Peter Boyle films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 18 films on Boxlist

Known for Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein and Malcolm X.

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Starring Peter Boyle

Taxi Driver
1976 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
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Young Frankenstein
1974 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of...
Malcolm X
1992 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965...
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While You Were Sleeping
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his...
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Monster's Ball
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to...
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The Santa Clause
1994 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott...
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Red Heat
1988 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
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Outland
1981 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of...
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Honeymoon in Vegas
1992 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man...
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Johnny Dangerously
1984 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
The Shadow
1994 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds"...
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The Dream Team
1989 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.
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The Santa Clause 2
2002 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole...
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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now...
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains...Could it be that their...
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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
2006 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he...
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Species II
1998 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing...
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002 · Film
4.4/10 · TMDB
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be...
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