Joel Schumacher films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 24 films on Boxlist

Known for The Lost Boys, Falling Down and The Client.

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The Lost Boys
1987 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the...
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Falling Down
1993 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. He...
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The Client
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is...
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A Time to Kill
1996 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Phone Booth
2002 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
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Tigerland
2000 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
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Flatliners
1990 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life.
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The Phantom of the Opera
2004 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera...
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Veronica Guerin
2003 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts...
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St. Elmo's Fire
1985 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A group of friends graduate from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex, paychecks, and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to pay for law school. His roommate Kevin struggles at a D.C. newspaper as he...
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Flawless
1999 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
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Batman Forever
1995 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Batman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.
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Blood Creek
2009 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
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Dying Young
1991 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always...
The Number 23
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced...
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8MM
1999 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to...
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Bad Company
2002 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
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Trespass
2011 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He's just back from a business trip and their teen daughter Avery is sneaking out to a party, when four...
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Twelve
2010 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
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Batman & Robin
1997 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.
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