| | The Departed (2006)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $132.37M Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, | Director: Martin Scorsese, An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. |
| | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $112.00M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, | Director: Milos Forman, A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. |
| | The Shining (1980)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, | Director: Stanley Kubrick, A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. |
| | Easy Rider (1969)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza, | Director: Dennis Hopper, Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. |
| | Batman (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $251.19M Lead Role: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, | Director: Tim Burton, The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker. |
| | Chinatown (1974)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, | Director: Roman Polanski, A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. |
| | As Good as It Gets (1997)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $147.64M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., | Director: James L. Brooks, A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. |
| | The Last Detail (1973)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James, | Director: Hal Ashby, Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way. |
| | Professione: reporter (1975)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $0.62M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, | Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance. |
| | A Few Good Men (1992)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $141.34M Lead Role: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, | Director: Rob Reiner, Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders. |
| | About Schmidt (2002)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $65.01M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates, | Director: Alexander Payne, A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. |
| | Terms of Endearment (1983)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $108.42M Lead Role: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, | Director: James L. Brooks, Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems. |
| | Mars Attacks! (1996)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: $37.75M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, | Director: Tim Burton, Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor. |
| | The Bucket List (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 42 | Earnings: $93.45M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, | Director: Rob Reiner, Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die. |
| | The Witches of Eastwick (1987)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $63.77M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, | Director: George Miller, Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives. |
| | The Pledge (2001)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $19.72M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels, | Director: Sean Penn, A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child. |
| | Something's Gotta Give (2003)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $124.59M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet, | Director: Nancy Meyers, A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age. |
| | Anger Management (2003)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: $133.76M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzmán, | Director: Peter Segal, Dave Buznik is a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor. |
| | Hoffa (1992)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 50 | Earnings: $24.28M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, | Director: Danny DeVito, The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate, and mysteriously disappears in 1975. |
| | The Two Jakes (1990)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: $10.01M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, | Director: Jack Nicholson, The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil. |
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