Paul Dano films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 25 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for There Will Be Blood, 12 Years a Slave and The Fabelmans.

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There Will Be Blood
2007 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a...
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Prisoners
2013 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the...
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12 Years a Slave
2013 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his...
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Pantheon
2022 · TV
7.8/10 · TMDB
A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is...
The Batman
2022 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
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The Fabelmans
2022 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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Okja
2017 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Love & Mercy
2015 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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Ruby Sparks
2012 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him...
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The Emperor's Club
2002 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills...
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Looper
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a...
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Swiss Army Man
2016 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed...
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Youth
2015 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the...
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The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality TV producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin. At the heart of power...
Spaceman
2024 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
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The Guilty
2021 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
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Dumb Money
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the...
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Where the Wild Things Are
2009 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
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Meek's Cutoff
2010 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain...
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Taking Lives
2004 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising...
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Knight and Day
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival...
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Taking Woodstock
2009 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a...
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Being Flynn
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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Cowboys & Aliens
2011 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an...
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Paul Dano films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Starring Paul Dano

Directed by Paul Dano