
Tommy Lee Jones films, ranked by your taste
Actor and director · 48 films on Boxlist
Known for No Country for Old Men, The Fugitive and Lincoln.
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No Country for Old Men
2007 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDBLlewelyn 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...

The Fugitive
1993 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDBWrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Lincoln
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBThe 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...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Angel and the Badman
2026 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDBA wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher's daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind of man he'll become.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Men in Black
1997 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBAfter a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay...

JFK
1991 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDBFollows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Ad Astra
2019 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBThe near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of...

Val
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBFor over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with...

Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBBiography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Client
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBA street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBWhen brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Burial
2023 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDBWhen a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing...

Love Story
1970 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBHarvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each...

Space Cowboys
2000 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBFrank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBDuring World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an...

A Prairie Home Companion
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDBA look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court

The Homesman
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBWhen 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...

Under Siege
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBThis action-packed thriller takes place on the soon-to-be-decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Jason Bourne
2016 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBThe most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

The Sunset Limited
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBA deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational...

Natural Born Killers
1994 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
In the Valley of Elah
2007 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBA career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Company Men
2010 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBBobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands...

Small Soldiers
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBWhen missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Men in Black 3
2012 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBAgents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet...

Hope Springs
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBAfter thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Package
1989 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDBExperienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

The Missing
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBWhen rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two...

Finestkind
2023 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBTwo brothers are pulled into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston.

In the Electric Mist
2009 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBLt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the...

Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBA famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.

Heaven & Earth
1993 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBLe Ly lives in a small Vietnamese village whose serenity is shattered when war breaks out. Caught between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese army, the village is all but destroyed. After being both brutalized and raped, Le Ly resolves...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Volcano
1997 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDBAn earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service...

Men in Black II
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBKay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's...

U.S. Marshals
1998 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBU.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Blown Away
1994 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBBlown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.

Batman Forever
1995 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDBBatman must battle a disfigured district attorney and a disgruntled former employee with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat.

The Comeback Trail
2020 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBTwo movie producers who owe money to the mob, have to set up their aging movie star to kill themselves accidentally so they don't have to owe them back but they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.

Rules of Engagement
2000 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDBPart war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.

Emperor
2012 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBAs the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Criminal
2016 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBCIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his...

Double Jeopardy
1999 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDBA woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

The Family
2013 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBThe Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

The Hunted
2003 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDBIn the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Wander
2020 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDBAfter getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.
Where to watch:Rent or buy
Mechanic: Resurrection
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDBArthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them...

Man of the House
2005 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDBTexas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant...

Just Getting Started
2017 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDBDuke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past...
Directed by Tommy Lee Jones

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDBWhen brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps...
Where to watch:Rent or buy
The Homesman
2014 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBWhen 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...

The Sunset Limited
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBA deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational...
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