John Malkovich films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 63 films and 4 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The Yellow Tie, Wild Horse Nine and Adaptation..

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Starring John Malkovich

The Yellow Tie
2025 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.
The New Look
2024 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
The New Pope
2020 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
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Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona
2019 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
Inside FC Barcelona, which follows the famed soccer club through its 2018-2019 season.
Changeling
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
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Empire of the Sun
1987 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even...
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The Killing Fields
1984 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol...
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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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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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Secretariat
2010 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to...
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Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
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Of Mice and Men
1992 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
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Side by Side
2012 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores...
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Places in the Heart
1984 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.
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Mindcage
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a...
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Rounders
1998 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
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In the Line of Fire
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President...
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Bird Box
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
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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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Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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Alive
1993 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager...
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Death of a Salesman
1985 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up...
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One Ranger
2023 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
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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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RED
2010 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
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Mr. Blake At Your Service!
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
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Burn After Reading
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe...
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Space Force
2020 · TV
6.6/10 · TMDB
A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.
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Savage Salvation
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Newly engaged Shelby John and Ruby Red want a fresh start after their struggles with addiction, but when Shelby discovers his beloved Ruby dead on their porch, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree of the dealers who supplied her. Armed...
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Rogue Hostage
2021 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A former Marine races against time to save a group of hostages -- including his young daughter and a congressman — when armed militants take over his stepfather's store.
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RED 2
2013 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
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Warm Bodies
2013 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil...
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Ripley's Game
2002 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival...
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White Elephant
2022 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things for the mob.
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Unlocked
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that...
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Johnny English
2003 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the exhibition of the Crown...
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Mile 22
2018 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.
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Art School Confidential
2006 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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Mulholland Falls
1996 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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The Great Buck Howard
2008 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the...
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The Libertine
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
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Knockaround Guys
2001 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Beowulf
2007 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.
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Ava
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
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Arkansas
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
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Cut Bank
2014 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the...
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Shattered
2022 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes when he meets Sky, a mysterious young woman who draws him out of his shell and moves in after Chris is injured.
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The Wilde Wedding
2017 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
After a whirlwind courtship, retired movie star Eve Wilde prepares to marry her fourth husband, the renowned English writer Harold Alcott. Sparks soon begin to fly when Eve's first ex and other guests arrive at her estate for a weekend...
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Velvet Buzzsaw
2019 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in...
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Opus
2025 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star's cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted...
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Mutant Chronicles
2008 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
It's the year 2707. Earth's natural resources have all but been exhausted by mankind. Battles rage for the remainder between the competing Corporations. During one such battle the seal is broken and awakens an ancient and deadly machine...
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Sacrifice
2026 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
During a star-studded charity gala brimming with celebrities, billionaires and empty speeches, a movie star in the midst of an existential crisis is taken hostage by a radical warrior and her devoted followers. As the night descends into...
Eragon
2006 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
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Bullet Head
2017 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.
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Zoolander 2
2016 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
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Jonah Hex
2010 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets...
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Chariot
2022 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Odd, eccentric specialist Dr. Karn guides unknowing patients through the reincarnation transition. When Harrison experiences mysterious recurring dreams, he turns to Dr. Karn for help and reveals his encounter with a woman he loved in a...
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Fool's Paradise
2023 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to...
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The Survivalist
2021 · Film
4.1/10 · TMDB
A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the disease, from a dangerous gang hunting her led by a psychopath who believes he’s going to...
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Wild Horse Nine
2026 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDBIn cinemas
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and...
In the Hand of Dante
2026 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel story follows Dante's quest to create his masterpiece.

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