Dan Aykroyd films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 52 films on Boxlist

Known for Marty, Life Is Short, Ghostbusters and John Candy: I Like Me.

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Marty, Life Is Short
2026 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Martin Short looks back on a life fueled by joy in this documentary with classic clips, fresh interviews and star-studded, never-before-seen home movies.
Ghostbusters
1984 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign...
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John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
In 1985, 46 music icons, including Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Ross, and Stevie Wonder, came together for the most star-studded recording session in history. This is the untold story of the...
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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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Grosse Pointe Blank
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe...
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Driving Miss Daisy
1989 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when...
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The Blues Brothers
1980 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back togther to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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Sneakers
1992 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his...
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Belushi
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted...
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
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Antz
1998 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been...
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My Girl
1991 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is...
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
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Get on Up
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
2025 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
From his Saturday Night Live beginnings to a string of classic comedies, Chevy Chase has always had huge comedic range. He is also a complex and contradictory human being. Featuring revealing interviews with those closest to him, this...
Ghostbusters
2016 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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50 First Dates
2004 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because...
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Casper
1995 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with...
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Tommy Boy
1995 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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Chaplin
1992 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
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Ghostbusters II
1989 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
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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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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
1959. Friday nights. We time-travelled. Witnessed surprising twists. Entertained aliens. Experienced fear. And first journeyed to the "Twilight Zone" of Rod Serling's memorable TV series. And guided by four imaginative moviemakers, we...
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Pearl Harbor
2001 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the...
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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 Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they...
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The Great Outdoors
1988 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman...
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Evolution
2001 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the...
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Into the Night
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
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She's Having a Baby
1988 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is...
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Blues Brothers 2000
1998 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle...
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Sgt. Bilko
1996 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
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Coneheads
1993 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of...
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Spies Like Us
1985 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
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1941
1979 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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My Girl 2
1994 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She...
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Canadian Bacon
1995 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
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My Stepmother is an Alien
1988 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long...
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Zombie Town
2023 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
Amy and Mike unearth a centuries-old curse when they decide to watch an exclusive film reel. The duo must track down an infamous filmmaker and navigate a town of hungry zombies to save the world.
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War, Inc.
2008 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand...
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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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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2007 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his gay lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things...
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Loser
2000 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty...
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Tammy
2014 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
2014 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Dorothy wakes up in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man and Glinda from a devious new villain, the Jester. Wiser the owl, Marshal Mallow, China Princess and...
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Yogi Bear
2010 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo, and Ranger Smith.
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North
1994 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return...
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Feeling Minnesota
1996 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the...
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Christmas with the Kranks
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday...
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Nothing but Trouble
1991 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant...
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Dan Aykroyd films, ranked by your taste

Starring Dan Aykroyd

Directed by Dan Aykroyd