William H. Macy films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 49 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Fargo, Boogie Nights and Train Dreams.

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Room
2015 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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Shameless
2011 · TV
8.0/10 · TMDB
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor...
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Fargo
1996 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a...
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Magnolia
1999 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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Boogie Nights
1997 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy...
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Barton Fink
1991 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Somewhere in Time
1980 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s...
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Pleasantville
1998 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern...
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Train Dreams
2025 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
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Thank You for Smoking
2006 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on...
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Rudderless
2014 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.
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WarGames
1983 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of...
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Inland Empire
2006 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
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Radio Days
1987 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and...
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Wag the Dog
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
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Seabiscuit
2003 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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Benny & Joon
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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The Sessions
2012 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate...
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Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten...
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, apes are now the dominant species and live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape...
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House of Games
1987 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
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Shadows and Fog
1991 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
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The Cooler
2003 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected...
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The Running Man
2025 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into...
The Client
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A 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...
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Ricky Stanicky
2024 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, the trio still uses the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. But...
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Bobby
2006 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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State and Main
2000 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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Air Force One
1997 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to...
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Cellular
2004 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. However, after two trials, De La Beckwith is acquitted twice by a jury of...
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Cake
2014 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
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The Last Dragon
1985 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
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Welcome to Collinwood
2002 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
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Dirty Girl
2010 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.
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Blood Father
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
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Spartan
2004 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to...
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Down Periscope
1996 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a submarine that can barely keep afloat. To add insult to injury, the Stingray is to...
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The Tale of Despereaux
2008 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing...
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Wild Hogs
2007 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del...
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Shorts
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
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Mystery Men
1999 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save...
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The Maiden Heist
2009 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
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Maybe I Do
2023 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Michelle and Allen, who have reached the point in their relationship where they are considering next steps, decide to invite their parents to finally meet and to offer some understanding of why marriage works. Except the parents already...
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Marmaduke
2010 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
When Phil and Debbie Winslow relocate from their native Kansas to the sunny climes of Orange County, their big-hearted, havoc-wreaking Great Dane gets a taste of the dog's life, California-style.
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Psycho
1998 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own. Although this version is in color, features a different cast, and is set in 1998, it is closer to a shot-for-shot remake than most remakes, Gus Van...
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Soul on Fire
2025 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
After a horrific accident leaves his body scarred, a young boy strives to live and show everyone what is possible with the help of his family, his faith, his community, his longtime idol's kindness, and the entire city of St. Louis.
Speed Demon
2026 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
Aboard a high-speed train, a nun who has lost her faith must perform her first exorcism on a possessed passenger hellbent on crashing the runaway train.