57 Kevin Costner Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

A film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name, Dances with Wolves tells the story of Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar who travels to the American frontier to command Fort Sedgwick that is threatened by nearby native tribes. 

Based on the assassination of the former U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, JFK centres around a New Orleans lawyer, Jim Garrison, who sets about investigating the mystery behind the assassination while battling opposition from the government. Widely acclaimed as well as heavily criticized, this political drama stars Kevin Costner as Garrison and delves deeper into the assassination of the former president.

The Prohibition era Chicago is replete with corruption and the gangland kingpin Al Capone has the city under his control. When Federal Agent Eliot Ness is assigned to put an end to Capone’s illegal activities, he forms a team of uncorrupted men and soon finds a way to bring the gangster down.

Inspired by Margot Lee Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction book, the movie is about three black female NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. They struggle with gender and race discrimination to emerge as crucial brains behind one of NASA’s most significant missions—the launch of astronaut John Glenn into earth's orbit and his subsequent safe passage back.

After hearing an enigmatic voice say ‘If you build it, he will come,’ an Iowa corn-farmer Ray Kinsella, with support of his wife, decides to construct a baseball diamond in his corn-farm. Soon ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson’ appears there to play baseball. As Ray receives more messages, he understands that his ball-field is meant to be a place to realize certain unfulfilled dreams. 

Two escaped prisoners, Butch and Pugh, stumble into a house belonging to eight year old Philip and needing a hostage, grab the boy. Later, Butch kills Pugh as he tries to harm Phillip and the two continue with their journey, quickly developing a loving relationship. Chasing them is Red Garnett, honorable Texas Ranger, who wants to catch Butch alive.        

Boss, an open range cattleman, is driving his cattle across the country with his three hired hands; Charley, a civil war veteran, Mose, and Button. On the way, Mose is sent to Harmonville to get supplies; but when he does not return Boss and Charley decide to enquire and find him in jail, badly injured.  They somehow get him out and decide to take revenge. 

Based on an eponymous memoir by Molly Bloom, the film goes on to chronicle how an Olympic aspirant and a world class mogul skier inadvertently becomes involved in underground poker game, eventually running the world’s most high-stakes poker game in New York. Then one night she is visited by 17 FBI agents carrying automatic weapons and arrested.  

Jim White is a track coach who joins a high school in California after losing his last job as a football coach. When he realizes the exceptional running ability of a few boys, he decides to sharpen their skills and turn them into the best runners in the region.

Earl Brooks, a well-respected and wealthy businessman, has an alter-ego, the compulsive serial killer Marshall, who encourages him to commit another crime by murdering a couple. Brooks soon starts getting blackmailed by a neighbor of his victims, and to make things more complicated, detectives come to his house to inquire about a murder in his daughter's dorm.

Thirteen Days is a political thriller film, which revolves around thirteen extraordinary days, while the world stood on the brink of a catastrophe, as the Kennedy administration in the US, struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

During the late 19th century, four misfit wanderers retrieve the money of a group of settlers from thieves before reaching the frontier town of Silverado. They realize that the entire town is under the thumb of avaricious rancher Ethan McKendrick and dishonest sheriff Cobb. Unwittingly, the four turn heroes for the town’s people as they fight the crooks to end the corruption. 

Based on the DC Comics character Superman, the movie follows the story of Clark Kent as he realises that he is an alien with superpowers. He strives to find out his real home and the purpose for which he was sent to earth. However, when survivors from his planet attack earth, he must rise and save the humanity from annihilation.

Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell, who is to join Defense Secretary David Brice’s team, falls in love with Susan Atwell, and then learns that she is Brice’s mistress. Farrell is assigned to investigate when Susan is found dead soon after their weekend together. Farrell must nail the killer quickly before Farrell’s Polaroid negative found in Susan’s apartment could make him the prime suspect.

After Alex passes away, several of his former college friends gather for a reunion just after the funeral. They remember some of their best times, but meanwhile, they also re-evaluate their lives.

Bull Durham is a romantic comedy sports film, which tells the story of Crash Davis, a veteran catcher in baseball, who is hired to coach Ebby Calvin LaLoosh,  a beginner who is quite dim-witted. Both of them eventually get involved with a fan named Annie Savoy. 

Things get ugly for the residents of a small town named Hamlin, when it is reported that nuclear warheads are being dropped along the Eastern Seaboard. The people have no choice but to deal with the aftermath of the attacks, while many also suffer from radiation poisoning. The film revolves around a suburban family that tries to survive after the attack.

Robin of Locksley escapes captivity by Turks and return to England. In England Robin’s father has been killed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham who has betrayed King Richard and crowned Richard’s brother as the new king. Robin now teams up with a band of outlaws to avenge his father’s death and restore the rightful king back to the throne.

An untold true story of legendary detectives of 1930s.  The FBI and other law enforcers found it difficult to apprehend notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The former Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Maney Gault teamed up to hunt down the elusive bandits across central US. The two used their instincts and old-school training to end the violence of the outlaws. 

Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Ben Randall, is coping with the loss of his crew during a rescue mission, by training young recruits at the Coast Guard AST training school. Ben becomes the mentor to the talented Jake Fischer. During a rescue mission when Jake’s life is endangered Ben is forced to suit up one last time. 

Draft Day is a sports drama film, which tells the story of Sonny Weaver, General Manager of the Cleveland Browns, who trades his number one pick to rebuild his team, at the NFL Draft. However, he is unsure whether he has made the right choice for himself and his team. 

When Terry Wolfmeyer is left to raise her four daughters after her husband disappears with his secretary, Terry starts drinking heavily to handle her anger. Her daughters resent her alcoholism while she has clashes with them over their life’s choices. Finding a friend in the neighbor and fellow-alcoholic Denny Davies, they get involved in a relationship, but is she ready to accept her feelings?

The Company Men is an American drama film, which revolves around three young men who lose their jobs when their company decides to downsize, due to a recession. The film shows how this affects them, their families and their communities, and how they struggle to reclaim their self-respect and give a new direction to their lives. 

This American biographical Western film released in 1994 and follows the life of Wyatt Earp, an Old West lawman and gambler. The movie follows his story from being a farm boy in Iowa, growing up into a terrifying marshal and finally leading up to the O.K. Corral gunfight.

After the death of his son, a retired sheriff and his wife, set out to save their ex-daughter-in-law and their grandson from her abusive husband and her in-laws.

Set in 1970, this drama film tells the story of a Vietnam War veteran who must now deal with a different sort of war. He helps his children against the neighborhood bullies over a tree house, while at the same time, trying to recover from the traumatic experience he suffered at the war.

Gardner Barnes is throwing darts at a picture of himself and his ex-girlfriend Debbie. He later tears the picture in half, and heads down below to join the graduation party. Along with his friend Kenneth, Gardner decides to prepare for the Vietnam war, as they have both been drafted.      

At the age of 40, a baseball legend feels that he might have reached the end of his exceptional career. However, he feels that he may have one last chance to prove his capability as well as win the heart of the woman whom he has loved for several years.

Elliot deeply cares for his granddaughter Eloise, but her paternal grandmother wants her son to have custody of Eloise, although he is addicted to drugs. He soon finds himself in a custody battle to stop his granddaughter’s life from being ruined by her reckless and drug-addict father.

Charles Lumley used to be a successful stockbroker, but he is now working as an attendant in a morgue in New York City. Things get worse when he is ‘promoted’ to night-shift supervisor. When his co-worker Bill finds out that Lumley’s neighbor is a prostitute, he convinces Chuck to turn the morgue into a brothel, where they can be her pimp, and earn money.

Fearing that Superman's alien powers are left unchecked, Batman launches a personal mission to get rid of the Kyrptonian, while the Man of Steel is also wary of Batman's form of justice. However, as they realize that they were both being manipulated by supervillain Lex Luthor, they must join forces with Wonder Woman to save mankind from an abomination.

Tin Cup is a romantic comedy sports film, which tells the story of a small-town Texas golf player, who, in order to win the respect and love of his rival’s girlfriend, tries to qualify for the US Open golf tournament. 

When Rachel Marron, a superstar singer, begins receiving death threats, she unwillingly employs Frank Farmer, a former secret service agent, as bodyguard. The two begin their association on a not so good note; however, with time they gradually begin falling for each other. Meanwhile, the stalker is close by and Farmer needs to protect Marron from any harm.

When an industrialist-cum-anarchist tries to steal nuclear codes, the hacker entrusted with the job decides to hand over the secret to CIA. Later, he is moved to a safe house; but before his location can be conveyed to anyone the CIA operative is murdered. To find him out, CIA has the agent’s memories, secrets, and skills implanted into a death-row inmate. 

In future when the polar ice has melted and water has submerged most of the earth, human communities thrive on atolls. A mariner arrives; however finding that he is mutant, people sentence him to death. Meanwhile a gang of Smokers attack the atoll to find a girl who has a map of a mythical Dryland. The girl Enola and her mother Helen escape with the Mariner pursued by the smokers.

As the fifth instalment in the Jack Ryan series, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is an action-thriller that revolves around a former soldier-turned-undercover CIA agent who while working on Wall Street discovers that a Russian businessman is about to unleash a terrorist attack on the U.S. Starring Chris Pine in the lead role, this past-faced film also features Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley.

CIA Agent, Ethan Renner, decides to retire and spend more time with his family after realizing that he has terminal cancer during a mission. Meanwhile, elite CIA assassin Vivi enlists his help to kill the arms trafficker, the Wolf in exchange for a drug that can prolong his life.  

Message in a Bottle is a romantic drama film, which revolves around a woman who finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore. She is determined to track the man who wrote it, and eventually finds a man who has been writing to his deceased wife. 

Jay Cochran is a newly retired US Navy pilot who goes to Mexico to spend some time with his Friend Tibey, a successful and powerful but corrupt businessman. He also meets Tibey’s beautiful wife, Miryea, who is unhappy with her married life. Without thinking of the consequences, Jay begins having an affair with Miryea.

Years after a global conflict leaves United States in disarray, a nameless nomad is forced into the ranks of Holnists, a neo fascist militia that intends to take over the country.  On escaping from there, he finds a mail van containing letters, eventually posing to represent the newly restored US government. The news inspires the locals, but frightens the Holnists. 

Dr. Joe Darrow loses his pregnant wife Emily in a bus accident while on a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Grief-stricken, Joe starts believing that his dead wife is trying to reach out to him. When her young patients in near-death condition speak to him in her voice, he wonders whether she is trying to contact him or is he going insane?

The presidential elections get interesting when it comes down to just one man’s vote. However, this man is none other than Bud Johnson, who is not only dim-witted and jobless but also apolitical.

J.P. Tannen is estranged from his three children who live with their mother Kathleen and stepfather Mitchell. To reconnect with them, Tannen takes the children on a Mediterranean cruise. As the cruise progresses Tannen’s inexperience as a father becomes clearer. When Kathleen suddenly dies in a car accident, Tannen and Mitchell fight over the custody of the three children. 

3000 Miles to Graceland is an action comedy crime film which tells the story of a gang of ex-convicts, who during the International Elvis Week in Las Vegas, robs a casino of millions of dollars. 

Recently engaged journalist, Sarah Huttinger, visits her Pasadena family with her fiancé, Jeff Daly, for her sister’s wedding. She learns that probably the book and film The Graduate were based on her family and her father may not be her biological parent. For an answer, she must meet the man concerned, Beau Burroughs, now an internet tycoon, who could be her real father.

Play it to the Bone is a sports comedy drama film which tells the story of two boxers, who are also best friends. Things get complicated when they face each other for the first time in Las Vegas.  

The New Daughter is a horror thriller film which tells the story of a single father who moves to a rural place in South Carolina, along with his two children. He is soon puzzled by his daughter's weird behavior, which becomes even more confusing over time.

A film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name, Dances with Wolves tells the story of Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar who travels to the American frontier to command Fort Sedgwick that is threatened by nearby native tribes. 

Boss, an open range cattleman, is driving his cattle across the country with his three hired hands; Charley, a civil war veteran, Mose, and Button. On the way, Mose is sent to Harmonville to get supplies; but when he does not return Boss and Charley decide to enquire and find him in jail, badly injured.  They somehow get him out and decide to take revenge. 

Years after a global conflict leaves United States in disarray, a nameless nomad is forced into the ranks of Holnists, a neo fascist militia that intends to take over the country.  On escaping from there, he finds a mail van containing letters, eventually posing to represent the newly restored US government. The news inspires the locals, but frightens the Holnists. 

After the death of Superman, Darkseid sends his servant Steppenwolf to Earth, in order to subjugate the human race. In order to protect humanity, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince, and tries to bring the super powered humans of Earth together, and fight against the catastrophic threat.  

This romantic comedy drama sports film tells the story of Enzo, a golden retriever who comes to know that the methods which are used by his owner in the race track, can also be used in successfully navigating through the journey of life.    

Frances is a biopic which takes a look at the various significant events in the life and career of Frances Farmer, American actress and TV host, including her rise to fame and how she got blacklisted.