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John Dahl has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
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The Last Seduction
1994 · Movie · Director
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Rounders
1998 · Movie · Director
Top 35%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Great Raid
2005 · Movie · Director
Top 39%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

You Kill Me
2007 · Movie · Director
Top 62%AMC+ · Included

Kill Me Again
1989 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 78%Prime Video · Included

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Dir. John Dahl · With Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
Dir. John Dahl · With Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Dir. John Dahl · With Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Dir. John Dahl · With Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Dir. John Dahl · With Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Dir. John Dahl · With Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson
Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution presents itself in an experimental "memory" serum designed by a neurobiology professor, which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but with potentially fatal consequences.
Dir. John Dahl · With Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote

After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
Dir. John Dahl · With Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen