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Kim Basinger has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by L.A. Confidential.
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The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Red Rock West
1993
Crime · Drama

Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
2006
Action · Crime

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Revenge of the Ninja
1983
Action · Crime

Killshot
2008
Crime · Drama

Two for the Money
2005
Comedy · Crime

Fulltime Killer
2001
Action · Crime

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
Having witnessed his parents' brutal murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman, a costumed hero who strikes fear into the hearts of villains. But when a deformed madman known as 'The Joker' seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld, Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis ever while protecting both his identity and his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer

Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After high school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. As he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.
Dir. Burr Steers · With Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Dir. David R. Ellis · With Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham

An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
Dir. Guillermo Arriaga · With Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.
Dir. James Foley · With Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson

Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.
Dir. Clark Johnson · With Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria

A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin

When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on the town. Walter's brother, Ted, tells him not to let Nadia drink alcohol, but he dismisses the warning and her behaviour gets increasingly wild. Walter and Nadia's numerous incidents are made even worse as her former lover David relentlessly follows them around town.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Dir. Richard Pearce · With Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé

An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.
Dir. Roger Donaldson · With Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
Dir. Irvin Kershner · With Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds herself in love with Steve and her new life on Earth, where she experiences true intimacy for the first time. But when she loses sight of her mission, she begins to question where she belongs.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz
Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson that soon leads to her bedroom. When the couple are discovered by Vicki's beau, infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel, he makes a surprising pronouncement -- they'd better marry, or Charley is a dead man.
Dir. Jerry Rees · With Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia

A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household.
Dir. Tod Williams · With Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster

An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Jean-Pierre Cassel

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody

A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.
Dir. Phil Joanou · With Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman
Della Myers, a suburban housewife, lives with her twin children and her abusive husband, Kenneth. On Christmas Eve, she drives to the local mall to buy gift-wrap. In the jam-packed parking lot, she notices an old car taking up two spaces and decides to leave a note on the windshield calling them out. After the mall closes, her car is blocked by the old car and she's threatened by four thugs. She escapes in her vehicle, but they drive after her. She crashes at a dead end construction site at the edge of a forest. What unfolds in the desolate woods is Della's lone fight for survival against a gang of angry young men with murderous intent.
Dir. Susan Montford · With Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas, Craig Sheffer
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Dir. Daniel Algrant · With Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
Dir. Ralph Bakshi · With Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Dir. Gregor Jordan · With Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster
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