What is the best Steve McQueen movie?

By YPB Team

Prison camps, poker tables, rodeos and one very long car chase. Sixteen films, one very consistent squint.

  1. Bullitt — ranked #11
    Bullitt
    The 1968 police thriller built around a ten-minute Mustang chase through San Francisco.
    1000pts
  2. The Blob — ranked #22
    The Blob
    The 1958 creature feature that gave him his first leading role.
    794pts
  3. The Thomas Crown Affair — ranked #33
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    A 1968 heist picture with McQueen as a bored millionaire robbing his own city.
    681pts
  4. Junior Bonner — ranked #44
    Junior Bonner
    A quiet 1972 rodeo film, and the least typical role of his late career.
    661pts
  5. Hell Is for Heroes — ranked #55
    Hell Is for Heroes
    A stark 1962 war film directed by Don Siegel.
    661pts
  6. The Magnificent Seven — ranked #66
    The Magnificent Seven
    The 1960 western that turned a supporting role into a career.
    529pts
  7. Nevada Smith — ranked #77
    Nevada Smith
    A 1966 revenge western in which he plays a young man tracking his parents' killers.
    529pts
  8. Tom Horn — ranked #88
    Tom Horn
    A 1980 western, one of the last two films he completed.
    448pts
  9. The Great Escape — ranked #99
    The Great Escape
    The 1963 prisoner-of-war film with the motorcycle jump McQueen is still remembered for.
    448pts
  10. The Reivers — ranked #1010
    The Reivers
    A 1969 Faulkner adaptation, gentler than anything else on his list.
    353pts
  11. The Towering Inferno — ranked #1111
    The Towering Inferno
    A 1974 disaster epic that made him one of the highest-paid actors alive.
    353pts
  12. The Cincinnati Kid — ranked #1212
    The Cincinnati Kid
    A 1965 card drama in which McQueen plays a young stud-poker player chasing the best.
    353pts
  13. The Sand Pebbles — ranked #1313
    The Sand Pebbles
    A 1966 gunboat drama that brought McQueen his only Academy Award nomination.
    241pts
  14. Le Mans — ranked #1414
    Le Mans
    A 1971 racing film with almost no dialogue and a great deal of real footage.
    240pts
  15. Papillon — ranked #1515
    Papillon
    A 1973 prison drama opposite Dustin Hoffman, and McQueen's most demanding performance.
    106pts

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