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
Direction Ron Howard
Cast Michael Keaton · Gedde Watanabe · George Wendt · Mimi Rogers
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
Direction Ron Howard · Jake Szymanski
Cast Heidi Montag · Spencer Pratt
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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