Paul Newman films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 20 films on Boxlist

Known for The Sting, The Hustler and Cool Hand Luke.

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Starring Paul Newman

The Sting
1973 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
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The Hustler
1961 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will...
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The Verdict
1982 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him...
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Nobody's Fool
1994 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son...
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Road to Perdition
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the...
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Hombre
1967 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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The Color of Money
1986 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming...
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Tab Hunter Confidential
2015 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren were just a few of the actresses he was...
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The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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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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kid 90
2021 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
As a teenager in the '90s, Soleil Moon Frye carried a video camera everywhere she went. She documented hundreds of hours of footage and then locked it away for over 20 years.
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Absence of Malice
1981 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and...
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The Towering Inferno
1974 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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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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Torn Curtain
1966 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him...
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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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Message in a Bottle
1999 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that...
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