58 Jude Law Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

When the famous concierge—M. Gustave—of a mountainside resort, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is accused of murdering a wealthy dowager, he and his friend Zero along with latter’s girlfriend, Agatha, set out to prove his innocence. In process, they have to safeguard a Renaissance painting and struggle to find a missing will.

In a futuristic society, genetically engineered individuals are preferred over those born traditionally. Vincent Freeman, born naturally, is therefore at disadvantage. To fulfil his desire of joining space mission to one of Saturn’s moons, he assumes the identity of a superior Valid. However, when a murder threatens to reveal his real identity, he must find a way to protect himself.

Set in Chicago during the great depression, this crime-drama film follows a hitman working for an Irish mobster who raised him. Road to Perdition is adapted from a graphic novel of the same name.

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. John Watson catch a serial killer and black magic follower, Lord Blackwood, who is later sentenced to death and hanged. However, he returns, much to the bewilderment of others. Holmes must restart his investigation and prevent Blackwood from carrying out his evil plan of controlling British Empire.

Based on William Craig’s book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, the story revolves around the battle between legendary Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev and Nazi Germany’s most elite sniper Erwin König. While they try to survive each other, Vasily’s life becomes even more complicated when both Commissar Danilov and Vasily fall in love with Tania Chernova. 

The movie follows the life of Howard Hughes from 1927-1947. During this time, Hughes achieved massive success in Hollywood and also devoted quality time and money in the aviation industry. He romanced beautiful women like Katharine Hepburn and made powerful enemies like Juan Trippe and Senator Ralph Owen Brewster. All this while, his OCD worsened.

Hugo, an orphan boy, sneakily maintains the clocks of the Paris train station he lives in while his uncle is mysteriously missing. He often steals toy parts from bitter store owner Georges to repair an automaton found by his late father, but it can only be activated with a special key in possession of Georges' goddaughter Isabelle.

The Guy Ritchie directed sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes, sees the world’s most famous private detective go up against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty. The neo-noir adaptation integrates plot details from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories ‘The Final Problem’ and ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’. 

Tom Ripley, who is talented in lying, impersonating and forging, pretends to know recently graduated Princeton student Dickie Greenleaf and promises Dickie's wealthy father to bring him back home from vacationing in Italy. Once there, he becomes obsessed with Dickie's leisurely and extravagant lifestyle and goes to extreme lengths to assume that lifestyle as his own.

David Swinton is a mecha—highly advanced robot—programmed to experience love. He lives with Henry and Monica as their son because the couple’s real son, Martin, is in a comatose condition. David’s life is good but when Martin returns, the couple abandon him. David now wants to become real so that his human mother can love him.

In this movie which is adapted from Patrick Marber’s award-winning 1997 play, Dan Woolf is a struggling writer who saves Alice, a newcomer in London, and later falls for her. A year later, he persuades Anna to have an affair with him but is rejected. Anna marries dermatologist Larry Gray, but also begins an affair with Dan. A lot of complications and emotional stress for all four ensues.

Set in the Civil War era, Cold Mountain is a period drama that revolves around a Confederate soldier as he makes an epic journey back to his beloved, who is also trying to rebuild her life in the face of trouble and danger. Starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger, it is a touching saga of love and war.

A depressed Emily Taylor is prescribed an experimental drug by her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks; however the drug makes Emily sleepwalk as a side effect.  Once while sleepwalking, she kills her husband and is consequently sent to a psychiatric hospital. Jonathan’s reputation is hit too but he figures out that Emily is not what she pretends to be and there is an insidious conspiracy at play.  

Max is a gay Jewish man, living in 1930s Berlin, during the time of the Nazi regime. He is caught and sent to a concentration camp. He tries to deny that he is gay, and gets a yellow label, meant for Jews, instead of the pink one, meant for gays. He soon meets another prisoner named Horst, who proudly wears the pink label, and begins to develop an attraction to him.  

Spy is about an unpretentious, desk-bound CIA analyst Susan Cooper, who actually is the unacknowledged backbone of many risky missions of the Agency. She supports the field agent by live-monitoring him, but when he gets removed from the scene, Cooper turns an undercover agent to track down Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov and the nuclear device, to avert a worldwide disaster

Iris, a society columnist in London, and Amanda, a movie trailer producer in Los Angeles, swap homes for two weeks to get away from their miserable personal lives. Amanda falls in love with Iris' widower brother Graham while living in her Surrey cottage; meanwhile Iris gains emotional support from legendary screenwriter Arthur and finds love with composer Miles.

This biographical drama film revolves around the life of Oscar Wilde, famous poet and playwright, whose life goes into a turmoil after he discovers that he might be homosexual.

When Beth Emhoff and her son Clark die because of unknown causes, it is just the beginning of deadly infection. It soon spreads and turns into a pandemic. As people panic, medical researchers and public health officials around the world continuously try to determine the cause of the disease and its cure.

A fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day, THE MOVIE It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his 'Imaginarium', a traveling show where members of the audience get opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago Dr. Parnassus made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr Nick.

In a futuristic world of biotechnological virtual reality games, game designer Allegra Geller is attacked by a Realist, when presenting her new game eXistenZ. She is rescued by Ted Pikul and plants the damaged game pod into Ted’s body. What happens from then on dissolves the lines between illusion and reality. 

In this alternate Arthurian legend, Arthur is orphaned at a young age after his uncle leads a coup to dethrone his father, King Uther Pendragon of Briton, and kills his mother. Raised by prostitutes, he becomes strong and street-smart, but unaware of his lineage until he comes in possession of Excalibur, the legendary sword of magical powers.

Aristocratic socialite Anna Karenina, wife of Russian imperial minister Count Alexei Karenin, visits her brother Prince Oblonsky in Moscow, where she meets cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Their mutual attraction soon develops into deep love and Vronsky follows her when she returns home to St. Petersburg. Their affair scandalizes the patrician society of St. Petersburg; as a result, Karenin issues an ultimatum to Anna. 

Albert Markovski heads the local chapter of an environmental group trying to stop the building of a new Huckabees store. Soon, local Huckabees executive and Albert’s rival, Brad Stand, infiltrates the group and replaces him. After strange coincidences start happening Albert hires existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe and things get hilariously complicated. 

When Jeremy, the owner of a café she frequents, tells her that her boyfriend is cheating on her, Elizabeth is devastated and spends the night there, eating a blueberry pie. Later she leaves her apartment key with him and embarks on a trip, visiting various places, meeting different people before returning home to find that her boyfriend has moved on with his life.  

This mystery drama film tells the story of a city reporter who is assigned to cover the story of a millionaire's murder. 

Dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald, escapes from captivity while being transferred to London and hatches a sinister plan to gain control over Muggles, assisted by his true-blood followers and the young obscurial Credence Barebone. Meanwhile, Professor Albus Dumbledore, convinces his former student, self-proclaimed magizoologist Newt Scamander, to travel to Paris to save Credence from the evil schemes of Grindelwald.

Miro is a teen who is hired by a group of thieves to help them break in and steal computers from an architectural firm owned by Will Francis. Will eventually finds out about Miro, who is living a humble life with his mother Amira, but decides not to report to the police.    

A renowned book editor named Maxwell Perkins, befriends a novelist named Thomas Wolfe, while they are working on a project. After Perkins publishes Wolfe’s novel, it turns out to be a great success, and Perkins and Wolfe become best friends. However, Wolfe’s relationship with a married woman who is twenty years older to him, gets complicated after the publication.

A Rainy Day in New York is a romantic comedy film which revolves around a  young couple who arrives in New York planning a romantic weekend. However, their plans are soon ruined when the sunlight turns into a shower.

Captain Robinson, a veteran salvager, assembles a team of English and Russian men in his mission to find a Nazi U-boat filled with treasure, that was sunk in the Black Sea.

An aging writer comes to know that his wife is having an affair. Therefore, he comes up with a cunning plan to teach her lover a lesson.

Postman Jonny becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his life. He seeks help from his school friend Jude to join North London criminal gang which is run by Ray, Jude's uncle. As Johnny makes his way into the gang, he grows disillusioned with the life that he chose. He takes reckless risks and inadvertently starts a war with the South London mob.

Based on the novel The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia, the film Repo Men is set in a future era where scientists have perfected bio-mechanical organs. However, these organs are expensive and the customers who are unable or unwilling to pay for them are killed off by a group of “Repo Men". 

This period drama film tells the story of an Englishman named Rory, who lives with his American wife, Allison, in New York City, with their son Ben, and Allison’s daughter from a previous relationship, Sam. Believing that his opportunities in the US are limited, Rory convinces Allison to return with him to Britain. However, things don’t go as expected, and financial hardships threaten to destroy their family.

As a five year old, Danny had helped in the delivery of his neighbor’s infant daughter Anna Swann, and since then he has always felt that he is destined to marry Anna. Twenty five years later, Danny returns to his hometown, and meets a fully grown Anna. However, he is upset to see that she is now engaged to another man named Eric. In pursuit of Anna, Danny soon finds himself entangled with her eccentric family.  

Adapted from a 1966 eponymous British film, the story revolves around a British born sex hungry New York City limousine driver, who prefers to sleep around rather than to go steady with one.  But sooner or later, his actions catch up with him and he learns the hard way the danger of his philandering ways. 

Professor Albus Dumbledore learns about a powerful and dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who is trying to take over the wizarding world. Since he knows that he doesn’t have the power to stop him alone, he takes the help of Newt Scamander, and a team of wizards and witches. However, taking on Grindelwald’s forces might not be so easy.

When giant robots start attacking his city, Sky Captain Joe Sullivan fights them off using his private air force called the Flying Legion. But with the looming threat of the mysterious scientist, Dr. Totenkopf, and his robots, Joe has to team up with reporter Polly Perkins to stop Totenkopf from destroying all of humanity.  

Skilled safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is released after spending 12 years in prison for refusing to give out on his associates. Because of the long sentence he can’t see his cancer-affected wife before her death, which estranges his daughter Evelyn. He believes his boss owes him a lot. Dom sets out to claim his payback and also try to reconcile with his daughter.

Based on an award-winning novel of the same name, this political drama film revolves around the life of Willie Stark, an idealistic lawyer, who becomes the governor of Louisiana. However, as he rises to power, he also finds himself involved with corruption.

Set in the 21st century, 360 is a romantic suspense drama film which revolves around different people living across various cities and countries. The film shows how their lives are all interconnected.  

Vox Lux is a musical drama film which revolves around Celeste, a thirteen year old girl who survives a school shooting incident. At the memorial service, she manages to touch the hearts of the people by singing a special song. Over time, she manages to transform into a rising pop star, with the help of her sister. Years later, she finds her career sliding downhill because of a scandal, but she struggles to make a comeback with her sixth album.

The dark comedy revolves around the three Baudelaire children, Klaus, Violet, and Sunny. After their house burns down mysteriously, killing their parents, they are placed in the foster care of Count Olaf. The children must find a way to survive a series of deadly events, planned by Olaf who wants to obtain the Baudelaire fortune.  

For centuries, immortal Guardians like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny have been protecting the world’s children from the darkness. But the evil bogeyman Pitch Black has been weakening the Guardians by replacing children’s memories with nightmares. Now the young Jack Frost must become the final Guardian to save the children.