Film Actor Facts and Ironies
by stewiec85 | created - 13 Jul 2011 | updated - 06 Jan 2018 | PublicI watch movies all the time. The more I watch, the more I notice connections between actors in films. And so I make this list to show everybody else what they are missing in movies.
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101. Attica (1980 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
The true story of the events leading up to and during the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility riot and the aftermath.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 541
Charles Durning and Morgan Freeman both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Durning for The Best Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be Or Not To Be (1983)
Freeman for Street Smart (1987) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) which he won
They both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Durning for The Sting (1973)
Freeman for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992), and Million Dollar Baby (2004)
102. August: Osage County (2013)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Director: John Wells | Stars: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 95,348 | Gross: $37.74M
Meryl Streep, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper, Julia Roberts, and Sam Shepard all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Streep for The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) which she won, Adaptation (2002), and Into The Woods (2014)
Lewis for Cape Fear (1991)
Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Cooper for Adaptation (2002) which he won
Roberts for Steel Magnolias (1989) and this film
Shepard for The Right Stuff (1983)
Streep, Roberts, and Benedict Cumberbatch all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Streep for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982) which she won, Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), The Iron Lady (2011) which she won, this film, and Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Roberts for Pretty Woman (1990) and Erin Brockovich (2000) which she won
Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game (2014)
Lewis and Roberts both worked with Nick Nolte;
Lewis for Cape Fear (1991)
Roberts for I Love Trouble (1994)
Lewis and Streep both worked with Robert De Niro;
Lewis for Cape Fear (1991)
Streep for The Deer Hunter (1978)
They both worked with Uma Thurman;
Lewis for Hysterical Blindness (2002)TV
Streep for Prime (2005)
Shepard and Roberts worked together before in The Pelican Brief (1993)
Streep and Roberts both worked with Denzel Washington;
Streep for The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Roberts for The Pelican Brief (1993)
Streep and Cooper worked together before in Adaptation (2002)
Margo Martindale, Streep, Cooper, Cumberbatch all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Streep for The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Out of Africa (1985)
Cooper for American Beauty (1999)
Cumberbatch for 12 Years A Slave (2013)
Martindale for Million Dollar Baby (2004)
They both worked with George Clooney;
Streep for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Cooper for Syriana (2005)
Breslin and Streep both worked with Alan Arkin;
Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Streep for Renditon (2007)
Streep and Roberts both earned Best Actress Oscars for playing real-life characters;
Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011)
Roberts as Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000)
103. August Rush (2007)
PG | 114 min | Drama, Music
A musically gifted orphan, Evan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater.
Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard
Votes: 111,118 | Gross: $31.66M
Robin Williams and Terrence Howard both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Williams for Good Morning Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), and The Fisher King (1991)
Howard for Hustle & Flow (2005)
They worked together again in Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers both earned Golden Globes for TV;
Russell for Felicity (1998-2002)TV
Rhys Meyers for Elvis (2005)TV
104. Australia (2008)
PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo
Votes: 129,770 | Gross: $49.55M
Director Baz Luhrman, Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman all earned Oscar Nominations for working on musicals;
Jackman for Best Actor in Les Miserables (2012)
Kidman for Best Actress in Moulin Rouge (2001)
Luhrman for Best Picture in Moulin Rouge (2001)
Jackman and Kidman both also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Jackman for Les Miserables (2012)
Kidman for Moulin Rouge (2001), The Hours (2002) which she won, and Rabbit Hole (2010)
They both worked with Ewan McGregor;
Jackman for Deception (2008)
Kidman for Moulin Rouge (2001)
Jackman and Bryan Brown both worked with Sigourney Weaver;
Jackman for Chappie (2015)
Brown for Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
David Wenham and Jackman worked together before in Van Helsing (2004)
105. Avenger (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Thriller
A C.I.A. Agent steps in to stop a former Special Forces Operative on a for-hire mission that poses a global threat.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Sam Elliott, Timothy Hutton, James Cromwell, William Hope
Votes: 1,022
Timothy Hutton and James Cromwell both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Hutton for Ordinary People (1980) which he won
Cromwell for Babe (1995)
Cromwell and Hutton both worked with David Strathairn;
Cromwell for L.A. Confidential (1997)
Hutton for Heaven's Fall (2006)
They both costarred in films that won Best Picture Oscars;
Cromwell for The Artist (2011)
Hutton for Ordinary People (1980)
Hutton and Sam Elliott both worked with Robert Redford;
Hutton for Ordinary People (1980)
Elliott for The Company You Keep (2012)
106. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
PG-13 | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan.
Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth
Votes: 922,143 | Gross: $459.01M
Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, and Josh Brolin all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014), and Spotlight (2015)
Renner for The Town (2010)
Jackson for Pulp Fiction (1994)
Brolin for Milk (2008)
Downey, Renner, and Don Cheadle all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Chaplin (1992)
Renner for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Brolin, Ruffalo, Renner, Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, Paul Bettany, and Andy Serkis all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Ruffalo for Spotlight (2015)
Renner and Mackie for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Cheadle for Crash (2004)
Bettany for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Serkis for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Brolin for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Cheadle and Mackie both played real-life characters who fought for Civil Rights;
Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr. in The Rat Pack (1998)TV and as Petey Greene in Talk To Me (2007)
Mackie as Dr. Martin Luther King in All The Way (2016)TV
Downey, Brolin, Cheadle, and Ruffalo all earned Oscar Nominations for playing real-life characters;
Downey for Best Actor in Chaplin (1992)
Cheadle for Best Actor in Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Ruffalo for Best Supporting Actor in Foxcatcher (2014) and Spotlight (2015)
Brolin for Best Supporting Actor in Milk (2008)
Renner, Serkis and Brolin all played real-life murderers;
Serkis as Ian Brady in Longford (2006)TV
Brolin as Dan White in Milk (2008)
Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer in Dahmer (2002)
Serkis, and Bettany both played real-life scientists;
Serkis as Albert Einstein in Einsten & Eddington (2008)TV
Bettany as Charles Darwin in Creation (2009)
107. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
PG-13 | 149 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans
Votes: 1,203,932 | Gross: $678.82M
Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Benicio Del Tor, Bradley Cooper, and Josh Brolin all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014), and Spotlight (2015)
Renner for The Town (2010)
Jackson for Pulp Fiction (1994)
Brolin for Milk (2008)
Del Toro for Traffic (2000) which he won and 21 Grams (2003)
Cooper for American Hustle (2013)
Downey, Renner, Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brie Larson, and Don Cheadle all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Chaplin (1992)
Renner for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Larson for Room (2015) which she won
Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game (2014)
Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Sniper (2014)
Brolin, Ruffalo, Renner, Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, Paul Bettany, and Andy Serkis all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Ruffalo for Spotlight (2015)
Renner and Mackie for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Cheadle for Crash (2004)
Bettany for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Serkis for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Brolin for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Downey and Cumberbatch both played Sherlock Holmes;
Downey for Sherlock Holmes (2008) and Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows (2011)
Cumberbatch for Sherlock (2010-)TV
Downey, Cumberbatch, Cheadle, Cooper, Brolin, and Ruffalo all earned Oscar Nominations for playing real-life characters;
Downey for Best Actor in Chaplin (1992)
Cumberbatch for Best Actor in The Imitation Game (2014)
Cheadle for Best Actor in Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Cooper for Best Actor in American Sniper (2014)
Brolin for Best Supporting Actor in Milk (2008)
Ruffalo for Best Supporting Actor in Foxcatcher (2014) and Spotlight (2015)
Downey and Cumberbatch both played real-life characters who made history in cinema;
Downey as Charles Chaplin in Chaplin (1992)
Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison in The Current War (2017)
Cumberbatch and Cooper competed against each other for Best Actor Oscar but both lost to Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything (2014);
Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game (2014)
Cooper for American Sniper (2014)
Renner, Serkis and Brolin all played real-life murderers;
Serkis as Ian Brady in Longford (2006)TV
Brolin as Dan White in Milk (2008)
Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer in Dahmer (2002)
Cheadle and Mackie both played real-life characters who fought for Civil Rights;
Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr. in The Rat Pack (1998)TV and as Petey Greene in Talk To Me (2007)
Mackie as Dr. Martin Luther King in All The Way (2016)TV
Cumberbatch, Serkis, and Bettany all played real-life scientists;
Cumberbatch as Stephen Hawking in Hawking (2004)TV
Serkis as Albert Einstein in Einsten & Eddington (2008)TV
Bettany as Charles Darwin in Creation (2009)
108. Awakenings (1990)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson
Votes: 158,822 | Gross: $52.10M
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams competed against each other in the Best Actor Oscar but both lost to Anthony
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991);
De Niro for Cape Fear (1991)
Williams for The Fisher King (1991)
They both also won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor;
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974)
Williams for Good Will Hunting (1997)
They both also earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations for playing in films about Vietnam;
De Niro for The Deer Hunter (1978)
Williams for Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
Dexter Gordon, Max Von Sydow, De Niro, and Williams all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Gordon for Round Midnight (1986)
Sydow for Pelle The Conqueror (1987)
De Niro for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Raging Bull (1980) which he won, this film, and Cape Fear (1991)
Williams for Good Morning Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), and The Fisher King (1991)
Sydow, Williams, and De Niro all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Sydow for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Williams for Good Will Hunting (1997) which he won
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) which he won and Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Gordon, Williams, and De Niro all played saxophonists;
Gordon for Round Midnight (1986)
De Niro for New York New York (1977)
Williams for Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Alice Drummond and De Niro both worked with Bill Murray;
Drummond for Ghostbusters (1984)
De Niro for Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
They both worked with Meryl Streep;
Drummond for Doubt (2008)
De Niro for The Deer Hunter (1978) and Falling in Love (1984)
Sydow and De Niro both worked with Leonardo DiCaprio;
Sydow for Shutter Island (2010)
De Niro for This Boy's Life (1993)
109. Back to School (1986)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.
Director: Alan Metter | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon
Votes: 36,214 | Gross: $91.26M
Robert Downey Jr., Ned Beatty, Sally Kellerman, and Burt Young all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Kellerman for MASH (1970)
Beatty for Network (1976)
Young for Rocky (1976)
Beatty and Young actually competed against at the 1977 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, they both lost to Jason Robards for All The President's Men (1976);
Beatty for Network (1976)
Young for Rocky (1976)
Downey and Rodney Dangerfield worked together again in Natural Born Killers (1994)
110. Bandits (2001)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity
Votes: 70,949 | Gross: $41.58M
Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Thornton for A Simple Plan (1998)
Blanchett for The Aviator (2004) which she won, , Notes on a Scandal (2006), and I'm Not There (2007)
Thornton and Blanchett also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Blue Jasmine (2013) which she won, and Carol (2015)
Thornton for Sling Blade (1996)
Bruce Willis and Blanchett both worked with Alec Baldwin;
Willis for Mercury Rising (1998)
Blanchett for The Aviator (2004) and Blue Jasmine (2013)
Thornton and Blanchett also worked with Geoffrey Rush;
Thornton for Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth The Golden Age (2007)
Thornton and Willis both earned Best Actor Golden Globes for TV;
Thornton for Fargo (2014-)TV and Goliath (2016-)TV
Willis for Moonlighting (1985-1989)TV
Thornton and Willis worked together before in Armageddon (1998) and again in The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
111. Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Sport
The story of the friendship between a worldly-wise star pitcher and a half-wit catcher as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster
Votes: 6,244 | Gross: $0.35M
Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, and Vincent Gardenia all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) which he won and Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Gardenia for this film and Moonstruck (1987)
Aiello for Do The Right Thing (1989)
De Niro and Michael Moriarty both worked with Meryl Streep;
De Niro for The Deer Hunter (1978) and Falling In Love (1984)
Moriarty for Holocaust (1978)TV
They both worked with James Woods;
De Niro for Once Upon A Time in America (1984) and Casino (1995)
Moriarty for Holocaust (1978)TV
De Niro and Aiello both worked with Joe Pesci;
De Niro for Raging Bull (1980), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Goodfellas (1990),A Bronx Tale (1993), Casino (1995), and The Good Shepherd (2006)
Aiello for Man on Fire (1987)
Barbara Babcock and De Niro both worked with Tommy Lee Jones;
Babcock for Space Cowboys (2000)
De Niro for The Famiily (2013)
Gardenia and Aiello worked together again in Moonstruck (1987)
112. Barney's Version (2010)
R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Macha Grenon
Votes: 26,253 | Gross: $7.50M
Paul Giamatti and Minnie Driver both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Giamatti for Cinderella Man (2005)
Driver for Good Will Hunting (1997)
Giamatti, Driver, and Rosamund Pike all worked with Ben Affleck;
Giamatti for Paycheck (2003)
Driver for Good Will Hunting (1997)
Pike for Gone Girl (2014)
Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman both earned Oscar Nominations for playing real-life characters;
Giamatti as Joe Gould for Cinderella Man (2005)
Hoffman as Lenny Bruce for Lenny (1974)
They both worked with Tom Cruise;
Giamatti for Rock of Ages (2012)
Hoffman for Rain Man (1988)
They both worked with Vanessa Redgrave;
Giamatti for If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)TV
Hoffman for Agatha (1979)
Hoffman and Pike both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hoffman for The Graduate (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Lenny (1974), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) which he won, Rain Man (1988) which he won, and Wag The Dog (1997)
Pike for Gone Girl (2014)
Giamatti and Bruce Greenwood both played former U.S. Presidents;
Giamatti for John Adams (2008)TV
Greenwood for Thirteen Days (2003)
Giamatti and Hoffman both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Giamatti for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Hoffman for Midnight Cowboy (1969), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Rain Man (1988)
113. Barton Fink (1991)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Votes: 128,994 | Gross: $6.15M
John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub worked together again in the tv series Monk (2002)TV which they both won Emmys for their roles
Michael Lerner and John Goodman both played as movie producers;
Lerner in this film
Goodman in The Artist (2011)
Lerner, Frances McDormand, and Judy Davis all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Lerner for this film
Davis for Husbands and Wives (1992)
McDormand for Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), and North Country (2005)
McDormand and Davis both earned Best Actress Oscar Nominations;
McDormand for Fargo (1996) which she won
Davis for A Passage To India (1984)
Goodman, Shahloub, and Steve Buscemi all earned Best Actor Golden Globes in TV shows they starred in;
Goodman for Roseanne (1988-1997)TV
Shahloub for Monk (2002-2009)TV
Buscemi for Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)TV
Goodman and The Coen Brothers both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Goodman for The Artist (2011) and Argo (2012)
Coen Brothers for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Goodman and Davis both worked on films and TV Mini Series about Hollywood;
Goodman for Argo (2012) and Trumbo (2015)
Davis for Me and My Shadows: Life with Judy Garland (2001)TV and Feud (2017-)TV
114. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,232 | Gross: $117.73M
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Douglas for Wall Street (1987) which he won
Stone for Casino (1995)
They both worked with Martin Sheen;
Douglas for Wall Street (1987) and The American President (1995)
Stone for Bobby (2006)
They both worked with Albert Brooks;
Douglas for The In-Laws (2003)
Stone for The Muse (1999)
They both worked with Robert De Niro;
Douglas for Last Vegas (2013)
Stone for Casino (1995)
115. Basquiat (1996)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani
Votes: 22,089 | Gross: $2.96M
Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Benicio Del Toro all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Hopper for Hoosiers (1986)
Dafoe for Platoon (1986) and Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Walken for The Deer Hunter (1978) which he won and Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Del Toro for Traffic (2000) which he won and 21 Grams (2003)
Dafoe and Walken both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations in films that are about the Vietnam War which both won Best Picture;
Walken won his Oscar for The Deer Hunter (1978)
Dafoe earned his nomination for Platoon (1986)
Dafoe and Hopper competed against each other for Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1987 but both lost to Michael Caine of Hannah and her Sisters (1986);
Dafoe for Platoon (1986)
Hopper for Hoosiers (1986)
Dafoe and Del Toro competed against each other for Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2001, Del Toro won;
Dafoe for Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Del Toro for Traffic (2000) which he won
Gary Oldman and Dafoe both worked with film director Oliver Stone;
Oldman for JFK (1991)
Dafoe for Platoon (1986)
116. Batman (1989)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Votes: 404,379 | Gross: $251.19M
Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, and Jack Palance all won Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscars;
Nicholson for Terms of Endearment (1983)
Palance for City Slickers (1991)
Basinger for L.A. Confidential (1997)
Michael Keaton, Michael Gouge, and Pat Hingle all worked with Chris O'Donnell;
Keaton for The Company (2007)TV
Gough and Hingle for Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1998)
Keaton and Nicholson both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Keaton for Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Nicholson for Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) which he won, Prizzi's Honor (1985), Ironweed (1987), As Good As It Gets (1997) which he won, and About Schmidt (2002)
Keaton and Nicholson both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Keaton for Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Spotlight (2015)
Nicholson for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Terms of Endearment (1983), and The Departed (2006)
117. Batman & Robin (1997)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman
Votes: 268,190 | Gross: $107.33M
George Clooney and Uma Thurman both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Clooney for Syriana (2005) which he won
Thurman for Pulp Fiction (1994)
Both Clooney and Chris O'Donnell worked with Al Pacino;
Clooney for Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
O'Donnell for Scent of a Woman (1992)
They both also worked with Phillip Seymour Hoffman;
Clooney for The Ides of March (2011)
O'Donnell for Scent of a Woman (1992)
They both also worked with Renee Zellweger;
Clooney for Leatherheads (2008)
O'Donnell for The Bachelor (1999)
Both Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with Jeff Bridges;
Clooney for The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)
Schwarzenegger for Stay Hungry (1976)
Both Thurman and Clooney worked with Meryl Streep;
Thurman for Prime (2005)
Clooney for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Both Clooney and O'Donnell worked on films involving CIA;
Clooney for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Syriana (2005), Burn After Reading (2008), and Argo (2012)
O'Donnell for The Company (2007)TV
Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Clooney, and O'Donnell all worked with Michael Keaton;
Hingle and Gough for Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992)
O'Donnell for The Company (2007)TV
Clooney for Out of Sight (1998)
Clooney and director Joel Schumacher both worked with Nicole Kidman;
Clooney for The Peacemaker (1997)
Schumacher for Batman Forever (1995)
They both worked with Cate Blanchett;
Clooney for The Good German (2006)
Schumacher for Veronica Guerin (2003)
118. Batman Begins (2005)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After witnessing his parents' death, Bruce learns the art of fighting to confront injustice. When he returns to Gotham as Batman, he must stop a secret society that intends to destroy the city.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson
Votes: 1,579,103 | Gross: $206.85M
Prior to this film, both Liam Neeson and Cilian Murphy worked with director Neil Jordan in two films; Neeson for Michael Collins (1996) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005) and for Murphy its Breakfast on Pluto (2005) as well. Also prior to this film, Neeson played in Darkman (1990) about an acid-burned scientist who uses his scientific know-how to disguise himself with many faces in order to seek revenge against the men who made him that way.
Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Tom Wilkinson, and Ken Wattanabe all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Bale for The Fighter (2010) which he won and The Big Short (2015)
Freeman for Street Smart (1987) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) which he won
Caine for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) which he won and The Cider House Rules (1999) which he won
Wilkinson for Michael Clayton (2007)
Wattanabe for The Last Samurai (2003)
Also since Linus Roache worked in this film as well, both him and Wilkinson played a member of Kennedy family.
Roache as Robert F. Kennedy for RFK (2002)TV
Wilkinson as Joe Kennedy Sr. for The Kennedys (2011)TV
Bale, Liam Neeson, Wilkinson, Freeman, Caine, and Gary Oldman all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Bale for American Hustle (2013)
Neeson for Schindler's List (1993)
Wilkinson for In the Bedroom (2001)
Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Caine for Alfie (1966), Sleuth (1972), Educating Rita (1983), and The Quiet American (2002)
Freeman for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009)
Both Freeman and Caine played former presidents of South Africa;
Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus (2009)
Caine as F. W. De Klerk in Mandela and De Klerk (1997)TV
Both Freeman and Oldman worked with Denzel Washington;
Freeman for Glory (1989)
Oldman for The Book Of Eli (2010)
Both Oldman and Neeson worked with Colin Firth;
Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Neeson for Love Actually (2003)
Oldman and Bale both worked on films based on novels written by John Le Carre;
Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Bale for A Murder of Quality (1991)TV
Katie Holmes and Freeman both worked with Helen Mirren;
Holmes for Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Freeman for RED (2010)
Neeson and Freeman both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Neeson for Schindler's List (1993)
Freeman for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992), and Million Dollar Baby (2004)
119. Batman Forever (1995)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure
Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman
Votes: 266,640 | Gross: $184.03M
Tommy Lee Jones and Nicole Kidman both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Jones for In The Valley of Elah (2007)
Kidman for Moulin Rouge (2001), The Hours (2002) which she won, and Rabbit Hole (2010)
They both also earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Jones for JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993) which he won, and Lincoln (2012)
Kidman for Lion (2016)
Jones and Kidman also earned Oscar Nominations for played real-life characters;
Jones as Clay Shaw in JFK (1991) and as Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln (2012)
Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002) which she won
They both worked with Daniel Day Lewis;
Jones for Lincoln (2012)
Kidman for Nine (2009)
Jim Carrey and Kidman worked with Ed Harris;
Carrey for The Truman Show (1998)
Kidman for The Hours (2002)
Val Kilmer, Kidman, and Jones all worked with Robert Downey Jr.;
Kidman for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Jones for U.S. Marshals (1998)
Kilmer for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, and Carrey all worked with Renee Zellweger;
Kidman for Cold Mountain (2003)
Carrey for Me, Myself, and Irene (2000)
O'Donnell for The Bachelor (1999)
Kidman, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough, and O'Donnell all worked with Michael Keaton;
Hingle and Gough for Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992)
O'Donnell for The Company (2007)TV
Kidman for My Life (1993)
Kilmer and Jones both worked with director Oliver Stone;
Kilmer for The Doors (1991)
Jones for JFK (1991)
120. Batman Returns (1992)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken
Votes: 327,575 | Gross: $162.83M
Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Keaton for Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Pfeiffer for The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and Love Field (1992)
Pfeiffer and Christopher Walken both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Pfeiffer for Dangerous Liasons (1988)
Walken for The Deer Hunter (1978) which he won and Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, and Keaton all played reporters;
Pfeiffer for Up, Close, & Personal (1996)
DeVito for L.A. Confidential (1997)
Keaton for Live From Baghdad (2002)TV
They all worked with Jack Nicholson;
Pfeiffer for Wolf (1994)
DeVito for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Hoffa (1992), and Mars Attacks (1996)
Keaton for Batman (1989)
Keaton, DeVito, and Walken all worked on films that won Best Picture Oscars;
Keaton for Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
DeVito for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Terms of Endearment (1983)
Walken for Annie Hall (1977) and The Deer Hunter (1978)
121. *batteries not included (1987)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Aliens help a feisty old New York couple in their battle against the ruthless land developer who's out to evict them.
Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña
Votes: 37,708 | Gross: $32.95M
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations; Cronyn for The Seventh Cross (1944) Tandy for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
122. Battle in Seattle (2007)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama, History
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.
Director: Stuart Townsend | Stars: André 3000, Jennifer Carpenter, Isaach De Bankolé, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 15,176 | Gross: $0.22M
Charlize Theron and Woody Harrelson both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Theron for Monster (2003) which she won and North Country (2005)
Harrelson for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
They worked together before in North Country (2005)
Harrelson and Connie Nielson both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Harrelson for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Nielson for Gladiator (2000)
Ray Liotta and Harrelson both earned TV Emmy Awards;
Liotta for Best Guest Actor in ER (1994-2009)TV
Harrelson for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in Cheers (1985-1993)TV
123. Battle of Britain (1969)
G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 24,522 | Gross: $4.36M
Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Caine for Alfie (1966), Sleuth (1972), Educating Rita (1983), and The Quiet American (2002)
Howard for Sons & Lovers (1960)
Olivier for Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), Henry V (1944), Richard III (1955), The Entertainer (1960), Othello (1965), Sleuth (1972), and The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Redgrave for Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
Caine, Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw, and Susannah York all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Caine for Hannah and her Sisters (1986) which he won and The Cider House Rules (1999) which he won
Olivier for Marathon Man (1976)
Richardson for The Heiress (1949) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Shaw for A Man For All Seasons (1966)
York for They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969)
124. Battlefield Earth (2000)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
It's the year 3000 A.D., and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their 'man-animals' are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper, Kim Coates
Votes: 83,106 | Gross: $21.47M
John Travolta and Forest Whitaker both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Travolta for Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Pulp Fiction (1994)
Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006) which he won
Whitaker and Barry Pepper both played real-life characters;
Whitaker as Charlie Parker in Bird (1988), as General Idi Amin Dada in The Last King of Scotland (2006), and as Dr. James Farmer Sr. in The Great Debaters (2007)
Pepper as Roger Marris in 61* (2002)TV, as Dale Earnhardt in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004)TV, as Bill Wilson in When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (2010)TV, as Michael Scanlon in Casino Jack (2010), and as Bobby Kennedy in The Kennedys (2011)TV
Michael Byrne, Richard Tyson, Kim Coates, Pepper, Travolta and Whitaker all worked on war films;
Travolta for The Thin Red Line (1998)
Whitaker for Platoon (1986)
Pepper for Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Tyson and Coates for Black Hawk Down (2001)
Byrne for Braveheart (1995)
Tim Post and Travolta both worked with Nick Nolte;
Post for Affliction (1998)
Travolta for The Thin Red Line (1998)
125. Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client's dinner party after her car breaks down.
Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass
Votes: 10,852 | Gross: $7.12M
John Lithgow and Chloe Sevigny both earned Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominations; Lithgow for The World According To Garp (1982) and Terms of Endearment (1983) Sevigny for Boys Don't Cry (1999)
126. Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
The adventures and romance of a sensitive and cultured lion-man and a crusading assistant district attorney in Manhattan, New York City.
Stars: Ron Perlman, Roy Dotrice, Jay Acovone, Linda Hamilton
Votes: 7,891
Ron Perlman and Roy Dotrice worked together again in Hellboy II The Golden Army (2008)
Edward Albert and Perlman both earned Golden Globes;
Albert for Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Perlman for this series
Perlman and Linda Hamilton both worked on films based on novels written by Stephen King;
Hamilton for Children of the Corn (1984)
Perlman for Sleepwalkers (1992)
They both worked with Clifton Collins Jr.;
Perlman for Pacific Rim (2013)
Hamilton for Thief (2006)TV
127. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 340,275 | Gross: $73.71M
Alec Baldwin, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, and Geena Davis all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Davis for The Accidental Tourist (1988) which she won
Baldwin for The Cooler (2003)
Ryder for The Age of Innocence (1993)
Sidney for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Michael Keaton, Ryder, and Davis also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Ryder for Little Women (1994)
Davis for Thelma & Louise (1991)
Keaton for Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Baldwin and Michael Keaton both played in films about the origins of the CIA;
Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (2006)
Keaton in The Company (2008)TV
They both worked on films that won Best Picture Oscars;
Baldwin for The Departed (2006)
Keaton for Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Spotlight (2015)
Baldwin and Keaton both worked with Robert De Niro;
Baldwin for The Good Shepherd (2006)
Keaton for Jackie Brown (1997)
128. Before Night Falls (2000)
R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovani Florido
Votes: 26,379 | Gross: $4.22M
Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to earn a Best Actor Oscar Nomination with this film.
Bardem and Penn both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations for playing homosexuals;
Bardem for this film
Penn for Milk which he won
Johnny Depp and Bardem both earned Oscar Nominations for playing real-life authors and villains;
Authors
Depp as J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland (2004)
Bardem as Reinaldo Arenas in this film
Villains
Depp for Best Actor in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Bardem for Best Supporting Actor in No Country For Old Men (2007) which he won
Both Penn and Bardem worked with Josh Brolin;
Penn for Milk (2008)
Bardem for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Depp and Bardem both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Depp for Platoon (1986)
Bardem for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Depp and Penn both played real-life gangsters;
Depp as John Dillinger in Public Enemies (2009) and as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass (2015)
Penn as Mickey Cohen in Gangster Squad (2013)
129. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife barreling towards a shattering climax.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 111,724 | Gross: $7.08M
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Rosemary Harris, and Ethan Hawke all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), and The Master (2012)
Shannon for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Finney for Erin Brockovich (2000)
Hawke for Training Day (2001) and Boyhood (2014)
Tomei for My Cousin Vinny (1992) which she won, In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008)
Ryan for Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Harris for Tom & Viv (1994)
Hoffman and Finney also earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Hoffman for Capote (2005) which he won
Finney for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under The Volcano (1984)
Finney and Hoffman both worked with Julia Roberts;
Finney for Erin Brockovich (2000)
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Harris and Tomei both played May Parker in Spider-Man films;
Harris for Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Tomei for Captain America Civil War (2016) and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Finney and Tomei both worked with Tom Wilkinson;
Finney for The Gathering Storm (2002)TV
Tomei for In The Bedroom (2001)
Hawke and Tomei both earned Oscar Nominations for the same year;
Hawke for Best Supporting Actor in Training Day (2001) losing to Jim Broadbent for Iris (2001)
Tomei for Best Supporting Actress in In The Bedroom (2001) losing to Jennifer Connolly for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Tomei and Shannon both earned Oscar Nominations for the same year;
Tomei for Best Supporting Actress in The Wrestler (2008) losing to Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Shannon for Best Supporting Actor in Revolutionary Road (2008) losing to Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008)
130. Beginners (2010)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.
Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic
Votes: 94,829 | Gross: $5.79M
Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor both played homosexual characters;
Plummer for this film
McGregor for I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
They both worked with George Clooney;
Plummer for Syriana (2005)
McGregor for The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)
They both worked with Tom Hanks;
Plummer for Dragnet (1987)
McGregor for Angels & Demons (2009)
They both worked on musicals;
Plummer for The Sound of Music (1965)
McGregor for Moulin Rouge (2001)
Melanie Laurent and Plummer both worked with Brad Pitt;
Laurent for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and By The Sea (2015)
Plummer for 12 Monkeys (1995)
McGregor, Plummer, and Laurent all worked with Michael Caine;
Plummer for The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
McGregor for Little Voices (1998)
Laurent for Now You See Me (2013)
131. Behind the Candelabra (2013)
TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Eric Zuckerman
Votes: 45,408
Matt Damon, Debbie Reynolds, and Michael Douglas all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Damon for Good Will Hunting (1997) and The Martian (2015)
Douglas for Wall Street (1987) which he won
Reynolds for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Douglas and Damon both earned Best Picture Oscar Nominations;
Damon for Manchester By The Sea (2016)
Douglas for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) which he won
Damon and Dan Aykroyd both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Damon for Invictus (2009)
Aykroyd for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
They all also worked with Morgan Freeman;
Damon for Invictus (2009)
Aykroyd for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Douglas for Last Vegas (2013)
Aykroyd and Douglas both played fictional U.S. presidents;
Aykroyd for My Fellow Americans (1996)
Douglas for The American President (1995)
They both worked with Jack Lemmon;
Aykroyd for My Fellow Americans (1996)
Douglas for The China Syndrome (1979)
Rob Lowe, Damon, and Douglas all worked with Martin Sheen;
Lowe for The West Wing (1999-2006)TV
Douglas for Wall Street (1987) and The American President (1995)
Damon for The Departed (2006)
Reynolds and Douglas both worked with Albert Brooks;
Reynolds for Mother (1996)
Douglas for The In-Laws (2000)
Aykroyd, Damon, Douglas, and Scott Bakula all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Aykroyd for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Damon for The Departed (2006)
Douglas for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Bakula for American Beauty (1999)
132. Being Flynn (2012)
R | 102 min | Drama
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.
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 17,840 | Gross: $0.53M
Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscars;
De Niro for Raging Bull (1980)
Moore for Still Alice (2014)
They both worked with Tommy Lee Jones;
De Niro for The Family (2013)
Moore for The Fugitive (1993)
They both worked with Sylvester Stallone;
De Niro for Cop Land (1997) and Grudge Match (2013)
Moore for Assassins (1995)
They both worked with Phillip Seymour Hoffman;
De Niro for Flawless (1998)
Moore for Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999)
Paul Dano and De Niro both worked with Alan Arkin;
Dano for Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
De Niro for Grudge Match (2013)
They both worked with Bruce Willis;
Dano for Looper (2012)
De Niro for What Just Happened (2008)
Dano and Moore both worked with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson;
Dano for There Will Be Blood (2007)
Moore for Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999)
De Niro and Moore both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) which he won and Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Moore for Boogie Nights (1997) and The Hours (2002)
They both worked with Alec Baldwin;
De Niro for The Good Shepherd (2006)
Moore for 30 Rock (2006-2013)TV and Still Alice (2014)
133. Being John Malkovich (1999)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
Votes: 353,431 | Gross: $22.86M
Catharine Keener, Octavia Spencer, John Malkovich, and Brad Pitt all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Keener for this film and Capote (2005)
Spencer for The Help (2011) which she won and Hidden Figures (2016)
Malkovich for Places in the Heart (1984) and In The Line of Fire (1993)
Pitt for 12 Monkeys (1995)
Pitt and Sean Penn both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011)
Penn for Dead Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), I Am Sam (2001), Mystic River (2003) which he won, and Milk (2008) which he won
Malkovich, Penn, and John Cusack all worked with actor/director Clint Eastwood;
Malkovich for In The Line of Fire (1993)
Cusack for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Penn for Mystic River (2003)
Penn and Cusack both worked with actor/writer/director Woody Allen;
Penn for Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Cusack for Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Pitt and Spencer both worked on films about racism;
Pitt for 12 Years A Slave (2013)
Spencer for The Help (2011) and Hidden Figures (2016)
134. Bent (1997)
NC-17 | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Director: Sean Mathias | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber
Votes: 8,821 | Gross: $0.37M
Clive Owen, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Ian McKellen all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Owen for Closer (2004)
Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
McKellan for The Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Weisz for The Constant Gardener (2005) which she won
Law and McKellan also earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Law for Cold Mountain (2003)
McKellan for Gods and Monsters (1998)
They all worked with Cate Blanchett:
Owen for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
McKellan for The Lord of the Rings; The Fellow of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings; Return of the King (2003)
Law for The Aviator (2004)
Law and McKellan both worked on films behind the scenes of Hollywood;
Law for The Aviator (2004)
McKellan for Gods and Monsters (1998)
Owen and McKellan both worked with Matthew Modine;
Owen for The Confirmation (2016)
McKellan for And The Band Played On (1993)TV
McKellan and Paul Bettany both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
McKellan for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Bettany for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Owen and Law both worked with Matt Damon;
Owen for The Bourne Identity (2002)
Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
135. Beowulf (2007)
PG-13 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie, Robin Wright
Votes: 174,180 | Gross: $82.16M
Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, and John Malkovich all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Hopkins for Amistad (1997)
Jolie for Girl Interrupted (1999) which she won
Malkovich for Places in the Heart (1984) and In The Line Of Fire (1993)
Hopkins and Jolie also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) which he won, The Remains of the Day (1993), and Nixon (1995)
Joie for Changeling (2008)
Hopkins, Jolie, and Malkovich all earned Oscar Nominations playing villains;
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) which he won
Jolie for Girl Interrupted (1999) which she won
Malkovich for In the Line of Fire (1993)
Director Robert Zemeckis, Hopkins, Jolie and Malkovich all worked with Gary Sinise;
Hopkins for The Human Stain (2003)
Jolie for George Wallace (1997)TV
Malkovich for Of Mice and Men (1992)
Zemeckis for Forrest Gump (1994)
Jolie and Malkovich worked together again in Changeling (2008)
Hopkins and Malkovich worked together again in RED 2 (2013)
Zemeckis and Hopkins both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Zemeckis for Forrest Gump (1994)
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
136. Best Defense (1984)
R | 94 min | Comedy, War
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza
Votes: 6,420 | Gross: $19.27M
Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy won Golden Globes and earned Oscar Nominations for their roles; Moore for Arthur (1981) for Best Actor Murphy for Dreamgirls (2006) for Best Supporting Actor
137. Best Seller (1987)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A hitman approaches a writer to help him create his next best seller, but the violent world he was a part of has other plans.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Allison Balson
Votes: 6,268 | Gross: $4.28M
James Woods and Brian Dennehy both played real-life serial killers;
Dennehy as John Wayne Gacy in To Catch a Killer (1992)TV
Woods as Carl Panzram in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
They also played in courtroom dramas that are based on true stories centered on racism;
Woods for Ghosts Of Mississippi (1996)
Dennehy for Skokie (1981)TV
They both earned Best Actor TV Golden Globes for TV Drama Films;
Woods for Promise (1986)TV
Dennehy for Death of a Salesman (2000)TV
They both worked with Al Pacino;
Woods for Any Given Sunday (1998)
Dennehy for Righteous Kill (2008)
They both worked with Robert De Niro;
Woods for Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and Casino (1995)
Dennehy for Righteous Kill (2008)
138. Betrayed (1988)
R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair
Votes: 7,017 | Gross: $25.82M
Timothy Hutton, Betsy Blair, and Tom Berenger all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hutton for Ordinary People (1980) which he won
Berenger for Platoon (1986)
Blair for Marty (1955)
Hutton, Berenger, Blair, Deborah Winger, and Ted Levine all costarred in films that won Best Picture Oscars;
Hutton for Ordinary People (1980)
Blair for Marty (1955)
Berenger for Platoon (1986)
Winger for Terms of Endearment (1983)
Levine for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
139. Beyond Borders (2003)
R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The world's cruelty is confronted with the love of two different people who try to save humanity from poverty and war.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache, Teri Polo
Votes: 29,058 | Gross: $4.43M
Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominatioins;
Owen for Closer (2004)
Jolie for Girl Interrupted (1999) which she won
They both also worked with Jude Law;
Owen for Closer (2004)
Jolie for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
They both worked with Matt Damon;
Owen for The Bourne Identity (2002)
Jolie for The Good Shepherd (2006)
Linus Roache and Timothy West both worked on films about Winston Churchill;
Roache for The Gathering Storm (2002)TV
West for Churchill and the Generals (1979)TV
140. Beyond the Sea (2004)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin and specifically his relationship with wife Sandra Dee.
Director: Kevin Spacey | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 15,544 | Gross: $6.32M
Since Kevin Spacey written, directed, and starred in this film, he and the character he plays, the singer Bobby Darin, both actually earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Darin for Captain Newman M.D. (1963)
Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) which he won.
Spacey , Brenda Blethyn, and Bob Hoskins all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Spacey for American Beauty (1999) which he won
Hoskins for Mona Lisa (1986)
Blethyn for Secrets & Lies (1996)
Spacey and Blethyn both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) which he won
Blethyn for Little Voice (1998)
Spacey and John Goodman both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Spacey for American Beauty (1999)
Goodman for The Artist (2011) and Argo (2012)
Spacey and Kate Bosworth worked together again in Superman Returns (2006) and 21 (2008)
Spacey and Goodman both worked with Alan Arkin;
Spacey for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Goodman for Argo (2012)
They both worked with James Cromwell;
Spacey for L.A. Confidential (1997)
Goodman for The Artist (2011)
Hoskins and Blethyn both worked with Michael Caine;
Hoskins for Sweet Liberty (1986), Mona Lisa (1986), Blue Ice (1992), World War II When Lions Roared (1994)TV, and Last Orders (2001)
Blethyn for Little Voice (1998)
141. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 458,992 | Gross: $66.26M
Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, and Marion Cotillard all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Lange for Frances (1982), Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), Music Box (1989), and Blue Sky (1994) which she won
Finney for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under The Volcano (1984)
Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007) which she won and Two Days, One Night (2014)
Carter for The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Finney, Carter, and Lange also earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Finney for Erin Brockovich (2000)
Carter for The King's Speech (2010)
Lange for Tootsie (1982) which she won
Ewan McGregor and Lange both worked with Armin Mueller Stahl;
McGregor for Angels and Demons (2009)
Lange for The Music Box (1989)
Finney and Carter both played real-life characters that knew each other in real life:
Finney as Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm (2002)TV
Carter as Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010)
Churchill and Queen Elizabeth knew each other through her husband King George VI
Finney and Danny Devito both earned Oscar Nominations for the film Erin Brockovich (2000);
Finney for Best Supporting Actor
Devito for Best Picture
Finney and Carter both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Finney for Tom Jones (1963)
Carter for The King's Speech (2010)
McGregor, Finney and Carter all worked with Jim Broadbent;
Finney for The Gathering Storm (2002)TV
Carter for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (2011)
McGregor for Moulin Rouge (2001)
Carter and Lange both played real-life actresses;
Lange as Frances Farmer in Frances (1982) and as Bette Davis in Feud (2017-)TV
Carter as Elizabeth Taylor in Burton and Taylor (2013)TV
Lange and Cotillard both earned Best Actress Oscar Nominations for playing real-life singers;
Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985)
Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007) which she won
Finney and McGregor both worked with Julia Roberts;
Finney for Erin Brockovich (2000)
McGregor for August Osage County (2013)
They both worked with director Steven Soderbergh;
Finney for Erin Brockovich (2000)
McGregor for Haywire (2011)
McGregor and Cotillard both worked with Nicole Kidman;
McGregor for Moulin Rouge (2001)
Cotillard for Nine (2009)
142. Big Night (1996)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
Directors: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony, Larry Block
Votes: 22,836 | Gross: $11.88M
Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm, and Minnie Driver all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)
Holm for Chariots of Fire (1981)
Driver for Good Will Hunting (1997)
Tucci and Tony Shalhoub worked together again in the TV series Monk (2002-2009)TV.
Both Holm and Tucci worked with Robert De Niro;
Holm for Brazil (1985)
Tucci for What Just Happened (2008)
Tucci and Holm both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Tucci for Spotlight (2015)
Holm for Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003)
Tucci an Shalhoub both earned Best Actor Golden Globes;
Tucci for Winchell (1998)TV
Shalhoub for Monk (2002-2009)TV
They both worked with Mark Wahlberg;
Tucci for Transformers The Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers The Last Knight (2017)
Shalhoub for Pain & Gain (2013)
143. Billy Budd (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crew mates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Votes: 4,887
Terence Stamp, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Ryan, and Peter Ustinov all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations; Stamp for this film Douglas for Hud (1963) which he won and Being There (1979) which he won Ustinov for Quo Vadis (1951), Spartacus (1960) which he won, and Topkapi (1964) which he won Ryan for Crossfire (1947)
144. Bite the Bullet (1975)
PG | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A pair of ex-Rough Riders, a former prostitute, a gunfighter, an aging cowboy and an English gentleman enter a 700-mile horse race through the Southwest desert in 1908.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson
Votes: 5,870
Gene Hackman and James Coburn both won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for playing villains;
Hackman for Unforgiven (1992)
Coburn for Affliction (1998)
Hackman, Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, and Candice Bergen all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hackman for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang For My Father (1970) and Unforgiven (1992) which he won
Johnson for The Last Picture Show (1974) which he won
Bannen for The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Coburn for Affliction (1998) which he won
Bergen for Starting Over (1979)
Hackman and Coburn both worked with Nick Nolte;
Hackman for Under Fire (1983)
Coburn for Affliction (1998)
Hackman, Bergen, and Bannen all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Hackman for The French Connection (1971) and Unforgiven (1992)
Bergen for Gandhi (1982)
Bannen for Gandhi (1982) and Braveheart (1995)
145. Black Nativity (2013)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Family, Music
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 2,373 | Gross: $7.02M
Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations for playing real-life characters;
Whitaker as Gen. Idi Amin Dada in The Last King of Scotland (2006) which he won
Bassett as Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993)
They both worked with Denzel Washington;
Whitaker for The Great Debaters (2009)
Bassett for Malcolm X (1992)
Bassett and Jennifer Hudson both worked with Eddie Murphy;
Bassett for Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006)
Bassett and Mary J. Blige worked together before in Betty and Coretta (2013)TV
Bassett and Blige both played Dr. Betty Shabazz;
Bassett for Malcolm X (1992) and Panther (1995)
Blige for Betty & Coretta (2013)TV
146. Black Panther (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira
Votes: 837,873 | Gross: $700.06M
Chadwick Boseman, Forest Whitaker, and Angela Bassett all played real-life musicians;
Boseman as James Brown in Get On Up (2014)
Whitaker as Charlie Parker in Bird (1988)
Basett as Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993)
Whitaker and Bassett both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006) which he won
Bassett for What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993)
Whitaker and Bassett both worked with Denzel Washington;
Whitaker for The Great Debaters (2007)
Bassett for Malcolm X (1992)
Whitaker and Bassett worked together before in Black Nativity (2013)
147. Black Rain (1989)
R | 125 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw
Votes: 59,712 | Gross: $46.21M
Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia both earned Oscar Nominations for playing villains;
Douglas for Best Actor in Wall Street (1987) which he won
Garcia for Best Supporting Actor in The Godfather Part III (1990)
They both played real-life musicians;
Douglas as Liberace in Behind The Candelibra (2013)TV
Garcia as Arturo Sandoval in For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)TV
Douglas and John Spencer both worked with Martin Sheen;
Douglas for Wall Street (1987) and The American President (1995)
Spencer for The West Wing (1999-2006)TV
Luis Guzman and Garcia both worked with Al Pacino;
Guzman for Carlito's Way (1993)
Garcia for The Godfather Part III (1990)
Director Ridley Scott, Douglas and Stephen Root all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Douglas for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Root for No Country For Old Men (2007)
Scott for Gladiator (2000)
Scott and Douglas both worked with Matt Damon;
Douglas for Behind The Candelibra (2013)TV
Scott for The Martian (2015)
148. Black Sunday (1977)
R | 143 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 9,087 | Gross: $15.77M
Robert Shaw, Michael V. Gazzo, and Bruce Dern all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Shaw for A Man For All Seasons (1966)
Dern for Coming Home (1978)
Gazzo for The Godfather Part II (1974)
Shaw and Gazzo both costarred in films that won Best Picture Oscars;
Shaw for A Man For All Seasons (1966)
Gazzo for The Godfather Part II (1974)
149. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,371 | Gross: $32.87M
Harrison Ford and Edward James Olmos both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Ford for Witness (1985)
Olmos for Stand and Deliver (1988)
Ford and Olmos both worked with Raul Julia;
Ford for Presumed Innocent (1990)
Olmos for The Burning Season (1994)TV
Ford and Rudger Hauer both worked with Alan Arkin;
Ford for Firewall (2006)
Hauer for Escape from Sobibor (1987)TV
Hauer and Olmos both earned Best Supporting Actor Golden Globes in TV Movies;
Olmos for The Burning Season (1994)TV
Hauer for Escape from Sobibor (1987)TV
150. Blind Date (I) (2007)
TV-MA | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Affected by tragedy, a married couple decide to role play a blind date.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thijs Römer, Gerdy De Decker
Votes: 967
Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)
Clarkson for Pieces of April (2003)
They both worked with Kevin Costner;
Tucci for Swing Vote (2008)
Clarkson for The Untouchables (1987)
They both worked with Kelsey Grammar;
Tucci for Swing Vote (2008)
Clarkson for Frasier (1993-2004)TV
They both worked with Robin Williams;
Tucci for Robots (2005)
Clarkson for Jumanji (1995)
They both worked with Tom Hanks;
Tucci for The Terminal (2004)
Clarkson for The Green Mile (1999)
151. Baby Driver (2017)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González
Votes: 611,421 | Gross: $107.83M
Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx both earned Best Actor Oscars;
Spacey for American Beauty (1999)
Foxx for Ray (2004)
Spacey and Foxx both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) which he won
Foxx for Collateral (2004)
Spacey and Foxx both played real-life singers;
Spacey as Bobby Darin in Beyond The Sea (2004)
Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
Spacey and Foxx both played supervillains;
Spacey as Lex Luthor in Superman Returns (2006)
Foxx as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
152. Battle of the Sexes (2017)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman
Votes: 59,955 | Gross: $12.64M
Steve Carell, Emma Stone, and Elizabeth Shue all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations; Carell for Foxcatcher (2014) Stone for La La Land (2016) which she won Shue for Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
153. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,371 | Gross: $32.87M
Harrison Ford and Edward James Olmos both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Ford for Witness (1985)
Olmos for Stand and Deliver (1988)
Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, and Rudger Hauer all earned TV Golden Globes;
Olmos for Miami Vice (1984-1990)TV and The Burning Season (1994)TV
Hauer for Escape From Sobibor (1987)TV
Cassidy for Buffalo Bill (1983-1984)TV
154. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista
Votes: 665,677 | Gross: $92.05M
Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Edward James Olmos all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Ford for Witness (1985)
Olmos for Stand and Deliver (1988)
Gosling for Half Nelson (2006) and La La Land (2016)
Jared Leto and Barkhad Abdi both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Leto for Dallas Buyers Club (2013) which he won
Abdi for Captain Phillips (2013)
Ford, Gosling, Olmos, Leto, and Robin Wright all earned Golden Globes;
Ford for Cecil B. Demille Award (2002)
Gosling for Best Actor in La La Land (2016)
Olmos for Best Supporting Actor in Miami Vice (1984-1990)TV and The Burning Season (1994)
Wright for Best Actress in House of Cards (2013-)TV
Abdi and Wrigth both worked with Tom Hanks;
Abdi for Captain Phillips (2013)
Wright for Forrest Gump (1994)
155. Blood Diamond (2006)
R | 143 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers
Votes: 586,313 | Gross: $57.37M
Leonoard DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Jennifer Connolly all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
DiCaprio for What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
Hounsou for In America (2003) and this film
Connolly for A Beautiful Mind (2001) which she won
DiCaprio, Hounsou, and Connolly all worked with Russell Crowe;
DiCaprio for Body of Lies (2008)
Hounsou for Gladiator (2000)
Connolly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Winter's Tale (2014), and Noah (2014)
Director Edward Zwick, DiCaprio, Hounsou, and Connolly all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
DiCaprio for The Departed (2006)
Hounsou for Gladiator (2000)
Connolly for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Zwick for Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Hounsou and Michael Sheen both worked with Helen Mirren;
Hounsou for The Tempest (2010)
Sheen for The Queen (2006)
DiCaprio and Stephen Collins both played real-life characters who were enemies in real-life;
DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar (2011)
Collins as John F. Kennedy in A Woman Named Jackie (1991)TV
DiCaprio and Connolly both worked with John C. Reilly;
DiCaprio for The Aviator (2004)
Connolly for Dark Water (2005)
They both worked with Ben Kingsley;
DiCaprio for Shutter Island (2010)
Connolly for House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Zwick and DiCaprio both Oscar Nominated Producers;
Zwick for Shakespeare in Love (1998)
DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
156. Blood Ties (I) (2013)
R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two brothers on either side of the law face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Director: Guillaume Canet | Stars: Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis
Votes: 21,191 | Gross: $0.04M
Clive Owen and James Caan all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations; Owen for Closer (2004) Caan for The Godfather (1972)
157. Blown Away (1994)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 33,700 | Gross: $30.16M
Jeff Bridges and Forest Whitaker both won Best Actor Oscars;
Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)
Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations:
Jones for JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993) which he won, and Lincoln (2012)
Bridges for The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), The Contender (2000), and Hell or High Water (2016)
Also Jones and Bridges were both nominated for Oscars for playing U.S. Marshals.
Bridges for Best Actor for True Grit (2010).
Jones for Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive (1993) which he won.
Also Whitaker and Jones both worked with Oliver Stone;
Whitaker for Platoon (1986)
Jones for JFK (1991) and Natural Born Killers (1994)
They both played real-life villains;
Jones as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song (1982)TV, as Clay Shaw in JFK (1991), and as Ty Cobb in Cobb (1994)
Whitaker as General Idi Amin Dada in The Last King of Scotland (2006)
158. Blue Bloods (2010–2024)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Revolves around a family of New York cops.
Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou
Votes: 47,680
Tom Selleck and Stacy Keach both earned TV Golden Globes;
Selleck for Magnum PI (1980-1988)TV
Keach for Hemingway (1988)TV Mini
Selleck, Len Cariou, and Dan Hedaya all played real-life US Presidents;
Selleck as Dwight D. Eisenhower in Ike Countdown To D-Day (2004)TV
Cariou as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Into The Storm (2009)TV
Hedaya as Richard Nixon in Dick (1999)
Cariou and Donnie Wahlberg both worked with Mark Ruffalo;
Cariou for Spotlight (2015)
Wahlberg for What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
159. Blue Chips (1994)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Sport
A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh, Ed O'Neill
Votes: 15,180 | Gross: $22.36M
Nick Nolte and Mary McDonnell both earned Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Best Actor/Actress
Nolte for The Prince of Tides (1991) and Affliction (1998)
McDonnell for Passion Fish (1992)
Best Supporting Actor/Actress
Nolte for Warrior (2011)
McDonnell for Dances With Wolves (1990)
Director William Friedkin and McDonnell both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Friedkin for The French Connection (1971)
McDonnell for Dances With Wolves (1990)
160. Blue Jasmine (2013)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks like a million dollars but isn't bringing money, peace or love.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins
Votes: 212,587 | Gross: $33.41M
Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, and Alec Baldwin all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Blanchett for The Aviator (2004) which she won, Notes on a Scandal (2006) and I'm Not There (2007)
Hawkins for this film
Baldwin for The Cooler (2003)
Blanchett and Baldwin worked together before in The Aviator (2004)
Actor/Writer/Director Woody Allen and Blanchett both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Allen for Annie Hall (1977)
Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998), Elizabeth The Golden Age (2007), this film which she won, and Carol (2015)
Allen and Baldwin both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Allen for Annie Hall (1977)
Baldwin for The Departed (2006)
161. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,796 | Gross: $8.55M
Dennis Hopper, Brad Dourif, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, and Dean Stockwell all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hopper for Hoosiers (1986)
Stockwell for Married to the Mob (1988)
Dourif for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Dern for Wild (2014)
Lange for Peyton Place (1957)
Since Kyle MacLachlan worked with director David Lynch in this film, Kyle went on to work with Lynch again in the TV series Twin Peaks (1990-1991)TV
Maclachlan and Stockwell earned Golden Globes for TV shows;
Maclachlan for Best Actor in Twin Peaks (1990-1991)TV
Stockwell for Best Supporting Actor in Quantum Leap (1989-1993)TV
Dern and Lynch both worked with Robert Loggia;
Dern for Afterburn (1992)TV
Lynch for Lost Highway (1997)
Lange and Stockwell both worked on films about men working in the Automotive Industry;
Lange for Ford: The Man and the Machine (1987)TV
Stockwell for Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988)
Dourif and Stockwell both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Dourif for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Stockwell for Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Isabella Rossellini and Stockwell both worked with Jeff Bridges;
Rossellini for Fearless (1993)
Stockwell for Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988)
Maclachlan, Stockwell, and Lynch previously worked together in Dune (1984)
Maclachlan and Hopper both worked with Frederic Forrest;
Maclachlan for Against The Wall (1994)TV
Hopper for Apocalypse Now (1979)
Hopper and director David Lynch both earned Oscar Nominations in different categories;
Hopper for Best Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969)
Lynch for Best Director in The Elephant Man (1980), this film, and Mulholland Drive (2001)
162. Bobby (I) (2006)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama, History
The destinies of 22 people of different races, sexes, beliefs and social classes are intertwined on the night that politician Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.
Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Harry Belafonte
Votes: 42,808 | Gross: $11.24M
Martin Sheen and Anthony Hopkins who costarred in this film actually played in films that center on the Watergate Scandal;
Martin Sheen played as John Dean in the film based on the man's own story, Blind Amibition (1979)TV which earned him a Best Actor Golden Globe Nomination
Anthony Hopkins played as Richard Nixon in the film Nixon (1995) which earned him a Best Actor Oscar Nomination.
Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, and Helen Hunt all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Fishburne for What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993)
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) which he won, The Remains of the Day (1993), and Nixon (1995)
Stone for Casino (1995)
Hunt for As Good As It Gets (1998) which she won
William H. Macy, Hunter, and Hopkins all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Macy for Fargo (1996)
Hopkins for Amistad (1997)
Hunt for The Sessions (2012)
Hopkins and Sheen both actually played former U.S. Presidents
Sheen as JFK in Kennedy (1983)TV
Hopkins as Richard Nixon in Nixon (1995) and as John Quincy Adams in Amistad (1997)
Sheen also previously played Robert F. Kennedy in The Missiles of October (1974)TV
Elijah Wood, Hopkins, and Sheen all worked on films that won Best Picture Oscars;
Wood for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sheen for The Departed (2006)
Sheen, Hunt, and Demi Moore all worked with Jack Nicholson;
Sheen for The Departed (2006)
Hunt for As Good As It Gets (1997)
Moore for A Few Good Men (1992)
Sheen and Fishburne worked together before in Apocalypse Now (1979)
Hopkins and Wood both played serial killers;
Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001), and Red Dragon (2004)
Wood for Sin City (2005)
163. Body of Lies (2008)
R | 128 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, Golshifteh Farahani
Votes: 239,589 | Gross: $39.39M
Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe both played real-life people who have severe mental conditions;
DiCaprio as Howard Hughes who had a history of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in The Aviator (2004)
Crowe as Prof. John Nash who had a history of Schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind (2001)
They both earned Best Actor Oscars for playing characters pursuing revenge;
DiCaprio for The Revenant (2015)
Crowe for Gladiator (2000)
They both worked with Djimon Hounsou;
DiCaprio for Blood Diamond (2006)
Crowe for Gladiator (2000)
They both worked with Jennifer Connolly;
DiCaprio for Blood Diamond (2006)
Crowe for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Winter's Tale (2014), and Noah (2014)
DiCaprio and director Ridley Scott both worked with Matt Damon;
DiCaprio for The Departed (2006)
Scott for The Martian (2015)
DiCaprio, Crowe, and Scott all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
DiCaprio for The Departed (2006)
Crowe for Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Scott for Gladiator (2000)
Mark Strong and Scott both worked with Gary Oldman;
Strong for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Scott for Hannibal (2001)
164. Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999 TV Movie)
170 min | Crime, Drama
The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Martin Landau, Guido Grasso Jr., Bruce Ramsay, Tony Nardi
Votes: 1,096
Martin Landau and Robert Loggia both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Landau for Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Ed Wood (1994) which he won
Loggia for Jagged Edge (1985)
165. Boogie Nights (1997)
R | 155 min | Drama
Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán
Votes: 282,150 | Gross: $26.40M
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, and William H. Macy all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), and The Master (2012)
Reilly for Chicago (2002)
Wahlberg for The Departed (2006)
Reynolds for this film
Moore for this film and The Hours (2002)
Macy for Fargo (1996)
Along with Don Cheadle, Moore and Hoffman also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Moore for The End of the Affair (1999), Far From Heaven (2002), and Still Alice (2014) which she won
Hoffman for Capote (2005) which he won
Director Paul Thomas Anderson, Reynolds, Cheadle, and Hoffman all worked with Adam Sandler;
Anderson and Hoffman for Punch Drunk Love (2002)
Reynolds for The Longest Yard (2005)
Cheadle for Reign Over Me (2006)
Wahlberg, Macy, Hoffman, and Reynolds all worked with Ned Beatty;
Wahlberg for Shooter (2007)
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Reynolds for Deliverance (1972)
Macy for The Wool Cap (2004)TV
Moore and Macy both worked with Alec Baldwin;
Moore for Still Alice (2014)
Macy for Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) and The Cooler (2003)
Macy and Cheadle both played comic-book superheroes;
Macy as The Shoveller in Mystery Men (1999)
Cheadle as War Machine in Iron Man II (2010), Iron Man III (2012), and Avengers Age of Ultron (2015)
Wahlberg, Cheadle, and Reilly all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Wahlberg for The Departed (2006)
Cheadle for Crash (2004)
Reilly for Chicago (2002)
166. Bopha! (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist ... See full summary »
Director: Morgan Freeman | Stars: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Marius Weyers
Votes: 1,024 | Gross: $0.21M
Since director Morgan Freeman and Danny Glover worked together in this film, they both played Nelson Mandela;
Glover in Mandela (1987)TV
Freeman in Invictus (2009)
Since Freeman, Glover, and Alfre Woodard worked together in this film, they all played in films about Nelson Mandela;
Freeman in Invictus (2009)
Glover and Woodard in Mandela (1987)TV
Since Freeman and Alfre Woodard worked together in this film, they both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Freeman for Street Smart (1987) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) which he won
Woodard for Cross Creek (1983)
167. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
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 for which he fought.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
Votes: 115,998 | Gross: $70.00M
Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, and Tom Berenger all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Cruise for Magnolia (1999)
Berenger for Platoon (1986)
Dafoe for Platoon (1986) and Shadow of the Vampire (2000).
Cruise, Berenger, and Dafoe also lost Best Supporting Actor Oscars to Michael Caine;
Cruise for Magnolia (1999) losing to Michael Caine for The Cider House Rules (1999)
Berenger and Dafoe for Platoon (1986) losing to Michael Caine for Hannah and her Sisters (1986)
Cruise and Raymond J. Barry both worked with John C. Reilly;
Cruise for Magnolia (1999)
Barry for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
168. Bowfinger (1999)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy
When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain-basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski
Votes: 73,968 | Gross: $66.38M
Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, and Robert Downey Jr. all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Murphy for Dreamgirls (2006)
Stamp for Billy Budd (1962)
Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Stamp and Downey both worked with Michael Douglas;
Stamp for Wall Street (1987)
Downey for Wonder Boys (2000)
169. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.
Director: John Singleton | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II
Votes: 154,696 | Gross: $57.50M
John Singleton who wrote and directed this film, became the first African American to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar
Both Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding Jr. worked on films about the Tuskegee Airmen;
Fishburne for The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)TV
Gooding for The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)TV and Red Tails (2012)
Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett worked together again in What's Love Got To Do With It? (1993) and Akeelah and The Bee (2006)
Fishburne and Gooding both played real-life gangsters;
Fishburne as Bumpy Johnson in Hoodlum (1997)
Gooding as Nicky Barnes in American Gangster (2007)
They both worked with Clarence Williams III;
Fishburne for Hoodlum (1997)
Gooding for American Gangster (2007)
Fishburne, Bassett, and Gooding all played real-life African Americans who made history;
Fishburne as Thurgood Marshal, First African American Supreme Court Judge in Thurgood (2011)TV
Gooding as Carl Brashear, U.S. Navy's First African American Navy Master Diver
Bassett as Rosa Parks, who helped started the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give her bus seat to a White Person
Gooding and Bassett both worked on films that involve Martin Luther King Jr.;
Gooding for Selma (2014)
Bassett for The Rosa Parks Story (2002)TV and Betty and Coretta (2013)TV
170. Brazil (1985)
R | 132 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 211,277 | Gross: $9.93M
Bob Hoskins and Robert De Niro both earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Hoskins for Mona Lisa (1986)
De Niro for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Raging Bull (1980) which he won, Awakenings (1990), and Cape Fear (1991)
De Niro, Ian Holm, and Jim Broadbent all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) which he won and Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Broadbent for Iris (2001) which he won
Holm for Chariots of Fire (1981)
Both Broadbent and Hoskins worked with Judi Dench;
Broadbent for Iris (2001)
Hoskins for Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
De Niro and Holm both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Deer Hunter (1978)
Holm for Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
171. Breach (2007)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney
Votes: 61,770 | Gross: $33.23M
Chris Cooper, Laura Linney, Bruce Davison, and Kathleen Quinlan all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Cooper for Adaptation (2002) which he won
Linney for Kinsey (2004)
Davison for Longtime Companion (1989)
Quinlan for Apollo 13 (1995)
Quinlan and Linney both worked with Tim Robbins;
Quinlan for Cinema Verite (2011)TV
Linney for Mystic River (2003)
They both worked with Ed Harris;
Quinlan for Apollo 13 (1995)
Linney for The Truman Show (1998)
Cooper and Linney worked with Phillip Seymour Hoffman;
Cooper for Capote (2005)
Linney for The Savages (2007)
They both worked with Jim Carrey;
Cooper for Me, Myself, & Irene (2000)
Linney for The Truman Show (1998)
Davison and Cooper both worked with Jeremy Renner;
Davison for Dahmer (2002)
Cooper for The Town (2010)
Ryan Phillippe and Cooper both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Philippe for Crash (2004)
Cooper for American Beauty (1999)
They both worked with Matthew McConaughey;
Phillippe for The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Cooper for A Time To Kill (1996)
172. Breaking and Entering (2006)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Robin Wright, Vera Farmiga, Martin Freeman
Votes: 23,239 | Gross: $0.93M
Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, and Vera Farmiga all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Binoche for The English Patient (1996) which she won
Farmiga for Up in the Air (2009)
Both Law and Binoche worked with Johnny Depp;
Law for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassis (2009)
Binoche for Chocalat (2000)
They both worked with director Anthony Minghella;
Law for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Cold Mountain (2003)
Binoche for The English Patient (1996)
Since Law and Robin Wright worked together in this film, they both worked with Tom Hanks;
Law for Road To Perdition (2002)
Wright for Forrest Gump (1994)
They both worked with Haley Joel Osmont;
Law for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Wright for Forrest Gump (1994)
Binoche and Wright both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Binoche for The English Patient (1996)
Wright for Forrest Gump (1994)
173. Bride Wars (2009)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.
Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg
Votes: 115,549 | Gross: $58.72M
Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen, and Anne Hathaway all earned Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hudson for Almost Famous (2000)
Bergen for Starting Over (1979)
Hathaway for Les Miserables (2012) which she won
Hudson and Hathaway also costarred in film musicals;
Hudson for Nine (2009)
Hathaway for Les Miserables (2012)
Hudson and Bergen both worked with Daniel Day Lewis;
Hudson for Nine (2009)
Bergen for Gandhi (1982)
174. Brighton Rock (2010)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Director: Rowan Joffe | Stars: Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt
Votes: 6,767
John Hurt and Helen Mirren both earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hurt for The Elephant Man (1980)
Mirren for The Queen (2006) which she won and The Last Station (2009)
They also earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hurt for Midnight Express (1978)
Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and Gosford Park (2000)
Hurt and Mirren both worked with Nigel Hawthorne;
Hurt for The Plague Dogs (1982)
Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994)
They both worked with Harrison Ford;
Hurt for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Mirren for The Mosquito Coast (1986)
175. Bringing Down the House (2003)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.
Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright
Votes: 39,209 | Gross: $132.72M
Since Queen Latifah and Joan Plowright worked together in this film, they both earned Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominations;
Latifah for Chicago (2002)
Plowright for Enchanted April (1992)
Latifah and Steve Martin both worked on films about AIDS;
Latifah for Life Support (2007)TV
Martin for And The Band Played On (1993)TV
176. Broadcast News (1987)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky
Votes: 34,132 | Gross: $51.25M
William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Jack Nicholson, Joan Cusack, and Albert Brooks all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Brooks for this film
Hunter for The Firm (1993) and Thirteen (2003)
Hurt for A History of Violence (2005)
Nicholson for Easy Rider (1970), Reds (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983) which he won for, and A Few Good Men (1992)
Cusack for Working Girl (1988) and In & Out (1997)
Nicholson, Hunter, and Hurt also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscars;
Nicholson for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and As Good As It Gets (1997)
Hunter for The Piano (1993) which she won
Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Nicholson, Brooks, and Hurt all played cold-blooded gangsters;
Nicholson for The Departed (2006)
Hurt for A History of Violence (2005)
Brooks for Drive (2011)
Nicholson and director James L. Brooks worked together before in Terms of Endearment (1983) and worked together again in As Good As It Gets (1997) and How Do You Know (2010)
Nicholson, Hurt and Brooks all worked with Meryl Streep;
Nicholson for Heartburn (1986) and Ironweed (1987)
Hurt for One True Thing (1998)
Brooks for Defend Your Life (1991)
177. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance
Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Votes: 382,350 | Gross: $83.04M
Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid, and Anne Hathaway all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008) which he won.
Jake Gyllenhaal for this film
Michelle Williams for this film and Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Randy Quaid for The Last Detail (1974)
Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables (2012) which she won
Ledger, Williams and Hathaway all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Ledger for this film
Wiliams for Blue Valentine (2010) and My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were married in real life and had a daughter together before his death.
Ledger and Hathaway played Batman villains;
Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008)
Hathaway as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Gyllenhaal and Hathaway both worked with Hugh Jackman;
Gyllenhaal for Prisoners (2013)
Hathaway for Les Miserables (2012)
178. Broken Flowers (2005)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy
Votes: 106,833 | Gross: $13.74M
Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, and Sharon Stone all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Murray for Lost In Translation (2003)
Lange for Frances (1982), Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), Music Box (1989), Blue Sky (1994) which she won
Stone for Casino (1995)
Lange, Chloe Sevigny, and Tilda Swinton all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Lange for Tootsie (1982) which she won
Sevigny for Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Swinton for Michael Clayton (2007) which she won
Murray and Lange worked together before in Tootsie (1982)
Murray and Swinton both worked with George Clooney;
Murray for The Monuments Men (2013)
Swinton for Michael Clayton (2007)
179. Broken Trail (2006)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while trekking from Oregon to Wyoming.
Stars: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi, Chris Mulkey
Votes: 6,744
Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Duvall for The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), A Civil Action (1998), and The Judge (2014)
Church for Sideways (2004)
They both worked with Marlon Brando;
Duvall for The Godfather (1972)
Church for Free Money (1998)
180. Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Votes: 66,415 | Gross: $27.15M
Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes both played Marvel Super Heroes;
Cheadle as War Machine in Iron Man 2 (2010) and Iron Man 3 (2013)
Snipes as Blade in Blade (1998), Blade II (2002), and Blade Trinity (2004)
Film Director Antoine Fuqua and Ethan Hawke worked together before in Training Day (2001)
Hawke, Cheadle, and Richard Gere all worked with Denzel Washington;
Hawke for Training Day (2001)
Cheadle for Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) and Flight (2012)
Gere for Power (1986)
Richard Gere and Hawke both worked with director Sidney Lumet;
Gere for Power (1986)
Hawke for Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Gere and Cheadle both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Gere for Chicago (2002)
Cheadle for Crash (2004)
Hawke and Cheadle both played real-life musicians;
Hawke as Chet Baker in Born to be Blue (2015)
Cheadle as Miles Davis in Miles Ahead (2015)
Gere and Cheadle both earned Golden Globes;
Gere for Best Actor in Chicago (2002)
Cheadle for Best Supporting Actor in The Rat Pack (1998)TV and Best Actor in House of Lies (2012-2016)TV
181. Brothers (I) (2009)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard
Votes: 146,880 | Gross: $28.50M
Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mare Winningham, and Sam Shepard all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Portman for Closer (2004)
Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Shepard for The Right Stuff (1983)
Winningham for Georgia (1995)
Portman and Carey Mulligan both earned Best Actress Oscar Nominations;
Portman for Black Swan (2010) which she won and Jackie (2016)
Mulligan for An Education (2009)
182. Brubaker (1980)
R | 131 min | Crime, Drama
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander
Votes: 19,444 | Gross: $37.12M
Robert Redford, Jane Alexander, and Morgan Freeman all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Redford for The Sting (1973)
Alexander for The Great White Hope (1970) and Testament (1983)
Freeman for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Invictus (2009)
Freeman and Yaphet Kotto worked together in this film, they both played memorable leaders in Africa;
Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus (2009)
Kotto as General Idi Amin Dada in Raid in Entebbe (1976)TV
Freeman and Redford both played in other prison films;
Freeman for The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Redford for The Last Castle (2001)
Freeman and Redford worked together again in An Unfinished Life (2005)
Both Freeman and Alexander worked with James Earl Jones;
Freeman for The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)TV
Alexander for The Great White Hope (1970)
183. Bugsy (1991)
R | 136 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 31,004 | Gross: $49.11M
Prior to his Oscar-nominated role in this film, Harvey Keitel played as Bugsy Siegel in Virginia Hill (1974)TV.
Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, and Ben Kingsley all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Beatty for Bonnie and Clyde (1967),Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), and this film
Bening for American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004), and The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Kingsley for Gandhi (1983) which he won and The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Along with Harvey Keitel and Elliott Gould, Kingsley, and Bening also earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Keitel for this film
Kingsley for this film and Sexy Beast (2001)
Bening for The Grifters (1990)
Gould for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
Beatty and director Barry Levinson both earned Best Director Oscars;
Beatty for Reds (1981)
Levinson for Rain Man (1988)
They both also earned Best Screenplay Oscar Nominations;
Beatty for Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), and Bulworth (1998)
Levinson for And Justice For All (1979), Diner (1982), and Avalon (1990)
Levinson, Bening, and Kingsley all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Levinson for Rain Man (1988)
Bening for American Beauty (1999)
Kingsley for Gandhi (1982)
184. Bulworth (1998)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro
Votes: 27,306 | Gross: $26.53M
Warren Beatty, Don Cheadle, and Halle Berry all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Beatty for Bonnie Clyde (1967), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), and Bugsy (1991)
Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Berry for Monster's Ball (2001) which she won
Jack Warden and Michael Clarke Duncan both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Warden for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Duncan for The Green Mile (1999)
Cheadle, Berry, and Duncan all played Marvel Comics characters;
Cheadle as Jim Rhodes/War Machine in Iron Man 2 (2010) and Iron Man 3 (2012)
Berry as Storm in X-Men (2000), X2 (2002), X-Men The Last Stand (2006), and X-Men: Days of Future's Past (2014)
Duncan as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in Daredevil (2003)
Cheadle and Berry both earned Golden Globes for playing actor/singers;
Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr. in The Rat Pack (1998)TV
Berry as Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)TV
185. Burlesque (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.
Director: Steve Antin | Stars: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming, Eric Dane
Votes: 93,197 | Gross: $39.44M
Cher and Stanley Tucci both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Cher for Silkwood (1983)
Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)
They both also worked with Meryl Streep;
Cher for Silkwood (1983)
Tucci for The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009)
They both worked with Susan Sarandon;
Cher for The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)
They both worked with Jack Nicholson;
Cher for The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Tucci for Prizzi's Honor (1985)
186. Burn After Reading (2008)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich
Votes: 353,351 | Gross: $60.36M
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, and Richard Jenkins all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011)
Clooney for Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air (2009), and The Descendents (2011)
McDormand for Fargo (1996) which she won
Jenkins for The Visitor (2008)
J.K. Simmons, John Malkovich, Clooney, Pitt, McDormand, and Tilda Swinton all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Malkovich for Places in the Heart (1984) and In the Line of Fire (1993)
Clooney for Syriana (2005) which he won
Pitt for 12 Monkeys (1995)
McDormand for Mississippi Burning (1988), Almost Famous (2000), and North Country (2005)
Swinton for Michael Clayton (2007) which she won
Simmons for Whiplash (2014) which he won
Malkovich and Clooney both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations for playing former CIA agents;
Malkovich for In the Line of Fire (1993)
Clooney for Syriana (2005) which he won
McDormand and Jenkins worked together before in North Country (2005)
Clooney and Swinton worked together before in Michael Clayton (2007)
Malkovich and Swinton both earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations for playing villains;
Malkovich for In the Line of Fire (1993)
Swinton for Michael Clayton (2007) which she won
Pitt and Clooney worked together in Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Pitt and Jenkins earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations the same year but they both lost to Sean Penn for Milk (2008)
Pitt for Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
Jenkins for The Visitor (2008)
Clooney and Pitt earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations the same year but they both lost to Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011)
Clooney for The Descendents (2011)
Pitt for Moneyball (2011)
Clooney and Pitt also starred in sports films;
Clooney for Leatherheads (2008)
Pitt for Moneyball (2011)
Both Pitt and Clooney won Best Picture Oscars;
Pitt for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Clooney for Argo (2012)
187. Cactus Flower (1969)
M | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston
Votes: 11,894 | Gross: $25.89M
Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn all won Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscars; Matthau for The Fortune Cookie (1966) Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Hawn for this film
188. Cadillac Man (1990)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime
Joey gets 2 days to sell 12 cars to keep his job and keep his girlfriends happy. It gets worse. He's juggling 3 buyers when a guy with a machine gun crashes into the car dealership and takes everybody hostage.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher
Votes: 15,650 | Gross: $27.63M
Robin Williams and Tim Robbins both earned Best Supporting Actor Oscars for playing in films taking place in Boston;
Williams for Good Will Hunting (1997)
Robbins for Mystic River (2003)
They both worked with director Robert Altman;
Williams for Popeye (1980)
Robbins for The Player (1992)
They both worked with Diane Lane;
Williams for Jack (1996)
Robbins for Cinema Verite (2011)TV
They both worked with Jeff Bridges;
Williams for The Fisher King (1991)
Robbins for Arlington Road (1999)
Williams and Pamela Reed both worked with Ed Harris;
Williams for The Face of Love (2013)
Reed for The Right Stuff (1983)
189. Begin Again (II) (2013)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A chance encounter between a down-and-out music business executive, and a young singer songwriter new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, Hailee Steinfeld
Votes: 166,993 | Gross: $16.17M
Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Keira Knightley, and Catherine Keener all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014), and Spotlight (2015)
Steinfeld for True Grit (2010)
Keener for Being John Malkovich (1999) and Capote (2005)
Knightley for The Imitation Game (2014)
Ruffalo and Keener both worked on films written by Charlie Kaufman;
Ruffalo for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Keener for Being John Malkovich (1999)
190. Cape Fear (1962)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Thriller
A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin
Votes: 31,896
Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, and Telly Savalas all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations; Mitchum for Story of GI Joe (1945) Balsam for A Thousand Clowns (1965) which he won Kruschen for The Apartment (1960) Savalas for Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
191. Cape Fear (1991)
R | 128 min | Crime, Thriller
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 216,762 | Gross: $79.10M
Since Robert De Niro was nominated for Best Actor in this film, Nick Nolte who costarred actually competed against him in the Best Actor Category for The Prince of Tides (1991) but they both lost to Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Robert De Niro, and Nick Nolte all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Mitchum for Story of GI Joe (1945)
Balsam for A Thousand Clowns (1965) which he won
Lewis for this film
Lange for Tootsie (1982) which she won.
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) which he won and Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Nolte for Warrior (2011)
Gregory Peck, Lange, De Niro, and Nolte also earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Peck for The Keys to the Kingdom (1944), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Twelve O' Clock High (1949), and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) which he won
Lange for Frances (1982), Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), Music Box (1989), and Blue Sky (1994) which she won
De Niro for Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Raging Bull (1980) which he won, Awakenings (1990), and this film
Nolte for The Prince of Tides (1991) and Affliction (1998)
Peck, De Niro, and director Martin Scorsese all worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars;
Peck for Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Deer Hunter (1978)
Scorsese for The Departed (2006)
192. Capote (2005)
R | 114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr., Catherine Keener, Allie Mickelson
Votes: 140,800 | Gross: $28.75M
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Cooper, Amy Ryan, and Catharine Keener all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), and The Master (2012)
Cooper for Adaptation (2002) which he won
Ryan for Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Keener for Being John Malkovich (1999) and this film
Hoffman and Cooper both worked with Meryl Streep;
Hoffman for Doubt (2008)
Cooper for Adaptation (2002) and August Osage County (2013)
Hoffman, Ryan, and Keener all worked with Tom Hanks;
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Keener for Captain Phillips (2013)
Ryan for Bridge of Spies (2015)
Hoffman and Cooper both worked with Julia Roberts;
Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Cooper for August Osage County (2013)
Ryan and Cooper both worked with Ben Affleck;
Ryan for Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Cooper for The Town (2010)
Ryan and Cooper both worked with Matt Damon;
Ryan for Green Zone (2009)
Cooper for The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
193. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Political involvement in the Avengers' affairs causes a rift between Captain America and Iron Man.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 850,377 | Gross: $408.08M
Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, and William Hurt all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Chaplin (1992)
Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Renner for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Hurt for Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1985) which he won, Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast News (1987)
Downey, Renner, Hurt, Marisa Tomei, and Alfre Woodard all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Downey for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Renner for The Town (2010)
Hurt for A History of Violence (2005)
Tomei for My Cousin Vinny (1992) which she won, In The Bedroom (2001), and The Wrestler (2008)
Woodard for Cross Creek (1983)
194. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier, transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a warmonger and a terrorist organization.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayley Atwell
Votes: 897,093 | Gross: $176.65M
Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, and Stanley Tucci all earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar Nominations;
Tommy for JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993) which he won, and Lincoln (2012)
Stanley for The Lovely Bones (2009).
Jackson for Pulp Fiction (1994)
Also Tommy Lee Jones is played in the superhero movie prior to this film in which he played a villain known as Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995).
Both Tucci and Jones worked with Meryl Streep;
Tucci for The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009)
Jones for Hope Springs (2012)
They both worked with Susan Sarandon;
Tucci for Shall We Dance? (2004) and The Lovely Bones (2009)
Jones for The Client (1994) and In The Valley of Elah (2007)
They both worked with Kevin Costner;
Tucci for Swing Vote (2008)
Jones for JFK (1991)
They both worked on films that involve Howard Hughes;
Tucci for The Hoax (2006)
Jones for The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)TV
They both worked with Joe Pesci;
Tucci for The Public Eye (1992)
Jones for JFK (1991)
They both played real-life villains;
Tucci as Adolf Eichmann in Conspiracy (2001)TV
Jones as Gary Gilmore in The Executoner's Song (1982)TV and as Clay Shaw in JFK (1991)
195. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford
Votes: 899,435 | Gross: $259.77M
Robert Redford and Anthony Mackie both worked on films that earned Best Picture Oscars; Redford for The Sting (1973), Ordinary People (1980), and Out of Africa (1985) Mackie for The Hurt Locker (2008)
196. Carbon Copy (1981)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
When a rich white corporate executive finds out that he has an illegitimate black son, things start falling apart for him at home, work, and in his social circles.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden, Dick Martin
Votes: 3,258 | Gross: $9.57M
Denzel Washington and Paul Winfield both played assassinated civil rights leaders;
Denzel as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992)
Paul as Martin Luther King Jr. in King (1978)TV.
They also earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Paul for Sounder (1972)
Denzel for Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001) which he won, Flight (2012), and Fences (2016)
Since George Segal, Jack Warden, and Denzel Washington worked together in this film, before and after this film, they were nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscars;
Segal for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Washington for Cry Freedom (1987) and Glory (1989) which he won
Warden for Shampoo (1976) and Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Washington and Warden both played coaches in football movies;
Washington for Remember The Titans (2000)
Warden for Brian's Song (1971)
Washington and Winfield both worked with Howard E. Rollins Jr.;
Washington for A Soldier's Story (1984)
Winfield for King (1978)TV and For Us The Living:The Medgar Evers Story (1983)TV
They both worked with Al Freeman Jr.;
Washington for Malcolm X (1992)
Winfield for King (1978)TV
197. Carlito's Way (1993)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo
Votes: 232,455 | Gross: $36.95M
Al Pacino, Sean Penn, and Viggo Mortensen all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Penn for Dead Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), I Am Sam (2001), Mystic River (2003) which he won, and Milk (2008) which he won
Pacino for Serpico (1973),The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), And Justice For All (1979), and Scent of a Woman (1992) which he won
Mortensen for Eastern Promises (2007) and Captain Fantastic (2016)
Pacino and Penelope Ann Miller both worked with Alec Baldwin;
Pacino for Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Miller for The Shadow (1994)
They both worked with James Woods;
Pacino for Any Given Sunday (1998)
Miller for Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2002)TV
Pacino and Penn also played real-life homosexuals;
Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon and as Roy Cohn in Angels in America (2003)TV
Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008)
Pacino and Mortensen both played The Devil;
Pacino for The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Mortensen for The Prophecy (1995)
198. Carmen Jones (1954)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James
Votes: 5,924
Dorothy Dandridge and Diahann Carroll both made Black history;
Dandridge is the first African American to earn a Best Actress Oscar Nomination for this film
Carroll is the first African American Actress to star in a television series without playing a domestic worker in the show Julia (1968-1971)TV
*Sidenote; Dandridge's life was dramatized in a film produced by HBO, 'Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)TV,' being played by Halle Berry who in turn became the first African American ever to win a Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball (2001)
199. Carnal Knowledge (1971)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Chronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and become friends in college.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret
Votes: 14,903 | Gross: $28.62M
Jack Nicholson, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, and Candice Bergen all earned Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Nicholson for Easy Rider (1969), Reds (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983) which he won, and A Few Good Men (1991)
Margret for this film
Bergen for Starting Over (1979)
Moreno for West Side Story (1961) which she won
Nicholson, Margret, and Carol Kane all earned Best Actor/Actress Oscar Nominations;
Nicholson for Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) which he won, Prizzi's Honor (1985), Ironweed (1987), As Good As It Gets (1997) which he won, and About Schmidt (2002)
Margret for Tommy (1975)
Kane for Hester Street (1975)
Nicholson, Margret, and Kane all earned Oscar Nominations the same year;
Nicholson for Best Actor in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) which he won
Margret for Tommy (1975) and Kane for Hester Street (1975) both lost to Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
200. Cars (2006)
G | 116 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
On the way to the biggest race of his life, a hotshot rookie race car gets stranded in a rundown town and learns that winning isn't everything in life.
Directors: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft | Stars: Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Larry the Cable Guy
Votes: 470,299 | Gross: $244.08M
Paul Newman, Michael Keaton, and Tom Hanks all earned Best Actor Oscar Nominations;
Newman for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Absense of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), The Color of Money (1986) which he won, and Nobody's Fool (1994)
Keaton for Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Hanks for Big (1988), Philadelphia (1993) which he won, Forrest Gump (1994) which he won, Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Cast Away (2000)
John Lasseter and Owen Wilson both earned Best Screenplay Oscar Nominations;
Lasseter for Toy Story (1995)
Wilson for The Royal Tenebaums (2001)
Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub, Jeremy Piven, John Goodman, and Newman all earned TV Golden Globes;
Allen for Best Actor in Home Improvement (1991-1999)TV
Shalhoub for Best Actor in Monk (2002-2009)TV
Piven for Best Supporting Actor in Entourage (2004-2011)TV
Goodman for Best Actor in Roseanne (1988-1997)TV
Newman for Best Supporting Actor in Empire Falls (2005)TV
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