Tim Robbins’s Typical Vibe
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Tim Robbins has 39 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Shawshank Redemption.
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Funny People
2009
Comedy · Drama

The Banger Sisters
2002
Comedy · Drama

Caterina in the Big City
2003
Comedy · Drama

Postcards from the Edge
1990
Comedy · Drama

Good Old Daze
1995
Comedy · Drama

The Crisis
1992
Comedy · Drama

Dead or Alive 2: Birds
2000
Crime · Drama

Meet Bill
2007
Comedy · Drama

Silo
2023 · Series · Actor
Top 12%Prime Video · Free w/ ads

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Dead Man Walking
1995 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 18%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Player
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Max · Included

High Fidelity
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Netflix · Included

The Secret Life of Words
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
Dir. Todd Haynes · With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.
Dir. Graham Yost · With Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Chinaza Uche

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
Dir. Adrian Lyne · With Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Dir. Tim Robbins · With Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Dir. Robert Altman · With Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
Dir. Stephen Frears · With John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.
Dir. Mark Pellington · With Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack
Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa · With Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko

Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie Savoy sets her sights on the two men.
Dir. Ron Shelton · With Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard

Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
Dir. Steve Oedekerk · With Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley

Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Dir. Tim Robbins · With Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto

The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
Dir. Neil Burger · With Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli

Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Dir. Dustin Thomason, Sam Shaw · With Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Elsie Fisher

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.
Dir. Gil Kenan · With Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray

Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.
Dir. Kim Benabib, Roberto Benabib · With Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Pablo Schreiber
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
Dir. Peter Howitt · With Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Robbins

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau

A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon—sex addiction.
Dir. Stuart Blumberg · With Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins

A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Dir. Shira Piven · With Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini
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