Robert Zemeckis films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 25 films on Boxlist

Known for Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Cast Away.

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Back to the Future
1985 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents'...
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Forrest Gump
1994 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
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Cast Away
2000 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Chuck Nolan, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself...
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime...
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Romancing the Stone
1984 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her...
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Flight
2012 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground...
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Contact
1997 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth...
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Back to the Future Part III
1990 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land...
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Back to the Future Part II
1989 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a...
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The Walk
2015 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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Death Becomes Her
1992 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes...
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Allied
2016 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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Used Cars
1980 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
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The Polar Express
2004 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
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Beowulf
2007 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.
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What Lies Beneath
2000 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire...
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Here
2024 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An odyssey through time and memory, centered around a place in New England where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him...
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Welcome to Marwen
2018 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be...
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Pinocchio
2022 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
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