Frances McDormand films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 35 films on Boxlist

Known for Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Almost Famous.

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Starring Frances McDormand

Fargo
1996 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a...
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief...
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Almost Famous
2000 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to...
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Blood Simple
1984 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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Isle of Dogs
2018 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his...
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Miller's Crossing
1990 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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Barton Fink
1991 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Raising Arizona
1987 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
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Nomadland
2021 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
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Lone Star
1996 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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The French Dispatch
2021 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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Short Cuts
1993 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the...
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to...
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Primal Fear
1996 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or...
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Burn After Reading
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control...
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Women Talking
2022 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Mississippi Burning
1988 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up...
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Wonder Boys
2000 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from...
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Something's Gotta Give
2003 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care...
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Hail, Caesar!
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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Darkman
1990 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake...
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French...
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North Country
2005 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
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Wolfs
2024 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Hired to cover up a high-profile crime, a fixer soon finds his night spiralling out of control when he's forced to work with an unexpected counterpart.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2008 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous...
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The Good Dinosaur
2015 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
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This Must Be the Place
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
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Laurel Canyon
2003 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up...
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Promised Land
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
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Friends with Money
2006 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
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City by the Sea
2002 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
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The Butcher's Wife
1991 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in...
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Æon Flux
2005 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on...
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