| Fargo (1996)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $25.88M Lead Role: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, | Director: Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $45.95M Lead Role: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones, | Director: Martin McDonagh, A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. |
| Almost Famous (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $32.52M Lead Role: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, | Director: Cameron Crowe, A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. |
| Blood Simple. (1984)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $2.15M Lead Role: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, | Director: A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple. |
| The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $7.49M Lead Role: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, | Director: A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong. |
| Mississippi Burning (1988)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $34.60M Lead Role: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, | Director: Alan Parker, Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. |
| Wonder Boys (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $19.39M Lead Role: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., | Director: Curtis Hanson, An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in. |
| Burn After Reading (2008)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $60.34M Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich, | Director: A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it. |
| The Good Dinosaur (2015)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $123.07M Lead Role: Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Maleah Nipay-Padilla, Ryan Teeple, | Director: Peter Sohn, In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. |
| North Country (2005)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $18.32M Lead Role: Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand, Thomas Curtis, | Director: Niki Caro, A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. |
| Darkman (1990)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $33.88M Lead Role: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, | Director: Sam Raimi, A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive. |
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $12.29M Lead Role: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds, David Alexander, | Director: Bharat Nalluri, Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse. |
| This Must Be the Place (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $0.14M Lead Role: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, | Director: Paolo Sorrentino, Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II. |
| Friends with Money (2006)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $13.37M Lead Role: Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, | Director: Nicole Holofcener, After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. |
| Laurel Canyon (2002)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $3.66M Lead Role: Frances McDormand, Alessandro Nivola, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, | Director: Lisa Cholodenko, When an uptight young man and his fiancee move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up. |
| Promised Land (2012)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $7.56M Lead Role: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook, | Director: Gus Van Sant, A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. |
| Paradise Road (1997)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 48 | Earnings: $1.92M Lead Role: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, | Director: Bruce Beresford, Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery. |
| City by the Sea (2002)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 50 | Earnings: $22.43M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, James Franco, Frances McDormand, Eliza Dushku, | Director: Michael Caton-Jones, Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murderer. |
| Æon Flux (2005)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 36 | Earnings: $25.86M Lead Role: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo, Marton Csokas, | Director: Karyn Kusama, Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found. |
| Hidden Agenda (1990)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: $1.03M Lead Role: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, | Director: Ken Loach, When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ... |
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