Octavia Spencer films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 47 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Hidden Figures, The Shape of Water and Being John Malkovich.

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Starring Octavia Spencer

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
2019 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
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The Help
2011 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's...
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Hidden Figures
2016 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn...
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Gifted
2017 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
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Onward
2020 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
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Zootopia
2016 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
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Seven Pounds
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
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Instant Family
2018 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves...
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Truth Be Told
2019 · TV
7.6/10 · TMDB
Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts. New evidence compels podcaster Poppy Parnell to reopen the murder case that made her a media sensation.
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Coach Carter
2005 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020 · TV
7.5/10 · TMDB
This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.
Being John Malkovich
1999 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
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Fruitvale Station
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
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The Shack
2017 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon...
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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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A Time to Kill
1996 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Spider-Man
2002 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
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Fathers and Daughters
2015 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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Spirited
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds...
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Snowpiercer
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
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Dolittle
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals...
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The Soloist
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
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Get on Up
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him...
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Tow
2026 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Amanda Ogle is a woman living in her aging Toyota Camry on the streets of Seattle. When her car is stolen and impounded, she’s thrust into a relentless legal battle against an indifferent system. What begins as a fight to reclaim her car...
Bad Santa
2003 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
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Luce
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
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Insurgent
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
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Blue Streak
1999 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an...
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Flypaper
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is...
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Never Been Kissed
1999 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the...
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S.W.A.T.
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime...
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Allegiant
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
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Beauty Shop
2005 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profession. But after repeatedly butting heads with her shady, over-the-top boss, Jorge...
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
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Superintelligence
2020 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove that...
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Encounter
2021 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
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The Nines
2007 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
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Smurfs
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save...
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Big Momma's House
2000 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
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Ma
2019 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends...
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI". But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are...
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Thunder Force
2021 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
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Dinner for Schmucks
2010 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice...
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
After Elle Woods, the eternally perky, fashionably adventurous, famously blonde Harvard Law grad gets fired by her law firm because of her opposition to animal testing, she takes her fight to Washington. As an aide for Congresswoman...
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What Planet Are You From?
2000 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the...
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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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Ride or Die
2026 · TV
5.2/10 · TMDB
Best friends Debbie and Judith are forced on the run when Debbie discovers Judith isn't a forensic accountant, she's an international assassin! With a mysterious figure chasing them, and Debbie's husband involved in something deeply...

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