Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, producer, musician, and theatre director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the Sam Mendes period drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and the Tom Ford psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016).
Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002). He is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Iceman (2012), Premium Rush (2012), The Night Before (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He played Superman's Kryptonian adversary General Zod in Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and is set to reprise the role in The Flash (2022). Shannon is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special, and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.0532 |
| Birthday | 1974-08-07 |
| Place of Birth | Lexington, Kentucky, USA |
| Also Known As | Mike Shannon, Michael Corbett Shannon, |
2002
8 Mile
7.1/7710
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary...
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8 Mile
1993
Groundhog Day
7.625/8731
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsu...
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Groundhog Day
2001
Pearl Harbor
6.936/6907
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love...
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Pearl Harbor
2006
World Trade Center
6.138/1779
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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World Trade Center
2001
Vanilla Sky
6.819/4562
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribl...
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Vanilla Sky
2008
Revolutionary Road
6.982/4062
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their...
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Revolutionary Road
2010
Jonah Hex
4.959/1525
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...
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Jonah Hex
2022
Abandoned
5.789/296
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the...
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Abandoned
2002
High Crimes
6.346/859
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador....
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High Crimes
2009
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
6.186/1237
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to hi...
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7.116/1686
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
McCarthy
0/0
A personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame as a driving force behind anti-communist and anti-homosexual U.S. political sent...
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McCarthy
2003
Bad Boys II
6.655/5841
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They tra...
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Bad Boys II
2007
Shotgun Stories
6.94/207
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and bac...
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Shotgun Stories
2000
Jesus' Son
6.2/73
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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Jesus' Son
2006
Let's Go to Prison
5.762/322
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in pris...
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Let's Go to Prison
2010
The Runaways
6.458/826
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that...
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The Runaways
2007
Bug
6.128/600
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she esta...
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Bug
2004
The Woodsman
6.846/517
After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophi...
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The Woodsman
2009
The Missing Person
5.8/38
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone h...
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The Missing Person
2024
The End
5.3/71
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they...
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The End
2014
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
0/0
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.
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The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
6.1/220
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
13
5.844/881
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble be...
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2023
The Flash
6.617/4881
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and th...
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The Flash
2011
Machine Gun Preacher
6.733/1116
The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnappe...
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Machine Gun Preacher
2011
Take Shelter
7.049/1942
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
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Take Shelter
2013
Man of Steel
6.639/15990
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...
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Man of Steel
2012
Premium Rush
6.335/2250
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
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Premium Rush
2012
The Iceman
6.55/1119
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
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The Iceman
2005
Dead Birds
5.67/285
Towards the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the...
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Dead Birds
2011
Return
6.436/3920
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
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Return
2012
The Broken Tower
4.667/24
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
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The Broken Tower
2022
Night's End
4.34/25
An anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to perform an exorcism which takes a horrific turn.
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Night's End
2013
Mud
7.06/3005
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...
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Mud
1998
Chicago Cab
5.611/18
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Chicago Cab
2014
They Came Together
5.529/441
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
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They Came Together
2000
The Photographer
3/3
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The Photographer
2007
Blackbird
2/3
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis....
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Blackbird
2014
Young Ones
5.7/325
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to st...
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Young Ones
2023
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
3.8/2
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Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
2000
Mullitt
5/1
Two roommates late on rent have to come up with a quick way to get money.
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Mullitt
2015
The Harvest
6.018/217
After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s str...
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The Harvest
2016
Midnight Special
6.253/2014
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
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Midnight Special
2013
Choose You
5.4/8
This is what it looks like when Lena Dunham, Spike Jonze, Avicii, Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Shannon get together. Dunham wrote a short film for Sund...
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Dead Guy
0/0
When an abrasive old man suddenly dies in the apartment of a neighbor, an absurd game of hot potato begins with the not-so-dearly departed, as neighbo...
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Dead Guy
2000
Cecil B. Demented
6.377/293
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground...
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Cecil B. Demented
2010
Herbert White
7.1/7
Michael Shannon stars in the role of Herbert White, a character based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart. The story follows Herbert as he wo...
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Herbert White
2015
99 Homes
6.805/821
After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with th...
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99 Homes
2024
The Bikeriders
6.677/1086
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerou...
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The Bikeriders
2025
Nuremberg
7.3/674
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a compl...
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Nuremberg
2004
Grand Theft Parsons
5.849/43
There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times... Gram Parsons was one of the most influential mus...
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Grand Theft Parsons
2003
Kangaroo Jack
5.302/975
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but...
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Kangaroo Jack
2015
Freeheld
7.2/670
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was...
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Freeheld
2016
Elvis & Nixon
5.972/439
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangero...
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Elvis & Nixon
2019
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
0/0
Nominated for two Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards including Outstanding Historical Documentary and Outstanding Off-Camera Directing, "90 Years of the Musi...
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90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2024
A Different Man
6.911/412
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a night...
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A Different Man
The Young King
0/0
In the 1990s, an aspiring drag king comes to Vegas to reconnect with her estranged dad and to make her debut performance in America’s biggest drag kin...
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The Young King
2016
Frank & Lola
5.6/189
A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.
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Frank & Lola
2015
She's Funny That Way
5.942/704
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the productio...
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She's Funny That Way
2019
State Like Sleep
4.7/36
Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secrets as she untangles her late spou...
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State Like Sleep
2016
Nocturnal Animals
7.413/8206
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, s...
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Nocturnal Animals
2016
Salt and Fire
4.9/80
A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they...
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Salt and Fire
1996
Chain Reaction
5.797/1177
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of...
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Chain Reaction
2015
The Night Before
6.092/1804
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parti...
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The Night Before
2016
Loving
6.699/958
In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard a...
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Loving
2018
Poor Boy
3.8/8
Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to repo their beloved houseboat the brothers cook up...
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Poor Boy
2016
Complete Unknown
5.145/183
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a tra...
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Complete Unknown
2016
Wolves
5.779/70
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popula...
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Wolves
2004
Criminal
6.214/153
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: se...
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Criminal
2017
The Shape of Water
7.2/12731
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphi...
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The Shape of Water
2004
Zamboni Man
7/1
Zamboni Man is a short story that peers into the lives of two unique and unlikely characters: Walt, a Zamboni driver and Tyler, a young graceful figur...
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Zamboni Man
2009
The Greatest
6.22/173
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, an...
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The Greatest
2008
Marvelous
0/0
After her husband leaves her, Gwen goes to live with her sister Queenie. She discovers that she has suddenly acquired a special gift that enables her...
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Marvelous
2000
Tigerland
6.596/599
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands...
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Tigerland
2017
Pottersville
4.886/136
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The...
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Pottersville
2001
New Port South
3.875/8
A group of teenagers wish to rebel against the administrators and teachers (the system) in their suburban Chicago high school called New Port South
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New Port South
2007
Lucky You
5.657/283
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poke...
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Lucky You
1997
The Ride
0/0
Three men steal a car.
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The Ride
2012
Happy Hour
0/0
When two friends fall behind on their rent, they must get creative in order to please their landlord.
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Happy Hour
1992
Overexposed
1/3
Convinced that her husband Norm is being unfaithful, Ann Demski has an affair with family friend Nick. When she realizes that Nick contrived the evide...
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Overexposed
2004
Water
9/1
On an East Coast Island off season, a woman's naked and badly beaten body washes ashore. Jessy Turner , the sister of the murdered woman, comes to the...
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Water
2018
The Current War
6.698/1137
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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The Current War
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
5.99/18800
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2018
12 Strong
6.35/3152
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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12 Strong
2018
What They Had
6.483/120
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
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What They Had
2018
Fahrenheit 451
5.442/928
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
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Fahrenheit 451
2017
Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
6.4/9
This very special film consists of truly electrifying video footage from Bob Dylan’s “born again” period, shot on the last leg of his ’79-’80 tour, mu...
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Bob Dylan - Trouble No More
2018
Friedkin Uncut
7.043/46
An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The Frenc...
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Friedkin Uncut
2018
Long Way Back Home
6.571/7
A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucer...
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Long Way Back Home
2019
Knives Out
7.8/13745
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit B...
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Knives Out
2020
Echo Boomers
5.8/124
Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from the rich and give to th...
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Echo Boomers
2020
The Quarry
5.2/130
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's u...
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The Quarry
2017
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2/1
Chronicles the making of director Werner Herzog’s 2009 feature, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, providing profound insight into the director and hi...
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Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2019
The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
7.6/5
A live reading of passages from the Mueller report for “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,” Robert Schenkkan’s stage adaptation of...
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The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts
2021
Heart of Champions
6.556/80
During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over...
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Heart of Champions
2009
13 Scarier Movie Moments
9/4
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.
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13 Scarier Movie Moments
2023
A Little White Lie
5.663/52
A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brought to a university where he is to deliver a keynote...
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A Little White Lie
2013
Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
8/2
Michael Shannon channels Rebecca Martinson's insane and equally amazing letter to her Delta Gamma sorority sisters.
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Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter
2022
Bullet Train
7.413/7317
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as La...
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Bullet Train
2022
Amsterdam
6.066/1782
In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plo...
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Amsterdam
2010
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
0/0
Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzo...
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I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2026
Untitled Mr. Irrelevant Film
0/0
The true story of John Tuggle, who was given the title after being the last pick of the last round of the 1983 NFL draft.
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Untitled Mr. Irrelevant Film
2026
Bulls
6/3
Two down-on-their-luck half-brothers run a failing dive bar in Indiana and get a shot at taking on England’s elite darts champions.
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Bulls
King Snake
0/0
A young couple who inherit a farm in rural Arkansas must conquer the demons, both physical and metaphysical, that haunt its legacy.
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Dinner with Audrey
0/0
Based on the true story of the 40-year friendship of Audrey Hepburn and designer Count Hubert de Givenchy, over the course of one magical, fashion-fil...
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Dinner with Audrey
2026
Buddy
0/0
A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.
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Buddy
Vegas: A Love Story
0/0
Unfolds beneath the glow of the Las Vegas Strip, where Dillon, a gifted graphic designer hustling for work, falls into a passionate, unexpected romanc...
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Doctor Caligari's Cabinet of Wonders
0/0
Doctor Caligari, a traveling mesmerist who journeys from town to town with a sleepwalker under his control, leaving a trail of grisly murders in their...
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