Fred Melamed films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 25 films on Boxlist

Known for A Serious Man, Bone Tomahawk and Hannah and Her Sisters.

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Starring Fred Melamed

A Serious Man
2009 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
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Bone Tomahawk
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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Shiva Baby
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Husbands and Wives
1992 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on...
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Radio Days
1987 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and...
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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In a World...
2013 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a...
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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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Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
2026 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Small-town Kansas hairdresser Gail Daughtry's fiancé uses his 'celebrity sex pass' on Jennifer Aniston, prompting Gail to travel to LA with her friend Otto to find her own pass, Jon Hamm, to even the score.
Together Together
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of...
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Dragged Across Concrete
2019 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered...
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Get on Up
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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The Vigil
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
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The Dictator
2012 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
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Shadows and Fog
1991 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Passengers
2016 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
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Rumble
2021 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.
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The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Audrey and Morgan, two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
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Cat Person
2023 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.
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Hollywood Ending
2002 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is...
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Lying and Stealing
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.
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Adult Beginners
2014 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the...
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Some Kind of Beautiful
2015 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has...
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