Kathy Bates films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 45 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Midnight in Paris and Titanic.

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Starring Kathy Bates

Titanic
1997 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship...
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Misery
1990 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her...
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Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop...
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The Blind Side
2009 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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Midnight in Paris
2011 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
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Richard Jewell
2019 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work...
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On the Basis of Sex
2018 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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Dolores Claiborne
1995 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there...
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P.S. I Love You
2007 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
2023 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
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Matlock
2024 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from...
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2018 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
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The Great Lillian Hall
2024 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in rehearsals for a new play her confidence is challenged. People and events conspire to take away her ability to do what she...
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Revolutionary Road
2008 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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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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Home
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
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About Schmidt
2002 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does...
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Boychoir
2014 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who...
The Highwaymen
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who...
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Dragonfly
2002 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Angus
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised...
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A Little Bit of Heaven
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
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Annie
1999 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the...
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A Family Affair
2024 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The only thing worse than being the assistant to a high-maintenance movie star who doesn't take you seriously? Finding out he's smitten with your mom.
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Primary Colors
1998 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the...
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White Palace
1990 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and...
Rat Race
2001 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild...
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Dick Tracy
1990 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
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American Outlaws
2001 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the...
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The Golden Compass
2007 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
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Bee Movie
2007 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship...
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The Waterboy
1998 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
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The Miracle Club
2023 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
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Valentine's Day
2010 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter. A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love. Two high school seniors...
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Around the World in 80 Days
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
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The Boss
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
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Failure to Launch
2006 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Tripp, an attractive man in his thirties, is still living with his parents Al and Sue. Tripp's best friends Demo and Ace are also still living in their parents' homes and seem proud of it. Al and Sue are not happy, however, and are...
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Fred Claus
2007 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and...
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Rumor Has It...
2005 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Sarah Huttinger's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her – and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers – as she uncovers secrets that suggest the...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When...
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Tammy
2014 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
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Bad Santa 2
2016 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine...
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Little Black Book
2004 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Determined to learn about her boyfriend's past relationships, Stacy -- who works for a talk show -- becomes a bona fide snoop. With her colleague, Barb, Stacy gets the names of Derek's ex-lovers and interviews them, supposedly for an...
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Summer Camp
2024 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, and now, fifty years later, seize the opportunity to get back together for a reunion at the camp — full of food fights, river rafting and...
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Complete Unknown
2016 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
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North
1994 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return...
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Credits from TMDB, for the films and shows in the Boxlist catalogue. Star ratings are quality scores, not fit.