Laura Linney films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 30 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for The Truman Show, Mystic River and Ozark.

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Starring Laura Linney

The Truman Show
1998 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And...
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Ozark
2017 · TV
8.1/10 · TMDB
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
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Mystic River
2003 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
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Primal Fear
1996 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or...
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Nocturnal Animals
2016 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose...
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Suncoast
2024 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
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The Life of David Gale
2003 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Red Nose Day Actually
2017 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
Love Actually
2003 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
'Love Actually' follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
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Sully
2016 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was...
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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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The Savages
2007 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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You Can Count on Me
2000 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
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Falling
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
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Arthur Christmas
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is...
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Kinsey
2004 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected...
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Absolute Power
1997 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
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Breach
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of...
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Dave
1993 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner...
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Mr. Holmes
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be...
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Genius
2016 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his...
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The Nanny Diaries
2007 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
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The Mothman Prophecies
2002 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered...
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The Fifth Estate
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on...
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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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The Details
2011 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
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The Roads Not Taken
2020 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly as she grapples with the challenges of dealing with her father’s chaotic mental state. But as they weave their way around New York City, their ordinary but...
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Wildcat
2024 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old...
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Congo
1995 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of...
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