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Best Dean Norris movies

Today we present the best Dean Norris movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Dean Norris:

TOP 25: Fist Fight

Dean Norris as: Principal Richard Tyler
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2017
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.


TOP 24: Death Wish

Dean Norris as: Detective Rains
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2018
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

TOP 23: The Hustle

Dean Norris as: Howard Bacon
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2019
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."


TOP 22: Prom

Dean Norris as: Frank Prescott
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2011
At “Prom,” every couple has a story and no two are exactly alike. As the big dance approaches for Nova Prescott, it’s a battle of wills as she finds herself drawn to the guy who gets in the way of her perfect prom. Fellow seniors Mei and Tyler harbor secrets, while others face all the insecurity and anticipation that surrounds one of high school’s most seminal events.


TOP 21: The Frozen Ground

Dean Norris as: Sgt. Lyle Haugsven
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Release: 2013
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

TOP 20: Beirut

Dean Norris as: Donald Gaines
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Release: 2018
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.


TOP 19: The Cell

Dean Norris as: Cole
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2000
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.


TOP 18: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Dean Norris as: Roy Nicholls
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2019
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

TOP 17: Secret in Their Eyes

Dean Norris as: Bumpy
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2015
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.


TOP 16: Men, Women & Children

Dean Norris as: Kent Mooney
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2014
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.


TOP 15: Get the Gringo

Dean Norris as: Bill
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2012
A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

TOP 14: The Firm

Dean Norris as: The Squat Man
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1993
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...


TOP 13: The Last Seduction

Dean Norris as: Shep
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, TV Movie
Release: 1994
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to Chicago, where she ensnares her next conquest, insurance man Mike Swale (Peter Berg). After getting a job at his insurance company, Bridget convinces Mike to run a scam -- but things take a deadly turn when she recruits him to help get rid of her husband.


TOP 12: Without Limits

Dean Norris as: Bill Dellinger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1998
The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.


TOP 11: Lethal Weapon 2

Dean Norris as: Tim Cavanaugh
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1989
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!

TOP 10: Starship Troopers

Dean Norris as: Commanding Officer
Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 1997
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".


TOP 9: The Negotiator

Dean Norris as: Scott
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1998
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.


TOP 8: Safe

Dean Norris as: Mover
Genre: Drama
Release: 1995
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family doctor treats her concerns dismissively and suggests a psychiatrist. Eventually, an allergist tells her that she has Environmental Illness.


TOP 7: Total Recall

Dean Norris as: Tony
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 1990
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.


TOP 6: Remember

Dean Norris as: John Kurlander
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2015
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

TOP 5: The Book of Henry

Dean Norris as: Glenn Sickleman
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2017
Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.


TOP 4: Gattaca

Dean Norris as: Cop on the Beat
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, Romance
Release: 1997
In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.


TOP 3: Little Miss Sunshine

Dean Norris as: State Trooper McCleary
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2006
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.


TOP 2: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Dean Norris as: SWAT Team Leader
Genre: Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 1991
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.


TOP 1: No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

Dean Norris as: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2013
A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.

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