73 Sean Connery Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

At the height of the Cold War, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius, commanding the latest nearly undetectable nuclear missile submarine Red October, defies orders and sets course for America's east coast. After its presence is briefly detected, Jack Ryan, CIA analyst and former Marine, is given three days to confirm his theory that Ramius plans to defect.

Four US Army Rangers are killed and their leader, a ruthlessly perfectionist sergeant, goes missing during an operational training in the rain forest of Panama. When the two survivors insist on talking to somebody from outside the base, an ex-Ranger and now DEA agent, is brought in to question them. Will he succeed in cracking the case?

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.

After his father goes missing while searching for the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones embarks on a journey to find his father and teams up with Austrian archaeologist Elsa Schneider, who has questionable loyalty. Once he rescues his father from the clutches of the Nazis, they must retrieve the Grail before the Nazis get to it.

This adventure romantic drama film is about an eccentric scientist who is trying to discover the cure for cancer. He soon finds himself falling for his female assistant.

Disillusioned war hero General Hummel takes over the impregnable prison island Alcatraz and threatens a chemical attack on San Francisco unless the government pays benefits to families of deceased war veterans. To foil the plot, FBI chemical weapons specialist Stanley Goodspeed must join forces with former British spy John Patrick Mason who spent three decades in Alcatraz.

It is based on the events of ‘Operation Market Garden’ of September, 1944. In order to bring a quick end to the WWII, the allied forces decide to drop thousands of paratroopers to secure strategic bridges in Netherlands to obtain access into Germany. The main bridge was the one to Arnhem. But tough German resistance and faulty allied intelligence led to failure.

The first film in the James Bond series, Dr. No sees the suave agent '007' go to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of another secret agent and ends up saving the American space programme from the destructive clutches of a megalomaniac scientist. Starring Sean Connery as James Bond, this film sets the tone for the rest of the series.

This action adventure film tells the story of two ex-non-commissioned officers of the British Indian Army. After leaving the army, they decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set food since Alexander the Great. 

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. 

Tasked with recovering two warheads stolen by a terrorist group called SPECTRE under the leadership of their number two man Emilio Largo, James Bond travels to Bahamas. There, he enters Largo’s lair, going underwater to find the warheads, braving attacks from sharks and men. However, he must convince Largo’s mistress to help him if he wants to succeed.  

With a high score in standardized exams and excellent basketball background, Jamal Wallace, a black teenager, gets admission in an elite school. Jamal comes in contact and makes friends with reclusive, unconventional Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Forrester, who becomes Jamal’s mentor and helps him hone his skills; at the same time, Jamal’s friendship urges Forrester to take positive outlook towards his life.  

Gin Baker, an insurance investigator, goes undercover as a thief to entrap Robert ‘Mac’ MacDougal, an aging master-thief after a priceless Rembrandt is stolen. But when Mac starts to doubt her true intentions, Gin plans a US $8 billion heist and asks Mac for help. 

After an escort girl is murdered during a party in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, two detectives Web Smith and John Connor, set out to investigate and find the killer.   

Ex-military policeman Jay Austin is now working as a detective in San Francisco. When he finds out about his former partner has been killed at a military base, he takes up the case. He comes across Lt Col Alan Caldwell, his former rival, whom he must now ask for help. However, he starts falling for Caldwell’s daughter, which further complicates their relationship.

Along with her kids, an American widow is kidnapped by an Arab chieftain, as he wants to embarrass the Sultan of Morocco. Things get complicated when this abduction gains international attention, and sparks the threat of armed intervention by the US. Meanwhile, the woman begins to develop feelings for her captor.  

When some mysterious activities are detected in the diamond market, James Bond is asked to investigate. Impersonating as a diamond smuggler and assassin, he travels to Las Vegas and infiltrates the smuggling ring only to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld, his old enemy, stocking diamonds to use in his deadly space based laser weapon. 

Based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball, this film tells the story of a SPECTRE Agent, who has stolen two nuclear warheads. It is up to the British spy James Bond to find them before they are detonated. 

NASA spaceship is hijacked and the Americans think that it is the Soviets while the British accuse the Japanese. Accordingly, James Bond is sent to Japan to find a solution. Once there, he has to face danger at every step; but carries on with his task with the help of Aki, a Japanese secret service agent. 

The Longest Day is a epic war film, which revolves around the events of the famous D-day, told from both the perspectives of the Allied Forces as well as the Germans. 

Outland is a science fiction thriller film which tells the story of a federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on a Jupiter moon.  Soon, when he uncovers a huge drug smuggling conspiracy, he is determined to expose it.  However, he is soon targeted by multiple killers.

An ageing Robin Hood returns from the Crusades, and hopes to win the hand of Maid Marian. However, things get complicated, because she has embraced a new life as a nun, and doesn’t fully welcome his return.

The Anderson Tapes is an action crime thriller film which revolves around Duke Anderson, a habitual criminal who has just been released from prison.  He is planning a new heist, but he is unaware of the fact that he is being taped.

The plot of this Italian-German-French mystery and historical drama, based on the Umberto Eco novel of the same name, follows William of Baskerville a Franciscan monk who is called upon to investigate a suspicious death at Benedictine Abbey. As more monks turn up dead an inquisitor, Bernardo Gui, arrives to find out the culprit. 

Darby O’Gill and his daughter Katie are living in a small Irish town named Rathcullen where Darby works as a caretaker for the estate belonging to Lord Fitzpatrick. His life takes a turn when he is forced to retire, shortly after which he is kidnapped by leprechauns and is taken to their mountain lair.  

After a period of twenty five years, a Harvard professor is back to the courtroom to defend a young man named Bobby Earl, who is facing the death penalty for the murder of a child.

Edward Pierce is a highly intelligent thief who plants to commit a train heist. He teams up with his friends in order to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London to Folkestone train. However, security seems very tight and the task seems nearly impossible.   

Eleven-year-old history enthusiast, Kevin, is shocked to see six time-traveling dwarfs who have escaped their master, the Supreme Being, appear from his closet. These time bandits have stolen Supreme Being’s unique time-&-space map and now they take Kevil along as they travel through history leaping from one era to another, stealing treasures from historical conquerors. But then they run into Evil Genius.  

To defend the world from a vile plot by the Fantom, the mysterious M recruits adventurer and hunter, Allan Quatermain, to lead a group of extraordinary gentlemen consisting of Captain Nemo of submarine Nautilus, vampiric chemist Mina Harker, invisible thief Rodney Skinner, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, U.S. Secret Service Agent Tom Sawyer and the narcissistic Dorian Gray.

The second in the James Bond series, the film centers on 007’s battle against a secret criminal organization called SPECTRE. Seeking revenge for the death of their agent Dr. No, the group plans to kill James Bond and uses ravishing Tatiana Romanova to lure him to Istanbul. Bond willingly falls in their trap. 

The film about medieval times features King Arthur of Camelot, who is set to marry Lady Guinevere of Lyonesse. As rebel knight Malagant attacks Camelot, and abducts Guinevere, gifted swordsman Lancelot saves her and earns knighthood. Lancelot falls in love with her, and though Guinevere struggles with her feelings, she too is drawn towards him; however, Arthur remains unaware of the budding romance.  

Playing by Heart is a romantic comedy drama film which revolves around eleven different characters, who are all related as they create a story of love, heartbreak, hope, acceptance and forgiveness.

The psychological thriller by Hitchcock follows Marnie Edgar, a kleptomaniac who robs her employers and disappears. While working as Mark Rutland’s secretary, he stops her from stealing; and compels to marry him. After a disastrous honeymoon, Mark gets her past investigated through a detective. Realizing her problems, he helps her face her childhood trauma and relive repressed memories to resolve her issues. 

After serving in the police force for twenty years, Detective Sergeant Johnson finds himself deeply affected psychologically by the various kinds of crimes that he has investigated. While interrogating a man named Kenneth Baxter, who has been suspected of rape, his anger surfaces and he beats up Baxter severely, which eventually leads to the latter’s death. Johnson is therefore suspended. He is later brought in and questioned by the police and he begins to narrate the events that took place during the interrogation.  

Family Business is a crime drama film which tells the story of Jessie, who along with his son Vito and grandson Adam, need to team up for a million dollar heist. However, Vito makes up his mind not to join his father and son, and stay away from his family’s criminal business.

Paddy is a small time thief who is hired by an influential mobster and his gang to help them with their new crime syndicate. Although he is not fond of the job at all, with the mob on his back, and a seductress in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he has no choice but to continue.

Sergeant Major Roberts along with four more British soldiers are sent to a detention camp. The brutal Staff Sergeant Williams orders the convicts to keep on climbing a man-made hill in the scorching desert heat as their punishment. The new detainees have full sympathy of Staff Sergeant Harris, but he can only be a silent spectator of the sadistic extremes that William adopts.

Douglas Meredith is a respectable married doctor but he has a dark secret. He is having an incestuous affair with Kate, his beautiful young niece. One day, he decides to take her on a holiday, but it soon seems that she is taking a liking to their tour guide. Things take a turn when an accident occurs on their trip.

Scott Blair is a publisher who finds himself involved in a conspiracy after receiving manuscripts from a Russian scientist claiming that the entire Russian nuclear programme is a sham. He begins his own investigation to learn the truth.

Set towards the end of the Second World War, the story focuses on the relationship between an American reporter stationed in London and her British counterpart, who works for BBC. Although they develop a romantic relationship she later discovers that he is married with a son. Yet, they continue with their affair, trying to sort out their problem.  

On the Fiddle is a war comedy film which tells the story of Horace Pope, an everyday street peddler, who is arrested one day by the authorities. Since he is not willing to go to jail, he invents a story about enlisting in the military. The judge eventually decides to send him to the Royal Air Force, instead of prison. Since it happens to be the time of the World War II, he decides to come up with various schemes, so that he can avoid actual work.

The US and the USSR joins forces to save the human race from extinction, when a gigantic asteroid heads towards Earth.

Renowned poet and casual philanderer, Samson Shillitoe, is months behind in his alimony payment and is convinced by his current wife Rhoda to see psychiatrist Oliver West for his writer's block. He agrees to be away from tax collectors, but soon draws the attention of an eccentric doctor in the sanitarium and of Oliver's frustrated wife Lydia.

Two British Agents John Steed and Dr Emma Peel are assigned to stop Sir August de Wynter, an evil but brilliant scientist who wants to destroy the world with a weather-changing machine. 

Action of the Tiger is an action crime drama mystery film which revolves around a contraband runner named Carson, who is approached by a French woman named Tracy. She seeks his help to rescue her brother from Albania, where he is being held as a political prisoner.   

A Saxon prince is mortally wounded in an uprising against the king; but is saved when a dragon offers him half of his heart, only to become more tyrannical than his father. Pinning the blame on his dragon heart, his disillusioned mentor starts killing all the dragons; but a twist of fate compels him to cooperate with the last dragon, the one that gave the prince half of his heart.   

This drama film tells the story of a French girl named Anne, who enters into a relationship with Carlo, an Italian photographer. Their relationship however turns sour, when Anne gets pregnant. Since Carlo is not ready for fatherhood, he wants Ann to have an abortion. He decides to sleep with a wealthy woman to get money for the abortion, but Ann doesn’t want to lose her unborn child.  

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.

A young actress is knocked unconscious due to a bombing during the Second World War. She soon finds herself in a dream where she is another woman being pursued by two suitors. She is unsure about which one she should pursue as her husband.