James Cromwell films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 37 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for L.A. Confidential, The Green Mile and Rebel Ridge.

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Starring James Cromwell

The Green Mile
1999 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he...
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Emperor
2020 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
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L.A. Confidential
1997 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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Big Hero 6
2014 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West, he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.
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The Artist
2011 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
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Counterpart
2017 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.
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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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Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the...
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Becoming Jane
2007 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
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Sugar
2024 · TV
7.3/10 · TMDB
An enigmatic private detective struggles with personal demons as he investigates the disappearance of a Hollywood producer's beloved granddaughter.
Marshall
2017 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Murder by Death
1976 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently...
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The Promise
2016 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
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The Queen
2006 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for...
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of...
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I, Robot
2004 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that...
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Rebel Ridge
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.
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The Family
2019 · TV
6.9/10 · TMDB
An enigmatic conservative Christian group known as the Family wields enormous influence in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of its global ambitions.
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Prancer: A Christmas Tale
2022 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory will send him straight...
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2018 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on Isla Nublar. So, Claire Dearing recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.
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The Longest Yard
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to...
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Merry Little Batman
2023 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
This Christmas, Damian Wayne wants to be a superhero like his dad – the one and only Batman. When Damian is left home alone while Batman takes on Gotham’s worst supervillains on Christmas Eve, he stumbles upon a villainous plot to steal...
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Revenge of the Nerds
1984 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their...
Space Cowboys
2000 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained...
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The General's Daughter
1999 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly...
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Spider-Man 3
2007 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie...
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The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to...
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The Man with Two Brains
1983 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
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Deep Impact
1998 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint...
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Surrogates
2009 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
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Babe
1995 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest...
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W.
2008 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up to his decision to invade Iraq.
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The Trials of Cate McCall
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Eraser
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to...
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The Laundromat
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested...
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Babe: Pig in the City
1998 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
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The Bachelor
1999 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to...
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Species II
1998 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing...
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Soldiers of Fortune
2012 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.
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