Jodie Foster films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 28 films on Boxlist

Known for The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver and Inside Man.

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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder...
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Taxi Driver
1976 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
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Inside Man
2006 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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Love, Antosha
2019 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and...
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a...
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Contact
1997 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth...
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A Very Long Engagement
2004 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde...
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The Accused
1988 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
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NYAD
2023 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Showbiz Kids
2020 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
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A Private Life
2025 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation, enlisting an odd assortment of quirky characters.
Maverick
1994 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a...
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Panic Room
2002 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham...
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Carnage
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim's parents invite Zachary's parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner.
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The Mauritanian
2021 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
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Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Little Man Tate
1991 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget...
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Elysium
2013 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government ofﬁcial, will...
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Sommersby
1993 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus...
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The Beaver
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a...
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Shadows and Fog
1991 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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Hotel Artemis
2018 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker...
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Anna and the King
1999 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved...
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The Brave One
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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Flightplan
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and...
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Nim's Island
2008 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
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Hexed
2026 · Film
An impulsive and unconventional teenage girl named Billie discovers secret magical abilities which, once unleashed, hurtle her into a spectacle-filled journey out of suburbia and into a vast witch realm called Hexe. Forced to team up with...

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Jodie Foster films, ranked by your taste

Starring Jodie Foster

Directed by Jodie Foster