Jake Gyllenhaal films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 40 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain and Zodiac.

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Starring Jake Gyllenhaal

Prisoners
2013 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the...
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Presumed Innocent
2024 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.
Donnie Darko
2001 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
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Brokeback Mountain
2005 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflict
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Spirit Untamed
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
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Nightcrawler
2014 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain.
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October Sky
1999 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
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Zodiac
2007 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for three men as their lives and careers are...
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the...
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Nocturnal Animals
2016 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose...
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Southpaw
2015 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and...
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Okja
2017 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Source Code
2011 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
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End of Watch
2012 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
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The Bride!
2026 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them...
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
2019 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.
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Love & Other Drugs
2010 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of...
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Brothers
2009 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers...
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Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Join our hosts JB Smoove and Martin Starr for a celebration of 20 years of Spider-Man™ movies! From the original Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb’s “amazing” movies to the latest trio from Director Jon Watts, we will take viewers through the...
Enemy
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
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Road House
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
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The Sisters Brothers
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
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Everest
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of...
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Ambulance
2022 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles...
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The Guilty
2021 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
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Demolition
2016 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.
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Wildlife
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of...
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Jarhead
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back...
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In the Grey
2026 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A covert team of elite operatives are living in the shadows. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, they're sent to take it back—an impossible heist that erupts into a deadly game of strategy, deception and survival.
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world...
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Rendition
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside...
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Strange World
2022 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.
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Life
2017 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
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City Slickers
1991 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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Proof
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder...
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Moonlight Mile
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its...
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The Good Girl
2002 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in...
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Accidental Love
2015 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love...
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