Michael Shannon films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 55 films and 6 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Knives Out, The Shape of Water and Boardwalk Empire.

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Buddy
2026 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
A magical, singing orange unicorn holds his cast hostage in a surreal TV-show dimension, as he becomes more and more demented.
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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Boardwalk Empire
2010 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
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Groundhog Day
1993 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
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A Different Man
2024 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with...
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Waco
2018 · TV
7.6/10 · TMDB
The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.
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Death by Lightning
2025 · TV
7.6/10 · TMDB
The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.
Bullet Train
2022 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around...
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Nocturnal Animals
2016 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose...
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The Shape of Water
2017 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
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Nuremberg
2025 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
Nine Perfect Strangers
2021 · TV
7.3/10 · TMDB
At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a...
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Freeheld
2015 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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8 Mile
2002 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary...
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Mud
2013 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
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Take Shelter
2011 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
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The Little Drummer Girl
2018 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.
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Waco: The Aftermath
2023 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
Explore the wide-ranging fallout succeeding the tragic events that took place in Waco, TX: the trials of the surviving members of the Branch Davidian sect and the rise of homegrown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh.
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The Woodsman
2004 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
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Pearl Harbor
2001 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the...
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Revolutionary Road
2008 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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Vanilla Sky
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines...
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The Flash
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return...
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The Bikeriders
2024 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
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Machine Gun Preacher
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.
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99 Homes
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.
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Loving
2016 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
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The Current War
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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Man of Steel
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from...
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Bad Boys II
2003 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the...
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Tigerland
2000 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
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The Iceman
2012 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
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The Runaways
2010 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like...
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Cecil B. Demented
2000 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage film makers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
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Abandoned
2022 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
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Premium Rush
2012 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
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High Crimes
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S...
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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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Midnight Special
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2009 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain...
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Amsterdam
2022 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
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12 Strong
2018 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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The Night Before
2015 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
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Bug
2006 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
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She's Funny That Way
2015 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
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Elvis & Nixon
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
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Echo Boomers
2020 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from the rich and give to themselves.
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Dead Birds
2004 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
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Chain Reaction
1996 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project forced on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
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13
2010 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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Let's Go to Prison
2006 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
They Came Together
2014 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
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Frank & Lola
2016 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption.
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Heart of Champions
2021 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.
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The Quarry
2020 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.
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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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Kangaroo Jack
2003 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Complete Unknown
2016 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
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The End
2024 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily...
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Jonah Hex
2010 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets...
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