 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named...
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Twelve Monkeys
1995 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But...
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Inside Man
2006 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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The Insider
1999 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
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The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced...
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Malcolm X
1992 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965...
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A Beautiful Mind
2001 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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The Sound of Music
1965 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
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Dolores Claiborne
1995 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there...
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Beginners
2011 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
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Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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All the Money in the World
2017 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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Syriana
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a...
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The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian...
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An American Tail
1986 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd...
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Murder by Decree
1979 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new...
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The New World
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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Danny Collins
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
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The Exception
2017 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
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Remember
2015 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
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Dreamscape
1984 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing...
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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The Last Full Measure
2020 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of...
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9
2009 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent...
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Somewhere in Time
1980 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s...
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Battle of Britain
1969 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
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Wolf
1994 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.
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The Night of the Generals
1967 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are...
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National Treasure
2004 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may...
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The Lake House
2006 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
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Dragnet
1987 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo...
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The Star
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the greatest story ever told, the first Christmas.
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Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not...
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Must Love Dogs
2005 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to...
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Rock-A-Doodle
1991 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' roll...
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Priest
2011 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is...
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Alexander
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
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Dracula 2000
2000 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Abraham Van Helsing, who has tangled with Count Dracula in the past, works as an English antiques dealer. Simon is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship.
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The Forger
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.
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Cold Creek Manor
2003 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A family moves from New York into an old mansion in the countryside, still filled with the previous owner's things. As they begin to make it their own, a series of events begin to occur that makes them believe that the former inhabitants...
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