The best Peter Boyle’s movies

Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle

18/10/1935- 12/12/2006
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Peter Boyle’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 Peter Boyle.
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Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/02/1976
  • Character: Wizard
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Malcolm X

Malcolm X
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 18/11/1992
  • Character: Captain Green
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle
5.4/10
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/1974
  • Character: Frankenstein's Monster
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/04/1995
  • Character: Ox Callaghan
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Red Heat

Red Heat
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 17/06/1988
  • Character: Lou Donnelly
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
5.2/10
When Mystery, Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology, a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gang's most notorious villains...Could it be that their nemesis, mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo has returned and is trying to recreate their deadliest foes?

The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause
6.6/10
Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed, Father Christmas.

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
4.8/10
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa.

Species II

Species II
4.5/10
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

F.I.S.T.

F.I.S.T.
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/04/1978
  • Character: Max Graham
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

Monster's Ball

Monster's Ball
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/06/2001
  • Character: Buck Grotowski
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.

Outland

Outland
6.6/10
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.

Speed Zone

Speed Zone
4.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1989
  • Character: Police Chief Spiro T. Edsel
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.

The Candidate

The Candidate
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/06/1972
  • Character: Marvin Lucas
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Medium Cool

Medium Cool
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/08/1969
  • Character: Gun Clinic Manager
John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.

Where the Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam
6.5/10
Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard
5.9/10
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.

Hardcore

Hardcore
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/02/1979
  • Character: Andy Mast
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.

That Darn Cat

That Darn Cat
4.7/10
While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enlists skeptical law enforcement help to find the victim before it's too late.

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