Dean Stockwell’s Typical Vibe
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Dean Stockwell has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 2000s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Paris, Texas.
Recurring themes

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Enter the Ninja
1981
Action · Crime

Two for the Money
2005
Comedy · Crime

The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Payback
1999
Action · Drama

Revenge of the Ninja
1983
Action · Crime

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1972
Action · Drama

Scarface
1983
Action · Crime

Paris, Texas
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Blue Velvet
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Player
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Max · Included

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Paramount+ · Included

To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Prime Video · Included

The Rainmaker
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Paramount+ · Included
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Dir. Wim Wenders · With Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell

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.
Dir. David Lynch · With Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Dir. Robert Altman · With Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward

When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Dir. Edward James Olmos · With Edward James Olmos, Dean Stockwell, Michael Trucco

When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.
Dir. William Friedkin · With William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Dir. Donald P. Bellisario · With Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles

Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sgt. Taggart and Det. Rosewood, they soon uncover that the shooting is associated with a series of "alphabet" robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons kingpin—and the chase is on.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton

Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Danny DeVito

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir. Edward Buzzell · With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.
Dir. Matthew Robbins · With Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close

as Tim Drake (voice) · Voice
The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Neo-Gotham's Dark Knight, Terry McGinnis, needs answers as he stands alone to face the old Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.
Dir. Curt Geda · With Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Dir. Elia Kazan · With Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Dir. George Sidney · With Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Ben Johnson, Michael Landon Jr., Emily Warfield

Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Alec Baldwin, Dean Stockwell
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.
Dir. Daniel Haller · With Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Dir. Gregor Jordan · With Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn

At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic son of a fallen comrade—hoping to prepare him for the realities of Vietnam and the cost of duty.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones

Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.
Dir. Dennis Hopper · With Tom Berenger, William McNamara, Erika Eleniak
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Dir. Dennis Hopper · With Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell

A jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished.
Dir. Stephen King · With Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Kate Maberly
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