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Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as... more

Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.

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There Will Be Blood
(2007)
Drama
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slo...
Runtime:
158 min
Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier, Ciarán Hinds, Ciarán Hinds
8.2
91%
93
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12 Years a Slave
(2013)
Drama, History
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian a...
Runtime:
134 min
8.1
N/A
96
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The Batman
(2022)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
Runtime:
177 min
Director:
Ben Affleck
Cast:
Robert Pattinson, Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Ben Affleck, Zoë Kravitz
7.8
85%
72
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Little Miss Sunshine
(2006)
Comedy, Drama
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast:
Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
7.8
91%
80
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Looper
(2012)
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day...
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Rian Johnson
Cast:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
7.4
93%
84
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Ruby Sparks
(2012)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabb...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast:
Antonio Banderas, Alia Shawkat, Paul Dano, Deborah Ann Woll, Annette Bening
7.2
79%
67
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Okja
(2017)
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Bong Joon-ho
Cast:
Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Tilda Swinton, Ahn Seo-Hyun , Jake Gyllenhaal
7.3
87%
75
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The Girl Next Door
(2004)
Comedy, Romance
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate h...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Luke Greenfield
Cast:
Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant, Elisha Cuthbert, James Remar, Chris Marquette
6.7
56%
47
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Youth
(2015)
Comedy, Drama
Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead...
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast:
Michael Caine, Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda
7.3
74%
64
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Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
Drama, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Spike Jonze
Cast:
Max Records, Catherine Keener, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Spike Jonze
6.7
73%
71
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Knight and Day
(2010)
Action, Comedy
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
James Mangold
Cast:
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas
6.3
52%
46
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Love & Mercy
(2015)
Drama, History, Music
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
Runtime:
120 min
7.4
N/A
80
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Cowboys & Aliens
(2011)
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in ...
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Jon Favreau
Cast:
Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano
6.0
43%
50
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Taking Lives
(2004)
Crime, Thriller
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
D. J. Caruso
Cast:
Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez
6.2
22%
38
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War and Peace
(2016)
Drama, History, Romance, War
Sumptuous BBC mini-series following the fortunes and the rise and fall of five aristocratic families in the waning days of imperial Russia.
Runtime:
379 min
8.2
N/A
N/A
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Taking Woodstock
(2009)
Comedy, Drama, Music
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business fo...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Ang Lee
Cast:
Emile Hirsch, Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton
6.7
47%
55
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The Mummy
(2017)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Andy Muschietti
Cast:
Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, Paula Patton, Sofia Boutella
5.5
15%
34
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The Emperor's Club
(2002)
Drama, Romance
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that wil...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Michael Hoffman
Cast:
Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Embeth Davidtz, Rob Morrow, Purva Bedi
6.9
50%
49
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Fast Food Nation
(2006)
Comedy, Drama
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Richard Linklater
Cast:
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancón, Greg Kinnear, Luis Guzmán
6.3
49%
64
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L.I.E.
(2001)
Crime, Drama
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he loses nearly everything and everyone he knows and is left to navigate his adolescence vir...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Michael Cuesta
Cast:
Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Brian Cox, Billy Kay, James Costa
7.1
84%
73
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Being Flynn
(2012)
Drama
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
Runtime:
102 min
6.4
51%
53
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose
(2005)
Drama
Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. Th...
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Rebecca Miller
Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Ryan McDonald, Paul Dano
6.6
47%
59
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Meek's Cutoff
(2010)
Drama, Western
Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Kelly Reichardt
Cast:
Paul Dano, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Neal Huff, Michelle Williams
6.6
86%
85
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The King
(2006)
Drama
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis ...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
James Marsh
Cast:
Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Pell James, Paul Dano, Laura Harring
6.7
77%
58
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Gigantic
(2008)
Comedy, Romance
Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he meets at his mattress store. As their relationship flourishes, unbeknownst to them, a hitman is trying to kill Brian.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Matt Aselton
Cast:
Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Paul Dano, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander
6.0
36%
38
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The Good Heart
(2009)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitt...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Dagur Kári
Cast:
Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Stephanie Szostak, Isild Le Besco, Bill Buell
6.9
30%
40
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The Extra Man
(2010)
Comedy
THE EXTRA MAN is a sophisticated and moving comedy from filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. THE EXTRA MAN follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, ...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Cast:
Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Dan Hedaya
5.9
42%
56
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For Ellen
(2012)
Drama
After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Kim So-yong
Cast:
Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Jena Malone, Margarita Levieva, Shaylena Mandigo
6.0
66%
61
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Too Young to Be a Dad
(2002)
Drama, TV Movie
When 15-year-old, Matt Freeman, gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the decision, but begins to rethink it. This movie is taken from the father's point of view.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Éva Gárdos
Cast:
Kathy Baker, Paul Dano, Katie Stuart
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Explicit Ills
(2008)
Drama
The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Mark Webber
Cast:
Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano, Jermaine Crawford, Rebecca Comerford, Martin Cepeda
5.7
54%
54
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Weapons
(2007)
Crime, Drama
Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Adam Bhala Lough
Cast:
Nick Cannon, Paul Dano, Mark Webber, Riley Smith, Regine Nehy
4.8
N/A
N/A
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The Newcomers
(2000)
Drama, Family
A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
James Allen Bradley
Cast:
Christopher McCoy, Matt McCoy, Kate Bosworth, Elizabeth Duff, Billy Kay
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Light and the Sufferer
(2008)
Drama, Science Fiction
Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York City for a new life in California only to find their plans--and lives--being forever changed by the appearance of a mysterious alien.
Runtime:
70 min
Director:
Christopher Peditto
Cast:
Paul Dano
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Prisoners
(2013)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 d...
Runtime:
153 min
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N/A
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