Maria Bello films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 34 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for A History of Violence, Prisoners and The Waterfront.

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Starring Maria Bello

Prisoners
2013 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the...
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McFarland, USA
2015 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
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Giant Little Ones
2019 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
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The Waterfront
2025 · TV
7.3/10 · TMDB
A prominent North Carolina fishing family wades into treacherous waters to keep their crumbling business empire afloat.
A History of Violence
2005 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
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Thank You for Smoking
2006 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on...
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions...
Every Day
2018 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.
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Payback
1999 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness...
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The Cooler
2003 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected...
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Bravetown
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.
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Secret Window
2004 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his...
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The Jane Austen Book Club
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
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The Company Men
2010 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands...
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Auto Focus
2002 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with...
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Butterfly on a Wheel
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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Grown Ups
2010 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
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Lights Out
2016 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
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Coyote Ugly
2000 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at...
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Towelhead
2008 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
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The Water Man
2021 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's father Amos must immerse...
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World Trade Center
2006 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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The Yellow Handkerchief
2009 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
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Grown Ups 2
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
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The 5th Wave
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
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Abduction
2011 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
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Third Person
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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Duets
2000 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars...
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Max Steel
2016 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.
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The Late Bloomer
2016 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and...
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Demonic
2015 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
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Downloading Nancy
2008 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Sick of her life, housewife Nancy just wants it to be over and done with, but rather than kill herself, she hires a stranger from the Internet to do the job for her. But fate takes a strange turn when she meets her killer and the two fall...
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Hell in Paradise
2025 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Migrant Nina takes a hotel job in the Maldives, but her island paradise turns nightmarish after an incident. Falsely accused, she must evade traps to escape her unjust life sentence.

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