John Cusack films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 57 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Stand by Me, Say Anything... and Adaptation..

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Starring John Cusack

Stand by Me
1986 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern are four friends who decide to hike to find the corpse of Ray Brower, a local teenager, who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild.
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Say Anything...
1989 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
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Adaptation.
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt...
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Being John Malkovich
1999 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
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High Fidelity
2000 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former...
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Grosse Pointe Blank
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe...
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The Player
1992 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Broadcast News
1987 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch...
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The Grifters
1990 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
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Love & Mercy
2015 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from...
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Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a...
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Sixteen Candles
1984 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
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1408
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
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The Sure Thing
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent...
Identity
2003 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the...
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Eight Men Out
1988 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
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Better Off Dead...
1985 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
High school student Lane Meyer sinks into suicidal depression when his girlfriend dumps him for jock Roy Stalin, the high school ski racing champion. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his eccentric family, a tenacious paperboy and an...
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Bob Roberts
1992 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the...
Anastasia
1997 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
This animated adventure retells the story of the lost daughter of Russia's last czar. The evil Rasputin places a curse on the Romanov family, and Anastasia and her grandmother, Empress Maria, get separated. After growing up in an...
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Brats
2024 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. However, when the New York magazine cover story in 1985 dubs them the Brat Pack, stars in...
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The Butler
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Hot Tub Time Machine
2010 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert B. Weide...
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Runaway Jury
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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Con Air
1997 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching his every move...
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Never Grow Old
2019 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.
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Serendipity
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for...
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Maps to the Stars
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
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The Frozen Ground
2013 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
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Grace Is Gone
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.
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Utopia
2020 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
A group of young adults who met online are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel.
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Detective Chinatown 1900
2025 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
In 1900s San Francisco, a white woman is murdered in Chinatown and the suspect is a Chinese man. The murder causes a social shock and the public calls for Chinatown to be outlawed. Chinese medicine practitioner Qin Fu and Chinese man Ghost...
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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The Ice Harvest
2005 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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City Hall
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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2012
2009 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust...
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Fog of War
2025 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancée find themselves stranded on a remote estate. As the Allies plan the D-Day Invasion, the couple become aware of a Nazi spy hiding amongst them with stolen documents bound for...
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The Factory
2011 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.
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Pushing Tin
1999 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
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The Paperboy
2012 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent...
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Must Love Dogs
2005 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to...
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Dragon Blade
2015 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert...
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Igor
2008 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
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The Raven
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
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America's Sweethearts
2001 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
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The Numbers Station
2013 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the...
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War, Inc.
2008 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand...
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Singularity
2017 · Film
3.6/10 · TMDB
When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention, Kronos-a super-computer designed to end all wars-it determines that humans are the biggest threat and launches a worldwide attack on...
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The Contract
2006 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2
2015 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
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The Bag Man
2014 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A criminal waits in a seedy motel and waits for his boss after killing several men to steal a bag.
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Cell
2016 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal...
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Pursuit
2022 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker desperate to find his wife, who has been kidnapped by a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense female cop to reclaim his...
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Reclaim
2014 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance and the dangerous secret behind the adoption agency they trusted. Risking their own...
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The Prince
2014 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
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Arsenal
2017 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.
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