Danny Glover films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 53 films on Boxlist

Known for Witness, The Royal Tenenbaums and Sorry to Bother You.

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Starring Danny Glover

Witness
1985 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On...
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The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades...
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Sorry to Bother You
2018 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
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Escape From Alcatraz
1979 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully...
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Lethal Weapon
1987 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark...
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The Rainmaker
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a...
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The Color Purple
1985 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson...
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them...
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Tour de Pharmacy
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
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Dreamgirls
2006 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Three young women dream of becoming pop stars—and get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
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Places in the Heart
1984 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.
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The Old Man & the Gun
2018 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes...
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The Prince of Egypt
1998 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry...
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Lethal Weapon 2
1989 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under...
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Jumanji: The Next Level
2019 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.
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Silverado
1985 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the...
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Beyond the Lights
2014 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's...
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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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Maverick
1994 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a...
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Saw
2004 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their...
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Press Play
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Laura and Harrison have the picture-perfect romance built on the foundation of a shared love of music. After a deadly accident, Laura gets the chance to save the love of her life when she discovers that their mixtape can transport her back...
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Shooter
2007 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up...
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The Naughty Nine
2023 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Fifth-grader Andy finds himself without a present from Santa on Christmas morning. Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unfairly maligned, Andy pulls together a team of eight other naughty-listers to help him...
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Lethal Weapon 3
1992 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole...
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Be Kind Rewind
2008 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
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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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Extortion
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
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The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
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American Dreamer
2022 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
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Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.
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2012
2009 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust...
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Gridlocked
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
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Night Train
2009 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Two Passengers (Sobieski and Zahn) and the conductor (Glover), discovered that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves...
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Almost Christmas
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Walter Meyer (Danny Glover) is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life one year earlier. Now that the holiday season is here, he invites daughters Rachel (Gabrielle Union) and Cheryl (Kimberly Elise) and sons Christian (Romany...
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I'm Still Here
2010 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets...
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Blindness
2008 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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Lethal Weapon 4
1998 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from...
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Predator 2
1990 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
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Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Vietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize student falls in with the wrong crowd and turns up dead, Frank teams up with his pal Bernie to...
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Complete Unknown
2016 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
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Death at a Funeral
2010 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New York...
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Angels in the Outfield
1994 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to...
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Switchback
1997 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
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Monster Trucks
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect his mischievous new friend, Tripp hides Creech under the hood of his latest creation...
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Barnyard
2006 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.
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Operation Dumbo Drop
1995 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the...
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Proud Mary
2018 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
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Dirty Grandpa
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Jason Kelly is one week away from marrying his boss's uber-controlling daughter, putting him on the fast track for a partnership at the law firm. However, when the straight-laced Jason is tricked into driving his foul-mouthed grandfather...
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Alpha and Omega
2010 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
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The Shaggy Dog
2006 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
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Saw V
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.
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Rage
2014 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
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Age of the Dragons
2011 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Age of the Dragons is an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. Set in a medieval realm where Captain Ahab and crew hunt dragons for the vitriol that powers their world, Ishmael, a charismatic harpooner and his friend...
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