Best Leonardo DiCaprio Movies, Ranked
Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the biggest actors working in the industry rn and not only he’s popular domestically but globally tnx to James Cameron’s Titanic which made him & Kate Winslet a global stars, if you look at Leo’s filmography you will notice that every single film he has done is a masterpiece in some way for example Titanic one of the greatest love stories, the departed the greatest crime thrillers, inception one of the greatest sci-fi and so on. So here it is although it was so freaking tough I’ve tried my level best to honour all of his films Leo’s top ten films ranked.
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 ‧ Drama/Comedy
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jordan Belfort, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey
IMDb Ratings: 8.2/10
While this is far from Martin Scorsese’s best film, it contains some of DiCaprio’s finest work to date, as real-life penny-stock kingpin and financial huckster Jordan Belfort. The director in recent years has alternated between epic fictions and major musical documentaries — and in some strange way, this is an unlikely combination of both. Belfort was famous for his rousing, take-no-prisoners, tent-revival-like speeches to his employees, and so much of this film is Scorsese just turning his cameras on Leo and watching him go — the Mick Jagger of Wall Street jag-offs. BE
9. Revolutionary Road
2008 ‧ Romance/Drama
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, David Harbour
IMDb Ratings: 7.3/10
DiCaprio and his Titanic partner Kate Winslet were reunited for this adaptation of Richard Yates’ classic novel about suburban despair and thwarted dreams, American style. The two movies could not be more different: If the earlier blockbuster was a proudly florid melodrama about two kids pining for a life of adventure, this is a chilly, precise and ultimately heartwreenching drama about two adults slowly discovering that the world they once imagined is nothing like the living hell they have now. And DiCaprio is excellent as a man caught in a downward spiral of disillusionment, slowly coming to terms with the fact that he will never make anything of himself. BE
8 Django Unchained
2012 ‧ Western/Drama
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington
IMDb Ratings: 8.5/10
As the sneering, charismatic slave-owner Calvin Candie, DiCaprio is the dirty, demented heart of Quentin Tarantino’s controversial Western-exploitation-revenge flick. What’s most remarkable about this performance is the weird affability the actor brings to this pathetic, delusional monster. This is a man who breeds and forces his slaves to fight each other, who has a weird fascination with France, and who is, at heart, a murderous psychotic. But he’s also so charismatic that — spoiler alert — once he’s dispatched from the narrative, the air goes out of the film. It’s a career highlight; he deserved an Oscar for this one, frankly.
7. The Aviator
2004 ‧ Drama
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Gwen Stefani
IMDb Ratings: 7.5/10
In Scorsese’s expansive and lavish look at the early years of millionaire businessman/inventor Howard Hughes, DiCaprio has to blend his still-fresh faced charm with an obsessiveness that borders on madness. These are the years when Hughes was working on his delirious dogfight movie Hell’s Angels, romancing Katherine Hepburn, trying to build the legendary Spruce Goose, and facing off against hostile politicians. The director connects with the man’s ambition and compulsiveness, not to mention his gnawing sense of inadequacy. And DiCaprio’s performance proves he’s versatile as hell.
6. Gangs of New York
2002 ‧ Drama/Crime
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, Henry Thomas
IMDb Ratings: 7.5/10
At the time of DiCaprio’s first collaboration with Scorsese, many were initially perplexed: Pretty-boy heartthrob Leo making a period picture with the king of fast-talking criminals? But the actor wasn’t a bad fit for the role of Amsterdam Vallon, an Irish-American young man biding his time in order to avenge the death of his father (Liam Neeson) at the hands of the Nativist gang leader Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis, in what might be his greatest performance). More befuddled than rough, Amsterdam has to grow into the role of gang-leader himself — and Leo plays him as a brooding naïf, an ideal approach against Day-Lewis’ boisterous, whip-smart villainy.
5. Once Upon a time in hollywood
2019 ‧ Comedy/Drama
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch
IMDb Ratings: 7.6/10
His name was Rick Dalton, the he-man behind the TV Western Bounty Law and countless cinema du rugged-dude classics. (Who could forget The 14 Fists of McCluskey?) Only now it’s 1969, the counterculture is taking over and Dalton’s star wattage is starting to dim. Quentin Tarantino’s ode to the end of a Tinseltown era is all about the moment when things pass and what we lose in the process, and nobody embodies that better then DiCaprio’s fading lead. The actor allows you to both laugh with Dalton and, in certain moments, laugh at him; he can also make you feel the pain of someone who fears he’s no longer relevant. There’s an undercurrent of pathos that runs under his performance even before we get to the instantly classic on-set freakout scene (apparently improvised), as well as a creeping uncertainty of what comes next. It’s a beautifully vulnerable turn, one that complements the fun of watching DiCaprio recreate vintage movie/TV roles and confirming that he and Brad Pitt make one hell of a good-buddy double act.
4. Catch me if you can
2002 ‧ Drama/Crime
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner
IMDb Ratings: 8.1/10
In this Steven Spielberg hit, DiCaprio plays Frank Abagnale, a real-life con-man who traveled around the country and lived the high life as he impersonated pilots, lawyers, and doctors. It was an inspired bit of casting, capturing the actor right as he was transforming from fresh-faced romantic into a brooding young man — he could still play an innocent. And in the film’s first half, as his character watches his parents’ marriage break up, his heartbreak is palpable. By the end of the film, he’s become a totally different person — a journey from kid to slightly jaded adult that’s charted on Di Caprio’s face.
3. The Departed
2006 ‧ Crime/Drama
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Vera Farmiga, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg
IMDb Ratings: 8.5/10
Scorsese finally won that elusive Oscar with this Boston crime thriller — a remake of the terrific Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002) — that had DiCaprio as a cop infiltrating the mob and Matt Damon as a mobster infiltrating the police force. It’s an intricate, fascinating tale of competing cat-and-mouse games, but the director and his screenwriter, William Monahan, infuse it with so much tragedy that it winds up becoming something almost mythic. And DiCaprio is fantastic here, in a totally unglamorous, grubby role as a desperate man who almost loses his identity. It’s one of his all-time greatest performances.
2. Inception
2010 ‧ Action/Sci-fi
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page
IMDb Ratings: 8.8/10
Scorsese finally won that elusive Oscar with this Boston crime thriller — a remake of the terrific Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002) — that had DiCaprio as a cop infiltrating the mob and Matt Damon as a mobster infiltrating the police force. It’s an intricate, fascinating tale of competing cat-and-mouse games, but the director and his screenwriter, William Monahan, infuse it with so much tragedy that it winds up becoming something almost mythic. And DiCaprio is fantastic here, in a totally unglamorous, grubby role as a desperate man who almost loses his identity. It’s one of his all-time greatest performances.
1. Titanic
1997 ‧ Romance/Drama
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Bill Paxton, Gloria Stuart
IMDb Ratings: 7.9/10
What’s that you say? You don’t think this movie is all that? Tough. James Cameron’s 1997 box-office record-breaker, Oscar winner, and all-around pop-cultural juggernaut was the most expensive movie of its time — not to mention a years-in-the-making, snidely-dismissed production that sometimes seemed like it would never see the light of day. Then it finally came out … and it was awe-inspiring. As a piece of filmmaking, it does for the vast darkness of the sea what David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia did for the sensuousness of the desert. It also presents a disaster movie extravaganza without ever losing its sense of tragedy (even as it indulges in state-of-the-art effects to show the devastation of the historic shipwreck).
And then there’s Leo and Kate. Yes, the logline of their relationship – adventurous drifter falls for frustrated, upper class girl – is pure corn. But the two young stars infuse their earnest back-and-forth with so much genuine emotion that it’s hard not to get swept up in their doomed love affair. It’s still the highpoint of DiCaprio’s career, and one of the greatest old-school movies to come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years.
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