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Ed Harris has 62 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Truman Show.
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The Truman Show
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

mother!
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%MGM+ · Included

Gravity
2013 · Movie · Voice
Top 5%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Rock
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Apollo 13
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Netflix · Included

Gone Baby Gone
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim. But as the handsome and arrogant Nash accepts secret work in cryptography, he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. His life takes a nightmarish turn and he soon finds himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Dir. Darren Aronofsky · With Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
Dir. Alfonso Cuarón · With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Dir. James Cameron · With Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
Dir. George A. Romero · With Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
Dir. Ben Affleck · With Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Dir. Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy · With Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.
Dir. James Foley · With Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him. Soon, Radio is Jones' loyal assistant, and he becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School. But things start to sour when Coach Jones begins taking guff from parents and fans who feel that his devotion to Radio is getting in the way of the team's quest for a championship.
Dir. Michael Tollin · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris

Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
Dir. John Patton Ford · With Glen Powell, Margaret Qualley, Jessica Henwick

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
Dir. Todd Robinson · With Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt

Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
Dir. Robert Benton · With Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, John Malkovich

During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.
Dir. Jay Roach · With Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz · With Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris

An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.
Dir. Asger Leth · With Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell

Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
Dir. Phil Joanou · With Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe

It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris
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