Julian Richings films and TV shows, ranked by your taste
Actor · 29 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist
Known for The Witch, The Institute and Open Range.
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The Institute
2025 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDBWhen 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police...
The Red Violin
1998 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBSpans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood...
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Open Range
2003 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBA former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
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Anything for Jackson
2020 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBA bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
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Naked Lunch
1991 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBBlank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he...
Chaos Walking
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBTwo unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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The Witch
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBIn 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son...
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Cube
1997 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBA group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
2013 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBA 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
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Beau Is Afraid
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBA paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
Man of Steel
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBA young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from...
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Shoot 'Em Up
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBA man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
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Dead Silence
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBJamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to...
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Wrong Turn
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBChris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of...
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Polar
2019 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBWhen a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBAccident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate...
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Saw IV
2007 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBJigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting...
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Relax, I'm from the Future
2023 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBCasper is a time traveller who arrives in the 2020s in an attempt to prevent a major future catastrophe. He meets Holly, a queer black woman he befriends and draws into his plan by giving her his knowledge of the future so that she can...
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Hall
2020 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBWhen a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. After getting infected, she is forced to crawl her way through other helpless victims to...
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Mimic
1997 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBA disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was...
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It Feeds
2025 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBA clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.
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My Life Without Me
2003 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBA fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
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Honey Bunch
2026 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBDiana's husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can't remember why... As her memories begin to creep back in so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Urban Legend
1998 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBA college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
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Regression
2015 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDBMinnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is...
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Spare Parts
2020 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDBIn a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere, an all-girl band – Ms. 45 – rips the stage apart with their punk spirit. But their performance impresses an enthusiastic fan who lures the girls into a trap, sedates them, and...
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The Colony
2013 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDBForced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDBThe story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit...
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Survival of the Dead
2010 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDBOn an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
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Vicious Fun
2021 · Film
A loser whose life is passing him by accidentally stumbles into a secret underground self-help group for serial killers. Can he match wits with five killers and make it through the night alive? Stuck with only two options - kill or be...
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