Peter Sarsgaard films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 38 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Dopesick, The Batman and September 5.

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Starring Peter Sarsgaard

Dopesick
2021 · TV
8.1/10 · TMDB
The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the...
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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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September 5
2024 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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An Education
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile...
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Boys Don't Cry
1999 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Dead Man Walking
1995 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who, in his last days, forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality, as she accompanies him to his execution.
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Shattered Glass
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass...
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The Survivor
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first...
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The Lost Daughter
2021 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
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Presumed Innocent
2024 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together.
Blue Jasmine
2013 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and...
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Kinsey
2004 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected...
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Black Mass
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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Jackie
2016 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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Memory
2023 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of...
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Garden State
2004 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also...
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Robot & Frank
2012 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker...
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Mr. Jones
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from...
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Coup!
2024 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family's new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.
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Night Moves
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
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Jarhead
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back...
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Pawn Sacrifice
2015 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
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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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K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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The Bride!
2026 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them...
Orphan
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
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The Cell
2000 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
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The Skeleton Key
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
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Rendition
2007 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside...
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The Salton Sea
2002 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her...
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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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In the Electric Mist
2009 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the...
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Human Capital
2020 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
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Flightplan
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and...
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Lovelace
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe...
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The Lie
2020 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
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Loving Pablo
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
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Green Lantern
2011 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to...
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Very Good Girls
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
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