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Elias Koteas has 36 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
One Eight Seven
1997
Drama · Thriller
Zodiac
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Paramount+ · Included
My Days of Mercy
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Peacock · Included
The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Disney+ · Included
Shooter
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Paramount+ · Included
Some Kind of Wonderful
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%MGM+ · Included
Fallen
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Netflix · Included
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Dir. David Fincher · With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.
Dir. David Fincher · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Dir. Tali Shalom-Ezer · With Elliot Page, Kate Mara, Amy Seimetz
A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
Dir. Bill Paxton · With Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Josh Flitter
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in Ninjutsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Dir. Steve Barron · With Brian Tochi, Josh Pais, Corey Feldman
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover
Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. However, Watts realizes she likes Keith as more than just a friend and tries to convince him to stop pursuing Amanda. Matters are further complicated when Keith's invitation draws the ire of Amanda's rich yet snobby ex-boyfriend, Hardy Jenns, who makes plans to get even.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Dir. James Gray · With Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw
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
A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind him.
Dir. Jonathan Sobol · With Ron Perlman, Elias Koteas, Harvey Keitel
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Dir. Matt Reeves · With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.
Dir. Peter Cornwell · With Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Don McKellar
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.
Dir. Andrew Niccol · With Al Pacino, Rachel Roberts, Catherine Keener
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Bruce Davison
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.
Dir. David Atkins · With Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
Dir. Olatunde Osunsanmi · With Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton
Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold's father-in-law's beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn.
Dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson · With John Cho, Kal Penn, Paula Garcés
Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hospital, he dreams that God visits him and tells him he's an Angel, and must start doing good things to make up for his past life. Not believing it at first, he soon becomes convinced he must be an Angel. Not having any Angel powers yet, he must use his own experiences and talents to make good things happen.
Dir. John Cornell · With Paul Hogan, Elias Koteas, Linda Kozlowski
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Dir. Peter Stebbings · With Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas
Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Dir. Phillip Borsos · With Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Elisabeth Harnois
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
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Dane DeHaan
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Francesca Neri, Elias Koteas
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist, who is devoid of faith, that he is in fact the target of the conspiracy.
Dir. Janusz Kamiński · With Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter
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