Ethan Phillips films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 15 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Inside Llewyn Davis, Glory and Lean On Me.

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Starring Ethan Phillips

Glory
1989 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
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Keith
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that Keith has something to hide...
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Lean On Me
1989 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers...
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Ragtime
1981 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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The Island
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last...
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The Home
2025 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and...
Avenue 5
2020 · TV
6.6/10 · TMDB
40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
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Bad Santa
2003 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
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Irrational Man
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
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The Man Without a Face
1993 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated—and for which he was convicted of involuntary...
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The Purge: Election Year
2016 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the...
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Critters
1986 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
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Rugrats Go Wild
2003 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
When the Rugrats find themselves stranded on a deserted island, they meet the Thornberrys, a family who agrees to help them escape.
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The Shadow
1994 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds"...
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The Babysitters
2008 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes...
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