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  • American History X
  • American History X review by Sneakytryx from
    Rated - 5.0 stars The most important film of it's time! 4 July 2011
    ... given alot to this role as the ex best friend of Nortons character. Along with Fairuza Balk this is a more than competent cast that makes for a harrowing, tear jerking, up...   Read customer review
  • The Craft
  • The Craft review by A customer from London
    Rated - 0.0 stars Rrrrubbish 10 December 2007
    ... Decent enough idea, but very badly put together, particularly with the grating Fairuza Balk hamming it up in her role. Avoid avoid avoid!! ...   Read customer review
  • Personal Velocity
  • Personal Velocity review by from Berkshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars A triptych treat 10 October 2003
    ...e become. Her movie is about how these people reclaim themselves. Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk & Kyra Sedgwick give brilliant performances....   Read customer review

Fairuza Balk - filmography


  • Grindstone Road on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Fairuza Balk,  Greg Bryk,  Joan Gregson
    Director: Melanie Orr
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Young Daniel Sloan has been in an extended coma following a terrible car accident. His mother Hannah (Fairuza Balk) was driving at the time and is now suffering from massive guilt and extreme depression. In trying to put their recent tragedy behind them, Hannah and her husband Graham (Greg Bryk) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 775 members
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  • Don't Come Knocking on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jessica Lange,  Tim Roth,  Gabriel Mann
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,342 member
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  • Personal Velocity on DVD (2001)
    Starring: John Ventimiglia,  Kyra Sedgwick,  Fairuza Balk
    Director: Rebecca Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three very different women confront life-changing decisions in this film derived from Rebecca Miller's book of short stories. Each woman has reached a turning point in her life. Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) finally takes a stand and leaves her abusive husband, but still has to find a way to regain her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 552 members
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  • Red Letters on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Peter Coyote,  Nastassja Kinski,  Jeremy Piven
    Director: Bradley Battersby
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A university professor embarks on an affair with a convicted murderess, only to become convinced she's been the victim of a frame by a former lover. Soon, he begins a series of dogged attempts to convince a weary police detective of the truth.
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 74 members
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  • Almost Famous on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Kate Hudson,  Frances McDormand
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living every teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,359 members
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  • Almost Famous - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Kate Hudson,  Frances McDormand
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living every teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,389 member
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  • American History X on DVD (1998)
    Starring: William Russ,  Ethan Suplee,  Edward Norton
    Director: Tony Kaye
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Edward Norton gives an impassioned performance as Derek Vinyard, a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real world, he must now turn his attentions to his younger brother ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 48,974 members
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  • American History X - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Edward Norton,  Edward Furlong,  Beverly D'Angelo
    Director: Tony Kaye
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Edward Norton gives an impassioned performance as Derek Vinyard, a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of his ways. Upon reentering the real world, he must now turn his attentions to his younger brother ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 1,460 member
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  • The Waterboy on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Larry Gilliard,  Adam Sandler,  Kathy Bates
    Director: Frank Coraci
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler), the much-abused waterboy of a successful college football team, gets fired but finds his true calling as a player for the neighboring down-and-out team. Unfortunately, his Momma doesn't approve of football (or as she calls it, foosball) and Bobby has to keep his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 17,454 members
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  • The Island Of Dr Moreau on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  David Thewlis,  Marlon Brando
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Marlon Brando stars as the eponymous scientist in the third adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. The archetypal mad scientist, the good doctor has been conducting a number of experiments in his remote island kindom, producing a race of genetic mutants both man and beast in his quest to produce a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 1,495 member
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  • The Craft on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Breckin Meyer,  Fairuza Balk,  Assumpta Serna
    Director: Andrew Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After killing her mother in childbirth, growing up in San Francisco with her father and stepmother, attempting suicide, and moving to Los Angeles, Sarah (Robin Tunney) makes a brief stab at popularity at her new Catholic high school. Ostracized due to the untrue kiss-and-tell tales of football ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 8,305 members
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  • The Craft - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Breckin Meyer,  Fairuza Balk,  Assumpta Serna
    Director: Andrew Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four teenage girls, outsiders in their clique-ridden religious school, find an outlet for their pent-up hostilities when they form a supernatural coven. Armed with the power of the craft, these novice witches gleefully take vengeance on their enemies, but ultimately their indiscriminate use of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 301 members
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  • Gas Food Lodging (1992)
    Starring: Ione Skye,  Brooke Adams,  Fairuza Balk
    Director: Allison Anders
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 27 members
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  • Return To Oz on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Fairuza Balk,  Jean Marsh,  Nicol Williamson
    Director: Walter Murch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1899 Dorothy Gale returns to the land of Oz, only to find the enchanting Emerald City in ruins, and all her old friends have been captured by the Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi...
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,537 members
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  • The Worst Witch on DVD
    Starring: Diana Rigg,  Charlotte Rae,  Tim Curry
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Pupils turn into pigs, or disappear completely after swallowing the wrong potion. And it's usually down to one person, the worst witch at the school... Mildred Hubble. Not only is she forever falling off her broomstick, she also has terrible problems geting her spells and potions right. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 796 members
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Fairuza Balk facts

5 most recent films

Blood Into Wine - 4.0 stars
Grindstone Road - 2.5 stars
Don't Come Knocking - 2.5 stars
Deuces Wild - 3.0 stars
Personal Velocity - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

American History X - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
American History X - 4.0 stars
Almost Famous - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Almost Famous - 3.5 stars
The Waterboy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Toll Booth - 2.0 stars
Humboldt County - 2.5 stars
Deuces Wild - 3.0 stars
Gas Food Lodging - 3.5 stars
Blood Into Wine - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Noah Taylor - 4 times - show films
Billy Crudup - 3 times - show films
Stacy Keach - 3 times - show films
Frances McDormand - 3 times - show films
William Russ - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tony Kaye - 3 times - show films
Cameron Crowe - 3 times - show films
Gary Fleder - 2 times - show films
Andrew Fleming - 2 times - show films
Melanie Orr - 2 times - show films