Paul Dano

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

Dir. Steve McQueen · With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Dir. Matt Reeves · With Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With An Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Dir. Rian Johnson · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Dir. Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton · With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Chris Messina

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

Dir. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert · With Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz

Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

Dir. Johan Renck · With Adam Sandler, Paul Dano, Carey Mulligan

Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.

Dir. Luke Greenfield · With Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

Dir. Bill Pohlad · With Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks

A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.

Dir. Craig Silverstein · With Katie Chang, Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

Dir. D.J. Caruso · With Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

With Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

Dir. Spike Jonze · With Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini

The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.

Dir. Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin · With Benicio del Toro, Paul Dano, Patricia Arquette

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the house of Big John, a macho former Marine who is also an unrepentant pedophile. He propositions Howie, who declines, but the two eventually develop an unlikely and dangerous friendship.

Dir. Michael Cuesta · With Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Brian Cox

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

Dir. Craig Gillespie · With Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera

A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.

Dir. James Mangold · With Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Dir. Kelly Reichardt · With Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

Dir. Paul Dano · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould

In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, rising KGB officer Vladimir Putin joins forces with master manipulator Vadim Baranov to reshape life behind the Iron Curtain, using violence and deception to change the world forever.

Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

Dir. Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman · With Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.

Dir. Rebecca Miller · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener

Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.

Dir. Matt Aselton · With Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Paul Dano