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Best Stephen Lang movies

We present our ranking of the best Stephen Lang 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 Stephen Lang.

TOP 25: Guilty as Sin

Stephen Lang as: Phil Garson
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Release: 1993
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.


TOP 24: The I Inside

Stephen Lang as: Mr. Travitt
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Release: 2004
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

TOP 23: Gods and Generals

Stephen Lang as: Lt. Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson
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Release: 2003
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson is killed accidentally by his own soldiers in May 1863 during his greatest victory.


TOP 22: VFW

Stephen Lang as: Fred
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Release: 2020
A typical night for veterans at a VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a desperate teen runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. When a gang of violent punks come looking for her, the vets use every weapon at their disposal to protect the girl and themselves from an unrelenting attack.


TOP 21: Mortal Engines

Stephen Lang as: Shrike
Genre: ,
Release: 2018
Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

TOP 20: The Hard Way

Stephen Lang as: Party Crasher
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Release: 1991
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.


TOP 19: Tall Tale

Stephen Lang as: Jonas Hackett
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Release: 1995
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world, ending with a heroic confrontation in which the boy stands up to Stiles and his henchmen, and rallies his neighbors to fight back against land grabbers who want to destroy their town.


TOP 18: Band of Robbers

Stephen Lang as: Injun Joe
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Release: 2016
A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.

TOP 17: Project X

Stephen Lang as: Watts
Genre: ,
Release: 1987
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.


TOP 16: Braven

Stephen Lang as: Linden
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Release: 2018
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.


TOP 15: Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

Stephen Lang as: Major Gavins
Genre: ,
Release: 2014
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.

TOP 14: Love, Marilyn

Stephen Lang as: Himself
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Release: 2012
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses will embody the legend at various stages in her life.


TOP 13: Last Exit to Brooklyn

Stephen Lang as: Harry Black
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Release: 1989
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.


TOP 12: Public Enemies

Stephen Lang as: Charles Winstead
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Release: 2009
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.


TOP 11: Band of the Hand

Stephen Lang as: Joe
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Release: 1986
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.

TOP 10: Death of a Salesman

Stephen Lang as: Harold 'Happy' Loman
Genre: ,
Release: 1985
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.


TOP 9: Hostiles

Stephen Lang as: Colonel Abraham Biggs
Genre: , ,
Release: 2017
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.


TOP 8: Don't Breathe

Stephen Lang as: The Blind Man
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Release: 2016
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.


TOP 7: Gettysburg

Stephen Lang as: Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett
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Release: 1993
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.


TOP 6: 23 Blast

Stephen Lang as: Coach Farris
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Release: 2014
When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.

TOP 5: Manhunter

Stephen Lang as: Freddy Lounds
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Release: 1986
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.


TOP 4: Avatar

Stephen Lang as: Colonel Miles Quaritch
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Release: 2009
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.


TOP 3: Uncharted: Live Action Fan Film

Stephen Lang as: Victor 'Sully' Sullivan
Genre: ,
Release: 2018
Treasure hunter Nathan Drake finds himself captured while searching for a lost treasure.


TOP 2: Tombstone

Stephen Lang as: Ike Clanton
Genre: ,
Release: 1993
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.


TOP 1: Capturing Avatar

Stephen Lang as: Himself
Genre:
Release: 2010
Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far back as the production of Titanic in 1995. Also included are numerous interviews with cast, artists, and other crew members. The documentary was released as a bonus feature on the extended collector's edition of Avatar.

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