# What are the best Robert Downey Jr. movies of all time?

> From scrappy indie darling to Hollywood’s biggest box-office force, RDJ has played icons, villains, geniuses, and everything in between. Which film is his best?

*By YPB Team · Published April 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-are-the-best-robert-downey-jr-movies-of-all-time*

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1. **Iron Man**
   A 2008 Marvel superhero film in which Downey Jr. plays billionaire Tony Stark who builds a powered suit and becomes Iron Man.
2. **Avengers: Endgame**
   A 2019 Marvel epic featuring Downey Jr.’s iconic final performance as Tony Stark in the emotional conclusion of the Infinity Saga.
3. **Chaplin**
   A 1992 biographical film in which Downey Jr. plays silent film legend Charlie Chaplin, earning him an Academy Award nomination.
4. **Tropic Thunder**
   A 2008 comedy in which Downey Jr. plays an Australian method actor who dyes his skin to play a Black soldier, earning an Oscar nomination.
5. **Oppenheimer**
   A 2023 Christopher Nolan epic in which Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, the antagonist who destroys Oppenheimer’s career, winning him the Academy Award.
6. **Sherlock Holmes**
   A 2009 action mystery in which Downey Jr. plays a witty, eccentric version of the famous fictional detective opposite Jude Law’s Watson.
7. **Kiss Kiss Bang Bang**
   A 2005 crime-comedy neo-noir in which Downey Jr. plays a bumbling thief mistaken for an actor who stumbles into a murder investigation.
8. **Zodiac**
   A 2007 David Fincher thriller in which Downey Jr. plays San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery investigating the Zodiac killer.
9. **The Judge**
   A 2014 courtroom drama in which Downey Jr. plays a hotshot lawyer who returns home to defend his estranged father accused of murder.
10. **Less Than Zero**
   A 1987 drama in which Downey Jr. plays Julian, a rich teenager spiraling into drug addiction in Los Angeles.
11. **Wonder Boys**
   A 2000 dark comedy-drama in which Downey Jr. plays a literary editor visiting a troubled novelist professor for the weekend.
12. **Heart and Souls**
   A 1993 fantasy comedy in which Downey Jr. plays a man who discovers he has been linked to four ghosts since birth.
13. **Due Date**
   A 2010 road comedy in which Downey Jr. plays an uptight father desperate to reach home in time for the birth of his child.
14. **Avengers: Infinity War**
   A 2018 Marvel epic in which Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark faces the ultimate threat as Thanos seeks to destroy half of all life.

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