Richard Portnow films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 23 films on Boxlist

Known for Se7en, Barton Fink and Good Morning, Vietnam.

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Starring Richard Portnow

Se7en
1995 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det...
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Barton Fink
1991 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his...
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Radio Days
1987 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and...
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. Jarmusch's spiritual gangster film tells the story of an inner-city hit man (Whitaker) who lives on a rooftop...
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Tinker Bell
2008 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fairy is finally revealed in the all-new motion picture "Tinker Bell."
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Trumbo
2015 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash...
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Sister Act
1992 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues...
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Private Parts
1997 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
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Find Me Guilty
2006 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
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Café Society
2016 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
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Heart and Souls
1993 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
Hitchcock
2012 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Follow the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous horror-thriller film, Psycho, and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
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Law Abiding Citizen
2009 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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Oldboy
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
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Twins
1988 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an...
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Beethoven
1992 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog... a St...
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Mad City
1997 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
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Man of the House
1995 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However...
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Perfect Stranger
2007 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
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The Spirit
2008 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City...
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