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Winona Ryder has 42 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 Edward Scissorhands.
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Hope Floats
1998
Romance · Drama

Eat Drink Man Woman
1994
Comedy · Drama

Anywhere but Here
1999
Drama · Comedy

Edge of Seventeen
1999
Comedy · Drama

The Brothers McMullen
1995
Comedy · Drama

Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo
1996
Drama · Comedy

Leap of Faith
1992
Comedy · Drama

Chaos Theory
2008
Comedy · Drama

Stranger Things
2016 · Series · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Edward Scissorhands
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

Night on Earth
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Girl, Interrupted
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Heathers
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Prime Video · Included

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Max · Included

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Dir. Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer · With Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
Dir. Darren Aronofsky · With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Dir. James Mangold · With Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Dir. Michael Lehmann · With Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty

Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullying incident draws them into a conflict with Morgan “Gator” Bodine, a local crime boss.
Dir. Gary Fleder · With Jason Statham, James Franco, Izabela Vidovic

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Dir. Gillian Armstrong · With Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Dir. Bille August · With Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons

The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
Dir. Ariel Vromen · With Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder
A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.
Dir. David Seltzer · With Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Dir. David Hare · With Bill Nighy, Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder

as Dinky Bossetti
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.
Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Tobolowsky

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield

A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale who targets men guilty of sex crime.
Dir. Daniel Waters · With Simon Baker, Winona Ryder, Leslie Bibb

When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Dir. Al Pacino · With Al Pacino, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey

The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.
Dir. Andrew Niccol · With Al Pacino, Rachel Roberts, Catherine Keener

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Dir. Ben Stiller · With Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Dir. Michael Almereyda · With Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse · With Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Dir. Rebecca Miller · With Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson

The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
Dir. Jim McBride · With Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, John Doe
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