Every Johnny Depp Movie Ranked From Worst to Best Part-1

From sailing the high seas to the misery of Mortdecai, here are Johnny Depp's films ranked from worst to best.
Johnny Depp has had a long and varied career of ups and downs, hits and misses, but how do his movies rank from worst to best? Beginning his career as a teen heartthrob in films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and the hit TV show 21 Jump Street, Depp quickly graduated to leading roles, eventually fostering a relationship with director Tim Burton.
It's with Burton that he developed a movie star persona that would become uniquely his, a mix of eccentric oddities and deeply-felt soulfulness. This peculiar presence would go on to shine in films like Edward Scissorhands and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, leading inevitably to his instantly-iconic turn as Captain Jack Sparrow. Currently, he's become embroiled in controversy, dropped from his role as the main villain in Warner Bros' Fantastic Beasts franchise.

Though his future acting prospects look dire at the moment, Depp's filmography remains a vast and varied collection, overflowing with lonesome outsiders, grim-faced gangsters, and pounds upon pounds of white makeup. A note for completionists, Minamata has not been included, as it's currently only in theaters with no streaming options announced. Also missing is City of Lies, which due to a lawsuit was pulled from its 2018 release date with no replacement announced. That said, here are the Johnny Depp's major films, ranked from worst to best.
50. Mortdecai

Misguided from conception to execution, Mortdecai is one of the most torturously unfunny movies one could possibly sit through. An action comedy without thrills or laughs, this Wes Anderson-wannabe is an extreme low point in the actor's career.
49. Lone Ranger

Johnny Depp playing the Lone Ranger's Native American sidekick Tonto is a piece of casting that feels more and more tone-deaf by the hour. Even despite that, this 2013 update from Pirates director Gore Verbinski and co-starring Armie Hammer is a fairly rote, uninspired piece of blockbuster filmmaking.
48. Private Resort

Depp's second film is a sophomoric sex comedy about two boys in Miami prowling for women when they encounter a jewel heist. It's an incredibly crass and laugh-deficient film that gives a peek at the wrong turn the actor's career could've taken had things not gotten more interesting.

47. The Tourist


Still one of the most bizarre films to be able to claim "multiple Golden Globe nominee" status, this barely-burning sizzler is a magic trick that transforms two of the most charismatic movie stars of their day into a screen couple with zero chemistry. The plot attempts to be a Hitchcockian game of cat and mouse. However, an overall lack of suspense or pace renders the whole film as mostly a banal exercise in watching attractive people in beautiful settings and little else.
46. Sherlock Gnomes

Sherlock Gnomes is the 2018 follow-up to Gnomeo and Juliet. As one can imagine, it's a Toy Story-esque twist on literary characters where instead of toys, the protagonists are garden gnomes. In this one, Depp voices a statuary version of Sherlock Holmes solving a missing persons case. This is squarely aimed at kids, with not much generation-crossing charm. Colorful but trite, no one is hailing this as an animated classic.
45. Alice Through The Looking Glass

Johnny Depp's first trip to Wonderland was already a muddled, Tim Burton-directed eyesore. This sequel makes the original look masterful by comparison. Swapping out Burton for James Bobin, this paint-by-numbers follow-up to the live-action remake ticks along on auto-pilot, with generic characterizations by Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, bland visual effects sequences, and a seemingly-checked-out Mia Wasikowska as Alice.
44. The Man Who Cried

This overwrought drama about a Russian Jewish girl in 1927 who escapes to England and meets a handsome horseman wavers dangerously close to self-parody. With a soapy plot, flat characters, and wooden dialogue, not even Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp can save this movie from itself.

43.The Astronaut's Wife

Depp and Charlize Theron give fine performances in this box office bomb. However, its story of an astronaut who returns from space a changed man has undoubtedly been done before and after with far more interesting and engaging results. Boring and derivative, this melodramatic slog never even remotely blasts off.
42. Alice In Wonderland

If one is looking for the point at which Johnny Depp's "I play pale weirdos" vibe crossed over into total tedium, his Futterwacken-ing turn as the Mad Hatter is definitely Exhibit A. While the prospect of Burton taking on Lewis Carroll's surreal classic at first seemed potentially tantalizing, the result sacrifices the original text's charm for a CGI-ridden "chosen one" narrative. While the film was a huge box office success, eventually picking up Oscar wins for Costume and Production Design, this is mostly the Burton-Depp collaboration at its most indulgent.
41. Transcendence

Wally Pfister, cinematographer of The Dark Knight and Inception, tried his hand at directing with this 2014 sci-fi film about a genius whose consciousness is uploaded to the Internet. It's a good-looking movie, but its intellectual depth is fairly shallow, and any attempts at emotional intimacy are impeded by thinly-drawn characters and generic performances. Overall, it falls far short of its titular goal.
40. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

Take a long last look, for Grindelwald will bear Johnny Depp's face no more. Appearing briefly at the end of this series' first installment, Depp's villainous wizard came into full authoritarian power in this sequel. The irony of ironies is that he and Jude Law may be the best parts of a film so frustratingly cluttered and wildly incomprehensible one wonders where the magic went.

39. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

The good news is, more Captain Jack Sparrow. The bad news? Well, this was all getting a bit tired even nearing the end of the original trilogy. The fifth installment casts Javier Bardem as yet another barnacle-esque baddie with yet another army of dead pirates. Even with a random Paul McCartney cameo, one can't help but feeling like Johnny Depp is the last one at a party that ended a long, long time ago.
38. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

This fourth installment sees the reins handed from Gore Verbinski to Chicago director Rob Marshall. It's less cluttered and noisy than its predecessor, At World's End, but in the process a lot duller, with a barely present Depp. A lumbering plot that trades in Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom for an undercooked mermaid romance doesn't help matters.
37. The Ninth Gate

More than 30 years after Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski returned to the subject of Satanism with this Depp-led chiller. It's a typical display of the director's style and visual panache, but the scares are limited and Depp is left playing a fairly one-note character. More forgiving audiences may make it through the first and second acts intrigued, but the film ultimately goes off the rails in a climax that verges on the ludicrous.

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36. The Libertine

Johnny Depp is actually quite dazzling as the Earl of Rochester, in a performance that fully embraces the downward spiral of a life spent reveling in debauchery. It's a shame the surrounding film can't quite hold a candle, at times lit so darkly one can scarcely see what's happening in the frame. As far as period dramas go, this one winds up a bit of a drag.
35. Corpse Bride

Burton's 12-years-later spiritual sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas lacks pretty much everything that makes that film so eminently charming. Depp's vocal performance feels entirely tossed off, as do the rest of the cast's. Danny Elfman songs and almost expressionless facial animation round out a film that, while praised at the time, holds up unforgivingly to second viewings.
34. Nick Of Time

A Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken screen pairing seems like a good time, and the prospect of Depp playing an action hero who has 75 minutes to kill the governor of L.A. is admittedly intriguing. The resulting film is by no means a total disappointment, a fairly rote '90s action thriller with a bonkers plot but solid pace. However, with actors as unique and admirably odd as Depp and Walken, this can't help but feel like a bit of a disappointment.
33. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End

After the surprise sensation of the original and a sequel which deepened the mythology but maintained most of the buoyancy of its predecessor, the third entry in the Pirates franchise makes the bizarre choice to drown its audience in a muddy mess of side characters, subplots, and set pieces for nearly three hours. Its main appeal is a Lynchian interlude with multiple Depps, crabs, and a peanut.
32. The Rum Diary

Aside from the cringey context of being the film where Depp and Amber Heard met, this ode to Hunter S. Thompson is a fairly sweet offering. A spiritual sequel to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary eschews that film's surreal Gilliam-isms for a more reserved sense of whimsy. The result is a film that's inherently more forgettable, but still far from the actor's worst work.
31. From Hell

Based on a graphic novel long before comic book movies became de rigeur, From Hell is a spin on the legend of Jack the Ripper. Depp plays Scotland Yard detective Fred Abberline in a delightful performance that mildly foreshadows the full-blast whimsy he'd embrace two years later as Captain Jack Sparrow. It's not a particularly frightening film, but there's a cleverness bubbling under this gruesome procedural that makes it solid midnight fare.
30. Black Mass

This 2015 crime drama was definitely pitched as an Oscar-play comeback for the actor, but it has a hard time forging its own path in the oft-treaded footfalls of the gangster genre. Depp's performance isn't bad, but his makeup-caked, thinned-hair look verges a bit on caricature. Beneath those added layers of artifice, there's something interesting going on, arguably one of his most dropped-in and committed performances in the latter portion of his career.
29. Blow

Blow wants desperately to be as gripping a rise-and-fall story as GoodFellas or Boogie Nights. Depp is in fine form as George Jung, the high-school football star turned premiere cocaine importer, and the initial parts of the film concerning his rise are a fun enough ride. Alas, when the inevitable fall sets in, the film becomes overly-sentimental, ultimately revealing that Blow doesn't have much new to say.
28. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

The first 30 minutes of Tim Burton's controversial remake of the 1971 classic are so jam-packed with witty sight gags and Dahlian cheekiness that one might actually think he's gone and made a film that surpasses the original. Alas, it all comes to a crashing halt once the gang steps foot into the factory. Johnny Depp certainly deserves credit for not imitating the brilliance of Gene Wilder's iconic performance as Willy Wonka, but his intellectually-interesting choice of playing the amazing chocolatier as a grown man in a state of arrested development comes off mostly as obnoxiously unfunny. It may start strong, but it winds up as anything but the golden ticket.
27. Murder On The Orient Express

Kenneth Branagh's 2017 update of the Agatha Christie story doesn't match up to the fun of the Sidney Lumet original, but Depp is one of the more watchable parts. Branagh himself gives a giant performance, with an equally-giant mustache as detective Hercule Poirot. The rest of the cast, which includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, and Judi Dench, is hit-or-miss, but Depp sketches in all the right shades for gangster Edward Ratchett.
26. Into The Woods

This long-awaited screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim tuner is hardly Rob Marshall's finest. While it runs into trouble by softening the dark second act of its source material, there are plenty of solid performances, including Depp's underrated turn as the Big Bad Wolf. His earthy vocals are a nice match for the jaunty "Hello, Little Girl," even if his costume jars stylistically with the surrounding film.

25. Before Night Falls

A gorgeously-shot, beautifully-realized look at the life and writings of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is a brilliant performance showcase for a pre-No Country For Old Men Javier Bardem. Depp's twin performances as the flamboyant Bon Bon and a sadistic prison warden may come off as a bit problematic nowadays. Nonetheless, the actor makes the most of his five minutes of screen time, adding his distinct flavor to Julian Schnabel's stunning film.
24. Chocolat

Chocolat is the kind of multiple Oscar nominee that might have audiences rolling their eyes nowadays, but it's light and frothy enough, with a typically entrancing performance from Juliette Binoche. The title is apt, as there's something almost dessert-like about this film's graceful style and old-fashioned romanticism. It goes down smooth, but may leave one wondering if it ultimately wasn't a bit disappointingly slightly.
23. Secret Window

After Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean comeback, it seemed like there was nothing more fun than going to the movies and seeing Johnny Depp have a ball piling on the quirks. Secret Window is definitely bargain-bin Stephen King, but the actor's rapidly unraveling performance is still great fun.
22. Dark Shadows

By the time Dark Shadows rolled around, the Burton-Depp collaboration had almost become a parody of itself. Depp would don another dousing of white-cake makeup, and Burton would continue to endlessly copy his original films, with rapidly diminishing returns. It's a bit surprising, then, that this is actually one of their best offerings in years, with Depp giving a wonderfully funny performance and Burton reveling in the sort of deviant humor that made his early work so engaging.
21. Once Upon A Time In Mexico

Robert Rodriguez's loopy and nonsensical spaghetti Western is good campy fun. Taking a cue from his future Grindhouse collaboator Quentin Tarantino, the film gleefully abandons plot and embraces a wild succession of over-the-top violence underscored with lots and lots of guitar-strumming. It's all quite fun, albeit a bit one-note, but Depp undoubtedly steals the whole show with a hysterically ridiculous performance as a rogue C.I.A. agent in Mexico.
20. The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus

After Heath Ledger's death, his final role in Terry Gilliam's 2009 fantasy film was re-conceived as a series of transformations between Jude Law, Colin Farrell, and Depp himself. After a slew of disappointing failures, Gilliam got close here to recapturing the magic of his early career masterpieces Brazil and Time Bandits. While it's not a top-tier entry in the director's filmography, its typically imaginative visuals are underscored with a somber memorial to Ledger's undeniable talent.
19. Rango

Depp voices the title character in this Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature. A coming of age story about a chameleon taking on the responsibilities of town sheriff, this oft-forgotten oddity also features vocal performances by Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin. It's a wonderfully weird surprise of a film, with plenty of nods to the Western genre and a richly-detailed style of animation that isn't quite like anything else out there.
18. Arizona Dream

Johnny Depp stars opposite Faye Dunaway in this bizarrely charming film about a young man named Axel who strikes up a relationship with an eccentric older woman and her stepdaughter. Thoroughly unpredictable and wonderfully absurd, the film finds Bosnian-born director Emir Kusturica focusing on America with surreal results. It's an early film that confirmed Depp as one of the most tender heartthrobs in cinema.
17. Don Juan DeMarco

This goofy comedy is admittedly plenty slight, but it's bolstered considerably by Depp's performance. A bit of a genius blending of his sexy swagger and inherent goofiness, Don Juan DeMarco sees him playing a delusional man who believes he is the world's greatest lover. Marlon Brando's turn as his psychiatrist feels checked out, but Depp is always delightfully committed.
16. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

This up-scaled second installment is something of a victory lap for Depp. The Looney Tunes antics of the character are turned up to 11, and the actor is clearly having a ball revisiting a character now christened a cinema icon. Some of the surrounding mythology becomes ponderous and the bloated length is questionable, but this sequel also features a veritable tidal wave of richly-imagined action set pieces and Bill Nighy as Davy Jones, one of the best performances by a CGI character this side of Gollum.