59 Albert Finney Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Scrooge is a musical film which revolves around Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter money-lender, who does not share the merriment of Christmas, unlike all people around him. He exploits his employees and even treats his own nephew and acquaintances bitterly. His life takes a turn when he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner, who tells him that he would be visited by three spirits on Christmas.

Arthur is a rebellious hard-working factory worker who slaves all his week for modest wages. His girlfriend is Brenda, who prefers him for his rugged looks and his swaggering attitude. However, things get complicated when another woman named Brenda enters his life a week later, and announces that she is pregnant. She asks him money for an abortion and although he agrees to pay, things get complicated when Brenda finds out about this.    

In typical Tim Burton style, Big Fish is the story of Edward Bloom, a retired salesman, and his son, Will, in a fantasy setting. On his deathbed, Bloom, who has the gift of storytelling, narrates fictional tales of his youth to Will, as he attempts to mend their relationship. Though initially sceptical, Will ultimately realizes his father’s zest for life. 

Two for the Road is a romantic drama comedy film which tells the story of Mark Wallace and his wife Joanna, who travel to France for a meeting with an affluent client. While there, they start reflecting on their first ten years of marriage.  While mutual infidelity is threatening to tear them apart, they try to rekindle their passion.

In order to find his true identity, Jason Bourne comes out of hiding to meet Britsh reporter Simon Ross who is researching Operation Blackbriar, which replaced the Operation Treadstone that he was a part of. However, realizing Ross is being followed, Jason escapes and survives CIA chase across countries with help from Nicky Parsons and Pamela Landy.

Detective Hercule Poirot is journeying home aboard the Orient Express, when a billionaire is murdered en route. Poirot takes up the case, and everyone on board becomes a suspect, as he realizes that many of them have revenge as a motive. 

O Lucky Man! is a musical comedy drama film which tells the story of Mike Travis, a man who sticks to his work ethic and idealism. However, this gets him into trouble with nearly anyone he meets, but despite this, he continues to stick to his ideals in a capitalist society.  

James Bond is presumed dead after being caught in friendly fire while trying to retrieve a list of British agents. MI6 is compromised and identities of several agents are exposed. Bond, who reveals he is alive after M is attacked at MI6 and six agents are killed, must track down a man from M's past, seeking revenge.

Three senior students at a public school misbehave with their juniors and treat them like personal servants. Even the headmaster is distant from the boys, and the housemaster is easily manipulated by the seniors as well. Losing their patience, few students decide to start a revolt, but things start to get worse.

Tom Jones is a romantic adventure comedy film which revolves around a man named Tom, who is quite popular among the women. However, the only love in his life is Sophie. However, things get complicated because her parents want her to get married to another man, who happens to be Tom’s cousin.

Based on the true story of the eponymous Erin Brockovich, this biographical drama centres around a struggling single mother and legal assistant who unearths a water supply poisoning scandal covered up by a California power company and ends up winning one of the largest class-action lawsuits in American history. Julia Roberts won an Oscar for her titular role in this film.

Armand and Gabriel are French soldiers serving under Napoleon. When a small quarrel between them becomes a lifelong grudge, they eventually challenge one another to a sword and pistol duel. Although fifteen years later, both men have performed remarkably in their military careers, and have become Generals, their hatred still doesn’t cease.

Two rival mafia bosses are at loggerheads when Irish mobster Leo O'Bannon provides protection to bookie Bernie Bernbaum, brother of his girlfriend Verna, from Italian gangster Johnny Caspar. Leo expels his right-hand man, Tom Reagan, after learning about Verna's affair with him, following which Tom shifts allegiance to Johnny, but must now prove himself trustworthy by killing Bernie.

A young orphan who lives in an orphanage believes that her parents left her there by mistake. Eventually, a rich man named Oliver lets her live at his home to improve his image. However, Annie still longs to meet her parents. 

Amazing Grace is a biographical drama film which takes us to 18th century England. The film revolves around William Wilberforce and William Pitt, two politicians who begin a battle to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain.

The movie explores America’s drug fight through four stories. The US drug czar discovers that his own daughter is an addict. The wife of a drug lord discovers her husband’s true profession and tries to protect it. A witness familiar with her husband’s activities is protected by two DEA agents. A committed cop begins to doubt his superior’s true motives in drug war.

Max Skinner, a trader from London inherits his Uncle Henry’s vineyard estate in Southern France. Soon his cousin, Christie, a previously unknown illegitimate daughter of Henry, arrives as the true owner of the estate. As Max starts falling in love with local café owner, Fanny Chenal, he must figure out what he wants from life. 

In a working class family, the father Rafe attempts to deal with his children sternly, while the mother Hilda tries to deal with them leniently. Rafe’s method of dealing with them rubs them the wrong way, and he eventually ends up locking horns with Hilda. 

Night Must Fall is a 1964 crime thriller film which is a remake of the 1937 film of the same name. The film revolves around Danny, a hotel bellboy, who is also a psychotic killer. However, he eventually gets in the good books of his aging invalid employer, and also earns the affection of her beautiful daughter, which brings an unpleasant outcome to all. 

Two brothers, Andy and Hank, are desperately in need of money and so they decide to rob their parents’ jewelry shop, fully aware that the insurance will compensate the theft. But their plan goes awry when Hank hires a seasoned thief to execute the operation and their mother decides to fill in for the elderly shop assistant.  

The fourth installment of the Bourne film franchise, The Bourne Legacy, sees black ops agent, Aaron Cross, run for his life from the Department of Defense after he discovers their secret about field operatives. Jeremy Renner stars as the black ops agent who poses a potential threat to the department upon discovering that it is giving performance-enhancing drugs to its operatives.

Eddie Ginley, a bingo caller at a nightclub, aspires to become a private detective. He advertises in a newspaper and soon enough receives a strange call and few items. Before he can figure things out, he gets enmeshed in a case involving drug and gun smuggling. Ginley must now solve the case and simultaneously protect his own family.

Wolften is a horror thriller film which revolves around a cop in New York City, who is assigned to solve a bizarre set of murders, which resemble animal attacks. He continues his investigation, until he discovers something about an old legend regarding wolf spirits.

Rising from Manchester’s working-class, Charlie Bubbles has achieved success in London as a writer. But now he is dissatisfied and appears to have lost ability to feel, so much so that he is unhappy even while with mistress Eliza. Restless, he returns to Manchester, visits his estranged wife Lottie and son at their farm, as he attempts to reconnect with his roots.

With over-escalating crime wave in New York City, two friends, Willie and Cy, recruit neighborhood volunteers to join a special Auxiliary Police Force. After their regular day-jobs, they patrol the neighborhood streets at night in their Auxiliary police car and uniforms, but their over-enthusiasm often leads to errors of judgment, creating humorous situations. However, will the end result be just as humorous?

Two siblings, a brother and a sister, kill a young cyclist accidentally. However, instead of reporting the accident to the authorities, the woman takes the corpse home with them. She dresses the corpse with the clothes of her second brother, who was killed during the World War II, and tries to engage in conversation with it. Although her brother tries to bury the corpse, she insists on keeping it with them.  

Following the success Ocean’s Eleven, the sequel Ocean’s Twelve sees the return of Danny Ocean’s heist-gang who need to return the millions, they stole from Terry Benedict. They are also being pursued by Europol detective Isabel Lahiri and are up against master-thief Night Fox, François Toulour as they try to steal the first-ever stock certificate. 

Made to explore racial tensions in South Africa in the Apartheid era, this short drama film tells the story of a wealthy woman who insists on taking a vacation to the countryside along with her family, despite getting urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.

Based on the eponymous novel by Robert Pollock, the film focuses on Stephen Booker, who has been made redundant from his architecture firm just before Christmas. Continuously harassed by his bank manager, he finally agrees to help Mike Daniels in pulling off the biggest heist; breaking the underground safe of the City Savings Deposits Bank.              

Breakfast of Champions is a comedy film which takes us to a fictional town which is home to several crazy and neurotic characters. One of them include Dwayne, the wealthy owner of a car dealership, who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which is making him lose touch with reality. Things get even worse because his wife Celia is addicted to pills.  

Victor and Victoria are about to be married when, during wedding rehearsals, Victor makes a mistake and flustered, runs off into woods. He practices his wedding vows in front of a tree and unknowingly ends up marrying a Corpse Bride, Emily. While Emily takes him to the Land of dead, Victoria now has a new suitor.