Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer and musician. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
He made his debut in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), before rising to prominence as a teen idol on the television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). In the 1990s, he acted mostly in independent films, often playing eccentric characters. These included What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Benny and Joon (1993), Dead Man (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He also began collaborating with director Tim Burton, starring in Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
In the 2000s, he became one of the most commercially successful film stars by playing Captain Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckler film series Pirates of the Caribbean (2003–present). He received critical praise for Finding Neverland (2004), and continued his commercially successful collaboration with Tim Burton with the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
In 2012, he was one of the world’s biggest film stars, and was listed by the Guinness World Records as the world’s highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million. During the 2010s, Depp began producing films through his company, Infinitum Nihil, and formed the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
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Johnny Depp Movies
Discover the best Johnny Depp movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Johnny Depp ranked by year and score.
1
Ebenezer (2026)
Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
A wealthy curmudgeon gets an unwelcome visit from the specter of a dead colleague, followed by three more ghostly encounters that drag him backward and forward through time. Forced to...
Score
-.-
2
Jeanne du Barry (2023)
Drama
History
Romance
Born into poverty and illegitimacy, Jeanne Bécu claws her way upward through wit, beauty, and calculated charm, eventually catching the eye of King Louis XV himself. Marivaux's film traces her...
Score
6.9
3
Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)
Drama
History
A provincial magistrate presides over a remote desert settlement with quiet authority, until a ruthless military colonel arrives to investigate rumors of rebellion. The officer's brutal interrogation methods force the...
Score
5.9
4
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Adventure
Fantasy
A dark wizard spreads his ideology across the globe, transforming wizarding society into something unrecognizable. Only Dumbledore possesses the will to confront him, yet their shared past complicates everything. When...
Score
6.8
5
City of Lies (2018)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Russell Poole, a haunted LAPD detective, has spent two decades chasing ghosts in one of hip-hop's darkest tragedies. When disgraced journalist Jack Jackson approaches him with a final chance at...
Score
6.4
6
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Crime
Drama
Mystery
When a wealthy American businessman is found dead in his locked compartment aboard the legendary Orient Express, the train becomes a floating locked room. Hercule Poirot, the world's most fastidious...
Score
6.7
7
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Captain Jack Sparrow's luck runs decisively out when a crew of spectral sailors, commanded by the ruthless Captain Salazar, emerges from the Devil's Triangle seeking vengeance. Desperate for redemption, Jack...
Score
6.7
8
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Adventure
Fantasy
A British wizard arrives in 1920s New York carrying far more than luggage. His enchanted case contains an impossible menagerie of magical creatures, each more volatile than the last. When...
Score
7.3
9
Into the Woods (2014)
Comedy
Fantasy
A baker and his barren wife venture into an enchanted forest to break the curse that's kept them childless, only to find themselves entangled with a vengeful witch and a...
Score
5.8
10
Tusk (2014)
Comedy
Horror
A podcaster ventures into remote Canadian wilderness to find his missing co-host, only to discover his friend has fallen into the hands of a deranged hermit with a deeply unsettling...
Score
5.5
11
Transcendence (2014)
Drama
Mystery
Science Fiction
When a brilliant AI researcher is assassinated by extremists, his wife attempts the impossible: uploading his consciousness into a vast computer network. What emerges is something neither human nor machine,...
Score
6.1
12
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Action
Adventure
Western
When a brutal outlaw gang decimates a cavalry unit, one ranger survives, nursed back to life by Tonto, a Comanche warrior with his own score to settle. Together they form...
Score
6.1
13
Dark Shadows (2012)
Comedy
Fantasy
A centuries-old vampire wakes in 1972 to discover his ancestral mansion crumbling and his family scattered across time and dysfunction. Barnabas Collins must navigate shag carpeting, disco music, and the...
Score
6.1
14
21 Jump Street (2012)
Action
Comedy
Crime
Schmidt and Jenko never exactly thrived in high school the first time around, so going back undercover to bust a synthetic drug operation feels like a particularly cruel punishment. Paired...
Score
6.9
15
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Jack Sparrow encounters an enigmatic woman claiming to be from his past, drawing him into a perilous quest for the Fountain of Youth. As their partnership deepens, doubt clouds his...
Score
6.6
16
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Adventure
Family
Fantasy
A decade after her childhood adventure, Alice finds herself back in Wonderland as a young woman confronting a darker, more complicated version of the fantastical realm. The whimsical landscape has...
Score
6.6
17
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Adventure
Fantasy
Mystery
When a mysterious stranger is rescued by a traveling carnival, he becomes entangled in an ancient wager between its visionary ringmaster and the forces of darkness. Bound by obligation and...
Score
6.4
18
Public Enemies (2009)
Crime
Drama
History
When a charming bank robber becomes a folk hero to Depression-weary Americans, J. Edgar Hoover sees a threat to his new FBI's credibility. Determined to prove federal power, Hoover unleashes...
Score
6.7
19
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Drama
Horror
A wronged man returns to Victorian London with vengeance on his mind, reclaiming his barber's chair on Fleet Street. There he forms a macabre alliance with Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful...
Score
7.2
20
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Jack Sparrow is stuck in Davy Jones' Locker, and getting him back means sailing off the edge of the known world. Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and the treacherous Barbossa lead...
Score
7.3
21
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Jack Sparrow has made a deal he cannot wink or stumble his way out of. His soul belongs to Davy Jones, the barnacle-encrusted lord of the deep, and the only...
Score
7.4
22
Corpse Bride (2005)
Animation
Fantasy
Romance
Victor, a nervous bridegroom in a decrepit Victorian village, accidentally recites his vows to a skeletal woman lurking beneath the soil. Spirited into a vibrant underworld, he confronts his second...
Score
7.6
23
Finding Neverland (2004)
Drama
Fantasy
J.M. Barrie is creatively adrift when he encounters a widow and her four sons who reignite his sense of wonder. As he weaves their childhood adventures into stories, the line...
Score
7.3
24
Secret Window (2004)
Mystery
Thriller
A reclusive author nursing his divorce finds himself cornered by an obsessed stranger who accuses him of literary theft. As the mysterious antagonist tightens his grip on Rainey's isolated lake...
Score
6.6
25
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate...
Score
7.8
26
Blow (2001)
Crime
Drama
George Jung watched his father's failures and promised himself he'd never go broke. By the late 1960s, he'd built a marijuana empire in California. Prison introduced him to something bigger:...
Score
7.4
27
Chocolat (2000)
Comedy
Drama
Romance
A widow and her daughter settle in a conservative French village in 1959, opening a chocolate shop during Lent. Their arrival challenges the town's rigid traditions and the mayor's iron...
Score
7.0
28
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery
When a string of gruesome beheadings rattles the remote village of Sleepy Hollow, the city of New York sends its most analytically minded constable to bring modern reason to the...
Score
7.2
29
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Horror
Mystery
Thriller
Dean Corso traffics in rare books for money, not magic, but a wealthy collector pulls him into something far darker than a manuscript appraisal. Hired to locate two surviving copies...
Score
6.5
30
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Adventure
Comedy
Drama
Journalist Raoul Duke and his unhinged attorney Dr. Gonzo descend on Las Vegas with a trunk full of narcotics and a press credential that barely justifies the trip. What begins...
Score
7.2
31
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Joe Pistone spent years buried so deep inside the Bonanno crime family that the line between cover and conviction nearly disappeared. Posing as small-time jewel thief Donnie Brasco, he earned...
Score
7.5
32
Dead Man (1995)
Drama
Fantasy
Western
William Blake arrives in the frontier town of Machine with a job offer and a one-way ticket to nowhere. After a night that ends in bloodshed, he flees into the...
Score
7.3
33
Ed Wood (1994)
Comedy
Drama
History
Tim Burton's affectionate portrait of Edward D. Wood Jr., the visionary outsider who directed low-budget science fiction films with unbridled enthusiasm despite critical indifference and financial ruin. Surrounded by an...
Score
7.5
34
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Drama
Romance
Gilbert Grape barely moves, and that is exactly the problem. Anchored to a dying Iowa town, he stocks shelves at a failing grocery store, conducts a quiet affair with a...
Score
7.7
35
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Drama
Fantasy
Romance
When an artificial being with scissors for hands emerges from a gothic mansion above suburbia, a lonely teenager discovers in him something the town's manicured conformity has crushed. Their tender...
Score
7.7
36
Platoon (1986)
Action
Drama
War
Chris Taylor volunteered for Vietnam expecting something noble and came back a different person entirely. Oliver Stone's semi-autobiographical war film follows a college dropout thrust into the jungles of Southeast...
Score
7.7
37
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Horror
A specter of vengeance haunts the dreams of teenagers in a quiet suburb. Years earlier, angry vigilantes burned a child killer alive. Now Fred Krueger returns, invisible except in sleep,...
Score
7.3
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Johnny Depp?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Johnny Depp are Ebenezer, Jeanne du Barry, and Waiting for the Barbarians.
How many movies and TV shows has Johnny Depp starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 37 titles starring Johnny Depp, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Johnny Depp worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Johnny Depp maintains a strong average user rating of 6.9 out of 10 across all tracked titles.