M. Emmet Walsh films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 39 films on Boxlist

Known for The Iron Giant, Knives Out and Blade Runner.

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Starring M. Emmet Walsh

The Iron Giant
1999 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
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Knives Out
2019 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his...
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Blade Runner
1982 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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Blood Simple
1984 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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Ordinary People
1980 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and...
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Raising Arizona
1987 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
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Midnight Cowboy
1969 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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Serpico
1973 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors...
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Little Big Man
1970 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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Reds
1981 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles...
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The Jerk
1979 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk...
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Calvary
2014 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
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A Time to Kill
1996 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Fletch
1985 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a...
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My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
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Silkwood
1983 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed...
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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Brubaker
1980 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Youth in Revolt
2009 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners...
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Retroactive
1997 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Critters
1986 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
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Brothers
2024 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal...
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Harry and the Hendersons
1987 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take...
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
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The Best of Times
1986 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.
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Airport '77
1977 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
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Big Stan
2007 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him...
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A Little White Lie
2023 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brought to a university where he is to deliver a keynote address.
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Racing Stripes
2005 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark...
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The Immaculate Room
2022 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it...
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Missing in Action
1984 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese...
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Red Scorpion
1987 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and...
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Arthur Newman
2012 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
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Snow Dogs
2002 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
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Wild Wild West
1999 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up...
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Christmas with the Kranks
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday...
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