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Tommy Lee Jones has 52 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including No Country for Old Men.
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Backdraft
1991
Drama · Thriller

Kill the Irishman
2011
Action · Crime

In Too Deep
1999
Drama · Action

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Jack Reacher
2012
Crime · Drama

Dead Man Down
2013
Thriller · Action

Rust Creek
2019
Thriller · Drama

A Score to Settle
2019
Action · Crime

No Country for Old Men
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

The Fugitive
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%AMC+ · Included

Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Movie · Actor · Director
Top 21%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Double Jeopardy
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Sunset Limited
2011 · Movie · Actor · Director
Top 26%Max · Included

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
Dir. Joe Johnston · With Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

as Pete Perkins · Director
The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.
Dir. Tommy Lee Jones · With Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted of her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive. She survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest, however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superior and law enforcement colleagues, as she plunges into a desperate fight for justice, survival, and revenge.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.

A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.
Dir. Tommy Lee Jones · With Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Dir. Stuart Baird · With Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr.

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley

A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
With Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin

When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.
Dir. Margaret Betts · With Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn

Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman gets caught in the middle.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Dir. Paul Greengrass · With Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Cate Blanchett, Tommy Lee Jones, Evan Rachel Wood

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon

A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
Dir. John Flynn · With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes

Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen

CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.
Dir. Ariel Vromen · With Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Brad Renfro, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
Dir. Tommy Lee Jones · With Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer
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