James Remar’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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James Remar has 40 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Django Unchained.
Recurring themes

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Get the Gringo
2012
Action · Thriller

Enter the Ninja
1981
Action · Crime

Best of the Best 2
1993
Action · Thriller

Revenge of the Ninja
1983
Action · Crime

Stone Cold
1991
Action · Crime

The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Dexter
2006 · Series · Actor
Top 2%Paramount+ · Included

Dexter: Resurrection
2025 · Series · Actor
Top 4%Paramount+ · Included

IT: Welcome to Derry
2025 · Series · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

White Fang
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Disney+ · Included

Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Disney+ · Included

Drugstore Cowboy
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Tubi · Free w/ ads

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
Dir. James Manos Jr. · With Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Geoff Pierson
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.
Dir. Clyde Phillips · With Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Uma Thurman

In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.
Dir. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs · With Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar

Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.
Dir. Luke Greenfield · With Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
Dir. Randal Kleiser · With Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel

Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
Dir. Les Mayfield · With Mara Wilson, Richard Attenborough, Dylan McDermott

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Remar

It's a major double-cross when former police officer Brian O'Conner teams up with his ex-con buddy Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of "dirty" money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone. But the guys are actually working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes to bring Verone down.
Dir. John Singleton · With Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Dir. Tommy Bertelsen · With Troian Bellisario, Tom Felton, Ben Winchell

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.
Dir. Osgood Perkins · With Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton
Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martial arts skills ever displayed in order to win the prized Golden Dragon. But fighting prowess alone will not be enough for Chris to triumph over such daunting foes.
Dir. Jean-Claude Van Damme · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, James Remar

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.
Dir. Penny Marshall · With Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Dir. Howard Zieff · With Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane

Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?
Dir. Charles Shyer · With Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Bonnie Bedelia

When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Dir. Danny DeVito · With Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Dir. Lewis Teague · With Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen

The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Dir. Mario Van Peebles · With Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Matt Lanter

Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar
A detective solves the puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon, Pinhead. As those around him begin to meet tragic fates, he sets out to conquer the horrifying villain.
Dir. Scott Derrickson · With Craig Sheffer, Nicholas Turturro, James Remar

For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed—The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him—the original vampire, Dracula.
Dir. David S. Goyer · With Wesley Snipes, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
Dir. Alexandre Aja · With Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella

International master thief, Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is asked by a desperate rich man to find his kidnapped daughter. However, in addition to evading the authorities, Simon must face a dangerous adversary from his past.
Dir. Ernie Barbarash · With Adam Rayner, Eliza Dushku, Ian Ogilvy
The Detroit Police launches a full-scale war against gun runners with the cooperation of the Feds and target a criminal named Rich. When a gun exchange goes bad and Rich’s old friend Angel, steps up big time and saves his life, they form a bond that makes his supplier and lover, Gabriella paranoid. But there is a snitch in the group and Gabriella’s biggest deal goes bad only to have an even bigger secret revealed, one that rocks Rich to his core.
Dir. Jessy Terrero · With 50 Cent, Val Kilmer, AnnaLynne McCord
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