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Best Bruce McGill movies

We present our ranking of the best Bruce McGill 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 Bruce McGill.

TOP 25: Fair Game

Character: Jim Pavitt
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2010
Wife and mother Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched uranium to Iraq, Then Valerie's secret work and identity is leaked to the press. With her cover blown and other people endangered, Valerie's career and personal life begin to unravel.


TOP 24: The Legend of Bagger Vance

Character: Walter Hagen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Release: 2000
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

TOP 23: The Lookout

Character: Robert Pratt
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2007
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.


TOP 22: For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada

Character: President Calvin Coolidge
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2012
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.


TOP 21: Into the Night

Character: Charlie
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Release: 1985
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

TOP 20: The Last Boy Scout

Character: Mike Matthews
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 1991
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.


TOP 19: Rosewood

Character: Duke Purdy
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Release: 1997
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.


TOP 18: 61*

Character: Ralph Houk
Genre: Drama, History, TV Movie
Release: 2001
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. Which man would reach it?

TOP 17: Family Guy Presents: It's a Trap!

Character: John Williams (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Release: 2010
With the Griffins stuck again at home during a blackout, Peter tells the story of “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.”


TOP 16: Lincoln

Character: Edwin Stanton
Genre: History, Drama
Release: 2012
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.


TOP 15: Ali

Character: Bradley
Genre: Drama
Release: 2001
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

TOP 14: Recount

Character: Mac Stipanovich
Genre: Drama, History, TV Movie
Release: 2008
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.


TOP 13: Runaway Jury

Character: Judge Harkin
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2003
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.


TOP 12: Unconditional

Character: Detective Miller
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches “Papa” Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life’s circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.


TOP 11: Matchstick Men

Character: Chuck Frechette
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2003
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

TOP 10: Silkwood

Character: Mace Hurley
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1983
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.


TOP 9: Animal House

Character: Daniel Simpson Day
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1978
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.


TOP 8: Collateral

Character: Frank Pedrosa
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2004
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.


TOP 7: Law Abiding Citizen

Character: Jonas Cantrell
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2009
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.


TOP 6: My Cousin Vinny

Character: Sheriff Farley
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1992
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend , to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

TOP 5: A Perfect World

Character: Paul Saunders
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1993
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.


TOP 4: The Best of Enemies

Character: Carvie Oldham
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2019
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.


TOP 3: The Insider

Character: Ron Motley
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1999
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.


TOP 2: Lawn Dogs

Character: Nash
Genre: Drama
Release: 1997
In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.


TOP 1: Cinderella Man

Character: Jimmy Johnston
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 2005
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.

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