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Frank Langella has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Captain Fantastic.
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Great Expectations
1998
Comedy · Drama

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
1999
Comedy · Drama

The Girl on the Bridge
1999
Drama · Comedy

La La Land
2016
Comedy · Drama

Café Society
2016
Comedy · Drama

Rules Don't Apply
2016
Romance · Comedy

Big Eyes
2014
Drama

Restoration
1995
Drama · Romance

Captain Fantastic
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included

5 to 7
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%AMC+ · Included

Lolita
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

Sweet November
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 46%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Draft Day
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Dir. Matt Ross · With Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Dir. Aaron Sorkin · With Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance

Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.
Dir. Jake Schreier · With Frank Langella, Liv Tyler, James Marsden
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Dir. Victor Levin · With Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Dir. George Clooney · With David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney

A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella

A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.
Dir. John Flynn · With Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith

Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
Dir. Dave Holstein · With Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer

Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
Dir. Roger Allers, Bill Plympton, Gaëtan Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz, Joann Sfar, Michał Socha, Mohammad Saeed Harib, Nina Paley, Paul Brizzi, Tomm Moore · With Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek Pinault, John Krasinski

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.
Dir. Pat O'Connor · With Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
Dir. David Duchovny · With Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, David Duchovny

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise

At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Denis Leary

In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.
Dir. John Badham · With Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
Dir. Jay Roach · With Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin

Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey
When the evil Skeletor finds a mysterious power called the Cosmic Key, he becomes nearly invincible, seizing Castle Grayskull and the surrounding city. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner and he begins to drain her life-force as he waits for the moon of Eternia to align with the Great Eye of the Universe which will bestow god-like power upon him. However, courageous warrior He-Man locates the locksmith inventor Gwildor, who created the Key and has another version of it. During a battle, one of the Keys is transported to Earth, where it is found by teenagers Julie and Kevin. Now, both He-Man and Skeletor's forces arrive on Earth searching for the potent weapon.
Dir. Gary Goddard · With Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Billy Barty
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Dir. Olivier Dahan · With Nicole Kidman, Milo Ventimiglia, Paz Vega

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Dir. Andrew Jarecki · With Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella
Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a mediocre record when, in mid-season, "Wild Bill" Burgess, the new owner, as a public relations gimmick, stages an 'honorary coach' contest, which Eddie wins. The fans love it, so "Wild Bill" fires the coach and hires her. She takes the bunch of overpaid prima
Dir. Steve Rash · With Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Langella, Dennis Farina

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
Dir. Richard Kelly · With Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson
When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.
Dir. Uli Edel · With Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Julianne Moore
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