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The Best Maya Rudolph Movies

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List of the best Maya Rudolph movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Maya Rudolph's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Maya Rudolph movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Maya Rudolph movies will be at the top of the list. Maya Rudolph has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Maya Rudolph movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Maya Rudolph films to end the squabble once and for all.

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Bridesmaids is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Best Maya Rudolph Movies

Bridesmaids Rose Byrne, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig

Bridesmaids is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Paul Feig, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend. The plot ...more

Idiocracy Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, Scarface

Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two ...more

Away We Go Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels

Away We Go is a 2009 comedy-drama directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The film stars John Krasinski, ...more

As Good as It Gets Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Julie Benz

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin. It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, homophobic, racist, ...more

Zookeeper Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Adam Sandler

Zookeeper is a 2011 American romantic comedy film starring Kevin James and featuring the voices of Nick Nolte, Sylvester Stallone, Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, Cher, Jon Favreau, and Faizon Love. ...more

A Prairie Home Companion Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones

A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Robert Altman in his final film. The film is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running ...more

Shrek the Third Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Eddie Murphy

Shrek the Third is a 2007 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film, and the third installment in the Shrek franchise. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and is the first in the series ...more

50 First Dates Drew Barrymore, Adam Sandler, Dan Aykroyd

50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by George Wing. The film stars Adam Sandler as a lothario veterinarian and Drew Barrymore as an ...more

Duplex Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Danny DeVito

Duplex is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Danny DeVito, and starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore. The film was called Our House for its release in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Gattaca Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Ethan Hawke

Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan ...more

Duets Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Giamatti, Maria Bello

Duets is a 2000 American road trip film co-produced and directed by Bruce Paltrow and written by John Byrum. The motion picture features an ensemble cast co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul ...more

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie is the 2004 counterpart film to the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which was also released in the same year. Directed by Adam McKay and written ...more

Grown Ups Salma Hayek, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock

Grown Ups is a 2010 American buddy comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, and written by Adam Sandler, who also stars in this film. Besides Sandler, the film co-stars Kevin James, Chris Rock, ...more

Turbo is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list The Best Maya Rudolph Movies

Turbo Snoop Dogg, Samuel L. Jackson, Ryan Reynolds

Turbo is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy sports film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is based on an original idea by David Soren, who also ...more

When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren Mike Tyson, Helen Mirren, Billy Crystal

When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren is a 2011 short comedy film directed by Lindsay Crystal.

Chuck & Buck Maya Rudolph, Mike White, Paul Weitz

Chuck & Buck is a 2000 comedy-drama film written by and starring Mike White, and directed by Miguel Arteta.

MacGruber Val Kilmer, Kristen Wiig, Chris Jericho (Fozzy)*

MacGruber is a 2010 American action comedy film based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, itself a parody of action-adventure television series MacGyver. Jorma Taccone of the ...more

Prop 8: The Musical Neil Patrick Harris, Jack Black, Lake Bell

Prop 8: The Musical is a 2008 short film directed by Adam Shankman and written by Marc Shaiman.

Friends with Kids Megan Fox, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig

Friends with Kids is a 2011 independent American ensemble romantic comedy that was written, produced, and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, who is also stars in the film. Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, ...more

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Halftime Special Maya Rudolph, Darrell Hammond, Will Forte

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Halftime Special is a 2003 comedy film directed by Beth- McCarthy Miller and James Signorelli.

The Happytime Murders Melissa McCarthy, Bill Barretta, Maya Rudolph

The Happytime Murders is a 2018 American puppet comedy thriller film directed by Brian Henson. In a world where puppets co-exist with humans as second class citizens, puppet private eye and ...more

The Lego Movie 2: The Second P... is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list The Best Maya Rudolph Movies

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is a 2019 3D computer-animated space action musical comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell. Now a Master Builder, life for Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt) is ...more

The Angry Birds Movie 2 is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list The Best Maya Rudolph Movies

The Angry Birds Movie 2 Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Leslie Jones

The Angry Birds Movie 2 (a.k.a. Angry Birds 2) is a 2019 computer-animated action comedy film directed by Thurop Van Orman, based on Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds video game series. The ...more

Fight for Your Right Revisited Kirsten Dunst, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell

"After the boys leave the party . . ." Quoting the description from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival site.

The Devil's Child Maya Rudolph, Kim Delaney, Matthew Lillard

The Devil's Child is a 1997 dramatic horror television movie. Written by Pablo F. Fenjves and Laurence Minkoff, and directed by Bobby Roth, the movie first aired on Lifetime Television in ...more