Dennis Hopper films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 31 films on Boxlist

Known for Apocalypse Now, Cool Hand Luke and Blue Velvet.

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Apocalypse Now
1979 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter...
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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will...
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Blue Velvet
1986 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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True Romance
1993 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate...
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Speed
1994 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who's after major ransom money. First it's a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it's a rigged bus--if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a...
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Easy Rider
1969 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
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Giant
1956 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons.
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True Grit
1969 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.
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Hoosiers
1986 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
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The American Friend
1977 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting...
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Red Rock West
1993 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs...
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their Hometown of Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral, and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, the town's gunsmith.
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The Other Side of the Wind
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film.
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River's Edge
1986 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their...
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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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Rumble Fish
1983 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Sayonara
1957 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically...
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Land of the Dead
2005 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to...
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Waterworld
1995 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard...
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Edtv
1999 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1986 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Chainsaw-wielding maniac Leatherface is up to his cannibalistic ways once again, along with the rest of his twisted clan, including the equally disturbed Chop-Top. This time, the masked killer has set his sights on pretty disc jockey...
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Super Mario Bros.
1993 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Knockaround Guys
2001 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Space Truckers
1996 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and...
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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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Hell Ride
2008 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Hell Ride is a 2008 feature film from Larry Bishop being released under the “Quentin Tarantino Presents” banner. The film promises to be a blood and sex-soaked tale of motorcycle revenge and retribution.
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Meet the Deedles
1998 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Two surfers end up as Yellowstone park rangers and have to stop a former ranger who is out for revenge.
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
2005 · Film
3.3/10 · TMDB
When ex-convict Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered on a reservation by a local gang of satanists, he's brought back by the Crow to seek vengence.
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Dennis Hopper films, ranked by your taste

Starring Dennis Hopper

Directed by Dennis Hopper