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Best Ted Levine movies

Today we present the best Ted Levine 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 Ted Levine:

TOP 25: Betrayed

Ted Levine as: Wes
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1988
An FBI agent (Debra Winger) falls in love with a white supremacist (Tom Berenger) whose group she infiltrates.


TOP 24: Evolution

Ted Levine as: General Russell Woodman
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Action
Release: 2001
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

TOP 23: Wonderland

Ted Levine as: Sam Nico
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 22: Nowhere to Run

Ted Levine as: Mr. Dunston
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Release: 1993
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.


TOP 21: Bullet

Ted Levine as: Louis Stein
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

TOP 20: Mad City

Ted Levine as: Lemke
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1997
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.


TOP 19: Deep Dark Canyon

Ted Levine as: Bloom Towne
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2013
Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's long-held allegiance to the reigning Cavanaugh clan is tested. Skylar (still a minor) decides to take the wrap for his older brother Nate, claiming he fired the fatal shot. The Cavanaugh family's quick retaliation sends Skylar on his way to county jail, soon to be tried as an adult. Desperate and guilt-ridden, Nate breaks Skylar out of jail and sets off a chain of lawless acts, which send them deep into the woods and on the run. Bloom's choice between the law and his sons leads to revelations of old family secrets that threaten to destroy everything he loves.


TOP 18: Georgia

Ted Levine as: Jake
Genre: Drama
Release: 1995
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.

TOP 17: The Manchurian Candidate

Ted Levine as: Colonel Howard
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Release: 2004
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.


TOP 16: The Hills Have Eyes

Ted Levine as: Big Bob Carter
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2006
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.


TOP 15: Joy Ride

Ted Levine as: Rusty Nail (Uncredited)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Release: 2001
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

TOP 14: Ironweed

Ted Levine as: Pocono Pete
Genre: Drama
Release: 1987
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explores their code of fairness and loyalty.


TOP 13: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Ted Levine as: Ken Wheatley
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2018
Three years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on Isla Nublar. So, Claire Dearing recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.


TOP 12: Bleed for This

Ted Levine as: Lou Duva
Genre: Drama
Release: 2016
The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who after a near fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports most incredible comebacks.


TOP 11: Ali

Ted Levine as: Joe Smiley
Genre: Drama
Release: 2001
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

TOP 10: The Fast and the Furious

Ted Levine as: Sgt. Tanner
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2001
Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.


TOP 9: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Ted Levine as: Sheriff Timberlake
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Release: 2007
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.


TOP 8: The Report

Ted Levine as: John Brennan
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2019
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.


TOP 7: Little Boy

Ted Levine as: Sam
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Release: 2015
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.


TOP 6: A Violent Separation

Ted Levine as: Ed Quinn
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2019
1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the victim's family towards a shattering climax.

TOP 5: American Gangster

Ted Levine as: Lou Toback
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 4: Memoirs of a Geisha

Ted Levine as: Colonel Derricks
Genre: Drama, Romance, History
Release: 2005
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.


TOP 3: Heat

Ted Levine as: Bosko
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1995
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.


TOP 2: Shutter Island

Ted Levine as: Warden
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Release: 2010
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.


TOP 1: The Silence of the Lambs

Ted Levine as: Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror
Release: 1991
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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