45 Anthony Anderson Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

This Academy Award-winning crime drama is a tale of two newly graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy. Billy Costigan goes undercover to gain the trust of Irish-American mobster Frank Costello, while Costello's protégé Colin Sullivan joins the police as his informer. Chaos ensues as both try to expose the other in order to survive.

DJay, a pimp, is suffering from mid-life crisis. However, when he meets a friend of his, who is a musician, he gets inspired to make a career in rap music. 

Two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, reach earth in search of Allspark, a mystical talisman with unlimited power for its possessor. The former wants it to end war and reconstruct their planet while the latter intends to create an army. Caught in between this interstellar battle is Sam Witwicky, a teenager, who is strangely connected to Allspark.

The stoner comedy follows friends Harold Lee and Kumar Patel who decide to visit a nearby White Castle fast-food outlet after smoking marijuana. What follows is a series of comical misadventures, including encountering Neil Patrick Harris high on ecstasy, racist police officers, rednecks, before they can reach their favorite burgers.   

In order to make it big, Claude and Ray head to Mississippi. However, a local sheriff charges them with a murder that they have not committed. They are shipped off to jail where they are supposed to serve life sentences. They need to find a way out to prove their innocence while also dealing with their opposing personalities.  

Charlie Baileygates is a veteran Rhode Island state trooper who has been taken advantage of by those around him. Due to years of abuse, Charlie develops a split personality named Hank. Would a psychiatrist be able to help him? 

Small Town Crime is a mystery crime thriller film which tells the story of Mike Kendall, an alcoholic ex cop, who finds a young woman’s dead body. He gets obsessed with finding the killer and bringing him to justice, but in the process, he puts his own family’s life in danger.

Back in 1980s, boxers Henry "Razor" Sharp and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen were fierce rivals until Razor suddenly announced his retirement, leaving a three match series unresolved, thus effectively ending their career. 30 years later, a boxing promoter approaches him to face Kid in one last bout and he grudgingly accepts the challenge. 

The first in the Barbershop series, the film features daily goings-on in a South-side Chicago barbershop. Calvin, who has big plans for future, feels that the barbershop inherited from his father is a burden and waste of time. After selling it to the local loan shark, he realizes the legacy his father had passed on to him, and resolves to get it back.

Shante Smith is a woman who thinks that she knows everything about men and their tricks, and in order to 'put her boyfriend in line’, she plays heartless mind games on him one after the other. However, it seems that he has few tricks up his own sleeve as well, and this leads to a battle between the two.

The fourth installment in the Scream franchise follows Sidney Prescott returning to Woodsboro on the fifteenth anniversary of the Woodsboro murders by the killer known as Ghostface. Unfortunately, her return also coincides with the return of Ghostface who starts killing again, putting Sidney and her loved ones in mortal danger. 

When Han Sing, a former cop, hears that his younger brother is killed in Oakland, he escapes from his prison in Hong Kong and reaches America. There he finds his father engaged in a joint business venture with a black real estate developer and the two are acquiring properties for a businessman. Quickly he begins investigating the cause of his brother’s death.   

This comedy film tells the story of three bird enthusiasts who pursue the title for spotting the highest number of birds in a bird-watching competition. 

When Anthony Fait, a master thief, pulls up a jewel heist and escapes from the pursuing SWAT team, Su, a Taiwanese agent, manages to tail him, hoping to retrieve the black diamonds he has stolen. Meanwhile, hoping to lay his hands on the diamonds, a rival gang leader kidnaps Fait’s daughter, compelling Fait and Su to join hands. 

Barbershop: The Next Cut is a comedy drama film which tells the story of Calvin and Angie, who merge their barbershop and salon due to their financial problems. However, the growing crime rate in their neighborhood becomes a significant problem.

Goats is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a teen boy Ellis, who leaves his comfortable home, to begin his freshman year at Gates Academy. He soon makes new friends and finds himself attracted to a girl working in the local library, who is rumored to be quite promiscuous.   

In this satirical movie, news reporter Cindy Campbell learns about a sinister videotape which spells death for its viewers. Cindy has a notion that there is a connection of some sort between the videotape and the crop circles that are mysteriously formed on Tom Logan’s farm. Fearing an alien invasion, she knows she must help the President avert the attack. 

Exit Wounds is an action crime thriller film, which tells the story of Orin Boyd, a tough cop in an inner-city precinct, who learns about a web of dirty cops and corruption. Eventually, he starts uncovering some big conspiracies. 

A masked killer used to wreak havoc in a small town in the US sixty-five years ago. In the present day, when similar killings start occurring again, a girl named Jami decides to do research and work on catching the killer herself.

Agent 11, an FBI dog is sent to a training facility in Alaska, but he runs away from the place. He meets a mailman named Gordon Smith, who decides to take responsibility of the dog. However, Gordon is unaware of the fact that the dog is being pursued by a mafia boss, as Agent 11 had attacked him brutally.    

Special agent Malcolm Turner, an expert at disguise, is assigned to nab an escaped bank-robber. The criminal is expected to meet his ex-girlfriend Sherry who may have a part of the loot. Sherry is about to visit her long-separated granny in Georgia. So, with disguise tricks, Malcolm turns into oversized, belligerent Southern Granny Big Momma, and carries his role to perfection.

Previously known as Plan B, the film explores the relationship between Joe, who is fed up with waiting for the right man, and Stan who bumps into her the day she undergoes artificial insemination. Continuing to bump into each other, they fall in love. But by that time, Joe realizes that she is pregnant and does not know how to break the news to Stan.  

Brad ‘B-rad,’ the son of wealthy politician and candidate for governor Bill Gluckman, aspires to be a rapper and behaves like he is from ‘hood.’ Worried that this will ruin his election chances, Bill arranges for two African-American actors to kidnap Brad and shock him out of his fantasies. But when Brad and the ‘thugs’ encounter real-life gangsters, Bill must rush to rescue. 

Following her husband's death, broke and lonely, Cindy Campbell, takes job in a haunted house and falls for her divorced neighbor Tom Ryan. However, when her future plans are disrupted by an alien invasion, she is instructed by the ghost of a Japanese boy to travel to a hidden village to learn how to stop the aliens.

Two childhood friends get involved with the mob, and are forced to deliver some money to Australia. Things get complicated when their money is lost to a wild kangaroo.

Along with his partner Derek, Cody Banks travels to England to stop a villain named Victor Diaz from causing chaos all over the world using his mind-control technology.

Urban Legends: Final Cut is a mystery horror thriller film which revolves around a student film-maker who is working on a film. However, her life turns upside down when the actors and crew working on the film starts getting killed by a monstrous force.

Ferdinand is an animated adventure comedy film which tells the story of a soft-hearted bull named Ferdinand who is captured after he is mistaken for a dangerous beast. In order to return to his family, he teams up with a bunch of misfits.  

Based on the famous folktale, the film shows Little Red Riding Hood arriving at her Granny’s home only to find Big Bad Wolf impersonating as the old woman. As the wolf tries to attack her, Granny jumps out of the closet and an axe-wielding woodman jumps in through the window. When the police arrive at the scene they start asking everyone their version of the story. 

A sea turtle travels the world over a period of fifty years. He sees the repercussions of global warming and other environmental threats which have started taking their toll on Earth.  

Ten-year-old Arthur finds his family’s home in danger of being demolished by a real estate developer. He goes looking for help in the land of Minimoys, a group of tiny fairy-like creatures, who live in harmony with nature.