Direction: Ron Howard

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Ron Howard. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Ransom

1996 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Mel Gibson · René Russo · Gary Sinise · Delroy Lindo

Plot Tom Mullen is a millionaire, he built his fortune by working hard. Along the way he learned how to play the game. He has a great family. One day his...

5.6

19K votes

5.6

19K votes

The Missing

2003 · Movie · 137 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Cate Blanchett · Tommy Lee Jones · Evan Rachel Wood · Aaron Eckhart

Plot Cate Blanchett is Maggie, a young plainswoman raising her daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily (Evan Rachel Wood) is kidnapped by an Apache shaman, a...

5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

Night Shift

1982 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Michael Keaton · Shelley Long · Henry Winkler · Kevin Costner

Plot A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for...

5.4

543 votes

5.4

543 votes

Gung Ho

1986 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

5.2

557 votes

5.2

557 votes

Parenthood

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Steve Martin · Jason Robards · Mary Steenburgen · Dianne Wiest

Plot The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the...

5.1

3K votes

5.1

3K votes

Inferno

2016 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Tom Hanks · Felicity Jones · Ben Foster · Irrfan Khan

Plot After waking up in a hospital room in Florence, Italy, with no memory of what has occurred for the last few days. Robert Langdon suddenly finds himself the target of...

5.1

14K votes

5.1

14K votes

Splash

1984 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Tom Hanks · Daryl Hannah · Eugene Levy · John Candy

Plot Tom Hanks is a lonely bachelor in New York; Daryl Hannah is the mystery woman who brings romance into his life. What he doesn't know is that she's a mermaid!...

5.0

20K votes

5.0

20K votes

EDtv

1999 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Jenna Elfman · Woody Harrelson · Sally Kirkland

Plot A television network that specializes in Reality format decides to have a program where in they show the life of an ordinary guy. And the guy they choose is Ed,...

5.0

6K votes

5.0

6K votes

Grand Theft Auto

1977 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Ron Howard · Nancy Morgan · Marion Ross · Peter Isacksen

Plot Paula Powers, daughter of wealthy gubernatorial candidate Bigby Powers, decides to reject her parents' attempt at matchmaking and run off to Vegas to marry her sweetheart, Sam Freeman. As they...

4.5

82 votes

4.5

82 votes

The Dilemma

2011 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Vince Vaughn · Kevin James · Jennifer Connelly · Winona Ryder

Plot Vince Vaughn and Kevin James headline an all-star comedy from director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer about a man who finds out that what you don't say to a...

4.4

4K votes

4.4

4K votes

Presidential Reunion (S)

2010 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard · Jake Szymanski

Cast Will Ferrell · Jim Carrey · Dana Carvey · Chevy Chase

Plot It is a comedic short film in which Barack Obama (played by Fred Armisen) dialogues with other US presidents.

4.3

56 votes

4.3

56 votes

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2000 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Jim Carrey · Rachel Bailit · Jeffrey Tambor · Christine Baranski

Plot Inside a snowflake, high atop Mt. Crumpit, just north of town, a certain cave-dwelling curmudgeon peers down on the Christmas-adoring Whos of Whoville as they make their frantic Yuletide preparation....

4.3

20K votes

4.3

20K votes

Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic (S)

2010 · Movie · 2 min. · United States

3.1

27 votes

3.1

27 votes

Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore and Death (S)

1969 · Movie · 2 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Clint Howard

3.0

106 votes

3.0

106 votes

Skyward (TV)

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Howard Hesseman · Bette Davis · Marion Ross · Clu Gulager

Plot An aging Bette Davis is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she...

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Cotton Candy (TV)

1978 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Charles Martin Smith · Clint Howard · Leslie King · Kevin Lee Miller

Plot A group of high school friends form a rock band

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Made in America

2013 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Jay-Z · D'Angelo · Dirty Projectors · Gary Clark Jr.

Plot Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard joins us onstage for a live conversation, preceded by the world premiere of his star-studded concert documentary (screening at the Festival alongside Howard’s Rush), which...

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The Shrinking of Treehorn

2023 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Plot This follows a young man who begins shrinking in size after playing a strange board game, which goes largely unnoticed by his parents.

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Breakthrough (TV Series)

2015 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Angela Bassett · Peter Berg · Paul Giamatti · Akiva Goldsman

Cast Mike Colter · Steven Austad · Nir Barzilai · Angela Bassett

Plot An anthology of leading scientists and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements will change our lives in the immediate future and beyond. The series intends to bring to life the...

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Eden

2024 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Ana de Armas · Jude Law · Vanessa Kirby · Daniel Brühl

Plot Follows a group of people fueled by a profound desire for change, in order to turn their back to society they leave everything behind and set their futures on the...

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Not rated