What is the best Vin Diesel movie of all time?

By YPB Team

From muscle-car franchise blockbusters and a scene-stealing voice role to gritty indie dramas he wrote and starred in decades earlier, this filmography swings between mainstream spectacle and quiet character work. Which side of Vin Diesel's career deserves the top spot?

Fast Five — ranked #11
Fast Five
Widely considered the franchise's creative peak, where Dom's crew pulls off a Rio heist and the series pivots to full heist-action.
1000pts
Furious 7 — ranked #22
Furious 7
The emotional franchise high point, doubling as an in-story farewell to co-star Paul Walker after his death mid-production.
999pts
Find Me Guilty — ranked #33
Find Me Guilty
A Sidney Lumet-directed courtroom dramedy where Diesel plays real-life mobster Jackie DiNorscio defending himself at his own racketeering trial.
964pts
The Fate of the Furious — ranked #44
The Fate of the Furious
Dom is blackmailed into betraying his crew in this franchise entry that leans further into globe-trotting spy-action territory.
856pts
Boiler Room — ranked #55
Boiler Room
Diesel plays a slick, morally ambiguous stockbroker in this drama about a shady brokerage firm.
749pts
Guardians of the Galaxy — ranked #66
Guardians of the Galaxy
Diesel voices Groot, the tree-like alien whose "I am Groot" became a pop-culture catchphrase across the MCU.
749pts
Multi-Facial — ranked #77
Multi-Facial
A self-financed short film Diesel wrote, directed, and starred in about a mixed-race actor struggling in Hollywood, which caught Spielberg's attention.
749pts
Bloodshot — ranked #88
Bloodshot
Diesel plays a slain soldier resurrected as a nanotech-powered super-soldier in this comic-book adaptation.
749pts
The Chronicles of Riddick — ranked #99
The Chronicles of Riddick
A big-budget sci-fi epic expanding Riddick's universe as he's drawn into a war against a galactic army.
749pts
Pitch Black — ranked #1010
Pitch Black
Diesel's breakout leading-man role as the antihero Riddick, an escaped convict who becomes humanity's best hope when monsters attack a crashed spaceship crew.
749pts
F9 — ranked #1111
F9
Dom confronts his estranged brother Jakob in an increasingly over-the-top late-franchise entry.
681pts
The Fast and the Furious — ranked #1212
The Fast and the Furious
The film that launched the franchise and made Diesel a star, with him originating Dominic Toretto in a street-racing heist thriller.
599pts
Riddick — ranked #1313
Riddick
The third installment, stripping the story back to a survivalist sci-fi thriller on a hostile alien planet.
599pts
Strays — ranked #1414
Strays
Diesel's first feature, again self-written and directed, in which he stars as a small-time drug dealer trying to leave that life behind.
599pts
A Man Apart — ranked #1515
A Man Apart
Diesel stars as a DEA agent on a revenge-fueled mission against a drug cartel after tragedy strikes his family.
599pts
xXx — ranked #1616
xXx
Diesel headlines as extreme-sports-daredevil-turned-spy Xander Cage in this stunt-heavy actioner that rivaled Fast & Furious for defining his star persona.
599pts
The Pacifier — ranked #1717
The Pacifier
A family-comedy left turn where Diesel plays a Navy SEAL assigned to babysit an unruly family of kids.
599pts
Saving Private Ryan — ranked #1818
Saving Private Ryan
Diesel appears as Private Adrian Caparzo in Spielberg's Best Picture-nominated WWII epic, the role that put him on Hollywood's radar.
499pts

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