Clint Eastwood Movies Ranked (Random Saturday AM Stuff)

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American Icon...if you've got a drop of West Texan blood in your veins you have to be an Eastwood fan. May 30 was Clint Eastwood's 94th Birthday!

On the trail of buried treasure … Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy

Happy 94th birthday Clint Eastwood: his best films – ranked!


As he reaches the momentous milestone – and ahead of new movie Juror No 2 – we rate the screen icon’s best performances, from playing a poncho-clad anti-hero to having squinty showdowns in cemeteries
By Anne Billson

Thu 30 May 2024 08.27 EDT

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20. Every Which Way But Loose (1978)​

Against all advice, Clint Eastwood switched direction with a knockabout comedy that would be one of his biggest hits. He plays a bare-knuckle fighter who falls for a country singer, though the real romantic chemistry is between him and Clyde the orangutan. Barroom brawls aplenty! Ruth Gordon (as “Ma”) v Nazi bikers!

19. Million Dollar Baby (2004)​

In a role that fits him like a comfy old overcoat, Eastwood plays a curmudgeonly boxing trainer who reluctantly takes on a waitress and soon-to-be surrogate daughter (Hilary Swank). But disaster strikes ... Eastwood also directed, and the film won multiple Oscars, despite (or perhaps because of) its controversial ending.

18. Kelly’s Heroes (1970)​

Dirty Dozen-lite meets The Italian Job as Eastwood leads his platoon in a heist comedy set in France in 1944. Eastwood is solid, but gets comprehensively upstaged by Donald Sutherland’s stoned tank commander. Jolly good fun, though the slapstick sometimes sits awkwardly with the horrors of war.

17. Space Cowboys (2000)​

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Geriatric riposte to Armageddon … Eastwood in Space Cowboys. Photograph: Reuters

Eastwood directed this amiable geriatric riposte to Armageddon, and reunited with Sutherland, alongside James Garner and Tommy Lee Jones, to play retired test pilots launched into space to save the world from obsolete satellite tech. Plot, dialogue and brawling are all 100% predictable, which only adds to its charm.

16. Gran Torino (2008)​

“Get off my lawn!” Septuagenarian Eastwood directs himself as a racist Korean war veteran who bonds with his Asian neighbours in blue-collar Detroit. The action and dialogue are a little clunky, but viewed in light of his long career, even the clunkiness becomes rather moving.

15. Where Eagles Dare (1968)​

Eastwood and Richard Burton co-star in a cracking Alistair MacLean action pic in which they infiltrate a Schloss in the Bavarian Alps. Result: explosions, stunts galore and Nazis falling like ninepins. All this gung ho budgetary extravagance inspired Eastwood to found the parsimonious Malpaso Productions.

14. High Plains Drifter (1973)​

Eastwood’s first western as a director was a gothic homage to Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, the film-makers who shaped his early career. As “The Stranger”, he rides into a frontier town to wreak semi-supernatural vengeance on the townsfolk, using methods that include getting them to paint the town red – literally.

13. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)​

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As Frank Morris, left, in Escape from Alcatraz. Photograph: Paramount/Allstar

After a production dispute, this taut fictionalisation of a real-life 1962 escape attempt would be Siegel and Eastwood’s final collaboration. Clint plays Frank Morris, banged up on the notorious prison island in San Francisco Bay, ruled by Patrick McGoohan as an unyielding warden. Filmed on location in Alcatraz itself.

12. Tightrope (1984)​

Richard Tuggle gets the credit, but Eastwood allegedly ended up directing most of this underrated thriller himself. In one of his most fearlessly uningratiating performances, he subverts his own macho persona as New Orleans cop Wes Block, whose sexual kinks are uncomfortably similar to those of the serial murderer his department is hunting.

11. In the Line of Fire (1993)​

Eastwood never balked at acting his age, and visibly gets short of breath as a veteran Secret Service agent, still depressed by his failure to protect JFK, who is forced into a battle of wits against John Malkovich. Smart directing from Wolfgang Petersen lifts this into almost-classic thriller territory.

10. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)​

After Coogan’s Bluff, Eastwood’s second film for Siegel was this spaghetti-adjacent western with an Ennio Morricone score, filmed in Mexico. Clint plays an American mercenary who rescues a nun (Shirley MacLaine) from bandits. They join up with Mexican revolutionaries to fight the occupying French forces. Breezy fun with an action-packed finale, and you’d never guess Clint and Shirley weren’t best mates on set.

9. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)​

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Passionate affair … with Meryl Streep in The Bridges of Madison County. Photograph: Maximum Film/Alamy

Eastwood’s no-nonsense directing style is perfectly suited to this Brief Encounter-type romance, adapted from a bestselling novel. He plays a peripatetic photographer who stops taking pictures of Iowa’s historic bridges long enough to have a passionate affair with a local housewife (Meryl Streep in frumpy frocks). Acting-wise, Eastwood wisely leaves most of the emoting to his co-star, with results that are genuinely affecting.

8. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)​

Michael Cimino made his directing debut with this likable buddy caper movie set in rural Montana. Eastwood gives one of his most underrated performances as a fugitive bank robber who teams up with Jeff Bridges’ cocky young drifter. Knockabout comedy rubs shoulders with brutal violence, new Hollywood-style, as a getaway goes horribly wrong and the typically 1970s ending is a heartbreaker.

7. The Beguiled (1971)​

With three releases cementing and subverting his tough guy persona, 1971 was a watershed year for Eastwood. In Siegel’s unnerving southern gothic thriller (remade in 2017 by Sofia Coppola), he plays a wounded Yankee soldier trapped in an all girls’ school in rural Mississippi, where his attempts to manipulate the women’s emotions only result in him being systematically unmanned.

6. Play Misty for Me (1971)​

Sixteen years before Fatal Attraction, Eastwood made his directing debut with a psychological thriller in which his strapping DJ is reduced to a nervous wreck by a slip of a woman (Jessica Walter AKA Arrested Development’s Lucille Bluth) as their initially casual relationship leads to jealousy, stalking and scissor attacks. Filmed in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where, from 1986 to 1988, Clint would serve as mayor.

5. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)​

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A gamble that paid off … A Fistful of Dollars. Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock

Hitherto best known as Rowdy Yates from TV’s Rawhide, Eastwood took a risk in playing a poncho-clad anti-hero, The Man With No Name, in a low-budget Italian production with a Morricone score. The gamble paid off. Leone’s unauthorised remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (itself a reworking of Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest) gave birth to the spaghetti western subgenre. And a screen icon was born.

4. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)​

Eastwood controversially ousted Philip Kaufman to take over directing on one of his most enjoyable westerns. A farmer hunts down the soldiers who murdered his family, but vengeance is deferred while he acquires a surrogate family of misfits, including Chief Dan George as the Cherokee who can’t sneak up, and Sondra Locke in the first of six films she made with Clint, her real-life partner.

3. Dirty Harry (1971)​

Eastwood added another signature role to his repertoire in the first of five films featuring poster boy for police brutality Inspector Harry Callahan, as he goes after the psychopath terrorising San Francisco. Director Siegel keeps it gritty and exciting, and Clint, road testing a 1970s pompadour, makes Harry cool, instead of just a vigilante thug.

2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)​

The final part of Leone’s Dollars Trilogy adds Eli Wallach as comic foil to the dream team of Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, who last met in For a Few Dollars More (1965). All three play scumbags on the trail of buried treasure, set against an epic American civil war backdrop. The squinty showdown in the cemetery, choreographed to Morricone’s score, is peak cinema.

1. Unforgiven (1992)​

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Tragic showdown … Unforgiven. Photograph: Warner Bros./Allstar
Eastwood stars in this Oscar-winning western as William Munny, a widowed pig-farmer who thinks his bounty hunting days are over (“I ain’t like that any more”) until he hears about a $1,000 reward on the heads of men who slashed a sex worker’s face. But first he has to get past Sheriff Gene Hackman. With the director-star completely in control of his screen persona and drawing on his history of playing violent men, he builds without irony towards a showdown that is more tragic than cathartic.


From Rotten Tomatoes

ALL CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIES RANKED​

Go ahead, punks, make your day: Take a look at movies starring Clint Eastwood!

The astonishing career begins with blowing up a giant spider with a jet missile in Tarantula. Eastwood didn’t have any lines in that one, and not many more nine years later in A Fistful of Dollars, but that wasn’t going to stop him from becoming an international star. (That’s currently his best-reviewed movie: It’s Certified Fresh by critics and we list more of those next in the list.) Further movies as the Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name made him the spaghetti Western icon, and the Dirty Harry series made him a man for modern times. Along the way, he picked up directing, cranking out movies with stunning efficiency, often giving himself the main role for a little career longevity, not to mention Best Picture wins with Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. In The Mule, Eastwood directs once more and appears on-screen notably for the first time since Trouble With the Curve. He followed that up with 2021’s Cry Macho.

Feelin’ lucky? Pick any movie from Eastwood’s filmography and you just might witness a piece of cinema legend. —Alex Vo



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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1967)
97%​

#1
Critics Consensus: Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
Synopsis: In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach),... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffré
Directed By: Sergio Leone

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fistful_of_dollars

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)
98%​

#2
Critics Consensus: With Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo as his template, Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars helped define a new era for the Western and usher in its most iconic star, Clint Eastwood.
Synopsis: Wandering gunfighter Joe arrives in the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among sheriff... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Joseph Egger, Wolfgang Lukschy
Directed By: Sergio Leone

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1041911-unforgiven

UNFORGIVEN (1992)
96%​

#3
Critics Consensus: As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence.
Synopsis: When prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Thomson) is disfigured by a pair of cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, her fellow brothel... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_line_of_fire

IN THE LINE OF FIRE (1993)
96%​

#4
Critics Consensus: A straightforward thriller of the highest order, In the Line of Fire benefits from Wolfgang Peterson's taut direction and charismatic performances from Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich.
Synopsis: A Secret Service agent is taunted by calls from a would-be killer who has detailed information about the agent -... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott
Directed By: Wolfgang Petersen

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/million_dollar_baby

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004)
90%​

#5
Critics Consensus: Clint Eastwood's assured direction - combined with knockout performances from Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman - help Million Dollar Baby to transcend its clichés, and the result is deeply heartfelt and moving.
Synopsis: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran Los Angeles boxing trainer who keeps almost everyone at arm's length, except his... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bridges_of_madison_county

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (1995)
90%​

#6
Critics Consensus: Sentimental, slow, schmaltzy, and very satisfying, The Bridges of Madison County finds Clint Eastwood adapting a bestseller with heft, wit, and grace.
Synopsis: A moving love story about a photographer on assignment to shoot the historic bridges of Madison County. He meets a... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outlaw_josey_wales

THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976)
91%​

#7
Critics Consensus: Recreating the essence of his iconic Man With No Name in a post-Civil War Western, director Clint Eastwood delivered the first of his great revisionist works of the genre.
Synopsis: Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) watches helplessly as his wife and child are murdered, by Union men led by Capt. Terrill... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dirty_harry

DIRTY HARRY (1971)
89%​

#8
Critics Consensus: As tough and taciturn as its no-nonsense hero, Dirty Harry delivers a deceptively layered message without sacrificing an ounce of its solid action impact.
Synopsis: Cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) attempts to track down a psychopathic rooftop killer before a kidnapped girl dies. When he... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Larch
Directed By: Don Siegel

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gran_torino

GRAN TORINO (2008)
81%​

#9
Critics Consensus: Though a minor entry in Eastwood's body of work, Gran Torino is nevertheless a humorous, touching, and intriguing old-school parable.
Synopsis: Retired auto worker and Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) fills emptiness in his life with beer and home... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/space_cowboys

SPACE COWBOYS (2000)
78%​

#10
Critics Consensus: While the plot is overly cliched, the suberb acting by the stars (especially the tense interactions between Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones) and the spectacular special effects make this a movie worth seeing.
Synopsis: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner star as a group of pilots whose time has come... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/escape_from_alcatraz

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1979)
97%​

#11
Critics Consensus: Escape from Alcatraz makes brilliant use of the tense claustrophobia of its infamous setting -- as well as its leading man's legendarily flinty resolve.
Synopsis: Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom
Directed By: Don Siegel

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/coogans_bluff

COOGAN'S BLUFF (1968)
95%​

#12
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Arizona lawman Walt Coogan (Clint Eastwood) hopes to make a short business trip to the big city, but his journey... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling
Directed By: Don Siegel

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/high_plains_drifter

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)
94%​

#13
Critics Consensus: Clint Eastwood's sophomore outing as director sees him back in the saddle as a mysterious stranger, and the result is one of his most memorable Westerns.
Synopsis: In this Western, a drifter with no name (Clint Eastwood) wanders into a small town, where his gun-slinging abilities are... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pale_rider

PALE RIDER (1985)
93%​

#14
Critics Consensus: Nearly a decade after The Outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood returns as a director to the genre that made his name with this elegant, spiritual Western that riffs on the classic Shane.
Synopsis: When property owner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) starts using a band of hooligans to terrorize a group of small-town gold... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/honkytonk_man

HONKYTONK MAN (1982)
93%​

#15
Critics Consensus: Clint Eastwood succeeds in revealing his softer side in Honkytonk Man, a surprisingly sweet and heartwarming road movie that hums along at a pleasant pace.
Synopsis: A 1930s country singer (Clint Eastwood) tries to reach Nashville sober, with his nephew (Kyle Eastwood), to audition at the... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/for_a_few_dollars_more

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
92%​

#16
Critics Consensus: With Clint Eastwood in the lead, Ennio Morricone on the score, and Sergio Leone's stylish direction, For a Few Dollars More earns its recognition as a genre classic.
Synopsis: In the Wild West, a murderous outlaw known as El Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) and his gang are terrorizing and... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Joseph Egger
Directed By: Sergio Leone

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hang_em_high

HANG 'EM HIGH (1968)
92%​

#17
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After a gang of men unsuccessfully attempts to lynch him for a cattle rustling crime he did not commit, Jed... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle
Directed By: Ted Post

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beguiled

THE BEGUILED (1971)
90%​

#18
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris
Directed By: Don Siegel

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thunderbolt_and_lightfoot

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1974)
88%​

#19
Critics Consensus: This likable buddy/road picture deftly mixes action and comedy, and features excellent work from stars Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges and first-time director Michael Cimino.
Synopsis: While stealing a car, free-spirited drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) crosses paths with legendary thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) in the midst... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis
Directed By: Michael Cimino

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/where_eagles_dare

WHERE EAGLES DARE (1969)
84%​

#20
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A crack team of Allied soldiers stages a daring rescue during World War II. A U.S. general is being held... [More]
Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark
Directed By: Brian G. Hutton

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WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART (1990)
83%​

#21
Critics Consensus: White Hunter Black Heart is powerful, intelligent, and subtly moving, a fascinating meditation on masculinity and the insecurities of artists.
Synopsis: Hard-living, macho movie director John Wilson (Clint Eastwood) arrives in 1950s Zimbabwe to prepare for his next film. Accompanied by... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tightrope

TIGHTROPE (1984)
85%​

#22
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A New Orleans police detective (Clint Eastwood) finds he has some of the same traits as a serial killer of... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood
Directed By: Richard Tuggle

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/play_misty_for_me

PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971)
85%​

#23
Critics Consensus: A coolly calculating psychological thriller that manages to scare the audience even if it is just using textbook thrills.
Synopsis: Popular radio show host Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) becomes restless in his relationship with his girlfriend (Donna Mills). Impulsively, he... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/joe_kidd

JOE KIDD (1972)
80%​

#24
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In New Mexico, one-time bounty hunter Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) owns a ranch where a nearby group of Mexican revolutionaries,... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud
Directed By: John Sturges

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfect_world

A PERFECT WORLD (1993)
78%​

#25
Critics Consensus: Despite some formulaic touches, Clint Eastwood's haunting, ambiguous crime drama is smart and gritty, and features a bravura performance from Kevin Costner as a prison escapee on the run.
Synopsis: Butch (Kevin Costner), a escaped state prisoner from a Texas jail, kidnaps Philip (T.J. Lowther), a young, impressionable boy. As... [More]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kellys_heroes

KELLY'S HEROES (1970)
78%​

#26
Critics Consensus: Kelly's Heroes subverts its World War II setting with pointed satirical commentary on modern military efforts, offering an entertaining hybrid of heist caper and battlefield action.
Synopsis: In the midst of World War II, an array of colorful American soldiers gets inside information from a drunk German... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland
Directed By: Brian G. Hutton

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bronco_billy

BRONCO BILLY (1980)
75%​

#27
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As the leader of a struggling Wild West show, Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) gives it his all to keep his... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gauntlet

THE GAUNTLET (1977)
75%​

#28
Critics Consensus: Eastwood has a good time playing a dolt in the surprisingly funny Gauntlet, which otherwise has the typical Clint trappings.
Synopsis: A cop who has seen better days, hard-living Ben Shockley (Clint Eastwood) is recruited to escort Augustina "Gus" Mally (Sondra... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/magnum_force

MAGNUM FORCE (1973)
67%​

#29
Critics Consensus: Magnum Force ups the ante for the Dirty Harry franchise with faster action and thrilling stuntwork.
Synopsis: Rogue San Francisco cop "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) doesn't believe in blind obedience to the rules, but when a... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, David Soul, Mitch Ryan
Directed By: Ted Post

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1006646-enforcer

THE ENFORCER (1976)
69%​

#30
Critics Consensus: Though the slightest hints of series fatigue begin to emerge, The Enforcer delivers riveting action and better humor than its predecessors.
Synopsis: Police officer "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is reassigned from homicide to personnel after his latest use of excessive force.... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman
Directed By: James Fargo

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/two_mules_for_sister_sara

TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (1970)
71%​

#31
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When gunslinger Hogan (Clint Eastwood) discovers a group of men attempting to rape a young nun, Sara (Shirley MacLaine), he... [More]
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fabregas, Alberto Morin
Directed By: Don Siegel

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heartbreak_ridge

HEARTBREAK RIDGE (1986)
68%​

#32
Critics Consensus: With Heartbreak Ridge, director Clint Eastwood gets one of his best performances out of himself, even if the story struggles to engage.
Synopsis: Marine Sgt. Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) is a decorated veteran of two wars. On his last posting before retirement, he... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_eiger_sanction

THE EIGER SANCTION (1975)
67%​

#33
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Former government assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now devotes his time to teaching and collecting paintings, but his quiet life... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sudden_impact

SUDDEN IMPACT (1983)
51%​

#34
Critics Consensus: Sudden Impact delivers all the firepower -- and the most enduring catchphrase -- fans associate with the Dirty Harry franchise, but it's far from the best film in the series.
Synopsis: Jennifer Spencer (Sondra Locke) was gang raped, but the crime went unpunished. Now she demands revenge, killing off the men... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/absolute_power

ABSOLUTE POWER (1997)
56%​

#35
Critics Consensus: Absolute Power collapses under its preposterous plotting despite an all-star cast and Clint Eastwood's deft direction.
Synopsis: While robbing the home of aging billionaire Walter Sullivan (E.G. Marshall), Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) is interrupted by an amorous... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1084928-true_crime

TRUE CRIME (1999)
56%​

#36
Critics Consensus: True Crime has the potential for a gripping character-driven mystery, but a pedestrian story and a miscast Clint Eastwood undermine its effectiveness.
Synopsis: Journalist Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has been sober two months, but things are still going badly. Steve's marriage to Barbara... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, LisaGay Hamilton
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dead_pool

THE DEAD POOL (1988)
53%​

#37
Critics Consensus: While it offers its fair share of violent thrills and tough wit, The Dead Pool ends the Dirty Harry series on an uninspired note.
Synopsis: In the fifth installment of the Dirty Harry series, gritty cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is fresh off the conviction... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Evan C. Kim, Liam Neeson
Directed By: Buddy Van Horn

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blood_work

BLOOD WORK (2002)
52%​

#38
Critics Consensus: Blood Work is a routine, but competently made thriller marred by lethargic pacing.
Synopsis: FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Clint Eastwood) was hot on the trail of "The Code Killer" when a heart attack put... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/trouble_with_the_curve

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (2012)
51%​

#39
Critics Consensus: Though predictable and somewhat dramatically underwhelming, Trouble with the Curve benefits from Clint Eastwood's grizzled charisma and his easy chemistry with a charming Amy Adams.
Synopsis: For decades Gus Lobel (Clint Eastwood) has been one of baseball's best scouts -- but now his age is catching... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman
Directed By: Robert Lorenz

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/every_which_way_but_loose

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978)
41%​

#40
Critics Consensus: The inexplicable pairing of Clint Eastwood with an orangutan is the least of Every Which Way But Loose's problems -- a slack action-comedy with a haphazardly assembled story.
Synopsis: A tough trucker with a cheeky pet orangutan, Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) moonlights as a fighter, with his close friend... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, Geoffrey Lewis
Directed By: James Fargo

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/firefox

FIREFOX (1982)
41%​

#41
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran American pilot who becomes involved in a top-secret mission to steal a high-tech... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1031635-rookie

THE ROOKIE (1990)
33%​

#42
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Police Det. Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood) isn't so happy when he gets paired with young rookie David Ackerman (Charlie Sheen).... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paint_your_wagon

PAINT YOUR WAGON (1969)
43%​

#43
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this musical based on the Broadway show, Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) happens upon a wrecked wagon containing a dead... [More]
Starring: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell
Directed By: Joshua Logan

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pink_cadillac

PINK CADILLAC (1989)
24%​

#44
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Bounty hunter Tommy Nowak (Clint Eastwood) is on the trail of Lou Ann McGuinn (Bernadette Peters), a bail jumper last... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, John Dennis Johnston
Directed By: Buddy Van Horn

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/city_heat

CITY HEAT (1984)
22%​

#45
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In 1933, private investigator Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds) is shocked when his partner, Dehl Swift (Richard Roundtree), is killed by... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn
Directed By: Richard Benjamin

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/any_which_way_you_can

ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (1980)
20%​

#46
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Just as underground bare-knuckle fighter Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is about to retire, he is asked by the Mafia to... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, Geoffrey Lewis
Directed By: Buddy Van Horn

 

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