Ed Lauter films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 29 films on Boxlist

Known for True Romance, The Artist and Leaving Las Vegas.

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Starring Ed Lauter

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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The Artist
2011 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
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Leaving Las Vegas
1995 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
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Real Genius
1985 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
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Born on the Fourth of July
1989 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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Seabiscuit
2003 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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Family Plot
1976 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler is asked to locate a missing heir, whom she pursues with her cab driver boyfriend George Lumley, an unemployed actor.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the...
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Thirteen Days
2000 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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French Connection II
1975 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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The Longest Yard
1974 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards'...
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The Rocketeer
1991 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
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Trouble with the Curve
2012 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young...
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Seraphim Falls
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped...
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King Kong
1976 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In this remake of the 1933 classic, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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Cujo
1983 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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My Blue Heaven
1990 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing...
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1985 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The...
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The Longest Yard
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to...
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Youngblood
1986 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his...
Not Another Teen Movie
2001 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
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Mulholland Falls
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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Raw Deal
1986 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in...
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The Number 23
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced...
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Death Hunt
1981 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.
Python
2000 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the town's tranquillity on it's path of death and destruction... Growing violent and more savage with each attack the...
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Death Wish 3
1985 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
2004 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
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