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Martin Sheen has 37 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Apocalypse Now.
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Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Apocalypse Now
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The West Wing
1999 · Series · Actor
Top 9%Max · Included

The Dead Zone
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Amazing Spider-Man
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

The Way
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Peacock · Included

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Dir. Richard Attenborough · With Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
Dir. Aaron Sorkin · With Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, John Spencer

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Dir. David Cronenberg · With Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates

Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
Dir. Marc Webb · With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luís, Gabriel Weinstein

When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
Dir. Emilio Estevez · With Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Dir. Shaka King · With Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.
Dir. Howard J. Morris, Marta Kauffman · With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
Dir. Ty Roberts · With Luke Wilson, Vinessa Shaw, Wayne Knight

A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead.
Dir. John Kent Harrison · With Ella Ballentine, Martin Sheen, Sara Botsford

Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
Dir. Nicolas Gessner · With Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell · With Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen

As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Dir. Lorene Scafaria · With Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
Dir. Chris Paine · With Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson, Chelsea Sexton
A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
Dir. Janet Greek · With Tracy Scoggins, Jerry Doyle, Jeff Conaway

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
Dir. Kasi Lemmons · With Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross

As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.
Dir. Martin Sheen · With Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dir. Don Taylor · With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
Dir. Greg Marcks · With Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames
Six years ago, the lovable intergalactic fugitive Gordon Shumway, best known as ALF, was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught up with him. Now, he is being studied at a top-secret military base where he finds allies who feel that ALF's existence should be announced to the world to ensure his safety... especially when they learn that the abrasive Colonel Milfoil wants ALF, and all Alien Life-Forms, destroyed.
Dir. Dick Lowry · With Paul Fusco, Miguel Ferrer, William O'Leary

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen