Fred Dalton Thompson films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 14 films on Boxlist

Known for The Hunt for Red October, Cape Fear and In the Line of Fire.

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Starring Fred Dalton Thompson

The Hunt for Red October
1990 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, The Hunt For Red October seethes with high-tech excitement and sweats with the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their...
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Cape Fear
1991 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he...
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In the Line of Fire
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President...
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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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Sinister
2012 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
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Thunderheart
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.
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Die Hard 2
1990 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military...
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Secretariat
2010 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to...
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success...
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Days of Thunder
1990 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash...
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Baby's Day Out
1994 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby...
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Racing Stripes
2005 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark...
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Curly Sue
1991 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into...
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God's Not Dead 2
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.
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