Want to know the best Johnny Depp movies? How about the worst Johnny Depp movies? Curious about Johnny Depp’s box office grosses or which Johnny Depp movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Johnny Depp movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Johnny Depp started out his movie career playing secondary parts in movies like and Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon. He then turned to television where he gained notoriety when he played Officer Tom Hanson on the television series 21 Jump Street from 1987 to 1990. He left the series for a return to the big screen. In 1990 he had two movies released….John Water’s Cry Baby and Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands. Scissorhands was the first of many collaborations between Tim Burton and Depp. For the next 15 years Depp, built a solid reputation for making quality movies with limited box office. That all changed when Depp took on the part of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Pirates was a monster hit and turned Depp into one of the biggest movie stars making movies today.
His IMDb page shows over 90 acting credits since 1984. This page will rank Johnny Depp 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.
Johnny Depp Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1986
Platoon (1986)
AA Best Picture Win
2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
AA Best Actor Nom
2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016)
Cameo
1999
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
2011
Rango (2011)
Voice Only
2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
1990
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
2010
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
2000
Chocolat (2000)
AA Best Picture Nom
2014
Into the Woods (2014)
2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
2004
Finding Neverland (2004)
AA Best Picture Nom
AA Best Actor Nom
1997
Donnie Brasco (1997)
2011
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
2009
Public Enemies (2009)
2007
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
AA Best Actor Nom
2005
Corpse Bride (2005)
2017
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
2017
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
2015
Black Mass (2015)
2003
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
2001
Blow (2001)
1993
Benny & Joon (1993)
1994
Ed Wood (1994)
1993
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
2012
Dark Shadows (2012)
1994
Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
2000
Before Night Falls (2000)
2013
The Lone Ranger (2013)
2001
From Hell (2001)
2004
Secret Window (2004)
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
1993
Arizona Dream (1993)
2020
Minamata (2020)
1995
Dead Man (1995)
2009
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
1990
Cry-Baby (1990)
2010
The Tourist (2010)
2018
The Professor (2018)
2011
The Rum Diary (2011)
1999
The Ninth Gate (1999)
2018
City of Lies (2018)
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
2004
The Libertine (2004)
2018
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Voice Only
1997
The Brave (1997)
Film Festival Circuit Only
Director
2019
Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
2014
Tusk (2014)
1999
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
2014
Transcendence (2014)
1995
Nick of Time (1995)
2011
Jack and Jill (2011)
1986
Slow Burn (1986)
Showtime Movies
1985
Private Resort (1985)
2000
The Man Who Cried (2000)
2015
Mortdecai (2015)
2016
Yoga Hosers (2016)
Johnny Depp 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 Johnny Depp movies by his co-stars
- Sort Johnny Depp movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Johnny Depp movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Johnny Depp 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 Johnny Depp movie received.
- Sort Johnny Depp 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.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Platoon (1986) AA Best Picture Win |
Charlie Sheen & Willem Dafoe |
138.50 | 402.5 | 402.5 | 4 | 89 | 08 / 04 | 99.9 | |
| 2 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) AA Best Actor Nom |
Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightley |
305.40 | 546.0 | 1,169.6 | 3 | 76 | 05 / 00 | 97.5 | |
| 3 | Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016) Cameo |
Eddie Redmayne & Colin Farrell |
234.00 | 291.7 | 1,014.5 | 12 | 76 | 02 / 01 | 97.3 | |
| 6 | Sleepy Hollow (1999) | Christopher Walken & Directed by Tim Burton |
101.10 | 215.3 | 439.0 | 21 | 73 | 03 / 01 | 96.7 | |
| 6 | Rango (2011) Voice Only |
Timothy Olyphant | 123.50 | 167.9 | 334.0 | 22 | 83 | 01 / 01 | 96.5 | |
| 7 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | Helena Bonham Carter & Directed by Tim Burton |
206.50 | 347.8 | 800.0 | 7 | 70 | 01 / 00 | 95.3 | |
| 8 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Vincent Price & Winona Ryder |
56.40 | 143.6 | 219.2 | 20 | 85 | 01 / 00 | 94.3 | |
| 9 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) | Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightley |
423.40 | 693.7 | 1,746.9 | 1 | 62 | 04 / 01 | 94.2 | |
| 10 | Alice in Wonderland (2010) | Anne Hathaway | 331.20 | 452.5 | 1,397.0 | 2 | 59 | 03 / 02 | 93.6 | |
| 11 | Chocolat (2000) AA Best Picture Nom |
Juliette Binoche & Judi Dench |
71.50 | 143.0 | 305.4 | 32 | 73 | 05 / 00 | 93.5 | |
| 13 | Into the Woods (2014) | Meryl Streep & Emily Blunt |
128.00 | 168.9 | 281.2 | 24 | 69 | 03 / 00 | 92.8 | |
| 12 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) | Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightley |
309.40 | 484.8 | 1,509.5 | 4 | 57 | 02 / 00 | 92.0 | |
| 13 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) | Jude Law & Harry Potter Movies |
159.60 | 188.8 | 773.1 | 20 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 13 | Finding Neverland (2004) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actor Nom |
Kate Winslet | 51.70 | 89.7 | 202.7 | 61 | 79 | 07 / 01 | 91.2 | |
| 15 | Donnie Brasco (1997) | Al Pacino | 41.90 | 98.4 | 293.4 | 52 | 84 | 01 / 00 | 90.0 | |
| 14 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) | Penélope Cruz | 241.10 | 327.7 | 1,421.5 | 5 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 89.4 | |
| 19 | Public Enemies (2009) | Christian Bale & Channing Tatum |
97.10 | 139.6 | 307.7 | 31 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 89.2 | |
| 17 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) AA Best Actor Nom |
Alan Rickman & Helena Bonham Carter |
52.90 | 82.9 | 240.2 | 49 | 84 | 03 / 01 | 89.2 | |
| 18 | Corpse Bride (2005) | Helena Bonham Carter & Emily Watson |
53.40 | 89.9 | 197.4 | 51 | 84 | 01 / 00 | 89.0 | |
| 21 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) | Orlando Bloom & Geoffrey Rush |
172.60 | 207.4 | 954.3 | 19 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 88.2 | |
| 20 | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | Heather Langenkamp & Directed by Wes Craven |
25.50 | 81.8 | 81.8 | 41 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 87.0 | |
| 22 | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | Michelle Pfeiffer & Willem Dafoe |
102.80 | 123.6 | 422.7 | 31 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 85.1 | |
| 23 | Black Mass (2015) | Dakota Johnson & Benedict Cumberbatch |
62.60 | 80.0 | 127.6 | 46 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 83.3 | |
| 24 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) | Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek |
56.40 | 100.8 | 175.5 | 52 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 82.2 | |
| 25 | Blow (2001) | Penélope Cruz | 53.00 | 101.1 | 158.9 | 47 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 80.4 | |
| 27 | Benny & Joon (1993) | Julianne Moore | 23.30 | 60.6 | 60.6 | 64 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 79.8 | |
| 25 | Ed Wood (1994) | Martin Landau & Bill Murray |
5.90 | 15.6 | 15.6 | 139 | 84 | 02 / 02 | 79.6 | |
| 26 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) | Leonardo DiCaprio | 10.00 | 26.1 | 26.1 | 109 | 83 | 01 / 00 | 78.9 | |
| 30 | Dark Shadows (2012) | Michelle Pfeiffer & Directed by Tim Burton |
79.70 | 108.0 | 332.5 | 39 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 77.3 | |
| 29 | Don Juan DeMarco (1994) | Marlon Brando & Faye Dunaway |
22.20 | 58.5 | 181.8 | 59 | 70 | 01 / 00 | 77.1 | |
| 31 | Before Night Falls (2000) | Javier Bardem | 4.20 | 8.5 | 17.0 | 147 | 81 | 01 / 00 | 72.5 | |
| 33 | The Lone Ranger (2013) | Armie Hammer | 89.30 | 118.4 | 345.4 | 40 | 44 | 02 / 00 | 71.3 | |
| 32 | From Hell (2001) | Heather Graham | 31.60 | 60.3 | 142.2 | 75 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 70.3 | |
| 36 | Secret Window (2004) | Written by Stephen King | 48.00 | 83.4 | 161.3 | 67 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 67.9 | |
| 37 | Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) | Anne Hathaway | 77.00 | 96.0 | 373.2 | 40 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 66.4 | |
| 34 | Arizona Dream (1993) | Jerry Lewis & Faye Dunaway |
0.10 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 224 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 64.3 | |
| 35 | Minamata (2020) | Bill Nighy | 0.10 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 269 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 63.6 | |
| 38 | Dead Man (1995) | Robert Mitchum | 1.00 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 188 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 55.9 | |
| 39 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | Christopher Plummer & Heath Ledger |
7.70 | 11.1 | 88.8 | 150 | 66 | 02 / 00 | 53.8 | |
| 40 | Cry-Baby (1990) | Willem Dafoe & Susan Tyrrell |
8.30 | 21.1 | 21.1 | 103 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 53.6 | |
| 43 | The Tourist (2010) | Angelina Jolie | 67.30 | 91.9 | 380.3 | 47 | 40 | 00 / 00 | 49.8 | |
| 41 | The Professor (2018) | Danny Huston | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 316 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 46.1 | |
| 42 | The Rum Diary (2011) | Amber Heard | 13.10 | 17.8 | 32.6 | 134 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 45.2 | |
| 45 | The Ninth Gate (1999) | Directed by Roman Polanski | 18.70 | 39.8 | 124.4 | 88 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 41.1 | |
| 44 | City of Lies (2018) | Forest Whitaker | 0.60 | 0.7 | 3.4 | 218 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 39.3 | |
| 46 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) | Directed by Terry Gilliam | 10.70 | 24.5 | 31.5 | 113 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 39.0 | |
| 48 | The Libertine (2004) | John Malkovich | 4.80 | 8.4 | 18.8 | 166 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 24.0 | |
| 48 | Sherlock Gnomes (2018) Voice Only |
Emily Blunt & Michael Caine |
43.20 | 51.2 | 102.8 | 69 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 24.0 | |
| 47 | The Brave (1997) Film Festival Circuit Only Director |
Marlon Brando | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 288 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 23.2 | |
| 49 | Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) | Robert Pattinson & Mark Rylance |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 292 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 22.4 | |
| 50 | Tusk (2014) | Directed by Kevin Smith | 1.80 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 170 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 20.8 | |
| 52 | The Astronaut's Wife (1999) | Charlize Theron | 10.70 | 22.7 | 22.7 | 121 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 19.1 | |
| 53 | Transcendence (2014) | Morgan Freeman | 23.00 | 30.4 | 136.0 | 111 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 18.0 | |
| 54 | Nick of Time (1995) | Christopher Walken | 8.20 | 20.3 | 20.3 | 121 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 15.5 | |
| 55 | Jack and Jill (2011) | Adam Sandler & Al Pacino |
74.20 | 100.8 | 203.5 | 48 | 19 | 00 / 00 | 14.4 | |
| 55 | Slow Burn (1986) Showtime Movies |
Eric Roberts | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 257 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 13.6 | |
| 56 | Private Resort (1985) | Rob Morrow | 0.30 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 176 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 11.6 | |
| 57 | The Man Who Cried (2000) | Cate Blanchett | 0.70 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 197 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 9.7 | |
| 59 | Mortdecai (2015) | Ewan McGregor | 7.70 | 9.8 | 60.5 | 129 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 5.5 | |
| 60 | Yoga Hosers (2016) | Directed by Kevin Smith | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 244 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 3.2 |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Johnny Depp
1. Johnny Depp has been nominated three times for an Oscar® for Best Actor…those roles were in the following movies…2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2004’s Finding Neverland and 2007’s Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
2. Johnny Depp has received 10 Golden Globe® nominations. He won the Golden Globe for Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
3. Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton have made 8 movies together. The first was 1990’s Edward Scissorhands and the last one comes out next year and is called Dark Shadows.
4. Johnny Depp was married to Lori Anne Allison from 1983 to 1985. Depp had two children with French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis….a boy named Jack and a girl named Lily-Rose.
5. Johnny Depp became great friends with the writer Hunter S. Thompson after playing Hunter in 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 13 years later he would play Hunter again in the 2011 movie The Rum Diary.
6. Speaking of Hunter S. Thompson one of Johnny Depp’s greatest regrets deals with Thompson. One day Depp found an message on his answering machine…it was from Hunter S. Thompson..and it started to ramble on and on so Depp, without listening to the whole message hit save and went to the next message…a couple days later he heard Hunter S. Thompson killed himself…he went back to the answering machine, wanting to hear the message but the message was gone…Depp says he thinks daily about that message and how it ended.
7. After working with Marlon Brando in 1995’s Don Juan DeMarco, Depp decided to follow Brando’s advice and buy an island. The island he bough has 6 beaches and Depp named them after important people in his live. The beach names are Gonzo(Hunter S. Thompson’s nickname), Paradis, Lily-Rose and Jack(his immediate family) and Brando. Makes you wonder what the 6th name is on that island.
8. Not an interesting fact but check out this fun fan letter from fellow movie lover Sunshine625 to Johnny Depp……Sunshine625 sends Johnny Depp a fan letter
Check out Johnny Depp‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Wow I am surprised Rango has passed so many of his movies. I guess I will have to check that one out.
YankeesRule…well Rango has run out of steam….I do not seeing going any higher…thanks for the comments
Johnny even made Rango a Lizard HOT!!! Brilliant actor!!
I agree with you 100% Sunshine
Hey Sunshine625….pretty much anything he touches turns into gold these days…from a Hot lizard to another voyage with Captain Jack…thanks for reading
Wow, I was amazed to see how high “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was, as I don’t remember it being that good. Then again, you can’t argue with the numbers. lol. Anyways, I guess you learn something new everyday, as it was interesting to see what films made the top ten in this list. Keep up the good work Cogerson!
Thanks for the visit Stevennix2001
Yeah. Very cool and very informative. Love the ranking system and agree that Rango will gain momentum; the animation is brilliant!
Rango moved to #7 since you read this the first time, as I had forgotten to update from the weekend grosses….I did not like Charlie at all myself, but I was biased towards the Gene Wilder version….but it made a ton of money…those damn younger people thought the movie was awesome….lol…. it scored high from both audiences and critics….made a ton of money …with Depp getting a Golden Globe nom for Best Actor…as always thanks for reading
This is such an interesting list – a thorough compilation. Thanks for writing.
Thank you Journey….Rango is about to move up a few more spots in a couple more days….thanks for reading and commenting.