52 Mel Gibson Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

William Wallace, whose father and brother were killed trying to free Scotland from the treacherous English King Edward the Longshanks, witnesses his newly-wed bride publicly executed for fighting off sexual advances by English soldiers. He leads a guerrilla war with fellow oppressed Scotsmen that rattles the English throne and becomes the symbol of Scottish independence even after death.

Benjamin Martin, tormented by his brutality during the French and Indian War, is living peacefully on his plantation with his seven children and does not support the Continental Army fearing another war. However, he is forced into a guerrilla war against the British when ruthless Colonel William Tavington burns his plantation and kills one of his sons.

Soon after LAPD officers Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh find one million dollars’ worth of South African Krugerrands, they are taken off the case and reassigned to protect a witness Leo Getz. However, the two cases have a connection with a gang of South African drug dealers including a high profile personality who enjoys diplomatic immunity.

Veteran LAPD Homicide Sergeant Roger Murtaugh comes to clash with his new partner, Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has turned reckless and suicidal following the death of his wife in an accident. However, they must learn to trust each other as they find themselves against a dangerous drugs baron while investigating the murder of a banker's daughter.

After recovering from a gunshot, Porter sets out to find his wife, Lynn, and crime partner Val Resnick, both of who after a successful robbery, betrayed and left him for dead. He now wants his share of money and revenge, but the money is with a crime organization. Porter now has to deal with not just Resnick but also the syndicate bosses and corrupt cops

Gambler Brett Maverick wants to participate in a poker tournament on a steamer, to prove that he is the best card player of his time. Unfortunately, he makes enemies out of the bad-tempered gambler Angel, con artist Bransford, and lawman Copper, on his way to earning the entry fee. 

Based on the book ‘We Were Soldiers Once… and Young’ by Lieutenant General Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, the movie is a dramatic adaptation of the Battle of la Drang. It depicts heroic acts of valor by soldiers and the unparalleled brutality of war. 

When the son of multi-millionaires Tom and Kate Mullen is kidnapped, Tom decides to turn the ransom into a bounty for anyone who helps them nail the kidnappers. Unfortunately, a corrupt police detective stands in his way to rescuing his son Sean. 

The plot of this Australian dystopian action thriller film follows Cop Max who kills a gangster. The gang leader Toecutter, seeking revenge, attacks his fellow officer Jim Goose. Later, when Max is on a vacation with his family, the gang even kills his wife and son. Filled with rage, Max decides to hunt down and kill those who are responsible for the tragedy.

New York taxi-driver, Jerry Fletcher, has an obsessive habit of writing conspiracy theories in a newsletter. He is besotted with Alice Sutton, who is an attorney for the same government which Jerry openly criticizes. Then Jerry gets pulled into a precarious situation where his life is at risk, because one of his theories has proved true, but he doesn’t know which one? 

In November 1939, after his girlfriend falls in a coma, a test pilot persuades his scientist friend to put him in suspended animation for one year so that he will be spared the agony of her death. But something goes horribly wrong and he lies forgotten in a military warehouse for 53 years until two kids accidentally wake him up. 

In this sequel to George Miller’s 1979 Mad Max, former cop Max leads a life of loner. He is exhausted but wanders along with his sole companion, a pet dog. However, one day, he comes across a small community of people who are trying to protect an oil refinery from marauders headed by Lord Humungus and decides to help them in their struggle.

LAPD Sergeant Martin Riggs is having a baby with his girlfriend Lorna Cole, while his partner Sergeant Roger Murtagh is trying to come to terms with his daughter Rianne’s pregnancy. However, they are forced to go to war against Chinese mobster Wah Sing Ku, who has started targeting them and their loved ones. 

The Bounty is an adventure action drama film which tells us the story of Captain William Bligh, whose crew is fed up of his harsh discipline. This leads to a mutiny between them. Later, eventually the Captain faces a court martial, to explain the events that led to this.

Air America tells the story of a young pilot who is recruited into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift organization. Soon, he and his comrade discover that a few government agents are using the aircraft for heroin smuggling.

This action comedy film revolves around the story of Rick Jarmin, who is put in witness protection and given a new identity, after he helps the FBI bust a drug dealer.  Fifteen years later, when he is living a new life as a gas station attendant in another city, his cover gets blown when his ex-girlfriend recognizes him. 

In this third movie in the Mad Max film series, Max Rockatansky find himself in Bartertown ruled by Aunty Entity. In exchange for his supplies and freedom, she asks him to engage in a duel with her rival. However, things go awry and he is banished from Bartertown. He later comes across and helps a group of children whose parents survived a plane crash. 

In this third film of the Lethal Weapon series, Sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh are after a ruthless ex-cop responsible for stealing the weapons from LAPD and selling them to the street gangs. As they collaborate with internal affairs Sergeant Lorna Cole, Riggs finds himself drawn to her, while Murtaugh faces personal problems due to unexpected family connection to the case.  

Drugs dealer Mac McKussic is striving to go straight. His best friend, detective Nick Frescia is assigned to investigate Mexican drug-lord Carlos and Mac’s connection with Carlos. As Mac is enticed with restaurateur Jo Ann, Nick befriends her to get information, but ends up falling for her. As the things come to a head, trust, loyalties and friendships are put to test. 

The Man Without a Face is an American drama film which tells the story of Chuck, a young boy, who wants to join a prestigious military academy like his late father. He soon finds an unlikely tutor, with whom he develops a strong bond.

Playboy chauvinistic advertising executive Nick Marshall finds out, following an accident, that he can hear women's thoughts. Despite being irritated to learn how many people around him dislike him, he uses his newfound power to repair his relationships and advance his career at the expense of his boss, Darcy McGuire, until he falls in love with her.

Homicide detective Thomas Craven’s life changes when his daughter Emma is gunned down in front of him. Although initially suspected that he was the intended target, Thomas’s research unfolds a much sinister conspiracy involving government collusions, cover-ups as he tries to give justice to Emma. 

Six months after losing his wife in an accident and leaving the church consequently, Graham Hess finds crop circles in his corn field. As crop circles begin appearing around the world, Graham and his family – brother and two children – try to understand the meaning of the Signs and eventually believe that there are aliens around.

Blood Father tells the story of an ex-convict who reunite with his estranged daughter, and try to protect her from her boyfriend, a notorious drug dealer, who is out to kill her, along with his cartel. 

Conrad Stonebanks, who was an original co-founder of the Expendables with Barney Ross and was supposedly killed by Ross after going rogue and becoming a dangerous arms dealer, is back and aims to destroy the mercenary group. Ross disbands the Expendables and assembles a group of young tech-savvy recruits to face his old colleague and enemy Stonebanks.

Driver is caught at the Mexican border with $4 million dollars stolen from a mobster and ends up in a Mexican prison, which is more like a small town. He befriends a 9-year-old boy who has the same rare blood group as a crime lord who needs a liver transplant, and plans to escape from the prison together.

The Professor and the Madman is a biographical mystery drama film which tells the story of Professor James Murray, who had become the director of an Oxford University Press project in 1879. He begins to work on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, but he is surprised when he receives over 10,000 entries from a man named WC Minor, a patient confined at the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

A young Australian journalist attempts to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the mid-60s, with the help of a photographer.

Based on the Shakespearean tragedy, it follows Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, who returns home after his father King Hamlet’s death. He finds that his mother, Gertrude, has married his uncle Claudius, the new king. When King’s ghost appears and reveals that he was murdered by Claudius, Prince seethes to take revenge, but is also aware of the tragedy it may ensue.

Brett and Anthony, two police detectives, raid the house of Vasquez, a drug dealer. Although they manage to uncover a bag of money and narcotics, they are suspended because they assaulted the suspect. They soon become disillusioned with law enforcement, and they fall into the criminal underworld.

Daddy’s Home 2 is a Christmas comedy film, which tells the story of Dusty and Brad, who are planning on celebrating a perfect Christmas, along with their children. However, things take a turn, and their plans get ruined, when their fathers visit them unexpectedly. 

Stuart Long, an amateur boxer from Montana with a foul mouth, moves towards Southern California, hoping to become an actor, but he ends up with a job at a grocery store. While working at the store, he meets Carmen, a young woman, who is a volunteer Sunday school teacher. He develops a liking for her, but she initially resists his advances. She eventually tells him that she would date him, only if he gets baptized. He agrees and the two begin a relationship, but his life takes a turn when he is diagnosed with Inclusion Body Myositis.

Machete-wielding ex-Federal agent, Machete Cortez, is hired by the US President Rathcock to hunt down and kill Marcos Mendez, who is threatening to fire a nuclear missile. Machete travels to Mexico and is immediately hunted by assassins and cartels. He catches up to Mendez only to find a megalomaniac Luther Voz to be the main villain.  

A sociopath named Dylan escapes from prison to attend his brother Sean’s funeral at an island, after learning about the latter’s death. Once there, he tries to deal with his mental health issues, while also investigating his brother’s death. Meanwhile, a determined FBI agent is on his trail. 

The Beaver is a comedy-drama film which tells the story of a depressed executive, who hits his rock-bottom after he is kicked out of his house, by his wife. Therefore, he begins using a beaver hand puppet to communicate with people in order to overcome his issues. 

The Million Dollar Hotel is a mystery drama film which revolves around an FBI agent who investigates the death of a billionaire’s son after he is found dead in an old hotel.

The Singing Detective is a crime comedy mystery film which tells the story of a crime novelist who is lying in a hospital bed, due to his skin condition. However, he soon starts hallucinating that he is part of a murder plot.

Force of Nature is a crime drama thriller film which tells the story of a gang of thieves, who plan to rob an apartment at the same time when a hurricane approaches the city. Things don’t as expected after they run into two policemen who are on evacuation duty, trying to evacuate everyone in the apartment. 

William Wallace, whose father and brother were killed trying to free Scotland from the treacherous English King Edward the Longshanks, witnesses his newly-wed bride publicly executed for fighting off sexual advances by English soldiers. He leads a guerrilla war with fellow oppressed Scotsmen that rattles the English throne and becomes the symbol of Scottish independence even after death.

Based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector, the movie narrates the true story of WWII American Army Medic, Desmond T. Doss. As a conscientious objector, he refused to carry or use any weapon/firearm during the Battle of Okinawa but still managed to rescue and treat 75 men. He won Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery.

The brutally violent historical thriller centers around the Mayan Empire at the height of its glory. It follows the story of the captured Jaguar Paw, a young hunter who must escape his captors led by Zero Wolf and Middle Eye to return to his wife Seven and their son. 

The Passion of the Christ focuses on the last twelve hours of Jesus Christ’s life from Agony in the Garden, to Judas Iscariot’s betrayal, to the violent Scourging at the Pillar, to the crucifixion of Christ. The realistic brutality, the depiction of Christ’s Passion, Virgin Mary’s, and Magdalene’s suffering make it a cinematic masterpiece. 

The Man Without a Face is an American drama film which tells the story of Chuck, a young boy, who wants to join a prestigious military academy like his late father. He soon finds an unlikely tutor, with whom he develops a strong bond.

The chickens on the Tweedys' farm are threatened by an automated chicken pie machine, the owners are building to make the business profitable. Meanwhile, Rocky, a rooster, crash-lands into the farm after being shot from a circus cannon, and is pressured by Ginger, the head chick, to teach them to fly so that they can escape.

Chief of the Powhatan tribe in North America decides to marry his beautiful daughter Pocahontas to great warrior Kocoum, while the free-spirited woman falls in love with British Captain John Smith. When Kocoum dies at the hand of an English soldier and Smith is captured by the natives, an all-out war gets in the way of the star-crossed lovers.

Elsie and Frances are two young cousins who are spending some time together, after some family tragedies. When they see fairies in a nearby meadow, they snap pictures of them. These pictures soon become known as the first scientific evidence for the existence of fairies. However, this leads to a huge debate, with some claiming that the picture are fake, while some accepting that they are genuine.  

Based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character, Casper the Friendly Ghost, this poignant and heartwarming film tells the story of Casper who becomes a ghost after his untimely death. The film’s visual effects and music score are spectacular, and its success spawned numerous sequels. 

Bo Laramie is a rising movie star in Hollywood. Rex Harper, a paparazzo is trying his best to get a provocative photograph of Bo or his wife. He chases Bo and his family one night, which leads to an accident. It injures Bo’s wife badly and his son gets paralyzed. Bo decides to avenge the people responsible for the suffering of his family.

A nuclear waste storage facility develops a hazardous leak following an earthquake. Badly injured engineer, Heinrich Schmidt, who wants to warn the people about the leak-contaminated groundwater is stopped by his boss, endangering thousands of lives. Heinrich escapes from the place and is rescued by vacationing couple Larry and Carmel. Suffering amnesia and hounded by boss’ goons, can Heinrich accomplish his mission? 

Fathers’ Day is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of a woman named Collette, who contacts Jack and Dale, two of her former boyfriends, to help her search for her runaway teen son Scott. She tricks them into helping her, by telling each man that he is the boy’s father.