Best Movies of Anthony Hopkins

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Aggregate Rating: 270 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $130.73M

Lead Role: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, | Director: Jonathan Demme,

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Thor (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 223 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $181.02M

Lead Role: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, | Director: Kenneth Branagh,

The powerful, but arrogant god Thor, is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Aggregate Rating: 168 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $22.95M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, | Director: James Ivory,

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.

Howards End (1992)

Aggregate Rating: 167 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: $25.97M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, | Director: James Ivory,

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.

Fracture (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 162 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $39.00M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, | Director: Gregory Hoblit,

An attorney, intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.

Dracula (1992)

Aggregate Rating: 153 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $82.52M

Lead Role: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, | Director: Francis Ford Coppola,

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

Aggregate Rating: 150 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $5.13M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell, | Director: Roger Donaldson,

The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Red Dragon (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 150 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $92.93M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, | Director: Brett Ratner,

A retired F.B.I. Agent with psychological gifts, is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him, is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.

Noah (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 146 | Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $101.16M

Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson, | Director: Darren Aronofsky,

Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Aggregate Rating: 145 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $93.77M

Lead Role: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, José María de Tavira, | Director: Martin Campbell,

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.

Amistad (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 143 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $44.18M

Lead Role: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, | Director: Steven Spielberg,

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.

Hannibal (2001)

Aggregate Rating: 141 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $165.09M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, | Director: Ridley Scott,

Living in exile, Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.

Nixon (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 139 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $13.56M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, | Director: Oliver Stone,

A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.

Proof (2005)

Aggregate Rating: 136 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $7.52M

Lead Role: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Hope Davis, Jake Gyllenhaal, | Director: John Madden,

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Aggregate Rating: 132 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 43 | Earnings: $44.61M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, | Director: Martin Brest,

Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth, and in the process, he falls in love with his guide's daughter.

Titus (1999)

Aggregate Rating: 130 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $1.92M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Osheen Jones, Dario D'Ambrosi, | Director: Julie Taymor,

Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.

RED 2 (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 129 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 47 | Earnings: $53.22M

Lead Role: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins, | Director: Dean Parisot,

Retired C.I.A. Agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

Hitchcock (2012)

Aggregate Rating: 128 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $6.00M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, | Director: Sacha Gervasi,

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Bobby (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 128 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 54 | Earnings: $11.20M

Lead Role: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Harry Belafonte, | Director: Emilio Estevez,

The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Aggregate Rating: 127 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 45 | Earnings: $66.53M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, | Director: Edward Zwick,

In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.