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Best Dylan McDermott movies

We present our ranking of the best Dylan McDermott 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 Dylan McDermott.

TOP 25: Burning Palms

Dylan McDermott as: Dennis Marx
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2010
A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate


TOP 24: The Cowboy Way

Dylan McDermott as: John Stark
Genre: Western, Action, Comedy
Release: 1994
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.

TOP 23: Survivor

Dylan McDermott as: Sam Parker
Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller
Release: 2015
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.


TOP 22: Josie

Dylan McDermott as: Hank
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2018
Everyone knows everyone in the southern town of Baymont. So when tattooed, sweet-talking Josie struts into town, heads turn. Striking up relationships with young punk Gator and loner Hank, she quickly becomes a hot topic of local gossip.


TOP 21: Three to Tango

Dylan McDermott as: Charles Newman
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1999
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.

TOP 20: The Messengers

Dylan McDermott as: Roy
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Release: 2007
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.


TOP 19: Automata

Original Title: Autómata
Dylan McDermott as: Wallace
Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 2014
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.


TOP 18: The Campaign

Dylan McDermott as: Tim Wattley
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2012
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

TOP 17: Party Monster

Dylan McDermott as: Peter Gatien
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Release: 2003
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.


TOP 16: Hardware

Dylan McDermott as: Moses "Hard Mo" Baxter
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
Release: 1990
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.


TOP 15: The Mistress of Spices

Dylan McDermott as: Doug
Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Release: 2005
Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.

TOP 14: Blind

Dylan McDermott as: Mark Dutchman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2017
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.


TOP 13: Texas Rangers

Dylan McDermott as: Leander McNelly
Genre: Western, Action
Release: 2001
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.


TOP 12: Wonderland

Dylan McDermott as: David Lind
Genre: Crime
Release: 2003
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.


TOP 11: Home for the Holidays

Dylan McDermott as: Leo Fish
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.

TOP 10: Olympus Has Fallen

Dylan McDermott as: Forbes
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 2013
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.


TOP 9: The Clovehitch Killer

Dylan McDermott as: Don
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Crime
Release: 2018
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 women ten years prior.


TOP 8: Hamburger Hill

Dylan McDermott as: Sgt. Adam Frantz
Genre: War, Action, Drama
Release: 1987
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.


TOP 7: Miracle on 34th Street

Dylan McDermott as: Bryan Bedford
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Family
Release: 1994
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.


TOP 6: Runaway Jury

Dylan McDermott as: Jacob Wood
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 5: In the Line of Fire

Dylan McDermott as: Secret Service Agent Al D'Andrea
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1993
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.


TOP 4: Steel Magnolias

Dylan McDermott as: Jackson Latcherie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1989
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.


TOP 3: Have Dreams, Will Travel

Dylan McDermott as: Uncle
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life.


TOP 2: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Dylan McDermott as: Father
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.


TOP 1: King Richard

Dylan McDermott as: Will Hodges
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2021
The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

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