The Best Clint Eastwood Movies Ranked And Where to Watch them

If you're looking for the best Clint Eastwood movies of all time then here is a definitive list. We rank every movie directed by Clint Eastwood based on their popularity score from IMDB from best to worst. Click on the ‘see more’ button to find out where to watch them in Australia covering all streaming services. In April 2024 there are 40 films in this list.

List of the Best Movies Directed by Clint Eastwood In Order of Popularity

  1. Unforgiven
  2. Million Dollar Baby
  3. Gran Torino
  4. Mystic River
  5. Letters from Iwo Jima
  6. Changeling
  7. The Outlaw Josey Wales
  8. The Bridges of Madison County
  9. A Perfect World
  10. Richard Jewell
  11. High Plains Drifter
  12. Sully
  13. American Sniper
  14. Invictus
  15. Pale Rider
  16. Bird
  17. Flags of Our Fathers
  18. The Mule
  19. Breezy
  20. Play Misty for Me
  21. Jersey Boys
  22. Heartbreak Ridge
  23. Absolute Power
  24. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  25. True Crime
  26. Honkytonk Man
  27. Sudden Impact
  28. Hereafter
  29. J. Edgar
  30. Space Cowboys
  31. White Hunter, Black Heart
  32. The Gauntlet
  33. Blood Work
  34. The Eiger Sanction
  35. Bronco Billy
  36. Firefox
  37. The Rookie
  38. Cry Macho
  39. The 15:17 to Paris
  40. White Hunter Black Heart

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1. Unforgiven

Rated: R

8.2/10

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

2. Million Dollar Baby

Rated: PG-13

8.1/10

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

3. Gran Torino

Rated: R

8.1/10

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

4. Mystic River

Rated: R

7.9/10

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.

5. Letters from Iwo Jima

Rated: R

7.8/10

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

6. Changeling

Rated: R

7.8/10

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

7. The Outlaw Josey Wales

Rated: PG

7.8/10

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

8. The Bridges of Madison County

Rated: PG-13

7.6/10

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

9. A Perfect World

Rated: PG-13

7.5/10

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

10. Richard Jewell

Rated: R

7.5/10

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

11. High Plains Drifter

Rated: R

7.4/10

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

12. Sully

Rated: PG-13

7.4/10

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

13. American Sniper

Rated: R

7.3/10

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

14. Invictus

Rated: PG-13

7.3/10

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

15. Pale Rider

Rated: R

7.3/10

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

16. Bird

Rated: R

7.1/10

Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

17. Flags of Our Fathers

Rated: R

7.1/10

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

18. The Mule

Rated: R

7.0/10

Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

19. Breezy

Rated: R

7/10

A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.

20. Play Misty for Me

Rated: R

6.9/10

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

21. Jersey Boys

Rated: R

6.8/10

A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto.

22. Heartbreak Ridge

Rated: R

6.8/10

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

23. Absolute Power

Rated: R

6.7/10

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of The United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.

24. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Rated: R

6.6/10

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

25. True Crime

Rated: R

6.6/10

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

26. Honkytonk Man

Rated: PG

6.6/10

During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.

27. Sudden Impact

Rated: R

6.6/10

When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.

28. Hereafter

Rated: PG-13

6.5/10

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

29. J. Edgar

Rated: R

6.5/10

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

30. Space Cowboys

Rated: PG-13

6.5/10

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.

31. White Hunter, Black Heart

Rated: PG

6.5/10

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes obsessed with hunting down and killing one specific elephant.

32. The Gauntlet

Rated: R

6.4/10

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.

33. Blood Work

Rated: R

6.4/10

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

34. The Eiger Sanction

Rated: Approved

6.4/10

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

35. Bronco Billy

Rated: PG

6.1/10

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

36. Firefox

Rated: PG

5.9/10

The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.

37. The Rookie

Rated: M

5.9/10

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

38. Cry Macho

Rated: PG-13

5.7/10

Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.

39. The 15:17 to Paris

Rated: PG-13

5.3/10

In August 2015, an ISIS terrorist boarded train #9364 from Brussels to Paris. Armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, the terrorist might have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. One was a college student, one was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the U.S. Air Force, and the other was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three pals proved fearless as they charged and ultimately overpowered the gunman after he emerged from a bathroom armed and ready to kill.

40. White Hunter Black Heart

Rated: PG

/10

The world famous movie director John Wilson has gone to Africa to make his next movie. He is an obstinate, contrary director who'd rather hunt elephants than takes care of his crew or movie. He has become obsessed with one particular elephant and cares for nothing else.