John Cusack: movies and TV shows
John Cusack has 143 credits in the archive: 124 films and 19 TV series, from 1953 to 2025. Highest rated: Stand by Me (7.8/10).
Career timeline
1953 – 2025 · busiest year: 1997 (8 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Detective Chinatown 1900 | Grant | Film | 6.3 | 59 |
| 2025 | Fog of War | Bob Duncolm | Film | 5.9 | 59 |
| 2025 | Meister der Apokalypse - Roland Emmerich | Self | Film | 2.0 | 59 |
| 2024 | BRATS | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 2024 | Decoded | 希伊斯 | Film | 6.2 | 58 |
| 2022 | Pursuit | John Calloway | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 2020 | Utopia | Dr. Kevin Christie | TV | 7.2 | 54 |
| 2019 | Never Grow Old | Christopher 'Dutch' Albert | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 2018 | River Runs Red | Horace | Film | 5.5 | 52 |
| 2018 | Distorted | Vernon Sarsfield | Film | 4.8 | 52 |
| 2017 | Arsenal | Sal | Film | 4.3 | 51 |
| 2017 | Blood Money | Miller | Film | 5.0 | 51 |
| 2017 | Singularity | Elias Van Dorne | Film | 3.7 | 51 |
| 2016 | Cell | Clayton 'Clay' Riddell | Film | 4.7 | 50 |
| 2016 | Cell | Film | 4.7 | 50 | |
| 2016 | The Fog Bowl | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 50 |
| 2015 | Hot Tub Time Machine 2 | Adam (uncredited) | Film | 5.2 | 49 |
| 2015 | Dragon Blade | Lucius | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 2015 | Love & Mercy | Brian Wilson 1980s | Film | 7.1 | 49 |
| 2015 | Chi-Raq | Fr. Mike Corridan | Film | 5.7 | 49 |
| 2015 | Boom Bust Boom | Self | Film | 7.2 | 49 |
| 2014 | The Prince | Sam | Film | 4.9 | 48 |
| 2014 | Adult World | Rat Billings | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 2014 | Maps to the Stars | Dr. Stafford Weiss | Film | 6.2 | 48 |
| 2014 | Doll & Em | John | TV | 6.4 | 48 |
| 2014 | The Bag Man | Jack | Film | 5.3 | 48 |
| 2014 | Drive Hard | Simon Keller | Film | 4.3 | 48 |
| 2014 | Reclaim | Benjamin | Film | 5.2 | 48 |
| 2013 | The Butler | Richard Nixon | Film | 7.3 | 47 |
| 2013 | The Frozen Ground | Robert Hansen | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 2013 | Grand Piano | Clem | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 2013 | The Numbers Station | Emerson | Film | 5.5 | 47 |
| 2013 | Salinger | Self - Actor | Film | 6.4 | 47 |
| 2013 | We're No Animals | Tony Lovecraft | Film | 4.4 | 47 |
| 2013 | We're No Animals | Film | 4.4 | 47 | |
| 2013 | We're No Animals | Film | 4.4 | 47 | |
| 2012 | Evening Urgant | Self | TV | 7.1 | 46 |
| 2012 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 2012 | The Paperboy | Hillary Van Wetter | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 2012 | The Factory | Mike Fletcher | Film | 5.6 | 46 |
| 2012 | All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self | Film | — | 46 |
| 2011 | Woody Allen: A Documentary | Self | Film | 6.9 | 45 |
| 2010 | Hot Tub Time Machine | Adam | Film | 6.0 | 44 |
| 2010 | Hot Tub Time Machine | Film | 6.0 | 44 | |
| 2010 | Shanghai | Paul Soames | Film | 6.1 | 44 |
| 2010 | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | Film | 7.8 | 44 |
| 2010 | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Film | 7.8 | 44 | |
| 2010 | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 2010 | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Film | 7.0 | 44 | |
| 2009 | 2012 | Jackson Curtis | Film | 5.9 | 43 |
| 2009 | The Jay Leno Show | Self | TV | 3.3 | 43 |
| 2008 | Igor | Igor (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 42 |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Brand Hauser | Film | 5.5 | 42 |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Film | 5.5 | 42 | |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Film | 5.5 | 42 | |
| 2008 | Guyville Redux | Film | — | 42 | |
| 2008 | Summerhood | Narrator (uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 42 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 41 |
| 2007 | 1408 | Mike Enslin | Film | 6.7 | 41 |
| 2007 | Martian Child | David | Film | 6.7 | 41 |
| 2007 | Grace Is Gone | Stanley Philipps | Film | 6.5 | 41 |
| 2007 | Grace Is Gone | Film | 6.5 | 41 | |
| 2007 | Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten | Self | Film | 7.3 | 41 |
| 2006 | The Contract | Ray | Film | 5.8 | 40 |
| 2006 | Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Self | Film | 7.2 | 40 |
| 2005 | Must Love Dogs | Jake | Film | 5.9 | 39 |
| 2005 | The Ice Harvest | Charlie | Film | 5.9 | 39 |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | TV | 6.1 | 37 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 37 |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | TV | 5.5 | 37 |
| 2003 | Identity | Ed | Film | 7.2 | 37 |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury | Nick Easter | Film | 6.9 | 37 |
| 2003 | Breakfast with Hunter | Self | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 2003 | The Road to The Sure Thing | Film | 6.5 | 37 | |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | John Cusack (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 36 |
| 2002 | Max | Max Rothman | Film | 6.1 | 36 |
| 2002 | Max | Film | 6.1 | 36 | |
| 2002 | Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. | Self | Film | 6.8 | 36 |
| 2001 | Serendipity | Jonathan Trager | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 2001 | America's Sweethearts | Eddie Thomas | Film | 5.7 | 35 |
| 2001 | The Concert for New York City | Self | Film | 5.1 | 35 |
| 2001 | America | A Tribute to Heroes | Self | Film | 6.5 | 35 |
| 2000 | High Fidelity | Rob Gordon | Film | 7.1 | 34 |
| 2000 | High Fidelity | Film | 7.1 | 34 | |
| 2000 | High Fidelity | Film | 7.1 | 34 | |
| 2000 | High Fidelity | Film | 7.1 | 34 | |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Craig Schwartz | Film | 7.4 | 33 |
| 1999 | Pushing Tin | Nick Falzone | Film | 5.9 | 33 |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Nelson Rockefeller | Film | 6.5 | 33 |
| 1999 | The Jack Bull | Myrl Redding | Film | 6.4 | 33 |
| 1999 | The Jack Bull | Film | 6.4 | 33 | |
| 1999 | This Is My Father | Eddie Sharp | Film | 5.8 | 33 |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Capt. John Gaff | Film | 7.4 | 32 |
| 1998 | Chicago Cab | Scary Man | Film | 5.8 | 32 |
| 1998 | Chicago Cab | Film | 5.8 | 32 | |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 31 |
| 1997 | Con Air | Agent Vince Larkin | Film | 6.8 | 31 |
| 1997 | Anastasia | Dimitri (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 31 |
| 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | Martin Q. Blank | Film | 7.0 | 31 |
| 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | Film | 7.0 | 31 | |
| 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | Film | 7.0 | 31 | |
| 1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Kelso | Film | 6.3 | 31 |
| 1997 | Eastwood on Eastwood | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.6 | 31 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 30 |
| 1996 | City Hall | Kevin Calhoun | Film | 6.0 | 30 |
| 1994 | Baseball | Voice | TV | 7.5 | 28 |
| 1994 | Baseball | (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 28 |
| 1994 | Bullets Over Broadway | David Shayne | Film | 7.1 | 28 |
| 1994 | The Road to Wellville | Charles Ossining | Film | 5.6 | 28 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 28 |
| 1994 | Floundering | JC | Film | 5.0 | 28 |
| 1994 | Floundering | Film | 5.0 | 28 | |
| 1993 | Frasier | Greg (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 27 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 27 |
| 1993 | Map of the Human Heart | The Mapmaker | Film | 6.2 | 27 |
| 1993 | Money for Nothing | Joey Coyle | Film | 5.6 | 27 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | TV | 5.4 | 26 | |
| 1992 | The Player | John Cusack | Film | 7.2 | 26 |
| 1992 | Bob Roberts | Cutting Edge Host | Film | 6.5 | 26 |
| 1992 | Roadside Prophets | Caspar | Film | 5.5 | 26 |
| 1991 | Shadows and Fog | Student Jack | Film | 6.7 | 25 |
| 1991 | True Colors | Peter Burton | Film | 6.2 | 25 |
| 1990 | The Grifters | Roy Dillon | Film | 6.5 | 24 |
| 1989 | Say Anything... | Lloyd Dobler | Film | 7.0 | 23 |
| 1989 | Fat Man and Little Boy | Michael Merriman | Film | 6.2 | 23 |
| 1989 | Elvis Stories | Corky | Film | 6.5 | 23 |
| 1988 | Eight Men Out | Buck Weaver | Film | 6.8 | 22 |
| 1988 | Tapeheads | Ivan Alexeev | Film | 5.4 | 22 |
| 1987 | Hot Pursuit | Dan Bartlett | Film | 5.7 | 21 |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | Angry Messenger | Film | 6.8 | 21 |
| 1986 | Stand by Me | Denny Lachance | Film | 7.8 | 20 |
| 1986 | One Crazy Summer | Hoops McCann | Film | 6.0 | 20 |
| 1985 | The Sure Thing | Walter "Gib" Gibson | Film | 6.5 | 19 |
| 1985 | Better Off Dead... | Lane Meyer | Film | 6.6 | 19 |
| 1985 | The Journey of Natty Gann | Harry | Film | 6.8 | 19 |
| 1984 | Sixteen Candles | Bryce | Film | 6.8 | 18 |
| 1984 | Grandview, U.S.A. | Johnny Maine | Film | 5.8 | 18 |
| 1983 | Class | Roscoe | Film | 5.9 | 17 |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self | TV | 5.4 | 15 |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight | TV | 4.3 | 15 | |
| 1980 | Why Is It Always Me? | Mike | Film | — | 14 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 12 |
| My Only Sunshine | Film | — | — |