Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

June 23, 1957 · 69 years old

Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith; June 23, 1957) is an American film, stage and television actress. McDormand began her career on stage and made her screen debut in the 1984 film Blood Simple, having since appeared in several theatrical and television roles. McDormand has been recogn…

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41 titles
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017 · 1h 55m · Movie

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

8.1
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Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs

2018 · 1h 41m · Movie

Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.

8.1
3
Fargo

Fargo

1996 · 1h 38m · Movie

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

8.1
4
The Good Dinosaur

The Good Dinosaur

2015 · 1h 33m · Movie

In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

6.2
5
Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011 · 2h 34m · Movie

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

6.2
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Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar!

2016 · 1h 46m · Movie

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.

6.5
7
Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

2012 · 1h 34m · Movie

Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.

7.7
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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

2008 · 1h 36m · Movie

A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.

7.0
9
Wolfs

Wolfs

2024 · 1h 48m · Movie

Two rival fixers cross paths when they're both called in to help cover up a prominent New York official's misstep. Over one explosive night, they'll have to set aside their petty grievances and their egos to finish the job.

6.3
10
Almost Famous

Almost Famous

2000 · 2h 2m · Movie

A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

7.9
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Primal Fear

Primal Fear

1996 · 2h 9m · Movie

A high-profile murder intrigues a publicity hungry lawyer.

7.7
12
Nomadland

Nomadland

2021 · 1h 47m · Movie

A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

7.5
13
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

2012 · 1h 33m · Movie

The Madagascar animals join a struggling European circus to get back to New York, but find themselves being pursued by a psychotic animal-control officer.

6.8
14
The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch

2021 · 1h 47m · Movie

A collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine" comes to life in a fictional twentieth century French city.

7.3
15
Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona

1987 · 1h 34m · Movie

When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

7.3
16
Something's Gotta Give

Something's Gotta Give

2003 · 2h 8m · Movie

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

6.8
17
Æon Flux

Æon Flux

2005 · 1h 33m · Movie

Æon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.

5.4
18
Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

1988 · 2h 8m · Movie

Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists.

7.8
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The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001 · 1h 56m · Movie

A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.

7.5
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Blood Simple

Blood Simple

1985 · 1h 39m · Movie

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

7.5
21
Darkman

Darkman

1990 · 1h 36m · Movie

A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.

6.4
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Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

2000 · 1h 47m · Movie

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

7.2
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Short Cuts

Short Cuts

1993 · 3h 8m · Movie

The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.

7.6
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North Country

North Country

2005 · 2h 6m · Movie

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

7.3
25
Women Talking

Women Talking

2022 · 1h 44m · Movie

Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

7.5
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This Must Be the Place

This Must Be the Place

2011 · 1h 58m · Movie

Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.

6.7
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Lone Star

Lone Star

1996 · 2h 15m · Movie

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

7.4
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Friends with Money

Friends with Money

2006 · 1h 28m · Movie

After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.

5.8
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

2008 · 1h 32m · Movie

Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and sing...

7.0
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City by the Sea

City by the Sea

2002 · 1h 48m · Movie

Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murder suspect.

6.1
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Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

2003 · 1h 43m · Movie

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

6.4
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Every Secret Thing

Every Secret Thing

2014 · 1h 33m · Movie

A detective looks to unravel a mystery surrounding missing children and the prime suspects: two young women who, seven years ago, were put away for an infant's death.

6.1
33
Madeline

Madeline

1998 · 1h 28m · Movie

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.

6.0
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Crimewave

Crimewave

1985 · 1h 26m · Movie

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric...

5.6
35
Paradise Road

Paradise Road

1997 · 2h 2m · Movie

A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.

6.8
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Beyond Rangoon

Beyond Rangoon

1995 · 1h 40m · Movie

An American tourist finds herself in the middle of a political uprising in Burma.

6.5