Jon Gries films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 18 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Men in Black, The White Lotus and The Grifters.

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Starring Jon Gries

The White Lotus
2021 · TV
7.6/10 · TMDB
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the...
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Taken
2008 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her...
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Men in Black
1997 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay...
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Wish Upon a Unicorn
2020 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Two children discover that their mother is gone. The youngest of the pair, adventurer and upcomming singer, Long Johnson forces his older sister, Lily Johnson, to hunt down a unicorn with magical blood.
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Napoleon Dynamite
2004 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
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The Monster Squad
1987 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are...
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Real Genius
1985 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
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Stick It
2006 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed...
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Carolina Caroline
2026 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A young woman, desperate to leave her small town, runs away with a charming con man, embarking on a crime and passion-filled journey through the Southeast to find her estranged mother.
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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Get Shorty
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the...
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The Rundown
2003 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely...
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Fright Night Part 2
1988 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment...
Taken 2
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
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Taken 3
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer...
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The Astronaut Farmer
2006 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to...
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Running Scared
1986 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
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TerrorVision
1986 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
The Comebacks
2007 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process...
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