Jennifer Jason Leigh films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 38 films and 4 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Anomalisa, Good Time and Annihilation.

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Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh

Atypical
2017 · TV
8.4/10 · TMDB
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.
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The Hateful Eight
2015 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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Crime 101
2026 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An elusive thief, eyeing his final score, encounters a disillusioned insurance broker at her own crossroads. As their paths intertwine, a relentless detective trails them hoping to thwart the multi-million dollar heist they are planning.
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to...
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Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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The Machinist
2004 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is suffering from insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has...
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Road to Perdition
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the...
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Weeds
2005 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.
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Dolores Claiborne
1995 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there...
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QT8: The First Eight
2019 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight...
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Good Time
2017 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
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Short Cuts
1993 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the...
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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Anomalisa
2015 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
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Kill Your Darlings
2013 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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The Hitcher
1986 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation...
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The Jacket
2005 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
eXistenZ
1999 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by...
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Buried Alive
1990 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires when he awakens inside his coffin and returns from the grave, hellbent...
Backdraft
1991 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.
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The Spectacular Now
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms...
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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
2026 · TV
6.6/10 · TMDB
A bride has a feeling that something horrifying will happen at her wedding — and the closer to the altar she gets, the worse it becomes.
Possessor Uncut
2020 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that...
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Flesh + Blood
1985 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a...
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Hey Arnold! The Movie
2002 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed.
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Annihilation
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
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White Boy Rick
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
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Single White Female
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds...
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Palindromes
2004 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
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The Woman in the Window
2021 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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Lisey's Story
2021 · TV
6.1/10 · TMDB
This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.
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Awake
2021 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own...
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Margot at the Wedding
2007 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up...
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Welcome to Me
2014 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
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Morgan
2016 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
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Greenberg
2010 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
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Night Always Comes
2025 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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Sharp Stick
2022 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.
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Amityville: The Awakening
2017 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house...
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In the Cut
2003 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City – as if to test the limits of her own safety – propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows...
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Poolman
2024 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
Darren Barrenman, an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno, spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.
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