John Diehl films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 15 films on Boxlist

Known for Train Dreams, Stripes and National Lampoon's Vacation.

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Starring John Diehl

Train Dreams
2025 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
Stripes
1981 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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National Lampoon's Vacation
1983 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
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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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Nixon
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end...
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Armageddon Time
2022 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.
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Stargate
1994 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
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Anywhere but Here
1999 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League...
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Pearl Harbor
2001 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the...
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Most Wanted
1997 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals...
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Fire Down Below
1997 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency—to determine what happened.
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Apartment 1303 3D
2012 · Film
3.7/10 · TMDB
A woman uncovers sinister secrets while investigating the apparent suicide of her sister.
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Lost Souls
2000 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers...
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