Gene Hackman films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 42 films on Boxlist

Known for Unforgiven, Young Frankenstein and The Conversation.

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Starring Gene Hackman

Unforgiven
1992 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former...
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Young Frankenstein
1974 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of...
The Conversation
1974 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them...
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The French Connection
1971 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him...
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Superman
1978 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades...
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Superman II
1980 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who...
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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The Birdcage
1996 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents.
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Crimson Tide
1995 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
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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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Hoosiers
1986 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach -- abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale -- whips the team into shape ... while also inciting controversy.
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Reds
1981 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles...
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Get Shorty
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the...
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The Firm
1993 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more...
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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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Under Fire
1983 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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The Poseidon Adventure
1972 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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Antz
1998 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been...
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Postcards From the Edge
1990 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion...
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Enemy of the State
1998 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A hotshot Washington criminal lawyer becomes the target of a rogue security executive videotaped in the act of murdering a congressman when the incriminating tape is surreptitiously slipped into his shopping bag by the videographer, who is...
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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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A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
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Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Runaway Jury
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Heist
2001 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and...
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The Package
1989 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
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Absolute Power
1997 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
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The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken...
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Wyatt Earp
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way...
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Heartbreakers
2001 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony...
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Extreme Measures
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the...
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The Replacements
2000 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So...
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The Mexican
2001 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his...
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Under Suspicion
2000 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is...
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Behind Enemy Lines
2001 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general...
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The Chamber
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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Welcome to Mooseport
2004 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the...
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