The best Melissa Leo’s movies

Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

14/09/1960 (63 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Melissa Leo’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Melissa Leo.
Genre:
Available on:
Year:

The Equalizer

The Equalizer
7.2/10
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

The Equalizer 2

The Equalizer 2
6.7/10
Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when a long-time girl friend is murdered.

Olympus Has Fallen

Olympus Has Fallen
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 20/03/2013
  • Character: Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

Prisoners

Prisoners
8.2/10
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the driver, but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.

Oblivion

Oblivion
7/10
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

London Has Fallen

London Has Fallen
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 02/03/2016
  • Character: Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

Flight

Flight
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/2012
  • Character: Ellen Block
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

The Fighter

The Fighter
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/12/2010
  • Character: Alice Eklund-Ward
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

The Big Short

The Big Short
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/12/2015
  • Character: Georgia Hale
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Thunder Force

Thunder Force
4.5/10
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek
5.9/10
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

Novitiate

Novitiate
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/2017
  • Character: Reverend Mother
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

Snowden

Snowden
7.3/10
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Red State

Red State
6.1/10
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.

Mr. Woodcock

Mr. Woodcock
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/09/2007
  • Character: Sally Jansen
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.

The Alphabet Killer

The Alphabet Killer
5.2/10
Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubled police officer determined to solve them, with or without the help of her department

Welcome to the Rileys

Welcome to the Rileys
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/2010
  • Character: Lois Riley
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.

Conviction

Conviction
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/2010
  • Character: Nancy Taylor
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.

According to Greta

According to Greta
6.1/10
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.

Ida Red

Ida Red
5.6/10
Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.

Related actors