Josh Pais films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 27 films on Boxlist

Known for A Beautiful Mind, You Hurt My Feelings and The Station Agent.

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Starring Josh Pais

A Beautiful Mind
2001 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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You Hurt My Feelings
2023 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
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The Station Agent
2003 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
2025 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Adventureland
2009 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
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The Friend
2025 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.
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Spoiler Alert
2022 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Joker
2019 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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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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Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Please Give
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
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Arbitrage
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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Detachment
2011 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying...
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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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Little Manhattan
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public...
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Funny Pages
2022 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
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Going in Style
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
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Find Me Guilty
2006 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
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Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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Music of the Heart
1999 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
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Teeth
2007 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a...
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Assassination of a High School President
2008 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But...
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5 Flights Up
2014 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
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Scream 3
2000 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
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I Saw the Light
2016 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
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That Awkward Moment
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mikey is over, they gladly welcome him back into their circle. The three young men make a...
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