| | Man of Steel (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $291.02M Lead Role: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, | Director: Zack Snyder, Clark Kent, one of the last of an extinguished race disguised as an unremarkable human, is forced to reveal his identity when Earth is invaded by an army of survivors who threaten to bring the planet to the brink of destruction. |
| | The Shape of Water (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 87 | Earnings: $50.66M Lead Role: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones, | Director: Guillermo del Toro, At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. |
| | Take Shelter (2011)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $1.73M Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, | Director: Jeff Nichols, Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. |
| | Nocturnal Animals (2016)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $10.64M Lead Role: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, | Director: Tom Ford, A wealthy art gallery owner receives a draft of her ex-husband's new novel, and once she starts reading it she just cannot put it down. |
| | Midnight Special (2016)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $3.71M Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, | Director: Jeff Nichols, A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers. |
| | Shotgun Stories (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $0.05M Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs, Michael Abbott Jr., | Director: Jeff Nichols, Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... |
| | 99 Homes (2014)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $1.41M Lead Role: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown, | Director: Ramin Bahrani, A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration. |
| | Premium Rush (2012)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $20.28M Lead Role: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Sean Kennedy, | Director: David Koepp, In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city. |
| | The Iceman (2012)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $1.94M Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Winona Ryder, | Director: Ariel Vromen, The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession. |
| | The Runaways (2010)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $3.57M Lead Role: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Stella Maeve, | Director: Floria Sigismondi, A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored. |
| | What They Had (2018)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $0.26M Lead Role: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner, | Director: Elizabeth Chomko, Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together. |
| | The Harvest (2013)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Samantha Morton, Michael Shannon, Natasha Calis, Charlie Tahan, | Director: John McNaughton, A couple who keeps their sick son in a secluded environment find their controlled lives challenged by a young girl who moves in next door. |
| | 12 Strong (2018)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 54 | Earnings: $45.50M Lead Role: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban, | Director: Nicolai Fuglsig, 12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. |
| | Bug (2006)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $7.01M Lead Role: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr., Lynn Collins, | Director: William Friedkin, An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation. |
| | Elvis & Nixon (2016)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $1.03M Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, | Director: Liza Johnson, The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives. |
| | Return (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $0.01M Lead Role: Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery, Talia Balsam, | Director: Liza Johnson, A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life. |
| | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, | Director: Werner Herzog, Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword. |
| | Machine Gun Preacher (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 43 | Earnings: $0.54M Lead Role: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker, | Director: Marc Forster, Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers. |
| | The Missing Person (2009)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $0.02M Lead Role: Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan, Linda Emond, | Director: Noah Buschel, Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed ... |
| | Frank & Lola (2016)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Imogen Poots, Michael Shannon, Justin Long, Rosanna Arquette, | Director: Matthew Ross, A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption. |
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