Willem Dafoe films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 88 films on Boxlist

Known for The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Florida Project and Poor Things.

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Starring Willem Dafoe

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless...
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The Florida Project
2017 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
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Poor Things
2023 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and...
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Wick Is Pain
2025 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Witness the never-before-seen footage and true story behind the John Wick phenomenon – from independent film to billion-dollar franchise.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
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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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Tenzing
2026 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
A determined man embarks on a high-stakes quest—and defies seemingly impossible odds—to fulfill his dream of being the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
The Lighthouse
2019 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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Platoon
1986 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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The Northman
2022 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his...
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Inside Man
2006 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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The Aviator
2004 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe...
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Spider-Man
2002 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
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To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
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John Wick
2014 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
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Nosferatu
2024 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
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Togo
2019 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDB
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard...
The French Dispatch
2021 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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Love, Antosha
2019 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and...
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Spider-Man 2
2004 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker...
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The English Patient
1996 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a...
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A Most Wanted Man
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
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The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The story of a family and a family business.
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Asteroid City
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
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American Psycho
2000 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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Saturday Night
2024 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.
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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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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
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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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The Fault in Our Stars
2014 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid...
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Born on the Fourth of July
1989 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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eXistenZ
1999 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Clear and Present Danger
1994 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
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Mississippi Burning
1988 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up...
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Affliction
1998 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
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Kinds of Kindness
2024 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific...
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Streets of Fire
1984 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires...
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Film
8.4/10 · TMDB
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
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At Eternity's Gate
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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The Legend of Ochi
2025 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him...
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Wild at Heart
1990 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when...
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Paris, Je T'Aime
2006 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this...
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Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a...
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Film
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly...
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The Card Counter
2021 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a...
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Tommaso
2020 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Playing opposite the director’s own wife and daughter, Willem Dafoe is a Ferrara-like American artist living in Rome in this improvised drama of doubt and disconnection, shot in self-reflective documentary style.
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Cry-Baby
1990 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Auto Focus
2002 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with...
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Aquaman
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people and then the surface world...
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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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Inside
2023 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An art thief becomes trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry. Imprisoned with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
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Out of the Furnace
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
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Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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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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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Join our hosts JB Smoove and Martin Starr for a celebration of 20 years of Spider-Man™ movies! From the original Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb’s “amazing” movies to the latest trio from Director Jon Watts, we will take viewers through the...
Heaven's Gate
1980 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the...
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Antichrist
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
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Odd Thomas
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
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What Happened to Monday
2017 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their...
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
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Spider-Man 3
2007 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie...
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Vox Lux
2018 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to...
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The Hunger
1983 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life, but John, her companion for centuries, suddenly discovers that he is getting old minute by minute, so he looks for Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging, and asks...
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Bad Country
2014 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
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Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
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Zero
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Two Americans wake up in Dakar, Senegal, with bombs strapped to their chests ticking down from ten hours. Guided by a threatening voice on the phone, these men complete a series of violent tasks that spark widespread protest against...
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Finally Dawn
2024 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.
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John Carter
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and...
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Siberia
2020 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the...
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The Boondock Saints
1999 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and...
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Dead for a Dollar
2022 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of...
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The Man in My Basement
2025 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
Down on his luck, Charles Blakey agrees to rent his basement to a mysterious stranger, unaware he may be letting in a force much darker than he imagined.
The Clearing
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
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The Great Wall
2016 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
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Dog Eat Dog
2016 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They do, and together they go to "Cirque du Freak" where they see many strange acts including...
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Anamorph
2007 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
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Fireflies in the Garden
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced by an unexpected tragedy.
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A Family Man
2017 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven but polar-opposite rival at the firm, in a...
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Death Note
2017 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the Death Note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals and change the world...
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The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.
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xXx: State of the Union
2005 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George...
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The Last Thing He Wanted
2020 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of...
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Body of Evidence
1993 · Film
4.9/10 · TMDB
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997 · Film
4.5/10 · TMDB
A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
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