All movies starring Matthew McConaughey

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Gold (2016) ★ 6.7

Genres: Crime Drama
The story of Kenny Wells, a modern-day gold prospector, a grizzled businessman and dreamer who desperately awaits a chance to turn his fortunes around. Left with few options, Wells finds an equally unsuccessful partner, a geologist, to carry out a grand plan: to find gold in the uncharted Indonesian jungle.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) ★ 5.8

Connor Mead is a womanizer who can dump three girlfriends. At the same time. By conference call. So when he gets to his brother's wedding, his only goal is to seduce the bridesmaid who hasn't yet fallen into his net. But the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne - the same one who taught him to fall in love with women and leave them - has another thing on his mind.

He wants to restore Connor's faith in true love, and that's a real challenge, one that will require the help of the Ghosts of Ex-Girlfriends.

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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) ★ 7.3

Mickey Holler is a brilliant and successful lawyer from Los Angeles, whose flamboyant image and lifestyle are perfectly complemented by his beloved Lincoln car. Another case - the assault of a rich client Louis Roulet on a prostitute at first seemed easy, and he easily obtained an acquittal for the defendant. But Mickey soon realizes that his client is hiding the truth. While Holler is trying to expose Roulet, he is being framed in a big way, and now the threat of imprisonment hangs over Holler himself.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) poster

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) ★ 6.4

Genres: Comedy Romance
Journalist Andy Anderson decides to write an article on "Typical Mistakes Women Make to Drive Men Away". She plans to find a guy, get an acquaintance, and then get him to break up with her by his behavior. The editor gives her ten days to do this. To Andy's misfortune, her choice falls on a young advertising agent, Benjamin Barry, who has just made a bet with his boss that he can make a girl fall in love with him in ten days. Can such a strange acquaintance, based on a gamble and mixed up in lies, lead to reciprocity?
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Failure to Launch (2006) ★ 5.6

Genres: Comedy Romance

Despite being in his 30s, the handsome Tripp has been hesitant to leave his father's house and get his own family nest. Every time he finds a good reason, in his opinion, for this.

But one day Tripp's parents took it upon themselves to arrange his fate. They hired a beautiful and talented girl, hoping that their son, falling in love with her, will finally leave their home...

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The Gentlemen (2019) ★ 7.8

An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
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White Boy Rick (2018) ★ 6.5

Genres: Crime Drama
The story of Richard Vershey Jr. who, at age 14, became the youngest FBI informant to save his father from prison.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) poster

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) ★ 8.0

Genres: Biography Drama
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
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Contact (1997) ★ 7.5

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
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The Dark Tower (2017) ★ 5.6

A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.
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The Wedding Planner (2001) ★ 5.3

Genres: Comedy Romance
Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom.
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Fool's Gold (2008) ★ 5.7

A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure -- and their estranged romance.
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Sahara (2005) ★ 6.0

Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
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Sing (2016) ★ 7.1

In a city of humanoid animals, a hustling theater impresario's attempt to save his theater with a singing competition becomes grander than he anticipates even as its finalists find that their lives will never be the same.
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Sing 2 (2021) ★ 7.4

Buster Moon and his friends must persuade reclusive rock star Clay Calloway to join them for the opening of a new show.
Dazed and Confused (1993) poster

Dazed and Confused (1993) ★ 7.6

Genres: Comedy
It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
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Mud (2012) ★ 7.4

Genres: Drama
Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
Frailty (2001) poster

Frailty (2001) ★ 7.2

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
A Time to Kill (1996) poster

A Time to Kill (1996) ★ 7.4

In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan.
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We Are Marshall (2006) ★ 7.0

Genres: Drama Sport
In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?
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Bernie (2011) ★ 6.8

We meet Bernie Tiede (1958- ), a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work. He's a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas (pop. 7,000), where old ladies adore him; he befriends a wealthy, mean-spirited widow named Marjorie Nugent; they become companions in both daily routines and expensive vacations. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie. Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do?
The Sea of Trees (2015) poster

The Sea of Trees (2015) ★ 6.1

Arthur Brennan treks into Aokigahara, known as The Sea of Trees, a mysterious dense forest at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji where people go to commit suicide. On his journey to the suicide forest, he encounters Takumi Nakamura, a Japanese man who has lost his way after attempting suicide. The two men begin a journey of reflection and survival, which affirms Arthur's will to live and reconnects him to his love for his wife.
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Serenity (2019) ★ 5.3

Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) tracks him down with a desperate plea for help. She begs Dill to save her - and their young son - from her new, violent husband (Jason Clarke) by taking him out to sea on a fishing excursion, only to throw him to the sharks and leave him for dead. Karen's appearance thrusts Dill back into a life he'd tried to forget, and as he struggles between right and wrong, his world is plunged into a new reality that may not be all that it seems.
The Beach Bum (2019) poster

The Beach Bum (2019) ★ 5.5

Genres: Comedy
A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
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Amistad (1997) ★ 7.3

Amistad is the name of a slave ship travelling from Cuba to the U.S. in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been sold into slavery in Cuba, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing from Cuba to the U.S., Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find their way back to Africa. Instead, they are misdirected and when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams (Sir Anthony Hopkins) makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release.
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Free State of Jones (2016) ★ 6.9

Set during the Civil War, Free State of Jones tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.
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Killer Joe (2011) ★ 6.7

Genres: Drama Thriller
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police detective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) poster

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) ★ 7.7

Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.