Rance Howard films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 44 films on Boxlist

Known for Chinatown, Cool Hand Luke and Apollo 13.

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Starring Rance Howard

Chinatown
1974 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double...
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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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Apollo 13
1995 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000...
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A Beautiful Mind
2001 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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Nebraska
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
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Ed Wood
1994 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
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Parenthood
1989 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the...
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Frost/Nixon
2008 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the...
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Cinderella Man
2005 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, in the 1920s following his retirement, makes a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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The Paper
1994 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's...
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Cocoon
1985 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Independence Day
1996 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated...
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Fearless
1993 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet...
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Innerspace
1987 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him...
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Little Giants
1994 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached...
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Keith
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that Keith has something to hide...
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The 'Burbs
1989 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray...
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Small Soldiers
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
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Splash
1984 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
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Mars Attacks!
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy...
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Rat Race
2001 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild...
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The Missing
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two...
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Far and Away
1992 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of Munchkin-like people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a...
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Angels & Demons
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati - a secret, underground organization - after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. However, after two trials, De La Beckwith is acquitted twice by a jury of...
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The Alamo
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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The Lonely Guy
1984 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
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Toolbox Murders
2004 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
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Spooky Buddies
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them far across town to a mysterious mansion where something very spooky is going on.
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The Lone Ranger
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The...
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Universal Soldier
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's...
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Psycho
1998 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own. Although this version is in color, features a different cast, and is set in 1998, it is closer to a shot-for-shot remake than most remakes, Gus Van...
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Money Talks
1997 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop...
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
1995 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds...
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Drillbit Taylor
2008 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
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The Dilemma
2011 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process...
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Valentine's Day
2010 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter. A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love. Two high school seniors...
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D-Tox
2002 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts...
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Georgia Rule
2007 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an...
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Joe Dirt
2001 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy...
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Jonah Hex
2010 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets...
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