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Glenn Close has 44 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
2017
Comedy · Drama

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Netflix · Included

What Happened to Monday
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Netflix · Included

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Max · Included

Fatal Attraction
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Paramount+ · Included

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

The House of the Spirits
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.
Dir. Rian Johnson · With Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Dir. Tommy Wirkola · With Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe

Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
Dir. Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui · With Christopher Reeve, Will Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer

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

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Dir. Bille August · With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum

Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
Dir. Chris Buck, Kevin Lima · With Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close

In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Dir. Colm McCarthy · With Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine

In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.
Dir. Benjamin Cleary · With Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Dir. Björn Runge · With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, 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

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
Dir. Stephen Herek · With Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

Fifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.
Dir. Seth Gordon · With Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, McKenna Roberts

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.
Dir. Arie Posin · With Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.
Dir. Lee Daniels · With Andra Day, Glenn Close, Anthony B. Jenkins

After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
Dir. Richard Marquand · With Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Dir. Rodrigo García · With Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Stephen Root

Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.
Dir. Allen Coulter, Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler · With Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ryan Phillippe

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner · With Glenn Close, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini

A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.
Dir. Max Barbakow · With Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close
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