Noah Emmerich’s Typical Vibe
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Noah Emmerich has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Truman Show.
Recurring themes

The Truman Show
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Frequency
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Super 8
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Paramount+ · Included

The Americans
2013 · Series · Actor
Top 16%Hulu · Included

Miracle
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Netflix · Included

Beautiful Girls
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Paramount+ · Included

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.
Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle

In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.
Dir. J.J. Abrams · With Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
Dir. Joe Weisberg · With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Dir. Todd Field · With Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly

When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. After assembling a team of hot-headed college all-stars, who are humiliated in an early match, Brooks unites his squad against a common foe: the heavily-favored Soviet team.
Dir. Gavin O'Connor · With Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Noah Emmerich

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

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.
Dir. Tobias Lindholm · With Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, Nnamdi Asomugha

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Dir. James Mangold · With Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Dir. Guillaume Canet · With Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard

In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
Dir. Gideon Raff · With Sacha Baron Cohen, Noah Emmerich, Hadar Ratzon Rotem
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.
Dir. David Schwimmer · With Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Dir. Valerie Breiman · With Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich

An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
Dir. Antonio Banderas · With Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black

Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo

A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
Dir. Doug Liman · With Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sam Shepard

A saga centered on the Tierneys, a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
Dir. Gavin O'Connor · With Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Colin Farrell

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Dir. John Woo · With Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare

Four ordinary Brits are accused of kidnapping the son of a prominent U.S. media mogul. They embark on a desperate race against time to prove their innocence, but will anyone believe them—and are they telling the truth?
Dir. Rob Williams · With Kunal Nayyar, Georgina Campbell, Elizabeth Henstridge

After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
Dir. Gavin O'Connor · With Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor
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