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John Malkovich has 64 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Being John Malkovich.
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Bird Box
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Netflix · Included

In the Line of Fire
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Killing Fields
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Secretariat
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Disney+ · Included

Con Air
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Hulu · Included

Of Mice and Men
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Dir. Susanne Bier · With Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
Dir. Spike Jonze · With John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Dir. Roland Joffé · With Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Dir. Jonathan Levine · With Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Lio Tipton

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Dir. Randall Wallace · With Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Scott Glenn

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Dir. Simon West · With Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich

Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Dir. Gary Sinise · With John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.
Dir. Robert Schwentke · With Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman

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

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo, and those in their orbit.
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
Dir. Robert Benton · With Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, John Malkovich

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich

Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Dir. Dean Parisot · With Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Dir. Garth Jennings · With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Zooey Deschanel

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

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Dir. Randall Wallace · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Irons

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.
Dir. Volker Schlöndorff · With Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich

Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
Dir. Gilles Legardinier · With John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant, Émilie Dequenne

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With John Malkovich, Arnas Fedaravičius, Vilius Tumalavicius

An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.
Dir. Peter Berg · With Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...
Dir. Michael Apted · With Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Michael Douglas

A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
Dir. Jesse V. Johnson · With Thomas Jane, Dominique Tipper, John Malkovich

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.
Dir. Simon J. Smith, Eric Darnell · With Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights

Inside FC Barcelona, which follows the famed soccer club through its 2018-2019 season.
With John Malkovich, Lionel Messi, Gerard Piqué
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