Best John Hawkes movies
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TOP 25: Higher Ground
John Hawkes as: CW Walker
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2011
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.
TOP 24: Flesh and Bone
John Hawkes as: Groom
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1993
Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focusing his energy on his work. One day, the traumatic past that eats away at him returns when he meets Kay Davies, a woman connected to the bloody event. Against all odds, Arlis and Kay fall in love; however, when his father, Roy, reappears in his life -- with the coldhearted Ginnie in tow -- Arlis must deal with his past demons.
TOP 23: Miracle at St. Anna
John Hawkes as: Herb Redneck
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 2008
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
TOP 22: D.O.A.
John Hawkes as: Sloane
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1988
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
TOP 21: End of Sentence
John Hawkes as: Frank Fogle
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Release: 2019
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
TOP 20: Small Town Crime
John Hawkes as: Mike Kendall
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2018
Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
TOP 19: The Perfect Storm
John Hawkes as: Mike "Bugsy" Moran
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2000
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
TOP 18: Hardball
John Hawkes as: Ticky Tobin
Genre: Drama
Release: 2001
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
TOP 17: Blue Streak
John Hawkes as: Eddie
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 1999
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
TOP 16: Martha Marcy May Marlene
John Hawkes as: Patrick
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2011
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
TOP 15: Contagion
John Hawkes as: Roger
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction
Release: 2011
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
TOP 14: Deadwood: The Movie
John Hawkes as: Sol Star
Genre: TV Movie, Western, Drama
Release: 2019
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
TOP 13: Winter's Bone
John Hawkes as: Teardrop
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Release: 2010
After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.
TOP 12: Everest
John Hawkes as: Doug Hansen
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Release: 2015
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
TOP 11: Lincoln
John Hawkes as: Robert Latham
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 10: Too Late
John Hawkes as: Mel Sampson
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2016
Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.
TOP 9: The Sessions
John Hawkes as: Mark
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Release: 2012
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
TOP 8: Wristcutters: A Love Story
John Hawkes as: Yan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2007
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
TOP 7: Me and You and Everyone We Know
John Hawkes as: Richard Swersey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2005
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
TOP 6: From Dusk Till Dawn
John Hawkes as: Pete Bottoms / Liquor Store Clerk
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Crime
Release: 1996
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.
TOP 5: Rush Hour
John Hawkes as: Stucky
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 1998
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
TOP 4: Identity
John Hawkes as: Larry
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2003
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
TOP 3: The Peanut Butter Falcon
John Hawkes as: Duncan
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2019
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
TOP 2: American Gangster
John Hawkes as: Freddie Spearman
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 2007
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
TOP 1: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
John Hawkes as: Charlie Hayes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2017
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.