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Best Steve Carell movies

We present our ranking of the best Steve Carell 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 Steve Carell.

TOP 25: Despicable Me 3

Character: Gru / Dru (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2017
Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.


TOP 24: The 40 Year Old Virgin

Character: Andy Stitzer
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2005
Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom.

TOP 23: Café Society

Character: Phil Stern
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2016
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.


TOP 22: Over the Hedge

Character: Hammy (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2006
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.


TOP 21: Minions

Character: Gru (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2015
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.

TOP 20: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Character: Dodge Petersen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Romance
Release: 2012
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.


TOP 19: Dan in Real Life

Character: Dan Burns
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.


TOP 18: Welcome to Marwen

Character: Mark Hogancamp
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 2018
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

TOP 17: Bruce Almighty

Character: Evan Baxter
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 2003
Bruce Nolan toils as a 'human interest' television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y., but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God—and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.


TOP 16: Foxcatcher

Character: John du Pont
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2014
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.


TOP 15: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Character: Brick Tamland
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2004
It's the 1970s, and San Diego super-sexist anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

TOP 14: Last Flag Flying

Character: Larry 'Doc' Shepherd
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2017
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Doc and his old buddies take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire. Along the way, the three men find themselves reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.


TOP 13: Despicable Me 2

Character: Gru (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2013
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.


TOP 12: Battle of the Sexes

Character: Bobby Riggs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2017
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.


TOP 11: And the Oscar Goes To...

Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

TOP 10: The Way Way Back

Character: Trent Ramsey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2013
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.


TOP 9: Vice

Character: Donald Rumsfeld
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2018
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.


TOP 8: Minions: Training Wheels

Character: Gru (voice) (uncredited)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2013
Margo, Edith, and Agnes spot an ice cream truck.The three of them go after the truck but Agnes falls as she attempts to pedal to the truck. The Minions, seeing her so upset by this, decide to build her a unicorn-themed motorcycle. Agnes goes for a little ride around town.


TOP 7: Despicable Me

Character: Gru (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2010
Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.


TOP 6: Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Character: Cal Weaver
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2011
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

TOP 5: The Big Short

Character: Mark Baum
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2015
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.


TOP 4: Freeheld

Character: Steven Goldstein
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2015
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.


TOP 3: Little Miss Sunshine

Character: Frank Ginsberg
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: Beautiful Boy

Character: David Sheff
Genre: Drama
Release: 2018
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.


TOP 1: Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show

Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Release: 2017
It had all the makings of a huge television success: a white-hot comic at the helm, a coveted primetime slot, and a pantheon of future comedy legends in the cast and crew. So why did The Dana Carvey Show—with a writers room and cast including then unknowns Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K., Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufman, and more— crash and burn so spectacularly? TOO FUNNY TO FAIL tells the hilarious true story of a crew of genius misfits who set out to make comedy history… and succeeded in a way they never intended.

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