82 James Cromwell Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Former death-row prison officer Paul Edgecomb recounts how the lives of the guards were affected after they received as inmate an enormous black man, John Coffey, convicted of raping and murdering two white girls. They began to question the conviction as they realize that Coffey was a kind-hearted person childishly afraid of darkness and possessed supernatural gifts.

Based on James Ellroy's 1990 bestselling novel, L.A. Confidential follows three LAPD officers—Bud White, Ed Exley and Jack Vincennes—as they go about investigating multiple murders at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop, in the early 1950s, in their own individual way.

Aspiring dancer Peppy Miller bumps into popular silent film hero George Valentin, following which she gets a break as an actress and the two develop feelings for each other. However, their budding romance suffers as Valentin's career fades away after production of silent films stops, while Miller becomes a prominent sound film actress.

As the eighth film in the popular science-fiction Star Trek series, Star Trek: First Contact sees Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise-E crew travel back in time to 2063 to stop the evil plans of cybernetic Borg and ensure Zefram Cochrane's warp drive flight. This movie has plenty of adventure, drama and action that is expected from a Star Trek franchise film.

The multiple awards-winning film deals with the reactions of the people, the Royal family, and the British Prime Minister after the death of Princess Diana. While the Queen considers Diana’s death as a private matter, the people expect a public expression of grief towards the death of the ‘People’s Princess’. PM Tony Blair tries to convince the Queen to pay a tribute. 

Based on the real-life case of ‘Hustler Magazine v. Falwell’, the movie finds Hustler magazine’s publisher, Harry Flynt, being dragged to the court by anti-pornography activists. After Flynt and his lawyer are shot by a zealot resulting in Flynt becoming paralyzed, he continues to fight for his rights becoming an unlikely icon for free-speech. 

Eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain invites five renowned private detectives to his castle for a ‘dinner and murder,’ and after sealing off his house, he challenges them to find the killer of a murder that will occur at midnight. He announces 1million for solving the case. Long before midnight, Twain’s blind butler, Bensonmum, is found dead. What is the mystery behind the tricky set-up?

The Snow Walker is an adventure drama film which tells the story of a pilot, whose flight over the Canadian Arctic runs into trouble. Soon, he finds himself stranded in the wilderness with only one passenger, who is an ill Inuit woman. He realizes that they both must now rely on each other to survive and make their way back to civilization.

Secretariat is a biographical sports drama film which tells the story of a young girl Penny, who takes charge of her father’s stable, despite having no experience or knowledge about horse racing. She soon enters the male-dominated business and creates history by winning the Triple Crown.

An NAACP lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, travels the country, primarily working to fight against racial prejudice. However, he takes on one of his career-defining cases, the one of defending Joseph Spell, an African-American man accused of rape.

The movie, inspired by Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology, is set in 2035. Extremely intelligent robots are all around and have been programmed to always carry out orders from humans and never harm them. However, when a scientist apparently commits suicide, detective Del Spooner must investigate whether robots actually killed him. In the process, he comes across something far bigger.

Based on the life of British author Jane Austen, the film depicts her lasting love for Tom Lefroy, at that time a penniless apprentice lawyer. An aspiring writer, she has many wealthy suitors; but chooses not accept them because such union may hamper her creativity. She cannot marry Tom either because his entire family depends on him. 

Farmer Arthur Hoggett wins the piglet Babe in a county fair contest and lets it to be raised with the puppies of Border Collie Fly and her mate Rex. After a fiasco involving Ferdinand, a duck who considers himself a rooster, and almost being selected for Christmas dinner, Babe attempts to impress Hoggett with his sheep-herding skills.

Kazuo, a Japanese American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor, who is also a fisherman. Since the World War II had just passed, the trial occurs in the midst of strong anti-Japanese sentiments, but a local journalist thinks of helping Kazuo prove his innocence, although he has an agenda of his own.       

Revenge of the Nerds is an American comedy film, which tells the story of a group of bullied outcasts and misfits at a college, who fight back for their peace and self-respect. 

Romeo is Bleeding is a crime thriller film which tells the story of Jack Grimaldi, a homicide detective with the NYDP who seems to have the perfect life.  However, actually he is quite corrupt, and works for a Mafia boss named Don Falcone in exchange for large cash bribes. Things get complicated when he is tasked to kill Mona, an assassin, who single-handedly takes on the cops and the mafia.

Frank, Hawk, Tank, and Jerry were top Air force test pilots belonging to Team Daedalus. Trained to become America’s first space travelers, they were later replaced by chimpanzees. Years later, when a failing Soviet communications satellite is in danger of crashing down on earth, NASA approaches Frank for help. He agrees on the condition that the he has the full Daedalus team to help him. 

Disgraced former NFL quarterback Paul Crewe lands in prison and is coerced by corrupt Warden Rudolf Hazen to form a beatable football team consisting of inmates. Crewe must unite the inmates if they are to survive brutality at the hands of the guards and win a game against Hazen’s own team of prison guards. 

Based on Tom Clancy’s novel, the movie follows CIA analyst Jack Ryan as he tries to uncover and stop a plot by an Austrian Neo-Nazi billionaire Richard Dressler. Dressler wants to start a nuclear war between the USA and Russia and create a Fascist Europe. 

The General’s Daughter is a mystery drama film, which tells the story of a daughter of an influential base commander, who gets murdered ruthlessly. Two undercover detectives are assigned to find the killer. 

The Man with Two Brains is a black comedy science fiction film which revolves around a brain surgeon whose life turns upside down when he gets married to a cunning and manipulative woman. Things get even more complicated when he falls in love with a talking brain.

Explorers is a science fiction film which tells the story of Ben, a young boy who likes watching science fiction films and playing video games and also reading comic books. His life takes an interesting turn when his friend builds a spacecraft which takes them to outer space.  

In future, barring few, most of the humans interact via their Robotic Surrogates. Any harm to surrogates does not harm its operators; however, when the operators of two surrogates die, the ideal world is shaken and FBI agents Tom Greer and Peters are tasked to investigate the case. As Tom investigates, he loses his own surrogate and in many years, he comes out in the world as himself.

W. is a biopic based on the life of Former US President George W Bush. The film revolves around the early years of George Bush, as he struggles to make his mark in the world. Deemed incapable by his father, he attempts at running an oil company, and then a baseball team, before he joins politics.  

Ellen and her husband Joe are on a boat trip, but due to an accident, Joe and many others end up drowning. Ellen tries to get compensation for the death of Joe, from the boating company, but she is unable to. She smells a fraud, and starts investigating, which leads her to a pair of lawyers, who is exploiting the financial system.

Just as Peter Parker seems to have achieved a balance between school, love life, and his vigilante alter-ego, a new threat arises when his suit turns black, enhancing his powers and amplifying the dark side of his character. He also has to tackle his old-friend-turned-sworn-enemy Harry Osborn and bring to justice uncle Ben's real killer, the Sandman.

The sci-fi disaster movie follows a group of astronauts on-board the Orion spacecraft, led by Commander Oren Monash and veteran astronaut Captain Spurgeon ‘Fish’ Tanner. The team races against time to stop the comet Wolf-Biederman from crashing into Earth and causing an extinction-level event.  

The Trials of Cate McCall is a drama film which revolves around a lawyer named Cate, who is struggling with alcoholism. She takes on a big case involving a woman named Lacey who is convicted of murder, hoping that it will help her get reinstated to the bar, and win back custody of her daughter. She is eventually able to prove Lacey’s innocence, but things get ugly when she finds out that Lacey is actually guilty. She gets obsessed with the case again, this time, in order to put Lacey back in prison once more.

There are no humans on Isla Nublar and remaining dinosaurs roam around the island. When a threat to the survival of these dinosaurs presents itself in the form of a dormant volcano that is on the verge of eruption, Claire and Owen come together to save the species from extinction. However, a conspiracy is unfolding that can destroy the planet’s way of life.

U.S. Marshal John Kruger’s job is to wipe out the identities of witnesses under the US witness protection programme. Lee Cullen is one of those he has to protect after she gives out proofs of illegal arms deal by a high profile defense contractor. However, when John figures out that his boss Robert Deguerin is a mole, his own life appears to be at risk.

Armenian origin apothecary Mikael Boghosian promises himself to a rich neighbor to fund his medical studies in Constantinople. There, he falls in love with Armenian origin woman Ana Khesarian, who is involved with American reporter Chris Myers. The love triangle becomes more complicated as the Ottoman government begins mass murder of Armenian people at the outbreak of WWI.

The Babe is a biographical sports drama film which tells the story of George Herman aka Babe, who grows from a troubled boy to one of the most skilled baseball players in record.  Although his popularity grows within a short time, the people who know him don’t seem to like him.

Babe, a little pig, emerges victorious in the sheep-herding contest. After he returns to his farm, he sees that Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work. Therefore, he decides to go to the big city to save the farm.    

After the chief resident of a teaching hospital suffers a breakdown, the young doctors are guided by a senior resident, who is a cynic.

Pink Cadillac is an action comedy film which tells the story of Lou Ann, who is being chased by a white supremacist group, of which her husband is a member. She has taken counterfeit money from them, and is running away with her husband’s car. In order to take revenge, her husband kidnaps her baby, which she had left with her sister.

A young man finds out that his grandfather has passed away, and left him the family business only under the condition that he gets married by 6:05 pm on his 30th birthday. Now, despite his commitment-phobic nature, he sets out to find a bride in less than one day.  

After their victory over the Alpha Beta fraternity at Adams College, a group of nerds head to Fort Lauderdale, to attend a national fraternity convention. However Alpha Beta is also present at the convention, and they are looking for a way to get even.

Nobody’s Perfekt is a comedy film which tells the story of three therapy patients, Dibley, whose is suffering from memory problems, Swaboda, who thinks his mother is still alive, and Walter, who has multiple personality disorder. When their car is wrecked by a pothole, they want the city to buy them a new car, but since they fail to get it legally, they try to extort the money from the mayor through a plan.

Astronaut Patrick Ross returns from first manned mission on Mars infected with an alien DNA. Soon he leaves a trail of females, died horribly while bearing half-alien off-springs. With help of genetically re-engineered alien Sil, the scientists create docile alien clone Eve to trace Ross. But Eve bolts to Ross to procreate……a purer alien race that can pose huge threat to mankind.

Soldiers of Fortune is an action thriller film which tells the story of a group of wealthy thrill-seekers who pay huge money to have themselves inserted into military adventures. McCenzie and Reed, two former soldiers, are hired to act as tour guides and bodyguards, so that they can not only provide them a realistic experience, but also protect them from harm.

Loosely based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, the film tells the story of Hiro Hamada, a young robotics prodigy who decides to form a superhero team to fight an unidentified masked villain. It became the highest-grossing animated film of 2014.

Spirit, a wild Mustang stallion is captured by US cavalry men who try to tame him. Despite being punished, Spirit resists and finally is saved by a young Native American, Little Creek. Spirit finds love in Rain, Little Creek’s pretty mare. He saves Little Creek’s life during an army raid, but later, Spirit gets captured. Will he re-unite with his loved ones?