48 Steve Carell Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

After 7 year-old Olive Hoover qualifies for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, her whole dysfunctional family comes together for a cross-country trip from Albuquerque to California in their Volkswagen van. However, a series of disasters obstruct the way to their lofty dreams, including a vehicle breakdown and Olive being abandoned at a gas station.

Realizing the fragile United States housing bubble, eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry makes a huge bet against the housing market that attracts the attention of several opportunists like banker Jared Vennett and hedge-fund specialist Mark Baum. They make a fortune as the American economy collapse in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Cal Weaver is leading a life he loves. He is married to his high school sweetheart for almost 25 years, has two kids and a great job. However, his life takes a turn when he learns that his wife has been cheating on him and wants a divorce. He meets Jacob Palmer and learns how to pick up girls. But can this makeover really change his feelings? 

A coming-of-age film, The Way Way Back centres around a teenage boy, Duncan, who is dreading a beach holiday in Cape Cod with his mother and her hostile boyfriend but finds companionship and courage in a waterpark employee and a girl next door. Starring a motley bunch of supporting characters, this film features drama and comedy with a dash of romance.

Beautiful Boy is a drama film which tells the story of a young boy who seems to have everything in his life; being successful in academics, sports, as well as art. However, he is addicted to meth, which is apparently taking him to his destruction.

After a lot of struggles and challenges, Dick Cheney manages to become a powerful bureaucrat in Washington. Eventually he becomes the Vice President to George W Bush.

A sex comedy film that follows the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy and his friends who try to help him lose his virginity, the movie is full of funny moments filled with sexual innuendos. The film received positive reviews and was a commercial success. 

In 1970s San Diego, Ron Burgundy is a highly successful news anchorman in male-dominated Channel 4. However, the arrival of Veronica Corningstone, an ambitious woman aspiring to be a newswoman, changes the entire scenario. Ron becomes increasingly resentful of Veronica’s success beginning a fierce rivalry between the two.

When an affluent but eccentric John E. du Pont invites Mark Schultz to train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics at the former’s wrestling facility, the latter sees it as an opportunity to escape from the shadow of his more successful elder brother—Dave —and lead a better life. However, John’s capricious and self-destructive behaviour paves the way for the ultimate disaster.

Dan Burns writes family advice column for a newspaper, but is perhaps in need of some advice himself.  A widower, he is struggling to deal with his three teenage daughters and their problems. While visiting his parents along with his daughters on Thanksgiving, he comes across Marie with whom he feels an instant connect. Unfortunately, she has a boyfriend, and he is none other Dan’s own brother.

Thirty years after they had served in the Vietnam War, a former Navy Corpsman Larry, reunites with two of his old friends Sal and Richard, to bury his son, a young Marine, who was killed in the war in Iraq. On their way to New Hampshire, they come to terms with the shared memories of a war that still affects their lives.

After going through a particularly bad day, television reporter Bruce Nolan angrily blames God for treating him poorly. To his surprise, God responds and offers him godly powers to see if he could make things any better. Bruce wastes no time in satisfying all his desires, but leaves his surroundings in chaos due to his irresponsible actions.

With an asteroid on its way to obliterate Earth, insurance salesman, Dodge, bonds with his neighbor Penny. Penny decides to help Dodge reach Olivia, his former sweetheart while Dodge decides to help Penny reach England to see her family. On their trip, the two fall in love before the destruction of the world.  

Battle of the Sexes is an American biographical sports comedy film, which revolves around a true story of a tennis match between two tennis champions i.e. Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, which took place in the year 1973. 

A young Bronx man moves to Hollywood, where he falls madly in love with his uncle’s pretty secretary.  But when he learns that she is actually his uncle’s mistress he returns home heartbroken and begins to run a high-end nightclub with his brother. He also meets a beautiful socialite, whom he plans to marry. At this point, his old love walks back into his life.  

Minions 2: The Rise of Gru is a comedy film which tells the story of a twelve year old kid, who wants to become the world’s most dangerous super villain. Over time, he manages to gain few loyal followers, and also builds a lair. However, things don’t go as expected.

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.

After the identities of secret agents are compromised following an attack at the spy agency, CONTROL, analyst Maxwell Smart is finally promoted to field agent and is paired with experienced and beautiful Agent 99. As they attempt to foil an evil plan by the terrorist organization KAOS, they realize that their identities were also compromised by a double-agent.

This comedy drama film revolves around four writers who discuss the nature of comedy and tragedy over dinner, by narrating two different versions of the same story about a woman named Melinda.

Married Couple Phil and Claire Foster lead boring domestic lives and decide to go on a date night to a modern Manhattan restaurant. On reaching, Phil decides to impersonate the no-show Tripplehorns to get a reservation. Mistaken identities then lead to a life-threatening chase by corrupt cops and mobsters. 

As a sequel to a 2004 film, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is a 1980s-themed comedy that revolves around a San Diego news anchor, Ron Burgundy, who moves to New York to join a 24-hour news channel along with his former colleagues. Starring Will Ferrell as Burgundy, and other major stars, this film features family drama and hilarious professional rivalry too.

Kay and Arnold have been married for a long time, but they eventually find themselves losing the spark they had in their marriage. Things change when Kay decides to attend an intense, week-long counseling session to improve their relationship.  

Eleven years old Alexander Cooper feels left out by his family. One bad day begins with a gum stuck in his hair, which is then followed by series of calamities. But besieged with their own problems, his parents and siblings have no time to offer sympathy and he starts wondering if bad things happen only to him. 

Despite having no real interest in politics, Col. Jack Hastings eventually decides to run for mayor in his small conservative town. Gary Zimmer, a Democratic strategist, decides to help him.  

Rising executive Tim Conrad finds out that his boss hosts monthly dinners where the employee who brings in the most peculiar guest to be mocked at gains the prospect of a promotion. He rejects the invitation at first, but accepts when he finds the eccentric Barry Speck; however, the plan backfires and threatens to ruin his life.

Magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton have been hugely successful until Burt’s overbearing ego became unbearable. Challenged by the dangerous magician Steve Gray, Burt becomes even more careless and Anton ends their partnership. Down on his luck and a change of heart allows Burt to reconnect with Anton while preparing for a final showdown with Gray. 

Bill is a homeless man who meets a young orphaned girl, and they soon become partners in crime. In order to satisfy their hunger, they scam strangers. Their lives take a turn after they meet a divorce lawyer named Grey Ellison.

After winning a Congress seat, news anchorman Evan Baxter moves with his family to Northern Virginia. Shockingly, he receives God’s instructions to build an ark to save the life from a forthcoming flood. Though Evan ignores initially, he soon starts getting deliveries of tools, materials and pairs of all sorts of animals, and also finds himself turning slowly into Noah.

In order to improve their social status, four friends Julie, Hannah, Yancy and Farrah, decide to go out on an all night scavenger hunt against the most popular group of their school.

Narcissistic actor, Jack Wyatt ,is asked to play the role of Darrin in the movie version of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. He convinces a completely unknown and inexperienced Isabel to play the other lead, Samantha. Little does he know Isabel is an actual witch and he is about to be bewitched into love.  

Gru, a supervillain with an army of minions, decides to pull of the greatest heist in history by stealing the moon after his rival Vector successfully steals the Great Pyramid of Giza. He gets more than he bargained for when he adopts three cookie-selling orphan girls to infiltrate Vector's impenetrable base to retrieve a shrink-ray gun he needs.

The computer-animated comedy film Despicable Me 2 follows the adventures of Felonious Gru, a former supervillain turned father, and Lucy Wilde, an Anti-Villain League agent, who work together to solve the mystery of the theft of a highly potent mutagen known as PX-41. 

The elephant, Horton, discovers the tiny city of Whoville and all its residents—the Whosvresiding on a speck of dust. However, he can only hear them, not see them. Horton now has to race against time and convince other jungle animals to find a more stable environment for Whoville, as none of them can actually see Whoville.

Following a failed attempt to steal from hibernating bear Vincent, the cunning raccoon RJ promises to compensate within a week and convinces a group of forest animals that they can successfully raid the new human settlement separated by a thick hedge. Meanwhile, Gladys Sharp, the homeowners association president, hires an over-zealous exterminator to set booby traps in her yard.

From time immemorial, Minions have served despicable masters from T-rex to Napoleon, but are now master-less after managing to always harm their masters in some way. While searching for a new evil boss, Kevin, Stuart and Bob join the service of Scarlett Overkill, but enrage her with more blunders, threatening the survivals of their entire species.

Former super-villain turned agent for Anti-Villain League (AVL), Gru, is fired by the AVL for failing to capture Balthazar Bratt, a former child actor turned evil. While the mischievous minions hope, Gru will now return to crime, instead, he travels to Freedonia to meet his long lost twin brother, Dru, and they team up to bring Balthazar down. 

Soon after settling down in a quiet neighborhood with their infant child, Mac and Kelly Radner find out that the Delta Psi Beta fraternity has moved in next doors. The couple endures the fraternity's noisy parties for a while in order to appear cool, but is eventually forced to call the police, initiating a bitter conflict.

Homegrown is a black comedy thriller film which tells the story of Jack, Carter and Harlan, who work as farmhands for Malcolm, a marijuana harvester. Their lives turn upside down when their boss is killed, and the trio decide to take over the business. However, it soon seems that running the business is not as easy as they had imagined.