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Kathy Bates has 47 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 Titanic.
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Misery
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Netflix · Included

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Hulu · Included

On the Basis of Sex
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Netflix · Included

Shadows and Fog
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%MGM+ · Included

Revolutionary Road
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Dir. James Cameron · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Dir. Jon Avnet · With Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
Dir. Kelly Fremon Craig · With Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates

Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
Dir. Mimi Leder · With Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
Dir. Taylor Hackford · With Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey

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

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Dir. Sam Mendes · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates

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

A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Dir. Alexander Payne · With Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Dir. Xavier Dolan · With Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates

A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
Dir. Nicole Kassell · With Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Romany Malco

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · With Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
Dir. Wendy Apple · With Kathy Bates, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino

A troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognises a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.
Dir. François Girard · With Dustin Hoffman, Kevin McHale, Josh Lucas

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Dir. Gary Winick · With Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Kathy Bates

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.
Dir. Tom Shadyac · With Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Alicia Morton, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber

Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.
Dir. Frank Coraci · With Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler

After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Inspired by the classic television series of the same name.
Dir. Jennie Snyder Urman · With Kathy Bates, Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter

Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
Dir. David Dobkin · With Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, John Michael Higgins

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton
Bryan, an unassuming pet photographer has action and adventure thrust upon him when he is forced to wed Masha, a Croatian crime lord's daughter, and she is subsequently kidnapped while on their honeymoon in a tropical paradise.
Dir. Rob Hedden · With Dave Annable, Katharine McPhee, Rob Schneider
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