Martin Freeman films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 24 films and 5 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Sherlock, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.

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Starring Martin Freeman

Sherlock
2010 · TV
8.5/10 · TMDB
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
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Breeders
2020 · TV
7.6/10 · TMDB
Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
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Shaun of the Dead
2004 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary...
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Hot Fuzz
2007 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
As a former London constable, Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a...
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StartUp
2016 · TV
7.5/10 · TMDB
A desperate banker needs to conceal stolen money. A Haitian-American gang lord wants to go legit. A Cuban-American hacker has an idea that will revolutionize the very future of money itself. Forced to work together, they unwittingly create...
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Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain...
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Black Panther
2018 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by...
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Momo
2025 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time...
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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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together...
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The Responder
2022 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?
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The World's End
2013 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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Miller's Girl
2024 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A precocious young writer becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming-of-age drama that examines the blurred lines of emotional connectivity between professor and protégé.
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What's Your Number?
2011 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Ally Darling is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've...
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Ghost Stories
2018 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in...
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain...
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Wild Target
2010 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his...
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
2026 · TV
6.3/10 · TMDB
England. 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths - the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent - to unravel a chilling...
Nativity!
2009 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced...
Ode to Joy
2019 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Charlie suffers from a serious disease that causes acute narcolepsy whenever he is happy. Although he develops a variety of techniques to deny himself pleasure and deal with his sleep issues, they’re put to the test when he falls in love.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war...
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Ali G Indahouse
2002 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness'...
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Breaking and Entering
2006 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed...
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The Operative
2019 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
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