36 Spike Jonze Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

This biographical film focuses on the rise of Jordan Belfort from an entry-level employee at a brokerage firm to founding his own firm that engaged in massive security scams involving widespread corruption on Wall Street. However, his decadent lifestyle of sex, drugs and excess led to his downfall by attracting the attention of the FBI.

Theodore Twombly is a highly sensitive loner whose professional qualification is writing soulful personal letters for others. Depressed over his impending divorce, he decides to install the latest artificially intelligent operating system Samantha, which has a bright voice and a consciousness. He begins to doubt himself as he gradually develops a romantic relationship with his AI assistant.

Sheldon is an ordinary robot who works at a public library, but his life begin to change when he begins to fall for a female robot, after she offers him a ride home.

The Game is a psychological thriller focusing on a lonely investment banker who is gifted a voucher for a unique game by his estranged brother that ends up wreaking havoc in his life. Starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn as the two brothers, this film sees Douglas lose all his money in this game that becomes intrinsically connected to his real life.

A puppeteer, Craig Schwartz, working as a file clerk on the seventh and half floor of a building discovers a door that gives access to the mind of actor John Malkovich for fifteen minutes. He teams up with his co-worker to earn some money selling a trip to the actor’s mind. However, things soon go awry with even Malkovich failing to take control of his mind.

This documentary film takes a look at how Jim Carrey had adopted the persona of performance artist and comedian Andy Kaufman, on the sets of the 1999 film ‘Man on the Moon’.

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is having difficulty adapting Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief into a screenplay. His agonies enhance with the arrival of his confident twin brother, Donald who is essentially cheerful. Charlie enlists Donald’s help in writing the screenplay and interviewing Orlean. Finding her answers unconvincing, they decide to follow her.

Based on true events and Michael Lewis’s book of the same name, Moneyball is a depiction of the Oakland Athletics baseball team’s 2002 season. The movie shows how manager Billy Beane and Yale economics graduate Peter Brand, revolutionized conventional baseball wisdom by using sabermetric to create a winning team despite having a limited budget. 

After his wife and daughter leave him, a theatre director faces with a lot of struggles in life. He eventually decides to create a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as a part of his new play. 

After the Persian Gulf War comes to an end, the American soldiers are celebrating when they come across a map that leads to the gold treasure that Iraq stole from Kuwait. Few soldiers decide to steal it for themselves, but in process they also discover the sufferings of the civilians who have been betrayed by the US. The soldiers now have to decide whether to help them or not.

This reality comedy documentary, a sequel to Jackass: The Movie, pushes boundaries with outrageous stunts, skits, practical jokes and pranks that feature Jackass regulars Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Dave England, Chris Pontius and all others. Raising the laughter bar, the stunts and pranks include Firehose Rodeo, Puppet Show, Lake Jump, Mini-Loop, Yak Charge, Mushroom Launch, Ding-Dong, Karate Chop, and several others. 

Jackass 3D is a 2010 adult comedy film, which has no plot, and is a compilation of several pranks and skills. It is the third installment of the Jackass film series.

Becoming upset with his mother Connie and older sister Claire, 8-year-old Max runs away from home in his wolf costume and sails aimlessly in a small boat in a pond. He lands in an island filled with large wild beasts that accept him as their king, but he soon realizes that being king is not an easy task.

This reality comedy documentary film features Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera and others as they pull out gags on people, perform a range of stunts, and play pranks on each other and on public. It includes prancing through Tokyo in Panda suits, stunts with live alligators, a golf cart demolition derby, and a lot more. 

Actually entitled Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, the film focuses on an eighty-six year old recently widowed grandpa and his journey across USA with his eight years old grandson. On the way they get involved in many awkward situations and although he cherishes his new found freedom as an eligible bachelor he is ready to take good care of the boy until he can dump him with his father. 

Human Nature is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of an obsessive scientist, and a female naturalist whose lives take an interesting turn after they discover a man who was born and raised in the wild.