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Best Crispin Glover movies

We present our ranking of the best Crispin Glover 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 Crispin Glover.

TOP 25: Incident at Loch Ness

Crispin Glover as: Party Guest
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Horror
Release: 2004
When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew create an uneasy feeling that things aren't what they seem.


TOP 24: Open Season 3

Crispin Glover as: Fifi (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Comedy
Release: 2010
Boog, Elliot, and their forest friends return with an all-new adventure, this time in a Big Top Circus! The comedy begins when Boog's pals choose their family obligations over the annual guy's trip, and a disappointed Boog decides to take a trip of his own, which leads him right into the middle of a circus ring...literally. When he switches places with a devious look-a-like circus grizzly and falls for an alluring Russian troupe member, he'll come to realize that maybe you don't have to choose between family and friendship after all.

TOP 23: Charlie's Angels

Crispin Glover as: Thin Man
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2000
Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.


TOP 22: Beowulf

Crispin Glover as: Grendel
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation
Release: 2007
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.


TOP 21: Open Season 2

Crispin Glover as: Fifi (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2008
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners.

TOP 20: Teachers

Crispin Glover as: Danny
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1984
A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.


TOP 19: Willard

Crispin Glover as: Willard Stiles
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2003
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.


TOP 18: Like Mike

Crispin Glover as: Stan Bittleman
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2002
Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.

TOP 17: Nurse Betty

Crispin Glover as: Roy Ostery
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2000
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.


TOP 16: Hot Tub Time Machine

Crispin Glover as: Phil
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure
Release: 2010
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.


TOP 15: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Crispin Glover as: Jimmy Mortimer
Genre: Horror
Release: 1984
After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Crystal Lake.

TOP 14: Mr. Nice

Crispin Glover as: Ernie Combs
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2010
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.


TOP 13: Where the Heart Is

Crispin Glover as: Lionel
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1990
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.


TOP 12: Racing with the Moon

Crispin Glover as: Gatsby Boy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1984
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.


TOP 11: River's Edge

Crispin Glover as: Layne
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1986
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions vary.

TOP 10: Alice in Wonderland

Crispin Glover as: The Knave of Hearts
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Release: 2010
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.


TOP 9: Seven Psychopaths

Crispin Glover as: Courtroom Juror (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2012
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.


TOP 8: 9

Crispin Glover as: 6 (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2009
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.


TOP 7: At Close Range

Crispin Glover as: Lucas
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1986
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970s. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.


TOP 6: The People vs. Larry Flynt

Crispin Glover as: Arlo
Genre: Drama
Release: 1996
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

TOP 5: Wild at Heart

Crispin Glover as: Dell
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1990
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.


TOP 4: The Doors

Crispin Glover as: Andy Warhol
Genre: Music, Drama
Release: 1991
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.


TOP 3: Dead Man

Crispin Glover as: Train Fireman
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Release: 1995
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.


TOP 2: What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Crispin Glover as: Bobby McBurney
Genre: Romance, Drama
Release: 1993
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.


TOP 1: Back to the Future

Crispin Glover as: George McFly
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family
Release: 1985
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

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