Stephen Root films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 69 films and 4 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for No Country for Old Men, Get Out and Widow's Bay.

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Starring Stephen Root

No Country for Old Men
2007 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as...
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Get Out
2017 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend...
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Widow's Bay
2026 · TV
8.3/10 · TMDB
The mayor of a New England town resolves to turn it into the next tourist hot spot, despite local warnings that it's cursed.
Finding Nemo
2003 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting...
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Barry
2018 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
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Office Space
1999 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.
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Selma
2014 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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To Leslie
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman...
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Dog Man
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured together on the job, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. Dog Man is sworn to protect and serve—and fetch, sit...
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Dave
1993 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
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Finding Dory
2016 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
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Rango
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is...
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black...
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The Empty Man
2020 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Retired cop James Lasombra is asked by a friend to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominous message on the bathroom mirror - "The Empty Man Made Me Do It." As he investigates this...
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Idiocracy
2006 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they...
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Ice Age
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human...
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Heads of State
2025 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries' alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, they're forced to rely on each other as they go on a wild, multinational run. Allied with...
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The Wrecking Crew
2026 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart.
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
2004 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by...
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Masters of the Universe: Revolution
2024 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
It's technology versus magic as He-Man and friends fight back against the shadowy forces of Skeletor in an epic battle for the heart of Eternia.
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
2026 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Two gangsters and the woman they love try to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine.
Ghost
1990 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless...
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Uncle Frank
2020 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
2010 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Scooby and the gang experience outdoor fun as they go back to Fred's old summer camp.
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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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Unthinkable
2010 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
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Cedar Rapids
2011 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
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Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
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On the Basis of Sex
2018 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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Bombshell
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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Spectral
2016 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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Home
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
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Everything Must Go
2011 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
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Big Miracle
2012 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Based on an inspiring true story, a small-town news reporter (Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Barrymore) enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle. ‘Big...
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Kim Possible: So the Drama
2005 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Dr. Drakken has an evil new plot for world domination, but his ultimate success depends upon finding out KP's weakness which may involve a new hottie at Middleton High School named Eric, who suddenly sparks feelings in Ron about Kim that...
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Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster...
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The Soloist
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
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Black Rain
1989 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track...
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Red State
2011 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
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The Conspirator
2010 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
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Four Good Days
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
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J. Edgar
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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Happily
2021 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.
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Bad Milo
2013 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
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The Company You Keep
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
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Leatherheads
2008 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation
2021 · TV
6.8/10 · TMDB
The war for Eternia begins again in what may be the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor. A new animated series from writer-director Kevin Smith.
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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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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable...
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Just Friends
2005 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
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Seberg
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.
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Jersey Girl
2004 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his...
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Stanley & Iris
1990 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen...
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Imagine That
2009 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
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Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Maya Dolittle can talk to animals. She gets discovered and Tiffany Monaco, a Hollywood star, brings her to L.A. to help her little puppy, who turns out to be a boy.
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Life of the Party
2018 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into...
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The Lone Ranger
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The...
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Paint
2023 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
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Sweetwater
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
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Mad Money
2008 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
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Drillbit Taylor
2008 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
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The Fox and the Hound 2
2006 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Best friends Tod, a fox kit, and Copper, a hound puppy, visit a country fair when they see a band of dogs called "The Singin' Strays". The band has five members: Dixie, Cash, Granny Rose, and twin brothers Waylon and Floyd. It is important...
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Playdate
2025 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When out-of-work accountant Brian joins stay-at-home dad Jeff for a playdate with their sons, he expects a laid-back afternoon. Instead, they're chased by mercenaries, and Brian—totally unprepared—must survive one absurd obstacle after...
Crocodile Dundee II
1988 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Over Her Dead Body
2008 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
After his fiancée, Kate, dies in an accident on their wedding day, veterinarian Henry grows depressed. To help him move on, his sister has him visit psychic Ashley and gives her Kate's diary. Ashley uses the journal's details to...
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The Country Bears
2002 · Film
4.7/10 · TMDB
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near...
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Surviving Christmas
2004 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the...
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RoboCop 3
1993 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for...
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