79 Michael Shannon Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Phil, a TV weatherman at a local station in Pennsylvania is charming on screen, but off screen, he does not treat people nicely. However, his life takes a turn when, while covering an annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, he gets caught in a time loop and ends up living the same day repeatedly.

Harlan Thrombey, renowned crime novelist, who is also the patriarch of an eccentric family, passes away. The circumstances surrounding his death are mysterious, and everyone in the house becomes a suspect in the eyes of Detective Benoit Blanc, who is investigating his death. 

The neo-noir thriller follows art gallery owner Susan Morrow who receives and starts reading a manuscript written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield. Susan who is troubled by her current husband’s unfaithfulness finds parallels between her first marriage, her life, and that of the tragic story of the protagonist of the novel, Tony Hastings.  

Two teenagers Ellis and Neckbone discover fugitive Mud, wanted for murder ,living in a boat on a small island in the Mississippi River. They agree to help him reunite with his lover Juniper. But things take a violent turn when the family of the man he killed arrives to take revenge.  

Elisa is mute and leads a forlorn life working as a janitor at a secret high-security government laboratory. Her life takes a turn when she comes across and falls for a captured humanoid amphibian creature. She now has to protect the rare species from a classified experiment and ensure its safe return to waters.

Frank and April Wheeler appear completely happy and in love but Frank hates his job and April is frustrated with her failing ambition. They decide to move to Paris but April’s pregnancy and their affairs make things complicated. Ultimately, April dies while trying to perform a self-vaccum aspiration abortion and Frank is left a shell of a man.  

Two brothers, Andy and Hank, are desperately in need of money and so they decide to rob their parents’ jewelry shop, fully aware that the insurance will compensate the theft. But their plan goes awry when Hank hires a seasoned thief to execute the operation and their mother decides to fill in for the elderly shop assistant.  

Despite financial woes due to their handicapped daughter’s special needs, the LaForches are a happy couple. But trouble starts when Curtis LaForche begins to have visions and dreams about an apocalyptic storm and also about betrayal by people close to him. He begins to behave strangely, improving the storm shelter in his backyard, resulting in a strain on their marriage. Will love survive?. 

A child molester returns to his hometown after spending over a decade in prison. He attempts to start a new life, and gets a job at a lumber mill. He also suspects that a man loitering near a schoolyard might be trying to victimize a young girl.  

Based on the DC Comics character Superman, the movie follows the story of Clark Kent as he realises that he is an alien with superpowers. He strives to find out his real home and the purpose for which he was sent to earth. However, when survivors from his planet attack earth, he must rise and save the humanity from annihilation.

Containing autobiographical elements of Eminem’s life, the movie tells the story of white rapper Rabbit, as he tries to establish a career in the hip-hop genre, which mostly features African-American artists. The movie also features the Academy Award-winning song “Lose Yourself”. 

A construction worker named Dennis who is in need of money, has no other choice, but to accept a job with a ruthless real estate broker Rick Carver. Rick is the same person who evicted Dennis and his family from their home.

Tigerland is a war drama film, which takes us to the time of the Vietnam War. It revolves around a group of American recruits who go through advanced training at Fort Polk, before heading for Vietnam to fight in the war. 

Virginia’s white construction worker Richard Loving falls in love with Mildred Jeter, a black family friend. Owing to Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws, they get married in Washington DC in 1958. Though they wish to continue living in their hometown, the state banishes them for 25 years. Their urge to return home leads to a legal battle, concluding in Supreme Court’s 1967 historic decision.  

A rich playboy David meets and falls in love with Sofia. His ex-lover Julie is jealous and ends up killing herself and severely disfiguring David’s face in a car accident. Medical help and Sofia’s love appear to heal David but there are strange incidences happening which David cannot understand. Difference between reality and dream becomes difficult to discern.

This drama film tells us about the life of a gentle young man, who retells his story about how he was introduced to heroin, how he fell in love, and how he became a petty criminal. However, he later begins to work on changing his life.   

Cold-blooded murderer and contract killer Richard Kuklinksi has managed to keep his professional life a secret from his wife and two daughters. When he is suspended from his killing business, he teams up with another mob hitman Pronge. But his increasing paranoia and rage threaten to unravel the life he has carefully built. 

It is based on the true story of former gang biker turned preacher Sam Childers. Sam witnesses the atrocities committed by the militia organization Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, who turn hundreds of children into orphans and abduct them. He decides to take up arms, rescue children kidnapped by the LRA and build a protected orphanage. 

Miami narcotics detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery are assigned to investigate the high flow of illegal drug Ecstasy into the city. The trail takes them to Johnny Tapia, the dangerous Cuban drug-lord all out to take over Miami’s drug business. Mike is dating Marcus’ sister Syd, who is working undercover with DEA. Together, they fight to bring Tapia to justice. 

New Orleans police sergeant, Terence McDonagh’s personal life is in mess.  He is not only addicted to painkiller thanks to an injury he suffered while saving a prisoner during Hurricane Katrina, but is also a habitual drug user and gambler. In addition, he also hobnobs with the underworld. But things begin to change when he is assigned to investigate the murders of five illegal immigrants.

After a cult tries to exploit 8 years old Alton Meyer who was born with extraordinary supernatural powers, his biological father, Roy, rescues the child. Now on the run from FBI and cult members, Roy must protect the child at all costs and help Alton to return to his real world. 

Laurel Hester, a New Jersey detective, wishes to leave her pension benefits to Stacie Andree, her domestic partner, after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. However, it is not as easy as it seems. The couple has to fight for equality and for that they earn support from activist Steven Goldstein and a hard-nosed colleague Dane Wells.

Rose is a young teenager who is in love with a boy named Bennett. However, her life takes a turn when Bennett is killed in a car crash, leaving behind his parents and a younger brother. When Rose learns that she is pregnant, she comes to Bennett’s family for support, since she has no one to turn back to.

Responsible for delivering a premium rush package, a bike messenger navigates the dangerous streets of New York on a bike with no brakes as he is chased by a dirty cop who wants to get his hands on the package at any cost. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Premium Rush is an action-packed thriller that keeps the viewers on the edge of their seats.

This is a biographical drama film about the well known rock band, The Runaways. It begins with the formation of the band in 1975 and then goes on to depict its journey until Cherie Currie’s departure from the scene, side by side focusing on the relationship between Currie and Joan Jett. 

After the 9/11 attacks, Captain Mitch Nelson leads a US Special Forces team into Afghanistan for a dangerous mission to take down the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies.

Fearing that Superman's alien powers are left unchecked, Batman launches a personal mission to get rid of the Kyrptonian, while the Man of Steel is also wary of Batman's form of justice. However, as they realize that they were both being manipulated by supervillain Lex Luthor, they must join forces with Wonder Woman to save mankind from an abomination.

Elvis Presley, famous actor and singer, shows up at the White House for a meeting with President Richard Nixon. Since Presley opposes the drug culture, he wants to become an undercover agent for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

Criminal is a comedy crime drama film which revolves around Rodrigo and Richard, two con-artists, who try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of a very rare currency bill.

It is a Christmas comedy stoner film celebrating the lifelong friendship between three young men. They have been spending the Christmas together since the death of Ethan Miller’s parents more than a decade ago. Now they want to put an end to the tradition and make special plans to make their last Christmas get together memorable. 

High Crimes is a mystery drama thriller film, which tells the story of a successful lawyer Claire Kubik who finds her world turned upside down when she learns that her husband has been living under a false name, and has a hidden past as a classified military operative. When he is arrested by the military police, she decides to defend her husband in a top-secret military court.  

Rafe and Danny, two boyhood friends, join WWII as first lieutenants and Rafe falls in love with Evelyn, a nurse. Rafe, who volunteers to fight with the British, is shot down and is presumed dead, while Evelyn finds solace in the company of Danny. However, Rafe comes back on the eve of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor.

This crime thriller comedy film tells the story of an insane independent filmmaker, who along with his group of teen cinema enthusiasts, kidnaps a movie star and forces her to act in their underground movie.

Detective Havenhurst and his partner Detective Vargas receive a call, and they drive to the scene of a murder. They find the body of Mrs McCullam, who was stabbed with an antique sword. They soon realize that the murderer is her son Brad, when he takes two hostages in the house across the street. It soon seems that Brad is delusional and has lost touch with reality.

Agnes, a lonely waitress who has suffered tragedy, escapes her abusive husband and moves in a cheap motel. Through a colleague, she meets paranoiac ex-soldier Peter Evans with whom she has an affair. As they find bugs in bed, Peter discloses that he was submitted to army-experiments involving bugs. Soon, the demarcation between reality and delusion starts diminishing for the nervous pair.   

She’s Funny That Way is a comedy film which tells the story of a playwright, who is beginning a new project, but things get complicated when on the set, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover and the actress working in the production who is a former call girl.     

While patrolling the area, Port Authority Police Officers, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno, witness a plane flying too low. Back in the police station, they learn about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and immediately set out to help in evacuation. In the process, they themselves are trapped under the rubble, where they wait for hours before they are rescued by US Marines. 

Vince overhears a man talking about quick paying job before he dies of drug overdose. Vince, who is in dire need of money, takes on his identity and travels to New York without any idea about the job. Inadvertently, he walks into concealed world of wealthy gamblers who played a high-stakes Russian roulette game, placing bets on who’ll survive. Vince has #13. 

A teen girl named Maryann moves in with her grandparents, after her parents pass away. She soon befriends their neighbor, Andy, a boy bound to a wheelchair. His parents Katherine and Richard are quite overprotective of him, and despite the fact that they don’t want Andy meeting any visitors, Maryann and Andy continue to meet. Katherine begins to assault Andy verbally as well as physically, when the meetings don’t stop. Feeling that something is definitely not right, Maryann decides to investigate.  

In order to take revenge against a judge who has sent him to prison multiple times, a thief plans revenge. When the judge’s son lands in prison, the thief gets into prison himself, to make the former’s life a living nightmare.

Huck Cheever is a talented poker player living in Las Vegas, who is trying to secure a seat in a tournament. However, at the same time, he also has to deal with his personal problems.  

This science fiction drama film takes us to a dystopian future where water is very scarce. The film revolves around a farmer who defends his land, and although everyone else has left, he believes that there is hope and the land can be rejuvenated once again. However, things get ugly when his daughter’s boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.  

Chain Reaction is an action sci-fi drama film, which tells the story of a physicist, Lily, and Eddie, an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago. The two are framed for the murder of a high profile scientist and also accused of stealing a formula.  

Molly is the owner of a small sweet shop. Joel, who works for a gigantic candy company, is assigned to shut her down. However, the two start falling for one another.

Fahrenheit 451 is a drama film which takes us to a dystopian future and tells the story of a ‘fireman’, whose job is to burn books which are now considered illegal. However he begins to question his actions after meeting a young woman.

Jonah Hex was a Confederate Cavalryman until his commander ordered him to burn down a hospital. Today, he is a bounty hunter with a warrant on his head and an ability to temporarily resurrect the dead.  The US military now wants him to stop his ex-commander from unleashing chaos across the country, an offer he cannot refuse. 

Two childhood friends get involved with the mob, and are forced to deliver some money to Australia. Things get complicated when their money is lost to a wild kangaroo.