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Kevin Spacey has 45 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Usual Suspects.
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Bread and Roses
2000
Comedy · Drama

Why Did I Get Married?
2007
Comedy · Drama

Mondays in the Sun
2002
Drama · Comedy

The Story of Qiu Ju
1992
Comedy · Drama

Trees Lounge
1996
Drama · Comedy

Ovosodo
1997
Comedy · Drama

The Best Job in the World
1996
Comedy · Drama

A Bronx Tale
1993
Drama · Crime

The Usual Suspects
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Baby Driver
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Paramount+ · Included

Moon
2009 · Movie · Voice
Top 2%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

K-PAX
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Netflix · Included

Margin Call
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Dir. Sam Mendes · With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Dir. Edgar Wright · With Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
Dir. Duncan Jones · With Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Dir. Iain Softley · With Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Mary McCormack

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
Dir. F. Gary Gray · With Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm.
Dir. J.C. Chandor · With Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany

Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Dir. Mimi Leder · With Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Angie Dickinson

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.
Dir. James Foley · With Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.
Dir. John Lasseter · With Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance

Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
Dir. John Swanbeck · With Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman

When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh weather and terrain. This young man will need a lot of courage and a strong will to complete this race.
Dir. Charles Haid · With Mackenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, Brian Cox

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.
Dir. Seth Gordon · With Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
Dir. Jay Roach · With Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr.

Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.
Dir. George Huang · With Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes

The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
Dir. Danny Strong · With Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Victor Garber

Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Dir. Jonas Pate · With Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · With Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Colin Farrell
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.
Dir. Robert Luketic · With Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth

A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
Dir. Matthew Ryan Hoge · With Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Dir. Al Pacino · With Al Pacino, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
Dir. Sean Anders · With Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day
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