The Top 10 Clint Eastwood movies have been ranked on IMDb, and No 1 is “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema” according to Quentin Tarantino.
A titan of the New Hollywood, with a movie career spanning over 60 years, Clint Eastwood has an incredible back catalogue.
The 94-year-old’s latest and possibly last directorial effort Juror No 2 will hit cinemas within the next year.
While the Oscar-winner has made some incredible movies behind the camera, which of his acting roles are the very best?
Film fan database IMDb has ranked the Top 10 of Eastwood’s movies and it turns out No 1 is “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema” according to Quentin Tarantino.
10. Kelly’s Heroes (1970) – 7.6/10
This World War II comedy heist movie saw Clint Eastwood star opposite Telly Savalas, Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland. The plot follows a group of American soldiers who learn about Nazi gold hidden behind enemy lines from a drunk German. As a result, they head off on a mission to steal it for themselves. While filming the movie, Eastwood was on the floor laughing after sharing some bad news with Sutherland.
9. Escape from Alcatraz (1979) – 7.6/10
Based on the real-life 1962 prison escape from Alcatraz Island, Eastwood starred as escape ringleader Frank Morris. The critically acclaimed box office smash was the fifth and final collaboration between director Don Siegel and the star.
8. Dirty Harry (1971) – 7.7/10
The first and only Dirty Harry movie to make the Top 10 saw Eastwood star as San Francisco homicide cop Harry Callahan. Violent and highly unorthodox in his methods of apprehending murders, the star’s character is famous for his use of a gigantic .44 Magnum and the line “Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?”
7. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) – 7.8/10
This revisionist Western directed by and starring Eastwood had him play a Missouri farmer whose family was murdered by Union militia during the American Civil War. After fighting for the Confederacy, his character Josey Wales becomes an outlaw pursued by bounty hunters and Union soldiers.
6. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – 7.9/10
The first of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western trilogy starring Eastwood as The Man with No Name. An unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, the plot follows the star’s wandering gunfighter amid a power struggle in a Mexican village.
A titan of the New Hollywood, with a movie career spanning over 60 years, Clint Eastwood has an incredible back catalogue.
The 94-year-old’s latest and possibly last directorial effort Juror No 2 will hit cinemas within the next year.
While the Oscar-winner has made some incredible movies behind the camera, which of his acting roles are the very best?
Film fan database IMDb has ranked the Top 10 of Eastwood’s movies and it turns out No 1 is “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema” according to Quentin Tarantino.
5. Gran Torino (2008) – 8.1/10
Directed by and starring Eastwood in his late seventies, the film follows his character Walt Kowalski, a widowed Korean War veteran who is bitter and angry at the world. When his young neighbour steals his prized Ford Torino for initiation into a gang, Walt stops him and befriends the boy while standing up to the criminals.
4. Million Dollar Baby (2004) – 8.1/10
Another directed by and starring Eastwood, this Oscar-winning sports drama saw him play a trainer to Hilary Swank’s boxer Maggie, alongside Morgan Freeman’s former fighter. Critically acclaimed, the film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and is considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century.
3. For a Few Dollars More (1965) – 8.2/10
The second of the Dollars trilogy had the Man with No Man team up with Lee Van Cleef’s fellow bounty hunter Col Douglas Mortimer in their hunt for a murderous outlaw. An international co-production between Italy, West Germany and Spain, Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski played the villains.
A titan of the New Hollywood, with a movie career spanning over 60 years, Clint Eastwood has an incredible back catalogue.
The 94-year-old’s latest and possibly last directorial effort Juror No 2 will hit cinemas within the next year.
While the Oscar-winner has made some incredible movies behind the camera, which of his acting roles are the very best?
Film fan database IMDb has ranked the Top 10 of Eastwood’s movies and it turns out No 1 is “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema” according to Quentin Tarantino.
2. Unforgiven (1992) – 8.2/10
Once again directed by and starring Eastwood, this Western saw him play an ageing outlaw who takes on one more job after years in retirement as a farmer. Co-starring Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris, the movie won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) – 8.8/10
The third and final film in Leone’s Dollars trilogy is also his best and shot Eastwood to stardom. Accompanied by Ennio Morricone’s iconic score, the plot followed three gunslingers in a race to locate buried Confederate gold amid the American Civil War. Considered one of the best movies ever made, Quentin Tarantino calls it “the best-directed film of all time” and “the greatest achievement in the history of cinema”.
Yet did you know Eastwood had to share a bed with his co-star who could boast: “I was the only man to sleep with him”?