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De Niro:

Ronin (1998)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Sleepers (1996)
Heat (1995)
Casino (1995)

Goodfellas (1990)
Midnight Run (1988)
Untouchables (1987)
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Patrick Swayze
(87-91)
Dirty Dancing
Road House
Ghost
Point Break

John Candy
(87-91)
Spaceballs
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Home Alone
JFK

Adam Sandler
(95-99)
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Bulletproof
The Wedding Singer
The Waterboy
Big Daddy

Brad Pitt
(95-99)
Seven
12 Monkees
Seven Years in Tibet
Meet Joe Black
Fight Club
And he's banging prime Jennifer Aniston
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Bale 05-10
Batman Begins
Rescue Dawn
The Prestige
3:10 to Yuma
The Dark Knight
Terminator Salvation
Public Enemies
The Porkchop Express
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Bill Murray 1980-1984

Caddyshack
Stripes
Tootsie
Ghostbusters
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John Belushi 1978 - 1981 (died in early 1982)

Animal House
1941
The Blues Brothers
Continental Divide
Neighbors
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Jerry Lewis (1957-1961)

The Sad Sack
The Geisha Boy
Don't Give Up the Ship
Cinderella
The Ladies Man

Marylin Monroe (1953-1957)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
River of No Return
The Seven Year Itch
Bus Stop
The Prince and the Showgirl
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Humphrey Bogart (1941 - 1946)

1941 - High Sierra
1941 - The Maltese Falcon
1942 - Casablanca
1943 - Sahara
1944 - To Have and Have Not

Bonus:
1946 - The Big Sleep
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TXTransplant said:

Julia Roberts

Her first run didn't quite span 5 years.
Mystic Pizza (88)
Steel Magnolias (89)
Pretty Woman (90)
Flatliners, Sleeping with the Enemy, Hook, and Dying Young (91)

My Best Friend's Wedding (97)
Notting Hill (99)
Runaway Bride (99)
Erin Brockovich (00)
Oceans 11 (01)
This was what popped in my head too. I'd be tempted to drop Mystic Pizza in 88 and add Pelican Brief in 93 purely because it was considered a huge deal at the time.

John Grisham was the hot writer and in fact you could even add him to this discussion. He had:

The Firm 93
The Pelican Brief 93
The Client 94
A Time to Kill 96
The Chamber 96
The Rainmaker 97

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Sticking with actresses:

Michelle Pfeiffer 87 - 91
The Witches of Eastwick
Married to the Mob
Tequila Sunrise
Dangerous Liaisons
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Russia House
Frankie and Johnny


It's tough because there's some weird gaps in her career so you miss Scarface in 83 because there isn't much in between. Then you miss Batman Begins. She has some other good ones in late 90s/early 2000s but again weird skips.

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Glenn Close is one that has also had some great roles but never a large accumulation within 5 years.

84 - 88

The Natural
Fatal Attraction
Dangerous Liaisons



Sigourney Weaver is another one that has some weird gaps and you can't quite catch them all in 5 years. In the same stretch as Close from 84 - 88
Ghostbusters
Aliens
Gorillas in the Mist
Working Girl
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Amy Adams 2012 - 2016
The Master
Man of Steel
Her
American Hustle
Batman vs Superman
Arrival
Nocturnal Animals
Bruce Almighty
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Orlando Bloom 2001-2005

All three LotR
Pirates of the Caribbean
Black Hawk Down
Troy
Kingdom of Heaven
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Jeff Bridges in his later career had a good mini-streak.

2008 - Ironman
2009 - Crazy Heart
2010 - Tron Legacy and True Grit


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Bill Paxton (RIP) was a solid 90s man.

1993 - Tombstone
1994 - True Lies
1995 - Apollo 13
1996 - Twister
1997 - Titanic
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Bloom and Paxton (RIP) both had some stellar runs there.

I, for one, actually liked Kingdom of Heaven and I never even saw the director's cut!
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Depending on what Tom Cruise takes on in the coming two years you have another huge possibility with
Top Gun Maverick
2 more Mission Impossible Movies
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Too lazy to look up, but Denzel?
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Sandra Bullock (1992-1996)

Love Potion No. 9
The Vanishing / Demolition Man
Speed
While You Were Sleeping / The Net
A Time to Kill
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GasPasser97 said:

Too lazy to look up, but Denzel?


You could pick any 5 year stretch from about 1999 to 2014 and hit 4-5 good movies.

Which gives me an idea for another thread: what's the longest stretch, time or most movies, from an actor/actress before they had a bad one?
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Average Joe said:

GasPasser97 said:

Too lazy to look up, but Denzel?


You could pick any 5 year stretch from about 1999 to 2014 and hit 4-5 good movies.

Which gives me an idea for another thread: what's the longest stretch, time or most movies, from an actor/actress before they had a bad one?


Daniel Day Lewis
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Was just about to post Denzel

2000-2004
Remember the Titans
Training Day
John Q
Antwone Fisher
Out of Time
Man on Fire
The Manchurian Candidate
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Average Joe said:

GasPasser97 said:

Too lazy to look up, but Denzel?
You could pick any 5 year stretch from about 1999 to 2014 and hit 4-5 good movies.

Which gives me an idea for another thread: what's the longest stretch, time or most movies, from an actor/actress before they had a bad one?
If not for J Edgar, it would be Leo from 2002 to present day. (Or up to 2021, Don't Look Up.)
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Wildcard- Corey Feldman

Gremlins 1984
The Goonies 1985
Stand By Me 1986
Lost Boys 1987
License to Drive 1988

extra The Burbs 1989
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Average Joe said:

GasPasser97 said:

Too lazy to look up, but Denzel?


You could pick any 5 year stretch from about 1999 to 2014 and hit 4-5 good movies.

Which gives me an idea for another thread: what's the longest stretch, time or most movies, from an actor/actress before they had a bad one?
You could grab almost any five years of his for sure going all the way back to 89

89-93
Glory (89)
Ricochet (91)
Malcolm X (92)
Much Ado (93)
Philadelphia (93)
The Pelican Brief (93)

95-99
Crimson Tide (95)
Virtuosity (95)
Devil in a Blue Dress (95)
Courage Under Fire (96)
The Preacher's Wife (96)
Fallen (98)
He Got Game (98)
The Siege (98)
The Bone Collector (99)
The Hurricane (99)

As listed by HawthornAggie above 00-04
Remember the Titans (00)
Training Day (01)
John Q (02)
Antwone Fisher (02)
Out of Time (03)
Man on Fire (04)
The Manchurian Candidate (04)

06-10
Inside Man (06)
Deja Vu (06)
American Gangster (07)
The Great Debaters (07)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (09)
The Book of Eli (10)
Unstoppable (10)

12-16
Safe House (12)
Flight (12)
2 Guns (13)
The Equalizer (14)
The Magnificent Seven (16)
Fences (16)

17-21
Roman J Israel, Esq. (17)
The Equalizer 2 (18)
The LIttle Things (21)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (21)

If you add on that he was on St. Elsewhere from 1982 - 1988 before that he's had one hell of a career. Four solid decades of being a main stream actor with Oscar/Golden Globe/SAG/Film Critic/Tony nominations and wins throughout.
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a.froman said:

Wildcard- Corey Feldman

Gremlins 1984
The Goonies 1985
Stand By Me 1986
Lost Boys 1987
License to Drive 1988

extra The Burbs 1989


Might as well throw in Friday the 13th Final Chapter for 84.
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Denzel is definitely in the running of winning any A-List longevity comparison. I think his peaks are lower than some others. But he is never down for long.
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DargelSkout said:

I don't even remember him in Apocalypse Now.
one of the opening scenes

he was an officer telling Martin Sheen to go kill Marlon Brando
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Sneaky fantastic one.

Val Kilmer 1991-1995

The Doors
True Romance
Tombstone
Batman Forever
Heat

Val Kilmer 1984-1988 is also strong

Top Secret!
Real Genius
Top Gun
Willow
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Not sure how this one got away from me. Probably the best run of the past decade by anyone not named Timothee Chalamet.

Florence Pugh 19-23

Midsommar
Little Women
Black Widow
Don't Worry Darling
The Wonder
Puss In Boots 2
A Good Person
Oppenheimer
Dune: Part 2
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Not sure how this one got away from me. Probably the best run of the past decade by anyone not named Timothee Chalamet.

Florence Pugh 19-23

Midsommar
Little Women
Black Widow
Don't Worry Darling
The Wonder
Puss In Boots 2
A Good Person
Oppenheimer
Dune: Part 2

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Nolan and Villenueve have earned the benefit of the doubt.
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a.froman said:

Wildcard- Corey Feldman

Gremlins 1984
The Goonies 1985
Stand By Me 1986
Lost Boys 1987
License to Drive 1988

extra The Burbs 1989
That's a strong list. Comparable runs for the era:

Anthony Michael Hall 1983-1985

Vacation
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science

Molly Ringwald 1984-1986

Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink

Emilio Estevez 1983-1987

The Outsiders
The Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Maximum Overdrive
Stakeout

or 1988-1982

Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Men At Work
Freejack
The Mighty Ducks

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Bruce Almighty
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Wesley Snipes 91-95

New Jack City
White Men Can't Jump
Passenger 57
Rising Sun
Demolition Man
To Wong Foo
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Gene Wilder 71-76

Willy Wonka
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (but were afraid to ask)
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Silver Streak
 
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