Laurence Fishburne films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 59 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Apocalypse Now, Wick Is Pain and Mystic River.

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Starring Laurence Fishburne

Apocalypse Now
1979 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter...
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The Matrix
1999 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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Hannibal
2013 · TV
8.2/10 · TMDB
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford...
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old...
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The Color Purple
1985 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson...
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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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Boyz n the Hood
1991 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado...
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Transformers One
2024 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
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Wick Is Pain
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Witness the never-before-seen footage and true story behind the John Wick phenomenon – from independent film to billion-dollar franchise.
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most...
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming...
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The Ice Road
2021 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
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The School for Good and Evil
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
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Rudderless
2014 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.
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Rumble Fish
1983 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo...
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Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very...
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Passengers
2016 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
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The Mule
2018 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a...
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The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
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Mission: Impossible III
2006 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.
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21
2008 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the...
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King of New York
1990 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
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Last Flag Flying
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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Man of Steel
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A 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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Contagion
2011 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
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The Amateur
2025 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take action.
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Death to 2020
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was...
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Event Horizon
1997 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship 'Event Horizon' which disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage. With its return, the crew of the 'Lewis and Clark' discovers the real truth...
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Bobby
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Osmosis Jones
2001 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A white blood cell policeman, with the help of a cold pill, must stop a deadly virus from destroying the human they live in, Frank.
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Higher Learning
1995 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Malik is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who...
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Death to 2021
2021 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer.
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Death Wish II
1982 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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Slingshot
2024 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
An astronaut struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan.
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Predators
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
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Ride Along
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the...
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Just Cause
1995 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
2007 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son...
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Cellar Door
2024 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams with one caveat - they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking consequences.
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Red Heat
1988 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
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All the Old Knives
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
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Biker Boyz
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange...
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MacGruber
2021 · TV
6.1/10 · TMDB
After rotting in prison for over a decade, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the entire world in the...
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The Signal
2014 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area...
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TMNT
2007 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City.
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Cherry 2000
1987 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them...
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Standoff
2016 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's...
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Khumba
2013 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wildebeest and a flamboyant ostrich; they defeat the tyrannical leopard and save his herd.
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Sneaks
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Ty, a misguided, one-of-a-kind designer sneaker, doesn’t know life outside the comforts of his velvet-lined shoebox. After his sister is stolen by a shady collector, Ty must venture into New York City to find and rescue her. In his...
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Armored
2009 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to...
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Fled
1996 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that somebody wants...
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the...
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Megalopolis
2024 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and...
The Colony
2013 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Forced 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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Running with the Devil
2019 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.
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The Astronaut
2025 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she...

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