Richard Ayoade films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 18 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Paddington 2, Soul and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

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Soul
2020 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in...
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Dream Productions
2024 · TV
7.8/10 · TMDB
Riley is growing up and when her memories need some extra processing, Joy and the rest of the Core Emotions send them to Dream Productions.
The Bad Guys
2022 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from prison.
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Paddington 2
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
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The Bad Guys 2
2025 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.
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Krapopolis
2023 · TV
7.5/10 · TMDB
In mythical ancient Greece, a flawed family of humans, gods and monsters tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
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22 vs. Earth
2021 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Set before the events of ‘Soul’, 22 refuses to go to Earth, enlisting a gang of 5 new souls in attempt of rebellion. However, 22’s subversive plot leads to a surprising revelation about the meaning of life.
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The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The story of a family and a family business.
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The Rat Catcher
2023 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
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The Boxtrolls
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
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The Souvenir: Part II
2021 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated...
The Souvenir
2019 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Early Man
2018 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
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The Watch
2012 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice...
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