Johnny Depp films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 67 films on Boxlist

Known for Ebenezer, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Donnie Brasco.

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Ebenezer
2026 · Film
8.6/10 · TMDB
An elderly miser embarks on a supernatural journey after visits from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come force him to confront his past and fight for a second chance at...
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for...
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Donnie Brasco
1997 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents...
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Platoon
1986 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Corpse Bride
2005 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land...
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 18th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
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Edward Scissorhands
1990 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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21 Jump Street
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students...
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Ed Wood
1994 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
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Rango
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is...
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Lost in La Mancha
2002 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
2008 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it...
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Black Mass
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.
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Finding Neverland
2004 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her three children—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan'.
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Showbiz Kids
2020 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
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Arizona Dream
1993 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to...
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Before Night Falls
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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Public Enemies
2009 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover...
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Dead Man
1995 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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Minamata
2020 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
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Benny & Joon
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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Blow
2001 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes...
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Cry-Baby
1990 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash...
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Chocolat
2000 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When...
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When You're Strange
2010 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison— made The Doors one of America's most iconic and influential rock bands. Using footage shot...
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Don Juan DeMarco
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davy Jones to avoid eternal damnation.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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Into the Woods
2014 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
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Jeanne du Barry
2023 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.
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From Hell
2001 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
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Tusk
2014 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.
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Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
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The Ninth Gate
1999 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
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Secret Window
2004 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his...
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Waiting for the Barbarians
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend...
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The Rum Diary
2011 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the...
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Dark Shadows
2012 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
2011 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge...
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The Brave
1997 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Nick of Time
1995 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle...
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The Libertine
2004 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
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The Man Who Cried
2000 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
The Lone Ranger
2013 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The...
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The Professor
2019 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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Transcendence
2014 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
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The Tourist
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elsie on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye. Remake of the 2005 French film "Anthony Zimmer", written and directed by Jérôme Salle.
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Sherlock Gnomes
2018 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renown detective, Sherlock Gnomes, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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The Astronaut's Wife
1999 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality...
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific...
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Private Resort
1985 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Jack and his buddy Ben check in at a posh Florida resort, planning to spend every hour in hot pursuit of gorgeous babes. But their plans hit a major detour when they try to bed the wife of a conniving jewel thief. They'll have to outsmart...
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Mortdecai
2015 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
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Yoga Hosers
2016 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans.
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Jack and Jill
2011 · Film
4.3/10 · TMDB
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to...
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Johnny Depp films, ranked by your taste

Starring Johnny Depp

Directed by Johnny Depp