Robert Joy films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 17 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for The Institute, Radio Days and Don't Look Up.

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Starring Robert Joy

The Institute
2025 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police...
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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Don't Look Up
2021 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
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Ragtime
1981 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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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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Land of the Dead
2005 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to...
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Waterworld
1995 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard...
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It's a Boy Girl Thing
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the...
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Shadows and Fog
1991 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family...
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The Dark Half
1993 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic...
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Harriet the Spy
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?
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The Goldfinch
2019 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
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Joe Somebody
2001 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by the office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal make-over and takes...
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Sweet November
2001 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test...
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Superhero Movie
2008 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
The team behind Scary Movie takes on the comic book genre in this tale of Rick Riker, a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy...
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
The iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever—in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial...
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Amityville 3-D
1983 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried...
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