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Birthdate: October 5, 1951
Karen Allen
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1970s
2.5702
3
1980s
2.4610
12
1990s
2.4050
9
2000s
2.4304
10
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5870
2.5870
Karen Allen Movie Rankings
1
4.0000In 1936, as WWII looms near, Indiana Jones is hired by the Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments and mystical powers. Meanwhile, agents of Hitler are also seeking the Ark. ...more about Raiders of the Lost Ark
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $31.99
(4 sellers)
2
3.5666This movie focuses on the life of 42-year-old Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) who is going through a midlife crisis. His wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), leaves him for another woman which provokes a relationship with Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old high school student who falls in love with him. ...more about Manhattan
DVD from $5.69
(14 sellers)
3
3.2014This year Dean Wormer promises to expel a group of ragtag fraternity misfits that insists on humiliating him and his establishment. While the frat is on "double secret probation," they continue their crazy antics until they are kicked out of school. ...more about Animal House
DVD from $4.81
(14 sellers)
4
3.1110
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt (Tom Wilkinson) is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth (Sissy Spacek), is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank (Nick Stahl), is home from his first year of college. ...more about In the Bedroom
DVD from $7.02
(12 sellers)
5
3.0896
Chronicling the life of civil rights leader Malcolm X from childhood, through prison and Islamic enlightenment. ...more about Malcolm X
DVD from $4.60
(15 sellers)
6
2.9454
In 1957, Indiana Jones is thrust back in action, venturing into the jungles of South America in a race against Soviet agents to find the mystical Crystal Skull. ...more about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.8629
Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. ...more about Starman
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actress
DVD from $3.41
(12 sellers)
8
2.8327
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. ...more about Perfect Storm
DVD from $3.99
(13 sellers)
9
2.7802
Depression era movie. The protagonist is a little boy whose mother is forced into a sanitarium and father gets a job as a traveling salesman. The boy fends for himself in a seedy SRO hotel. ...more about King of the Hill
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.6946
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he's part of the local baseball buddies. ...more about Sandlot
DVD from $6.99
(13 sellers)
11
2.6576
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. ...more about Cruising
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.6540
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. ...more about Scrooged
DVD from $4.94
(15 sellers)
14
2.4410
Vera (Neve Campbell) is a femme fatale for the 21st century; a beautiful, capricious young woman living in New York whom begins exploring the limits of her sexual and intellectual power. ...more about When Will I Be Loved
DVD from $9.99
(8 sellers)
15
2.3986
A picturesque Pacific Northwest community raising its wheat and children in the midst of a nation reeling from World War I sets the stage for The Basket, starring Peter Coyote and Karen Allen. ...more about Basket
DVD from $6.20
(9 sellers)
16
2.1972
Shortly after World War I, a new teacher (Coyote) brings basketball to a school in a small Pacific Northwest town. He helps to unite the town during a tense period which includes the immigration to the United States of German citizens. ...more about Basket
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.1357
Briar Patch is a modern, Southern Gothic tale of true love and murder. It centers on Inez Macbeth (Dominique Swain), a wisp of a girl just a shade over twenty, who may lack a formal education, but has already been taught plenty by life. ...more about Briar Patch
DVD from $4.75
(13 sellers)
18
2.0663
On the day of his son's third birthday, without discussion with his wife or even leaving a note, Manhattan architect Cal gets in the family Volvo and starts driving. Marriage is suffocating him. ...more about World Traveler
DVD from $15.97
(7 sellers)
19
2.0557
Actor Awards
- Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actress (Mejor Actriz Extranjera)
- Not Available on DVD
20
1.7359
This contemporary road movie tells the story of a restless, thirty-something New Yorker (Crudup) who, one day, simply drives off, leaving his wife, baby and home behind. ...more about World Traveler
- Not Available on DVD
22
1.6874
Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. ...more about Ghost in the Machine
DVD from $6.97
(8 sellers)
23
1.6438
Con artist Harry Reynolds is released from prison armed with his partners research for a new scam. ...more about Sweet Talker
DVD from $3.99
(8 sellers)
24
1.6404
Henry Cray has gone away to college and is enjoying the liberty of coming out, away from his family, especially his father -- a powerful, conservative U.S. senator. ...more about Poster Boy
DVD from $15.97
(11 sellers)
25
1.5752
Shell-shocked Vietnam veteran Donny is pushed to the point of suicide by his wife Mara, who wants him dead so that she can inherit his fortune and be with her lover. The plan begins to backfire when Mara's lover disappears and she meets Reed. ...more about Backfire
- Not Available on DVD
26
1.5478
A fifteen year marraige dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. ...more about Shoot the Moon
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.3697
Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students (Brad Davis, Karen Allen and Jameson Parker) bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals. ...more about Small Circle of Friends
DVD from $6.75
(8 sellers)
28
0.9747
Mo Alexander's bad luck is that she misses the plane in Paris carrying her tour group and her luggage. On top of this, she finds that it will take several days for the travel agent to work out the problem. ...more about Until September
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
29
0.6529
After 4 years, Clifford Harnish returns to his hometown of Pocahontas, Virginia, hoping to save his family and make for himself the happy childhood he never had. Unfortunately, he has arrived just in time to see his parents' divorce made final. ...more about Turning
- Not Available on DVD
30
0.4611
In a sort of "Mad Max" futuristic adventure, an international sport has been established where a driver of a computerized truck must drive across country to an established terminus and not be stopped by other vehicles. ...more about Terminus
- Not Available on DVD
31
The beautiful biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees: instead of machines she uses a simple sign language. Her research and competition with ignorant colleagues lets her overlook the amorous approaches of cellist Mark. ...more about Animal Behavior
- Not Available on DVD
32
Emily (Brittany Murphy), a young girl coming of age in lower class Las Vegas, must deal with her alcoholic mother, Resse (Karen Allen). ...more about Falling Sky
- Not Available on DVD
34
Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out of it, they hire a guy who kidnaps and then de-programs him. ...more about Split Image
- Not Available on DVD
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