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Ellen Barkin has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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Down by Law
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Max · Included

This Boy's Life
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Man from Toronto
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Netflix · Included

Tender Mercies
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included

Sea of Love
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Peacock · Included

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
Dir. Michael Patrick Jann · With Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Denise Richards

A case of mistaken identity forces a bumbling entrepreneur to team up with a notorious assassin known as The Man from Toronto in hopes of staying alive.
Dir. Patrick Hughes · With Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Kaley Cuoco

Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino

Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Dir. Harold Becker · With Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Dir. Todd Solondz · With Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Sharon Wilkins

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Dir. Jonathan Jakubowicz · With Edgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro, Usher

as Penny Priddy
MGM+ · Included+3
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Dir. W.D. Richter · With Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin

When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman

Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
Dir. Tony Goldwyn · With Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams

Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.
Dir. Jim McBride · With Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Dir. Sam Levinson · With Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn

A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.
Dir. Tyler Spindel · With Adam Devine, Nina Dobrev, Pierce Brosnan

Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Dir. Tom McCarthy · With Adam Sandler, Method Man, Dustin Hoffman
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
Dir. Bart Freundlich · With David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt

Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Dir. Naomi Foner · With Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Boyd Holbrook
A battle ensues among two government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated.
Dir. Fouad Mikati · With Joe Anderson, Odette Annable, Zach Galifianakis
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