Best Alan Cumming movies
We present our ranking of the best Alan Cumming movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Alan Cumming.
TOP 25: Show Dogs
Alan Cumming as: Dante (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Release: 2018
Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening.
TOP 24: The Outback
Alan Cumming as: Bog (voice)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Release: 2012
Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as talent agents. On the way through the Australian outback desert, the trailer they are in comes loose and crashes. Johnny must live up to the hero status Hamish presents him as while the outback locals try to rescue a kidnapped koala from Bog, a giant crocodile and his dingo lackeys.
TOP 23: Plunkett & MacLeane
Alan Cumming as: Lord Rochester
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1999
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
TOP 22: Dare
Alan Cumming as: Grant Matson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny.
TOP 21: Hurricane Bianca
Alan Cumming as: Lawrence Taylor
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2016
Hurricane Bianca is a revenge comedy about a New York teacher who moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him.
TOP 20: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Alan Cumming as: Sandy Frink
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1997
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
TOP 19: The Anniversary Party
Alan Cumming as: Joe Therrian
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2001
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.
TOP 18: Sweet Land
Alan Cumming as: Frandsen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2005
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
TOP 17: The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
Alan Cumming as: Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2013
When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?
TOP 16: Annie
Alan Cumming as: Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
Genre: Comedy, Music, Family
Release: 1999
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.
TOP 15: Black Beauty
Alan Cumming as: Black Beauty (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 1994
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
TOP 14: Circle of Friends
Alan Cumming as: Sean Walsh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
TOP 13: Titus
Alan Cumming as: Saturninus
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Release: 1999
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
TOP 12: Neverwas
Alan Cumming as: Jake
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Release: 2005
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson (Nick Nolte), spent many years of his life.
TOP 11: Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Alan Cumming as: Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 2006
This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den.
TOP 10: Battle of the Sexes
Alan Cumming as: Ted Tinling
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2017
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
TOP 9: Emma
Alan Cumming as: Mr. Elton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1996
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
TOP 8: Strange Magic
Alan Cumming as: Bog King (voice)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Music, Family
Release: 2015
A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.
TOP 7: Nicholas Nickleby
Alan Cumming as: Mr. Folair
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 2002
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
TOP 6: GoldenEye
Alan Cumming as: Boris Grishenko
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: 1995
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from an awesome space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan's stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
TOP 5: Any Day Now
Alan Cumming as: Rudy
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
TOP 4: X2
Alan Cumming as: Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Genre: Adventure, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2003
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
TOP 3: Burlesque
Alan Cumming as: Alexis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2010
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theater's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the venue.
TOP 2: They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Alan Cumming as: Narrator
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2018
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
TOP 1: Eyes Wide Shut
Alan Cumming as: Desk Clerk
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1999
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.