Mike Starr films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 38 films on Boxlist

Known for GoodFellas, Miller's Crossing and The Birdcage.

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Starring Mike Starr

GoodFellas
1990 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Miller's Crossing
1990 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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The Birdcage
1996 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents.
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Ed Wood
1994 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
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Radio Days
1987 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and...
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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Born on the Fourth of July
1989 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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The Natural
1984 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
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Black Dynamite
2009 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to...
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Lean On Me
1989 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers...
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Dumb and Dumber
1994 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to...
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In this prequel to 'Stone Cold,' LA cop, Jesse Stone relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other.
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Cat's Eye
1985 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny...
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Uncle Buck
1989 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and...
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Mad Dog and Glory
1993 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive young...
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Summer of Sam
1999 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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Kill the Irishman
2011 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a...
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The Last Dragon
1985 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
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Blue Steel
1990 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Megan Turner, a female rookie cop, gets involved in an armed robbery that goes awry. A witness becomes obsessed with her.
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The Ice Harvest
2005 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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The Money Pit
1986 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a bank-account-draining nightmare. Struggling to keep their relationship together as their...
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Cruising
1980 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as a decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated...
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Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
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The Bodyguard
1992 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension...
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Punchline
1988 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries...
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Snake Eyes
1998 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
All bets are off when corrupt homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend and naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn...
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Blown Away
1994 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
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Jersey Girl
2004 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his...
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Billy Bathgate
1991 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
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The Black Dahlia
2006 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they...
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Til Death Do Us Part
2023 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After bailing on her wedding, a former bride-to-be must fight off her ex-groom and seven angry killer groomsmen in order to survive the night.
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Knockaround Guys
2001 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
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Bad Santa 2
2016 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine...
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On Deadly Ground
1994 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making...
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Zeroville
2019 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
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I Hate Valentine's Day
2009 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A love story set in Manhattan, where a florist who abides by a strict five-date-limit with any man finds herself wanting more with the new restaurateur in town.
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King Kong Lives
1986 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong...
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Son of the Pink Panther
1993 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
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