Tim Blake Nelson films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 44 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Lincoln, Minority Report and Donnie Brasco.

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Starring Tim Blake Nelson

Lost Ollie
2022 · TV
8.2/10 · TMDB
A patchwork rabbit with floppy ears and fuzzy memories embarks on an epic quest to find his best friend — the young boy he desperately loves.
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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Just Mercy
2019 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence...
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Nightmare Alley
2021 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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Donnie Brasco
1997 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from...
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Detachment
2011 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying...
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Ninety-Five Senses
2022 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.
Minority Report
2002 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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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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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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The Testament of Ann Lee
2025 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers’ worship through song and dance, based on real events.
Old Henry
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the...
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Ghosted
2023 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie — but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to...
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The Report
2019 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to...
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National Champions
2021 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect for the athletes who put their bodies and health on the line for their schools.
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Lincoln
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery...
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Holes
2003 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging...
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Kill the Messenger
2014 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of...
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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Monster
2021 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
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The Homesman
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon...
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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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Angel Has Fallen
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.
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Fido
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the...
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Captain America: Brave New World
2025 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing...
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Syriana
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a...
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Flypaper
2011 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
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The Big White
2005 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
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Colossal
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
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The Incredible Hulk
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face...
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Meet the Fockers
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of...
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The Good Girl
2002 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Heavyweights
1995 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel regimen that goes too...
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The Astronaut Farmer
2006 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to...
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Wonderland
2003 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to...
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains...Could it be that their...
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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The Big Year
2011 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important...
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Ghosts of the Ozarks
2022 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be.
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The Bricklayer
2023 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of...
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Greedy People
2024 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars, leading to a series of increasingly bad decisions which upend the once-peaceful community.
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Naked Singularity
2021 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.
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The Jesus Rolls
2019 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.
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Fantastic Four
2015 · Film
4.4/10 · TMDB
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a...
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