John Travolta Movies

Want to know the best John Travolta movies?  How about the worst John Travolta movies?  Curious about John Travolta’s box office grosses or which John Travolta movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which John Travolta movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

John Travolta (1954-) is a two-time Academy Award® nominated actor. His career has been one serious roller coaster ride filled some serious peaks and serious lows.  A movie career can not start off any better than how Travolta’s did after the mega success of 1977’s Saturday Night Fever and 1978’s Grease.  After 1983’s Staying Alive was destroyed by critics, his career took a turn for the worse.  From 1983-1993 the only success he had was 1989’s Look Who’s Talking.  Then came 1994’s Pulp Fiction….which turned Travolta back into a huge box office draw.  From 1994 to 2009 he appeared in many box office successes with Get Shorty, The General’s Daughter, Face-Off, Wild Hogs and Michael being some of the bigger box office hits.  Since 2009 things have slowed down for Travolta….can he reach the summit for the third time?….we hope so.

His IMDb page shows over 90 acting credits since 1972. This page will rank John Travolta movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters were not included in the rankings.

John Travolta in 1994's Pulp Fiction
John Travolta in 1994’s Pulp Fiction

John Travolta Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

John Travolta Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort John Travolta movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort John Travolta movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort John Travolta movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort John Travolta movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each John Travolta movie received.
  • Sort John Travolta movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Adjusted John Travolta Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses 

John Travolta in 1977's Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta in 1977’s Saturday Night Fever

Check out John Travolta’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Pulp Fiction in Chronological Order

Steve’s John Travolta You Tube Video

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    2. Thanks Bob, plenty more when you come back. Enjoy your holidays. It was raining here in Manchester, after a freak heatwave hit us last week.

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      1. Thanks for good wishes

        I’m like the guy in a day late and a dollar short novel. I’m in France now but two yrs ago was at lake Garda. I now find mother Theresa’s there this year to get away from guys like Steve, Jacob mogg and boris. I’d love to have had the opportunity to meet her and tell her Steve,s thoughts about her!

        I will look in on Richard Curtis today.

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        1. Hey Bob….sounds like you are having fun….that is good to here. Good luck with meeting mother Theresa. Enjoy your day!

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  2. 1 BRUCE As you have suggested above Travolta seems to have run out of steam for now at least as his last $100 million + grosser was Bolt way back 9 years ago and in that he had just a voice role. Indeed in the past 5 years he seems to have had had only two normal US cinematic releases which did abysmally at the box office and are in fact the two movies at the bottom of the box office column on this page when the sorter button is pressed, Killing Season and In the Valley of Violence.

    2 Killing Season seems to have a compromise billing agreement of the kind to which I have previously alluded whereby John was first on the posters and Robert DeNiro tops the cast lists. I haven’t seen the movie so I don’t know what the on-screen billing is. The Numbers though mentions 4 Travolta releases in 1915 and 1916 that aren’t listed on this page and I hadn’t previously heard of and The Numbers records nil US grosses for them and just negligible foreign stats.

    3 I have mentioned previously that in his declining years Cagney became John’s mentor and John claims to have spent lots of time at the Cagney ranch conversing with the old veteran legend. In an interview that I saw about a year or so ago John was asked if there were any other actors whom he admired and he cited Mr Mumbles but said that he preferred Mr M’s later work rather than earlier movies such as Waterfront and Streetcar whereas you of course take the view that the 1950’s were the golden years for mumbling.

    4. Whilst it was not an artistically great movie I thought that the 1985 Perfect in which John co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis was a bit of harmless fun and I have watched it a couple of times. I note thought that you give it an abysmal 29% for critic/audience and IMDB whilst more generous than you allocates only 45%. Anyhow I consider John to be one of the most important stars of the modern era and therefore welcome this update and thank you for it.

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    1. Hey Bob….thanks for checking out my Travolta updated…..wow…lot of cobwebs on this one….he switch to UMR has not helped this page…..as it is ranked as my 387th most popular page since we moved to UMR.com
      1. Figured I would include my autographed Travolta page in the update.
      2. Yep…things have not been too good for him the last few years….he took some time off after the passing of his son…..but now he seems to be stuck with Cage and Willis in HE movies. Maybe they get them altogether and call it The Past Their Primes…..instead of The Expendables.
      3. Since those did not get released in theaters I left them off the page…I have actually seen The Forger (it is decent) and Criminal Activities (actually not too bad at all)….the other ones I only saw when they showed up at my local Wal-Mart.
      4. As for The Killing Season….Travolta and DeNiro are pretty much the only people in the movie…..others appear in flashbacks….but 90% of the movie takes place in present time….gotta think DeNiro would be the person with the box office juice.
      5. Good stuff about Travolta, Brando and Cagney….I like stories like that.
      6. I agree I thought Perfect was a decent movie…with a sexy Jamie Lee Curtis as well. But the low rating was due to pretty much everybody destroying that movie in reviews.
      🙂

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      1. HI BRUCE:

        1 Thanks for your further interesting info about The Forger and Criminal Activities. I’ll definitely watch them now that you feel they’re OK. I actually liked Travolta’s Domestic Disturbance which neither critics nor public seemed to have warmed to. However as Charles Bickford said to Chuck in The Big Country when he thought Chuck was going to desert him “I’ve been alone before.”

        2 I know your,re very busy but if you get a chance you should make an effort to see Steve’s Ray Milland video – it’s one of his best so far. .

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        1. Hey Bob….I agree Domestic Disturbance has some nice moments…I think Vince Vaughn made a good bad guy in that one. Of the two I talked about…Criminal Activities is the better of the two….it is directed by Jackie Earl “Kelly from Bad News Bears” Haley. I think it is his first movie he directed….and he obviously has seen, liked and copied from Tarantino movies. About to head over to Steve’s You Tube channel…..and check out his Milland video. 🙂

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  3. BRUCE:

    1 To add to the confusion about Saturday Night Fever IMDB confirms your rental figure of 74.1 but quotes a tota actual gross of 121.1 as at Aug 78 so we now have three separate ACTUAL grosses !!

    2 74.1/121.1 is not though inconsistent within itself as I understand that often a distributor can ask for a rental well above the average if he has a high demand film to offer; so it could be that 121.1 WAS the gross and the cinemas got keeping only 47 million of it with 74.1 going to the distributor. 47 million was still a massive sum back then and would be equivalent to around 175 million in today’s dollars.

    3 However you’re much better at researching and second-guessing those kind of things than I and as you have yet to update your Travolta page you have plenty of time to think about Fever’s gross. It would be nice to definitively nail it though in view of all the confusion. Meanwhile thanks for taking the trouble to consider the conundrum for me.

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    1. Hey Bob….yep I have time to figure that out….too bad he does not have a new movie for cinemas….that gets the newer actors a quicker update…for example…Seth Rogen’s The Sausage Party opens this weekend….and his page will updated in the next day or two. All of these numbers are so confusing….but at least everybody acknowledges that it was a huge blockbuster…just now we are trying to figure out how big a blockbuster it was.

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  4. Psssst!!!! I’m whispering…so listen closely…….I would like someone or maybe a few people to tell me that all these “accusations” by the message therapists…one after the other….are all BULL…..I need to know that they are 100% totally false….made up by people trying to get money and publicity. I LOVE John T and all of his movies…..especially “Grease ” and Saturday Night Fever……and Colors……Why are these guys all stepping forward to hurt him?

    I love his wife too and I think they’re such a great couple……I would feel very disappointed if he did this to his wife and family.

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    1. Hey effer……..the price of being a celebrity is having to deal with these people…I read that one of the accusers was proven to be lying about times and dates…so hopefully the other will follow the same path….But I agree with you…I hope that he has not done the things they claim….it seems their family has had enough issues lately. Travolta has a career that has had lots of ups and downs….but he has been making movies for almost 40 years now. So you would think he would know that anything he does makes the news. Thanks for quietly commenting.

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      1. Shhhhh……OK…….I feel better now. I know that celebrities pay a high price for their fame and popularity….then again, they live lavishly in luxuries 24/7……….it’s called the “bad with the good.”

        Alot of them ask for trouble too…..but I have never felt John was one of that type. I really like him and Kelly as a classy couple….. I hope it all turns out well for him.

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        1. Hey fpherj48/effer/Overall Best Hubber….I think the John/Kelly couple will survive this bump in the road….their new baby has to help the cause……thanks again for the visit.

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  5. Hey Steve….thanks for finally commenting…..everyday for the past 17 months the first thing I did was check this hub to see if you had commented on it yet…..tomorrow morning I will have to change my wakeup routine…..lol.

    I will have to go and check out Jools99’s Pulp Fiction hub….that is one of my Top 5 films ever…so I am also glad that it tops the charts here. I have seen 33 of the 45 mentioned….I have been looking for The Devil’s Rain for awhile now…but so far it has escaped me….but Shatner, Borgnine and Travolta in cheap horror movie….it has my interest.

    Blow Out is a pretty underrated movie….I think it is one of his best performances….for some reason I have stayed away from Hairspray….I saw the John Waters version were Divine played the Travolta part…and like you say what was he thinking.

    Thanks for the votes and the Pulp Fiction notice….they are both greatly appreciated.

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    1. Hey Jason….I am right there with you…I saw Grease and Saturday Night Fever at the theater as well….granted I had to see the PG version of Saturday Night Fever that came out after the R rated version had taken America by storm. I wonder why they do not do that anymore….I think a PG versions of Al Pacino’s Scarface is well overdue.

      I agree with you 100% about Vincent Vega being his best role….with Chilli Palmer from Get Shorty being up there as well…..one of my favorite pieces of trivia is that in the world of Taratino…Vincent Vega’s brother was Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs….and maybe one day we will see a Vega brothers movie. Thanks for the visit.

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