81 Allison Janney Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Middle-aged magazine executive Lester Burnham abhors his job, is unhappy with his loveless marriage to ambitious real estate agent Carolyn, and is hated by his moody teenage daughter Jane. Unaware of his wife's extramarital affair, Lester suddenly falls for Jane's sexually experienced classmate Angela, which affects his life and those around him in a tragic way.

Based on a book of the same name, The Help details the daily life and problems of African-American maids in the early 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement, through the eyes and writing of an aspiring author, who hopes to publish a book about this topic.

A young independent teenage girl, Juno, becomes pregnant and with the help of her best friend, Leah, sets out to find a family to adopt her child. The events that follow make her take some challenging decisions and discover her true self.

The movie revolves around the lives of three women of three different generations, Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf. Their lives are interconnected by Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway. The movie unfolds the personal struggles of each woman in the span of a single day in different decades ending with transcendent revelations. 

Tonya Harding, an extremely skilled figure skater, wins a lot of accolades when she becomes the first American woman to complete a triple axel during a competition in 1991. However, in 1994, her image is badly hurt when her ex-husband plots to harm another talented figure skater, Nancy Kerrigan. Consequently, Tonya is banned from participating in the national championship.

A coming-of-age film, The Way Way Back centres around a teenage boy, Duncan, who is dreading a beach holiday in Cape Cod with his mother and her hostile boyfriend but finds companionship and courage in a waterpark employee and a girl next door. Starring a motley bunch of supporting characters, this film features drama and comedy with a dash of romance.

This 1997 drama film revolves around several middle class families in New Canaan, in Connecticut, who find their lives beyond control, after an ice storm strikes.  

Cameron James, a high school student wants to date another student Bianaca Stratford; however, she cannot. Her father’s rule prevent her from dating anyone till the time her elder sister Kat begins dating first. To enable Bianca to date, Cameron attempts to set up the ill-tempered, aggressive and antisocial Kat with another rebellious boy – Patrick.

Two brothers are running an Italian restaurant. However, due to a rival restaurant, their business is not doing too well. In an effort to save the restaurant, the brothers try to impress a well-known American-Italian singer.

Bad Education is a comedy crime drama film which revolves around the superintendent of a school, who along with his assistants, become the prime suspects after a scandal is discovered.

Spy is about an unpretentious, desk-bound CIA analyst Susan Cooper, who actually is the unacknowledged backbone of many risky missions of the Agency. She supports the field agent by live-monitoring him, but when he gets removed from the scene, Cooper turns an undercover agent to track down Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov and the nuclear device, to avert a worldwide disaster

Away we Go is a comedy-drama film which tells the story of a couple expecting their first child, who travel around the entire US, to find a perfect place to start a family. 

Adapted from Howard Stern’s autobiographical book, the film follows the life and career of the radio star. After a difficult childhood, Stern studies communications with dreams of becoming a radio disc-jockey. In Washington, he forms a successful work-partnership with Robin Quivers, and also grabs attention of radio-fans with his trademark outrageous style, which soon leads him to his top position at New York’s WNBC. 

This biographical drama film chronicles the life of American singer and musician James Brown’s rise from poverty to one of the most recognized musicians in history.        

Troy Johnson, a high school student, supplies prescription drugs to his fellow students. However, when he suddenly commits suicide, the lives of the other students slowly start crumbling and descending into chaos and misery.  

Being tired of her boss’s sexual harassment, Gretchen Carlson decides to file a lawsuit against Fox News.  Her bravery encourages several other ambitious and strong women to come forward by risking their careers, leading into a liberation movement.

Christmas Flint is a young girl living in 1977 Georgia, who dreams of visiting outer space. Her life takes a turn when she learns about a contest that can give her the opportunity to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record. She teams up with a group of other misfits, and they infiltrate the Birdie Scout youth group, to win a talent show to get closer to her dream.  

After learning from his grandfather about a magical place for specially gifted children, Jacob sets out to search for Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children. When he discovers the enchanted place, Jacob realizes that he too has a special ‘ability’ that can help the inhabitants of that mysterious place to fight an imminent danger from macabre nemeses called Hollowgasts.

Sixteen years old plump Tracy Turnblad loves watching a teen dance TV show The Corny Collins Show. When she gets an opportunity to dance in the show, she quickly emerges as a popular performer. However, the manager of the TV station, Velma, is not happy with Tracy’s success. Meanwhile, Tracy encourages the idea of white and Negro kids dancing together on the show every day. 

A college adviser in New York returns to his alma mater for a professor’s retirement party. He finds himself falling for a college student named Zibby, and eventually a powerful attraction springs up between them. 

This critically acclaimed film was based on former US President Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in 1992. The film tells the story of Henry Burton who joins the presidential campaign of Jack Stanton, Governor of Arkansas, who is running for President.

A dissatisfied housewife, who is also an irresponsible mother, hires a young girl Tallulah to babysit her child. However, things get interesting when the girl decides to run away with the baby. Without a place to stay, she goes to her ex-boyfriend Nico’s mother’s house, telling her that the baby belongs to Nico and her.

When a 40 year old misanthrope enters a spelling bee contest using a loophole in the rules, both parents and organizers are irked. Nonetheless, he continues to win, eventually reaching the national contest in Los Angeles. On the flight, he meets a young boy under parental pressure, with whom he later becomes friend. But why has he entered the competition? 

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a romantic thriller comedy film, which revolves around the events of an annual beauty pageant in a small-town in Minnesota that turns ridiculously competitive and chaotic.

Rachel Watson, an alcoholic divorcee, daily watches Megan and Scott, an apparently perfect couple, from her train. One day, she sees something in their backyard that upsets her enough to get off the train. The next morning she finds herself covered with bruises with no memory of previous night, and learns that Megan is missing. So she decides to investigate the mystery. 

Dorey Walker, who is Cole’s Department Store’s special events director, decides to fire Tony Falacchi from being their Santa Claus after he gets drunk before taking part in the Thanksgiving Parade. He soon spots an elderly man whom he thinks will be a perfect Santa.

Lisa Cohen interacts with a bus driver, running alongside his bus, but this makes him distracted which leads to a fatal accident. Lisa accuses the driver of being responsible for the accident and the death of the woman who died in her arms. She files a lawsuit against the driver as well, but she ends up losing.

The Impostors is a comedy film which takes us to 1938 New York, and revolves around two men Arthur and Maurice, who earn a living swindling people. However, things get complicated for them, when they cross paths with a Shakespearean actor.

High school student, Bianca Piper, discovers that she is the DUFF or Designated Ugly Fat Friend or unpopular girl of the school, amongst her more attractive friends. Desperate to shed the image before homecoming, she enlists the help of popular school football player Wesley Rush to gain a complete makeover. 

Life During Wartime is a comedy drama film which tells the story of three sisters Trish, Joy and Helen, as they struggle to find love, forgiveness as well as purpose in a world that has been torn apart by war.

After witnessing her husband's murder, a Kansas waitress suffers a nervous breakdown and takes on the personality of a character from her favourite TV show. She begins to identify herself as a nurse and stalks the actor who plays a doctor on the show.

Celebrity is a comedy-drama film which revolves around a divorce couple, Lee and his insecure wife named Robin. After splitting, their lives change drastically as one’s life becomes a failure and the other one finds happiness and success.

The Rewrite is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning writer who takes up a teaching job at a university on the East Coast after losing his popularity in the film industry. He soon falls in love with one of his colleagues.

This romantic horror film tells us the story of Will Randall who becomes a werewolf, and finds himself full of vigor and youth. He fights to regain his job and to woo his former boss’s daughter Laura. 

Struck by Lightning is a comedy drama film which revolves around a high school senior Carson Phillips who is struck and killed by lightning. The film then goes into a flashback to the recent events of Carson’s life. The film shows how he starts a literary magazine and coerces his classmates to write for it, in order to get admittance to his dream college.

Laurel is a smart single woman who is trying to make it big in the Wall Street corporate world. After facing several prejudices, she learns that if she wants to find success, she will have to work for a much older man or become one.

A pregnant single woman Nina Borowski who is a social worker in New York City, invites her homosexual friend George to shift to her apartment after his breakup from his long time lover Robert. As Nina and George embark upon the journey of raising the child together, Nina realizes that she has actually fallen for George.

Strangers with Candy is a comedy film which tells the story of Jerri Blank, a former high school dropout who is released from prison at the age of 46. She returns to her childhood home, and discovers that her mother has passed away, and her father has got married again to a hateful woman named Sara. To make matters worse, she now has an arrogant half-brother and her father is in a coma. She decides to resume her life at where she left it, and decides to re-join her high-school.  

The Cowboy Way is a Western crime comedy action film which tells the story of two childhood friends, who are searching for their friend, who had gone missing while searching for his daughter. Their search takes them to New York City from New Mexico.                

In the middle of her holiday with her fiancé, Frank, in Makatea, magazine editor, Robin Monroe, is asked to fly to Tahiti. She hires bad-tempered and argumentative pilot, Quinn Harris. When a thunderstorm forces the plane to crash land on a desolate island, the two are forced to put their differences aside to survive.

A smooth talking literary agent uses his gift of gab to get various book deals until he meets his next target, a New Age guru called Dr. Sinja, who sees right through him. Shortly, a magical tree appears in his backyard and he is told that for every word he speaks the tree will lose one leaf and when all the leaves are gone he will die.  

The Oranges is a romantic comedy drama film which revolves around a man who begins to have an affair with his friend and his neighbor’s young daughter. This not only ruins the friendships between the families, but also throws their lives into total chaos.

Sue Ann is a middle-aged woman who allows a group of teenagers to party in her basement as long as they follow a few certain rules. This makes her quite popular among the students, but over some time, they get annoyed as Sue keeps harassing them to spend more time with her. To earn their trust back, Sue pretends to have cancer. They soon begin to question her intentions, and they try to investigate why Sue Ann is behaving the way she is.

Love seems like an alien concept for Halley, a teen girl, who has seen many examples of love gone wrong, including her divorced parents. Things take a turn when she meets a guy named Macon.

Tammy is a road comedy film, which tells the story of a woman who after losing her job, also finds out that her husband has been unfaithful to her. She decides to hit the road with her alcoholic grandmother. 

Marlin, a clown fish, is horrified after his son, Nemo, who has a lame right fin, is captured by underwater sea divers. He sets out on a perilous journey to rescue Nemo, accompanied by Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. Meanwhile, Nemo hatches an escape plan with the other fishes in a dentist's aquarium.

Dory, a regal blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss, regains some memory of her parents during a field trip and embarks on a journey to reach Jewel of Morro Bay, California, across the ocean. She is accompanied by her new family, clownfish Marlin and his son Nemo, and makes more friends along the way.

After being rejected by a potential owner, a talking dog named Mr Peabody, embarks on a life dedicated to science, technology and athletics. Eventually, he also adopts a son named Sherman. 

Following a failed attempt to steal from hibernating bear Vincent, the cunning raccoon RJ promises to compensate within a week and convinces a group of forest animals that they can successfully raid the new human settlement separated by a thick hedge. Meanwhile, Gladys Sharp, the homeowners association president, hires an over-zealous exterminator to set booby traps in her yard.

From time immemorial, Minions have served despicable masters from T-rex to Napoleon, but are now master-less after managing to always harm their masters in some way. While searching for a new evil boss, Kevin, Stuart and Bob join the service of Scarlett Overkill, but enrage her with more blunders, threatening the survivals of their entire species.

The Addams Family is an animated comedy fantasy horror film which tells the story of the eccentric Addams family, who moves to a suburb in New Jersey. They are soon targeted by a group of con artists, with the help of an accomplice who claims to a long-lost uncle of the family.