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

The Silence of the Lambs

Hopkins' Oscar-winning turn as cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in this 1991 psychological thriller.

1000pts

2

The Father

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

744pts

3

Fracture

A 2007 courtroom thriller with Hopkins as a calculating engineer who nearly commits the perfect crime.

663pts

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

Nixon

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

609pts

6

Hannibal

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

609pts

7

Shadowlands

A 1993 romantic drama with Hopkins as writer C.S. Lewis falling in love late in life.

546pts

8

Legends of the Fall

A sweeping 1994 family epic set in Montana, with Hopkins as a stern patriarch and retired colonel.

546pts

9

Armageddon Time

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

473pts

10

Red Dragon

A 2002 prequel thriller with Hopkins once again menacing as the imprisoned Hannibal Lecter.

473pts

11

The Bounty

A 1984 historical drama retelling the mutiny on HMS Bounty, with Hopkins as Captain William Bligh.

473pts

12

84 Charing Cross Road

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

473pts

13

Instinct

A 1999 psychological drama with Hopkins as an anthropologist gone feral after years living with gorillas.

387pts

14

Bram Stoker's Dracula

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

387pts

15

Magic

A 1978 psychological horror film with Hopkins as a ventriloquist unraveling alongside his sinister dummy.

387pts

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

The Mask of Zorro

A 1998 swashbuckling adventure with Hopkins as the aging original Zorro training his successor.

284pts

18

Howards End

A 1992 Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, with Hopkins as a wealthy Edwardian businessman.

284pts

19

The Two Popes

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

284pts

20

Thor

Hopkins brings regal gravitas as Odin, ruler of Asgard, in Marvel's 2011 superhero origin film.

158pts

21

The Elephant Man

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

158pts

22

Amistad

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

158pts

23

Hitchcock

A 2012 biopic with Hopkins transforming into legendary director Alfred Hitchcock during the making of Psycho.

158pts

24

Meet Joe Black

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

158pts