John Malkovich: movies and TV shows
John Malkovich has 209 credits in the archive: 174 films and 35 TV series, from 1975 to 2026. Highest rated: RIPLEY (7.9/10).
Career timeline
1975 – 2026 · busiest year: 2008 (14 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | In the Hand of Dante | Joe Black | Film | 5.5 | 72 |
| 2026 | Wild Horse Nine | Chris | Film | — | 72 |
| 2026 | Sacrifice | Gunnar | Film | — | 72 |
| 2026 | Being Related to John Malkovich | Self | Film | — | 72 |
| 2025 | Lubach | TV | 6.0 | 71 | |
| 2025 | The Yellow Tie | Sergiu Celibidache | Film | 8.3 | 71 |
| 2025 | Opus | Alfred Moretti | Film | 5.7 | 71 |
| 2025 | The Life of Mirrors | Film | — | 71 | |
| 2024 | RIPLEY | Reeves Minot | TV | 7.9 | 70 |
| 2024 | The New Look | Lucien Lelong | TV | 7.5 | 70 |
| 2024 | Unsinkable | Chief Engineer Pollard | TV | 10.0 | 70 |
| 2024 | The Line | Beach Miller | Film | 5.7 | 70 |
| 2024 | Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry | self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2023 | Mr. Blake at Your Service! | Andrew Blake | Film | 6.4 | 69 |
| 2023 | Fool's Paradise | Ed Cote | Film | 4.6 | 69 |
| 2023 | One Ranger | Geddes | Film | 6.2 | 69 |
| 2023 | A Journey to Sundance | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2023 | Breaking Rachmaninoff | Film | — | 69 | |
| 2023 | Seneca | Seneca | Film | 5.0 | 69 |
| 2022 | Shattered | Ronald | Film | 5.7 | 68 |
| 2022 | Shattered | Film | 5.7 | 68 | |
| 2022 | Mindcage | The Artist | Film | 5.9 | 68 |
| 2022 | White Elephant | Glen Follett | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 2022 | Chariot | Dr. Karn | Film | 4.5 | 68 |
| 2022 | Savage Salvation | Peter | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 2021 | Ten Year Old Tom | Mr. B (voice) | TV | 6.9 | 67 |
| 2021 | Rogue Hostage | Sam Nelson | Film | 5.6 | 67 |
| 2021 | The Survivalist | Aaron Ramsey | Film | 4.4 | 67 |
| 2020 | Space Force | Dr. Adrian Mallory | TV | 6.5 | 66 |
| 2020 | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | The Impressive Clergyman | TV | 7.7 | 66 |
| 2020 | The New Pope | Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox | TV | 7.6 | 66 |
| 2020 | Ava | Duke | Film | 5.8 | 66 |
| 2020 | Arkansas | Bright | Film | 5.8 | 66 |
| 2020 | Valley of the Gods | Wes Tauros | Film | 5.2 | 66 |
| 2020 | Last Call | Dr. Felton | Film | 4.1 | 66 |
| 2020 | Last Call | Film | 4.1 | 66 | |
| 2019 | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Judge Edward D. Cowart | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 2019 | Velvet Buzzsaw | Piers | Film | 5.4 | 65 |
| 2019 | Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 65 |
| 2019 | Gotta Get Down to It | Film | — | 65 | |
| 2018 | Bird Box | Douglas | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 2018 | Mile 22 | Bishop | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 2018 | The ABC Murders | Hercule Poirot | TV | 6.5 | 64 |
| 2018 | The Music Critic | The Narrator | Film | 4.5 | 64 |
| 2018 | Supercon | Sid Newberry | Film | 4.5 | 64 |
| 2018 | Casanova Gene | Film | 1.0 | 64 | |
| 2017 | The Wilde Wedding | Laurence | Film | 5.1 | 63 |
| 2017 | The Wilde Wedding | Film | 5.1 | 63 | |
| 2017 | Unlocked | Bob Hunter | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 2017 | Bullet Head | Walker | Film | 5.0 | 63 |
| 2017 | Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA | Port (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 63 |
| 2017 | I Love You, Daddy | Leslie Goodwin | Film | 5.7 | 63 |
| 2017 | About Love. Adults Only | Ed | Film | 5.5 | 63 |
| 2017 | Just Call Me God | Satur Diman Cha | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2016 | Billions | Grigor Andolov | TV | 7.8 | 62 |
| 2016 | Deepwater Horizon | Donald Vidrine | Film | 6.9 | 62 |
| 2016 | Demolition | Film | 6.8 | 62 | |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | Chazz Spencer | Film | 4.9 | 62 |
| 2016 | Psychogenic Fugue | All characters | Film | 8.0 | 62 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV | 5.1 | 60 |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Dave (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 2014 | Crossbones | Blackbeard | TV | 6.1 | 60 |
| 2014 | Cut Bank | Sheriff Vogel | Film | 5.8 | 60 |
| 2014 | Cesar Chavez | Bogdanovitch | Film | 6.2 | 60 |
| 2014 | The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover | Dave / Dr. Octavius Brine (voice) | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 2014 | Strap Hanging | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2014 | Casanova Variations | Giacomo | Film | 5.3 | 60 |
| 2014 | Noseland | Self | Film | 5.0 | 60 |
| 2014 | Jack Unterweger - The Charming Serial Killer | Film | 8.0 | 60 | |
| 2014 | Le paradoxe de John Malkovich | Himself | Film | — | 60 |
| 2013 | RED 2 | Marvin Boggs | Film | 6.5 | 59 |
| 2013 | Warm Bodies | Colonel Grigio | Film | 6.5 | 59 |
| 2013 | Siberian Education | Grandfather Kuzya | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2013 | Ecstasy | Vinny | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Film | 7.8 | 58 | |
| 2012 | Lines of Wellington | General Wellington | Film | 5.7 | 58 |
| 2012 | Side by Side | Self | Film | 7.3 | 58 |
| 2012 | All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self | Film | — | 58 |
| 2012 | Drunkboat | Mort | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | TV | 5.2 | 57 |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Bruce Brazos | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 2011 | Young Adult | Film | 5.8 | 57 | |
| 2011 | Butterflies | Man | Film | — | 57 |
| 2011 | 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story | Self | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 2010 | RED | Marvin Boggs | Film | 6.7 | 56 |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Lucien Laurin | Film | 7.4 | 56 |
| 2010 | Jonah Hex | Turnbull | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 2010 | Saturday Night | Self | Film | 7.7 | 56 |
| 2010 | The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer | Jack Unterweger | Film | 4.0 | 56 |
| 2009 | La Traversée du désir | Self | Film | 5.7 | 55 |
| 2009 | SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 55 |
| 2009 | Which Way Home | Film | 7.9 | 55 | |
| 2008 | Projectorparishilton | TV | 5.6 | 54 | |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Osborne Cox | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 2008 | Changeling | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | Film | 7.6 | 54 |
| 2008 | In Tranzit | Pavlov | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 2008 | The Great Buck Howard | Buck Howard | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 2008 | Disgrace | David Lurie | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 2008 | Mutant Chronicles | Constantine | Film | 5.3 | 54 |
| 2008 | Afterwards | Joseph Kay | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 2008 | Gardens of the Night | Michael | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 2008 | Music at the Sea | Self | Film | — | 54 |
| 2008 | Finding the Burn | Self / Osborne Cox (archive footage) | Film | — | 54 |
| 2008 | Welcome Back, George | Self | Film | — | 54 |
| 2008 | Snow Angel | Film | — | 54 | |
| 2008 | Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies | Narrator | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 53 |
| 2007 | Juno | Film | 7.1 | 53 | |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Unferth (Voice) | Film | 5.9 | 53 |
| 2007 | Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | Film | — | 53 | |
| 2006 | On n'est pas couché | Self - Guest | TV | 5.1 | 52 |
| 2006 | Eragon | King Galbatorix | Film | 5.1 | 52 |
| 2006 | Art School Confidential | Professor Sandiford | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 2006 | Art School Confidential | Film | 6.1 | 52 | |
| 2006 | Klimt | Gustav Klimt | Film | 5.2 | 52 |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 2005 | De Wereld Draait Door | Self | TV | 5.1 | 51 |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Humma Kavula | Film | 6.7 | 51 |
| 2005 | Colour Me Kubrick | Alan Conway | Film | 5.7 | 51 |
| 2005 | Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self | Film | — | 51 |
| 2004 | The Libertine | Charles II | Film | 5.9 | 50 |
| 2004 | The Libertine | Film | 5.9 | 50 | |
| 2003 | Johnny English | Pascal Sauvage | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 2003 | Kill the Poor | Film | 5.3 | 49 | |
| 2003 | A Talking Picture | Comandante John Walesa | Film | 6.7 | 49 |
| 2002 | Napoleon | Charles de Talleyrand | TV | 6.9 | 48 |
| 2002 | Gero von Boehm begegnet... | Self | TV | — | 48 |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | John Malkovich (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 48 |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 48 |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Film | 6.1 | 48 | |
| 2002 | The Dancer Upstairs | Film | 6.1 | 48 | |
| 2002 | Ripley's Game | Tom Ripley | Film | 6.4 | 48 |
| 2002 | Hideous Man | Narrator | Film | 4.0 | 48 |
| 2002 | Hideous Man | Film | 4.0 | 48 | |
| 2002 | Hideous Man | Film | 4.0 | 48 | |
| 2001 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 47 |
| 2001 | Knockaround Guys | Teddy Deserve | Film | 6.1 | 47 |
| 2001 | Ghost World | Film | 7.1 | 47 | |
| 2001 | Savage Souls | Monsieur Numance | Film | 4.9 | 47 |
| 2001 | I’m Going Home | John Crawford | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 2001 | Hotel | Omar Jonnson | Film | 3.4 | 47 |
| 2000 | Les Misérables | Javert | TV | 6.9 | 46 |
| 2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | F. W. Murnau | Film | 6.7 | 46 |
| 2000 | Lady Behave | Film | 10.0 | 46 | |
| 2000 | Lady Behave | Film | 10.0 | 46 | |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | John Horatio Malkovich | Film | 7.4 | 45 |
| 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Charles VII | Film | 6.4 | 45 |
| 1999 | Time Regained | Baron de Charlus | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1999 | Ladies Room | Roberto | Film | 4.0 | 45 |
| 1999 | RKO 281 | Herman Mankiewicz | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Athos | Film | 6.7 | 44 |
| 1998 | Rounders | Teddy KGB | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1997 | Con Air | Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1997 | Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady | Self | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 42 |
| 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Gilbert Osmond | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1996 | Mary Reilly | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | Film | 5.8 | 42 |
| 1996 | Mulholland Falls | General Thomas Timms | Film | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1996 | The Ogre | Abel | Film | 6.4 | 42 |
| 1996 | Cannes Man | Self | Film | 5.5 | 42 |
| 1995 | Beyond the Clouds | The Director | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1995 | To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | Self (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1995 | The Convent | Michael | Film | 5.3 | 41 |
| 1994 | Zona+ | Próprio | TV | 8.0 | 40 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 39 |
| 1993 | Alive | Carlitos Páez / Narrator (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 39 |
| 1993 | In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1993 | Heart of Darkness | Kurtz | Film | 5.8 | 39 |
| 1992 | Of Mice and Men | Lennie Small | Film | 7.3 | 38 |
| 1992 | Jennifer Eight | Agent St. Anne | Film | 6.1 | 38 |
| 1992 | Annie Lennox: Totally Diva | Film | 9.5 | 38 | |
| 1991 | Performance | Deeley | TV | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1991 | Shadows and Fog | Clown | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1991 | The Object of Beauty | Jake Bartholomew | Film | 5.2 | 37 |
| 1991 | Queens Logic | Eliot | Film | 5.8 | 37 |
| 1991 | Old Times | Film | 4.6 | 37 | |
| 1990 | Romy Award | Presenter | TV | 9.0 | 36 |
| 1990 | The Sheltering Sky | Port | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1990 | Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter | Self | Film | — | 36 |
| 1989 | Decade | Self | Film | 8.5 | 35 |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont | Film | 7.2 | 34 |
| 1988 | The Accidental Tourist | Film | 6.3 | 34 | |
| 1988 | Miles from Home | Barry Maxwell | Film | 5.4 | 34 |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Basie | Film | 7.5 | 33 |
| 1987 | Making Mr. Right | Jeff Peters / Ulysses | Film | 5.2 | 33 |
| 1987 | The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | Film | 6.3 | 33 |
| 1987 | The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Self | Film | 6.4 | 33 |
| 1987 | Santabear's High Flying Adventure | Santa Claus (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1986 | American Masters | Self | TV | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Ben Stark | Film | 10.0 | 32 |
| 1986 | Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ | Self / Biff | Film | — | 32 |
| 1985 | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | Film | 6.9 | 31 |
| 1985 | Eleni | Nicholas 'Nick' Gage | Film | 5.8 | 31 |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Mr. Will | Film | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Al Rockoff | Film | 7.5 | 30 |
| 1984 | True West | Lee | Film | 8.3 | 30 |
| 1983 | Say Goodnight, Gracie | Steve | Film | 10.0 | 29 |
| 1982 | Late Night with David Letterman | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 28 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Lee | TV | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Ben Stark | TV | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self | TV | 5.4 | 27 |
| 1981 | Word of Honor | Gary | Film | 7.5 | 27 |
| 1981 | American Dream | Film | 9.0 | 27 | |
| 1978 | A Wedding | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 24 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 21 |
| Bishop | Lincoln Graves | TV | — | — | |
| Lost and Found in Paris | Wim Waldemar | Film | 1.0 | — | |
| A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf | Unferth | Film | — | — | |
| A Winter's Journey | Leiermann | Film | — | — |