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Christopher Walken has 70 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Catch Me If You Can.
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Two for the Money
2005
Comedy · Crime

Miami Blues
1990
Action · Crime

The Hoax
2006
Comedy · Drama

The Matador
2005
Action · Comedy

Middle Men
2009
Drama · Comedy

Perrier's Bounty
2010
Action · Comedy

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
Thriller · Drama

Death to Smoochy
2002
Comedy · Crime

Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Dune: Part Two
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Severance
2022 · Series · Actor
Top 2%Apple TV+ · Included

Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Paramount+ · Included

The Dead Zone
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Batman Returns
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Max · Included

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken

Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Tony Roberts

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Dir. Dan Erickson · With Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt

The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer

The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Dir. Dexter Fletcher · With Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken

After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli, a man-cub fostered by wolves, is forced to flee the jungle, and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera, and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Dir. Abel Ferrara · With Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne

A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.
Dir. Stephanie Laing · With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michiel Huisman, Steve Coogan

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Dir. Martin McDonagh · With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Dir. Jonathan Hensleigh · With Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.
Dir. Adam Shankman · With Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.
Dir. Peter O'Fallon · With Christopher Walken, Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery

John and his buddy Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.
Dir. David Dobkin · With Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken

Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
Dir. James Foley · With Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson

The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven. However, it is hidden inside of a Native American girl and only a former priest and a schoolteacher can stop him.
Dir. Gregory Widen · With Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen

Peter is thrilled that his Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his Grandpa, he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war.
Dir. Tim Hill · With Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
Dir. Abel Ferrara · With Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Annabella Sciorra

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Dir. David Hare · With Bill Nighy, Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder

An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Dir. John Badham · With Johnny Depp, Courtney Chase, Charles S. Dutton

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Dir. Douglas Trumbull · With Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher

Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken

When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson

Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau for a monumental case that leads all the way to the Supreme Court.
Dir. Clark Johnson · With Christopher Walken, Roberta Maxwell, Christina Ricci

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt
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