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Steven Soderbergh has 39 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Ocean's Eleven.
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Traffic
2000 · Movie · Director
Top 7%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Side Effects
2013 · Movie · Director
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023 · Movie · Director
Top 50%Max · Included

Kimi
2022 · Movie · Director
Top 53%Max · Included

Che: Part Two
2008 · Movie · Director
Top 60%AMC+ · Included

The Limey
1999 · Movie · Director
Top 60%Prime Video · Included
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict demands that Danny Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig

A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Dir. Christopher Kenneally · With Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn

Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Benicio del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera

Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse… and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he—and the roster of hot new dancers he’ll have to whip into shape—be able to pull it off?
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Channing Tatum, Salma Hayek Pinault, Ayub Khan-Din

Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.
Dir. Gregory Jacobs · With John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Zoë Kravitz, Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil

A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Steven Soderbergh, Scott Allen, Betsy Brantley

Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same revolutionary fires as before.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Benicio del Toro, Carlos Bardem, Demián Bichir

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne

Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Dan Aykroyd
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey

A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Debbie Doebereiner, Omar Cowan, Dustin James Ashley
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Tom Burke

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Meryl Streep, Lucas Hedges, Gemma Chan
A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.
Dir. Ole Bornedal · With Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale