David Paymer films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 31 films on Boxlist

Known for Bad Shabbos, Quiz Show and Drag Me to Hell.

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Starring David Paymer

Bad Shabbos
2025 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental manslaughter gets in the way.
Quiz Show
1994 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that 'Twenty-One', a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show.
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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is...
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No Way Out
1987 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up...
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City Slickers
1991 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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Get Shorty
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the...
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The Hurricane
1999 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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The American President
1995 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and...
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State and Main
2000 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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Nixon
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end...
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Ocean's Thirteen
2007 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to...
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In Good Company
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new...
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Night of the Creeps
1986 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites...
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Redbelt
2008 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman...
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Heart and Souls
1993 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
Accident Man
2018 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
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Spartan
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to...
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Horse Girl
2020 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
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Resurrecting the Champ
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his...
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Payback
1999 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness...
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The Five-Year Engagement
2012 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever after. However, this engaged couple just keep getting tripped up on the long walk down the...
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City Hall
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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Bounce
2000 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
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Mighty Joe Young
1998 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
1982 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
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Bad Teacher
2011 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
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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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Bait
2000 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Landing in jail for a petty theft crime, Alvin finds himself sharing a cell with John Jaster, the incarcerated half of the pair of high-tech thieves responsible for the missing gold. His partner, Bristol, is still at large. Alvin wants...
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Howard the Duck
1986 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him...
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