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Nick Nolte has 44 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Warrior.
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In Too Deep
1999
Drama · Action

Dead Man Down
2013
Thriller · Action

Rust Creek
2019
Thriller · Drama

A Score to Settle
2019
Action · Crime

Deadfall
2012
Crime · Drama

Snitch
2013
Action · Drama

Sugar Mountain
2016
Drama · Thriller

Kiss of Death
1995
Crime · Thriller

Warrior
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

Hotel Rwanda
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Prime Video · Included

Peaceful Warrior
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Angel Has Fallen
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%Netflix · Included

Crime 101
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

Run All Night
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.
Dir. Gavin O'Connor · With Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Dir. Terry George · With Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn

A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
Dir. Victor Salva · With Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Dir. Ben Stiller · With Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.
Dir. Ric Roman Waugh · With Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith

When an elusive thief whose high-stakes heists unfold along the iconic 101 freeway in Los Angeles eyes the score of a lifetime, with hopes of this being his final job, his path collides with a disillusioned insurance broker who is facing her own crossroads. Determined to crack the case, a relentless detective closes in on the operation, raising the stakes even higher.
Dir. Bart Layton · With Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Dir. George Miller · With Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov

On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
Dir. Francis Veber · With Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
Dir. Karey Kirkpatrick, Tim Johnson · With Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Dir. Mark Waters · With Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris

Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they're on opposite sides of the law, they share a love interest in the sensual Sarita. When a crew of rogue soldiers descends upon the border town for an off-the-books mission, all roads lead to a bloody, to-the-death showdown, as loyalties shift and the lines between good and evil are blurred.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole

When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen), a man’s domineering mother literally becomes a looming presence over New York.
Dir. Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen · With Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick O'Neal

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
Dir. Barbra Streisand · With Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.
Dir. Joshua Michael Stern · With Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Dir. Ken Kwapis · With Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Dir. Paul Mazursky · With Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Dir. Karen Moncrieff · With Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, James Cromwell

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
Dir. Ruben Fleischer · With Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Saïd Taghmaoui

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
Dir. William Friedkin · With Nick Nolte, Shaquille O'Neal, Mary McDonnell
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