Sam Neill films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 36 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Jurassic Park and UNTAMED.

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Starring Sam Neill

Jurassic Park
1993 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious...
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
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Scarygirl
2023 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet.
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Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new...
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The Hunt for Red October
1990 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, The Hunt For Red October seethes with high-tech excitement and sweats with the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their...
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The Piano
1993 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a...
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Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
2021 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Bea, Thomas, and the rabbits have created a makeshift family, but despite his best efforts, Peter can’t seem to shake his mischievous reputation. Adventuring out of the garden, Peter finds himself in a world where his mischief is...
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Ride Like a Girl
2019 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
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The Vow
2012 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a...
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Bicentennial Man
1999 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to...
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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
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UNTAMED
2025 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman's death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain — where nature obeys no rules but its own.
Assassin Club
2023 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
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Jurassic World Dominion
2022 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.
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The Horse Whisperer
1998 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for...
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Blackbird
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight...
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Peter Rabbit
2018 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.
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Until the End of the World
1991 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American...
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Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal
2021 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible – to win the annual ‘World’s Scariest Animal’ championship, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up, former champion, a grouchy Saltwater...
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Escape Plan
2013 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's...
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The Hunter
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
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The Portable Door
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional - they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical...
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Dead Calm
1989 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm weather conditions, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
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Sweet Country
2018 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully...
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Rams
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work...
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Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty...
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Event Horizon
1997 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship 'Event Horizon' which disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage. With its return, the crew of the 'Lewis and Clark' discovers the real truth...
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Apples Never Fall
2024 · TV
6.4/10 · TMDB
Follow the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an enviably contented family. Former tennis coaches Joy and Stan are parents to four adult children. After fifty years of marriage, they have finally sold their famed tennis academy...
The Commuter
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
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Daybreakers
2009 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to...
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Wimbledon
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.
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A Long Way Down
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally...
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
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Omen III: The Final Conflict
1981 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to England, Damien fulfils a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential...
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The Jungle Book
1994 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli...
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Backtrack
2015 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago...
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Bring Him to Me
2023 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. There is a long drive ahead.
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