Michael Lerner films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films on Boxlist

Known for A Serious Man, Barton Fink and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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Starring Michael Lerner

A Serious Man
2009 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
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Barton Fink
1991 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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Eight Men Out
1988 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
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Elf
2003 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't...
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Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When actor David Harbour finds lost footage of his father's disastrous televised stage play of a literary classic, he uncovers shocking family secrets.
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
2003 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign.
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No Escape
1994 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins...
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Ashby
2015 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be...
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Newsies
1992 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted...
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Art School Confidential
2006 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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Mirror Mirror
2012 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White...
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Celebrity
1998 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he...
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Love and Other Disasters
2006 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When...
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Godzilla
1998 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the...
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Harlem Nights
1989 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any...
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Amos & Andrew
1993 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the...
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Blank Check
1994 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with...
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Omen IV: The Awakening
1991 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene and Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find...
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I
2011 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
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My Favorite Martian
1999 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering...
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The Mod Squad
1999 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Three minor delinquints (Danes, Ribisi, and Epps) are recruited by a cop (Farina) working undercover to bust a cop/drug ring. When the officer who recruited them is killed, they go above and beyond the call of duty to solve the murder; and...
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