William Sadler films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 30 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for The Shawshank Redemption, The Pacific and The Green Mile.

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Starring William Sadler

The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Film
8.7/10 · TMDB
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in...
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The Green Mile
1999 · Film
8.5/10 · TMDB
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he...
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The Pacific
2010 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
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August Rush
2007 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
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Freeheld
2015 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse
2010 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a...
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Iron Man 3
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Die Hard 2
1990 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military...
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The Unholy
2021 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Alice, a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced...
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The Mist
2007 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that...
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
1995 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.
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The Highwaymen
2019 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who...
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Kinsey
2004 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected...
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The Yeti
2026 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When an oil tycoon and a famous adventurer vanish into the harsh winter of remote northern Alaska, a hand-picked rescue team endeavors to bring them home. What they don’t know is that they are trespassing on The Yeti’s territory, and the...
Eagle Eye
2008 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their...
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Man on a Ledge
2012 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the...
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in...
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Salem's Lot
2024 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
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She Came from the Woods
2023 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleashes a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.
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Being Flynn
2012 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped...
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K-9
1989 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his...
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Hard to Kill
1990 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is...
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VFW
2020 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their...
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Bordello of Blood
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy...
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Disturbing Behavior
1998 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique known as the "Blue Ribbons" are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean...
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The Hills Run Red
2009 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
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Ava's Possessions
2015 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she must attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group to figure out what happened. Ava's life was hijacked by a demon, now it's time to get it back.
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Machete Kills
2013 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a...
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The Grudge
2020 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do...
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The Duel
2016 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
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