James McAvoy films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 32 films on Boxlist

Known for Atonement, Split and Speak No Evil.

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Starring James McAvoy

Atonement
2007 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Split
2016 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful...
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Speak No Evil
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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The Last King of Scotland
2006 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by...
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Deadpool 2
2018 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
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Atomic Blonde
2017 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
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Wanted
2008 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father - who Wesley never knew - belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns...
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Arthur Christmas
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is...
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Starter for 10
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college...
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One World: Together at Home
2020 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front line health workers in the global response to COVID-19.
Muppets Most Wanted
2014 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
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Trance
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
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Filth
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
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It Chapter Two
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
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Together
2021 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown.
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Victor Frankenstein
2015 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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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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The Book of Clarence
2024 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve...
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Glass
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges...
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The Conspirator
2010 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
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Wimbledon
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.
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Penelope
2006 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her...
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X-Men: Apocalypse
2016 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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My Son
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.
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Gnomeo & Juliet
2011 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A version of Shakespeare's play, set in the world of warring indoor and outdoor gnomes. Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But...
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Welcome to the Punch
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
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Pose
2026 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Isolated in a grand country manor, a reclusive artist spends a passionate and paranoid weekend with his ex-lover, an obsessive fan, and a potential muse. Hoping to spark a new wave of artistic brilliance over the course of a few tumultuous...
Dark Phoenix
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she...
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Sherlock Gnomes
2018 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renown detective, Sherlock Gnomes, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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The Bubble
2022 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hotel.
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