James Karen films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 19 films on Boxlist

Known for All the President's Men, Mulholland Drive and Poltergeist.

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Starring James Karen

All the President's Men
1976 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Richard Nixon to resign from his post.
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Mulholland Drive
2001 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous...
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Poltergeist
1982 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as...
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The Return of the Living Dead
1985 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads...
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The China Syndrome
1979 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a...
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Wall Street
1987 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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Thirteen Days
2000 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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Nixon
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end...
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Any Given Sunday
1999 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president...
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Jagged Edge
1985 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she...
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Apt Pupil
1998 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock...
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The Butterfly Room
2012 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.
Capricorn One
1977 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space...
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Invaders from Mars
1986 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy...
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Up Close & Personal
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent...
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Return of the Living Dead Part II
1988 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
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Congo
1995 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of...
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Hercules in New York
1970 · Film
3.7/10 · TMDB
Hercules has grown tired of his life on Mount Olympus, and wishes to visit Earth. His father Zeus forbids such a voyage, but a misdirected thunderbolt sends Hercules tumbling down the mountain and into New York City, where he's befriended...
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