45 Jim Carrey Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Truman Burbank leads a simple life in the seaside town of Seahaven Island when he realises that his life is actually the subject of a television show broadcasted round the clock and all the people around him are actors. The island itself is a huge set with thousands of hidden cameras. 

The live-action adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children’s tale follows the Grinch who decides to ruin Christmas for the citizens of Whoville because of humiliation suffered at the hands of its Mayor. However, Martha May Whovier and Cindy Lou Who help him discover the true meaning of Christmas and redeem him. 

The comedy follows the life of Fletcher Reede, a conniving and lying lawyer whose habits have ruined his relationships. However, things take a funny turn when his son, Max’s birthday wish comes true and Fletcher is unable to lie for an entire day. He eventually realizes his son is his biggest priority and reconciles with his family. 

Stanley Ipkiss, a bank clerk too timid to handle confrontations, comes across a magical mask created by Loki, the Norse god of mischief, which turns him into a comical, trickster version of himself. With his newfound powers, he takes revenge on his tormentors, robs a bank, and attempts to win the affection of his crush, Tina Carlyle.

The winner of the Academy award for best original screenplay, this science fiction romantic drama depicts the story of a couple–Joel and Clementine–who break up and resort to medical procedures to wipe out their own memories of each other. However, during the procedure Joel realises that he wants to save those memories.

Ace Ventura, a private detective specialising in finding lost animals, is assigned to find Snowflake, a bottlenose dolphin that is the aquatic mascot of the Miami Dolphins. With the Super Bowl close, the wacky Ventura has to move quickly to find the mascot and also deal with a murder and a kidnapping.

Soon after convincing his wife Jane to quit her job, top executive Dick Harper loses his job due to a scam by Globodyne CEO Jack McCallister. They are forced into crime to pay bills but reconsider their options following run-ins with the law, and are determined to take revenge on McCallister after learning about his scheme.

After going through a particularly bad day, television reporter Bruce Nolan angrily blames God for treating him poorly. To his surprise, God responds and offers him godly powers to see if he could make things any better. Bruce wastes no time in satisfying all his desires, but leaves his surroundings in chaos due to his irresponsible actions.

Steven Kovacs bribes cable installer Ernie ‘Chip’ Douglas to give him free premium channels. However, Chip soon becomes intrusive, invades Steven’s personal life, and makes his life a living hell. When Steven tries to break their friendship, things take a much darker turn, including Chip taking Steven’s ex Robin as a hostage. 

The iconic screwball comedy movie features two dimwitted best friends, Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne. Lloyd falls in love with Mary Swanson while driving her to the airport. The movie revolves around the duo's adventures as their friendship is put to test when they try to return a briefcase full of money to Mary and escape her husband’s kidnappers.  

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? 

A recently divorced man, disillusioned by life, decides to say 'yes' to every opportunity that comes his way no matter what it may be. Yes Man is a romantic comedy based on a book of the same name.

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.  

Set in 1951, an up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter, Peter Appleton, is accused of being a communist. An accident after getting drunk, results in amnesia. Found near town of Lawson, he is mistaken as the MIA son of the community. He brings life to the town and rebuilds movie theater, the Majestic. As he regains his memory, the authorities also come looking for him.  

A superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman, the movie focuses on Batman trying to stop the villainous Two-Face and the Riddler from implementing their malicious scheme of stealing confidential information that could threaten Gotham city’s freedom. 

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with the 23 enigma after reading a book he received from his wife as a birthday present. After noticing strange similarities between him and the main character of the book, he becomes concerned about a murder described in the book and begins a search for the book's author.

The biographical dark comedy follows real-life con artist Steven Jay Russell. In prison, he falls in love with inmate Phillip Morris and after being released, secures Philip’s release posing as a lawyer and then becomes a conman to support his boyfriend. When he is finally caught he is given a life sentence. 

Although he has settled in Green Hills, Sonic the Hedgehog is looking forward to prove that he has the capability to be a true hero. He finds an opportunity to prove himself, when Dr Robotnik returns to Earth with a new ally, Knuckles. They are searching for a mystical emerald with destructive powers. Sonic teams up with Tails, and together they embark on a search to find the emerald before it falls into the hands of Dr Robotnik.

A scientist chances upon an extraterrestrial hedgehog who can run at sonic speeds. While the scientist plans to use Sonic's superpowers for his evil deeds, Sonic takes the help of a local sheriff to escape the scientist. The 2020 family comedy is based on Sega's Sonic video game franchise.

Dumb and Dumber To is a sequel to Dumb and Dumber, which sees Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their roles as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne who are good-natured but less than smart best friends. After a break of 20 years, the friends reunite and embark on a cross-country trip to meet Harry's daughter, who he has recently learned of.

The biographical drama tells the story of American comedy legend Andy Kaufman. The movie celebrates Kaufman’s unparalleled talent and enigmatic journey and from a small-time performer to landing the series Taxi, to creating the character of Tony Clifton, to his kayfabe feud with Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, until his untimely death from lung cancer. 

The Dead Pool is an action thriller film, which tells the story of Inspector Harry Callahan, who along with his new partner, investigate the mysterious death of rock star. Eventually, they learn that the death was actually a murder, and Harry himself is a target. 

Divorced real-estate entrepreneur, Thomas Popper Jr., ends up inheriting the penguin, Captain, after the death of his father. An accidental miscommunication later, he ends up receiving five more penguins. Although the penguins’ antics annoy him, they help him come closer to his two children and salvage his relationship with his ex-wife. 

Finders Keepers is a comedy film which tells the story of Georgiana, who schemes with her lover Josef, and manages to steal five million dollars in cash from her father. She hides the loot in a coffin, and pretends to be a widow in mourning, and along with Josef, she attempts to transport the money to New York by train.

Fascinated by a broadcast of human females, three aliens turn their spacecraft towards California. Catching her fiancé cheating on her, manicurist Valerie Gail breaks up with him. Then the alien spaceship crashes in her pool with three furry aliens in it. After shaving off their fur at friend Candy’s salon, they find three handsome men whom the girls take around the town. 

Pink Cadillac is an action comedy film which tells the story of Lou Ann, who is being chased by a white supremacist group, of which her husband is a member. She has taken counterfeit money from them, and is running away with her husband’s car. In order to take revenge, her husband kidnaps her baby, which she had left with her sister.

Once Bitten is a horror comedy film which revolves around a vampire who is centuries old and has kept herself young by drinking the blood of male virgins. Things get tough for her, when she finds such prey challenging to come by. But she finds hope when she meets Mark Kendall, a guy looking to lose his virginity. She manages to seduce him, and soon Mark begins showing strange behaviors, and his girlfriend decides to confront him about this.

The Bad Batch is a dystopian thriller film which tells the story of Arlen, a woman, who is abandoned in the middle of a Texan desert. She is soon captured by a band of savage cannibals. Although she loses an arm and a leg, she manages to escape eventually after killing one of her captors. She is soon rescued by a hermit who takes her to a settlement, where she tries to adjust to her new life with prosthetic limbs.

Peggy Sue attends a high school reunion after separating from her cheating husband. However, she faints during the reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school, and gets a chance to relive her life, making different choices.

After Hit Girl is busted for sneakily fighting crime and is forced into a normal life, Kick-Ass joins a group of self-made superheroes led by reformed mafia-boss Colonel Stars and Stripes. Meanwhile, his nemesis Red Mist swears vengeance on him and gathers a team of supervillains from whom only Hit Girl can save the amateur vigilantes.

Magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton have been hugely successful until Burt’s overbearing ego became unbearable. Challenged by the dangerous magician Steve Gray, Burt becomes even more careless and Anton ends their partnership. Down on his luck and a change of heart allows Burt to reconnect with Anton while preparing for a final showdown with Gray. 

The elephant, Horton, discovers the tiny city of Whoville and all its residents—the Whosvresiding on a speck of dust. However, he can only hear them, not see them. Horton now has to race against time and convince other jungle animals to find a more stable environment for Whoville, as none of them can actually see Whoville.

In this movie adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 story, Ebenezer Scrooge is an obnoxious and miserly old moneylender with huge disdain for happiness surrounding Christmas. On one Christmas Eve, the ghost of his old business partner visits and cautions him of a terrible afterlife fate if he does not mend his way. Scrooge is then visited by three spirits who make him realise his drawbacks.

As a sequel to a 2004 film, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is a 1980s-themed comedy that revolves around a San Diego news anchor, Ron Burgundy, who moves to New York to join a 24-hour news channel along with his former colleagues. Starring Will Ferrell as Burgundy, and other major stars, this film features family drama and hilarious professional rivalry too.