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Malcolm McDowell has 52 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Clockwork Orange.
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Prey
2016
Horror · Thriller

Hatchet II
2010
Horror · Comedy

The Hoax
2006
Comedy · Drama

Bunraku
2010
Thriller · Action

Slither
2006
Horror · Science Fiction

Better Living Through Chemistry
2014
Drama · Comedy

Catfight
2017
Comedy · Drama

Parasyte: Part 2
2015
Science Fiction · Horror

Castlevania
2017 · Series · Voice
Top 15%Netflix · Included

Thelma
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Hulu · Included

Halloween
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Shudder · Included

Father Stu
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Hulu · Included

Star Trek: Generations
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Paramount+ · Included

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1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Carl Duering

as Sly Baron (voice) · Voice
It's one giant step for dog-kind as Scooby-Doo and the Gang blast off for an epic, other-worldly adventure in this all-new original movie! After winning the last 5 seats in a lottery, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma are off to space in billionaire Sly Baron's brand new ship, the Sly Star One. It's all gravity-free fun until a mysterious alien begins destroying the ship! As the ship breaks down, the crew is forced to land on Sly Baron's base... on the dark side of the moon! Will the gang unravel this alien mystery? Will Scooby-Doo and Shaggy find snacks on the moon? Will Fred ever take his space helmet off?! Journey to the outer limits with Scooby-Doo to find out!
Dir. Paul McEvoy · With Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey DeLisle

A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.
Dir. Warren Ellis · With Richard Armitage, James Callis, Alejandra Reynoso

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
Dir. Will Gluck · With Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes
When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Dir. Josh Margolin · With June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
Dir. Rob Zombie · With Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane
A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
Dir. Ash Avildsen · With Andy Biersack, Malcolm McDowell, Denise Richards

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
Dir. Rosalind Ross · With Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Jacki Weaver

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Dir. Lindsay Anderson · With Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts

Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
Dir. Nicholas Meyer · With Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Dir. David Carson · With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Dir. Lindsay Anderson · With Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.
Dir. Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola, Alex Timbers · With Gael García Bernal, Lola Kirke, Saffron Burrows

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Dir. Paul McGuigan · With Paul Bettany, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter

as Merlyn the Magnificent (voice) · Voice
At an airport, the Emerald Archer must protect a young princess from assassins.
Dir. Joaquim Dos Santos · With Neal McDonough, Malcolm McDowell, Steve Blum

Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
Dir. Jay Roach · With Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman

A ghost-hunting duo team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as the pair begin to uncover a conspiracy that could threaten the entire human race.
Dir. Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Nat Saunders, James Serafinowicz · With Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Samson Kayo

The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell

Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.
Dir. Christian Duguay · With Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

The film follows a petty rock band called the Winners, consisting of vocalist Joey Winner, bassist Jennifer, guitarist Tyler, drummer Sam, and French-Canadian roadie Hugo, along with their sleazy manager Jeff, as they tour across Canada and the USA after Jennifer is turned into a vampire by Queeny. Meanwhile, a vampire hunter who is afraid of the dark named Eddie Van Helsing quickly chases them down.
Dir. Rob Stefaniuk · With Malcolm McDowell, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins

Syd March is employed at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
Dir. Brandon Cronenberg · With Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell
Sherwood forest has a courageous new hero - Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood. Possessing the cunning skills of her legendary father and the beauty and intelligence of her mother Maid Marian, Gwyn is anxious to follow in her father's footsteps. King Richard nears death and Robin Hood and his Merry Men are summoned to help bring Richard's son Philip to his rightful place on the throne before the evil Prince John can assume power. Robin Hood's life and that of the future King of England soon lies in Gwyn's hands when Robin is captured and sentenced to death.
Dir. Peter Hewitt · With Keira Knightley, Stephen Moyer, Malcolm McDowell

Part-American, part-Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok has a lingering effect on its fans, who take the words seriously and do anything Dethklok lyrics say. The government fears the band's influence and sets out to destroy it by covert means; for example, by sending military pharmaceutical psychotropic drug manufacturers. Deemed sociopaths for tossing hot coffee at their concert attendees, two of the band members are alcoholics, and they all have self-esteem issues.
Dir. Brendon Small · With Mark Hamill, Victor Brandt, Malcolm McDowell
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
Dir. Paul Weitz · With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Dir. Neil Marshall · With Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester

as Professor Moriarity (voice) · Voice
Tom and Jerry need to learn to work together in order to help Sherlock Holmes with an investigation of a jewel theft. But still, they are cat and mouse!
Dir. Spike Brandt, Jeff Siergey · With Michael York, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Dir. Rob Zombie · With Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Meg Foster

Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.
Dir. Richard Bates Jr. · With AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter
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