The 24 Best Anthony Hopkins Movies of All Time

From menacing psychological thrillers to quiet, Oscar-winning character studies, these films trace six decades of an actor who could be terrifying one year and heartbreaking the next. Cast your vote!

1. 1
   The Silence of the Lambs

   Hopkins' Oscar-winning turn as cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in this 1991 psychological thriller.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Father

   Hopkins won a second Oscar for this 2020 drama depicting an elderly man's disorienting descent into dementia.
   744pts
3. 3
   Fracture

   A 2007 courtroom thriller with Hopkins as a calculating engineer who nearly commits the perfect crime.
   663pts
4. 4
   The Remains of the Day

   A restrained 1993 drama starring Hopkins as an emotionally repressed English butler reflecting on a life of duty.
   609pts
5. 5
   Nixon

   Oliver Stone's 1995 biopic with Hopkins delivering a haunted portrayal of disgraced president Richard Nixon.
   609pts
6. 6
   Hannibal

   The 2001 sequel to Silence of the Lambs, with Hopkins reprising his iconic Hannibal Lecter role.
   609pts
7. 7
   Shadowlands

   A 1993 romantic drama with Hopkins as writer C.S. Lewis falling in love late in life.
   546pts
8. 8
   Legends of the Fall

   A sweeping 1994 family epic set in Montana, with Hopkins as a stern patriarch and retired colonel.
   546pts
9. 9
   Armageddon Time

   A 2022 coming-of-age drama with Hopkins as a warm, wise grandfather in 1980s Queens.
   473pts
10. 10
    Red Dragon

    A 2002 prequel thriller with Hopkins once again menacing as the imprisoned Hannibal Lecter.
    473pts
11. 11
    The Bounty

    A 1984 historical drama retelling the mutiny on HMS Bounty, with Hopkins as Captain William Bligh.
    473pts
12. 12
    84 Charing Cross Road

    A 1987 drama with Hopkins as a reserved London bookseller in a decades-long transatlantic correspondence.
    473pts
13. 13
    Instinct

    A 1999 psychological drama with Hopkins as an anthropologist gone feral after years living with gorillas.
    387pts
14. 14
    Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Francis Ford Coppola's lavish 1992 gothic horror, with Hopkins as vampire hunter Van Helsing.
    387pts
15. 15
    Magic

    A 1978 psychological horror film with Hopkins as a ventriloquist unraveling alongside his sinister dummy.
    387pts
16. 16
    The World's Fastest Indian

    A 2005 biographical drama with Hopkins as elderly speed-record chaser Burt Munro and his vintage motorcycle.
    387pts
17. 17
    The Mask of Zorro

    A 1998 swashbuckling adventure with Hopkins as the aging original Zorro training his successor.
    284pts
18. 18
    Howards End

    A 1992 Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, with Hopkins as a wealthy Edwardian businessman.
    284pts
19. 19
    The Two Popes

    A 2019 dramedy pairing Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI opposite Jonathan Pryce's Pope Francis.
    284pts
20. 20
    Thor

    Hopkins brings regal gravitas as Odin, ruler of Asgard, in Marvel's 2011 superhero origin film.
    158pts
21. 21
    The Elephant Man

    David Lynch's 1980 drama with Hopkins as the compassionate doctor who befriends a severely disfigured man.
    158pts
22. 22
    Amistad

    Steven Spielberg's 1997 historical drama with Hopkins as former U.S. president John Quincy Adams.
    158pts
23. 23
    Hitchcock

    A 2012 biopic with Hopkins transforming into legendary director Alfred Hitchcock during the making of Psycho.
    158pts
24. 24
    Meet Joe Black

    A 1998 romantic fantasy with Hopkins as a media mogul confronted by Death taking human form.
    158pts