Paul Dooley films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 20 films on Boxlist

Known for Breaking Away, Little Shop of Horrors and Insomnia.

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Starring Paul Dooley

Breaking Away
1979 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the...
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Little Shop of Horrors
1986 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified...
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Insomnia
2002 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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The Player
1992 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Waiting for Guffman
1996 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
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Hairspray
2007 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial...
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A Mighty Wind
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for...
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Sixteen Candles
1984 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
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Cars
2006 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the...
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Sunshine Cleaning
2008 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a...
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Cars 3
2017 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win...
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Death Wish
1974 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
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Turbo
2013 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The tale of an ordinary garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500.
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Mater and the Ghostlight
2006 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Mater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight, and as everyone races...
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Popeye
1980 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart...
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For Your Consideration
2006 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
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Cars 2
2011 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
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Runaway Bride
1999 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does...
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Bedtime Stories
2008 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a...
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Horsemen
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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