Margo Martindale films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 40 films and 6 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The Americans, Million Dollar Baby and The Watcher.

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Starring Margo Martindale

Million Dollar Baby
2004 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
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The Americans
2013 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an...
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Sneaky Pete
2015 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world...
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Mrs. America
2020 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”
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Instant Family
2018 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves...
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American Crime Story
2016 · TV
7.5/10 · TMDB
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
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Uncle Frank
2020 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Dead Man Walking
1995 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who, in his last days, forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality, as she accompanies him to his execution.
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The Watcher
2022 · TV
7.4/10 · TMDB
A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.
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Secretariat
2010 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to...
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The Hours
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a...
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The Sticky
2024 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer has had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local...
Orphan
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
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Cars 3
2017 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win...
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August: Osage County
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
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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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Nobody's Fool
1994 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son...
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The Twits
2025 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
The Firm
1993 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more...
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Paris, Je T'Aime
2006 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this...
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Win Win
2011 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother...
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Practical Magic
1998 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With...
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Cocaine Bear
2023 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet niblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and glamour of...
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Heaven Is for Real
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The true story of the 4-year old son of a small-town pastor who, during emergency surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. When he awakes, he recounts his experiences on the other side.
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The Rocketeer
1991 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
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Ride with the Devil
1999 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an...
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The Winning Season
2009 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
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Days of Thunder
1990 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash...
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Feast of Love
2007 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
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The Hollars
2016 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world...
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The Kitchen
2019 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything...
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Stop-Loss
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Blow the Man Down
2019 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.
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Proof of Life
2000 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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28 Days
2000 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment...
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Beautiful Creatures
2013 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship...
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Mother's Day
2016 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother's Day.
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Table 19
2017 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
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The Human Stain
2003 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a...
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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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Wilson
2017 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
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Wedding Daze
2006 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind...
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Downsizing
2017 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
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Management
2009 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
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