Richard Linklater films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 24 films on Boxlist

Known for Before Sunset, Boyhood and Before Sunrise.

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Before Sunset
2004 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to...
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Boyhood
2014 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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Before Sunrise
1995 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the...
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Dazed and Confused
1993 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a...
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Before Midnight
2013 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. Now, live in Paris with twin daughters, but have spent a summer in Greece on the invitation of an author colleague of...
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School of Rock
2003 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n'...
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Blue Moon
2025 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.
Hit Man
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Gary Johnson is the most sought-after professional killer in New Orleans. To his clients, he is like something out of a movie: the mysterious gun for hire. But if you pay him to rub out a cheating spouse or an abusive boss, you'd better...
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Nouvelle Vague
2025 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker...
Waking Life
2001 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our...
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Everybody Wants Some!!
2016 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
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Bernie
2011 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to...
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A Scanner Darkly
2006 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
2022 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.
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Me and Orson Welles
2009 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
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Tape
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.
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Last Flag Flying
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington...
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Bad News Bears
2005 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the...
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The Newton Boys
1998 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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