48 Russell Crowe Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

After aging Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius names his favorite general Maximus to be his successor, his son Commodus seizes the throne by murdering him and the family of Maximus, who is imprisoned and sold into slavery in Africa. But, Maximus returns to Rome as a popular gladiator and hatches a plot to overthrow the dictator.

The biographical movie, partly inspired by Sylvia Nasar’s book, depicts the life of the mathematician and Nobel Laureate, John Nash. Early in his career, he achieves success with his remarkable discovery. However, he soon begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and goes through years of struggle before he eventually manages to succeed and win the Nobel Prize. 

Based on James Ellroy's 1990 bestselling novel, L.A. Confidential follows three LAPD officers—Bud White, Ed Exley and Jack Vincennes—as they go about investigating multiple murders at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop, in the early 1950s, in their own individual way.

This biographical film depicts the rags-to-riches story of boxer James J. Braddock who was forced to give up boxing and take a menial job to survive after fracturing his hand amidst the Great Depression. However, given another opportunity, he stages a major comeback and becomes a symbol of hope by claiming the Heavyweight Championship title.

A fictionalized account of the criminal career of gangster Frank Lucas who was notorious for smuggling heroin, American Gangster is a crime film produced by Ridley Scott. A critical and commercial success, the film was nominated for 21 awards.

Based on a 60 minutes segment, the movie focuses on Jeffrey Wigand and CBS producer Lowell Bergman. Former Brown & Williamson employee, Wigand survives death threats and corruption in corporate America to reveal the truth about his former company while Bergman struggles against CBS to reveal the entire truth to the public.  

3:10 to Yuma is a Western drama that features a poor Civil War veteran and rancher who is entrusted with delivering a notorious outlaw to the authorities in another city. It stars Russell Crowe as the outlaw and Christian Bale as the rancher who agrees to the task in return for a reward to repay his debts and restore his honor.

A series of thirteen Instagram shorts are shown in this film. First the audience is given a word and its definition after which they are treated to a clip from the 2016 film 'The Nice Guys', which relates to the word in a way.

Based on Victor Hugo’s novel and a classic Broadway stage show, Les Misérables, narrates the story of Jean Valjean who after serving nineteen years in jail, breaks the parole to restart his life. He takes upon himself to bring up a factory worker’s daughter. However, a police inspector, Javert is after him.

In 1805, Captain Jack Aubrey of HMS Surprise pursues the French privateer Acheron, but sustains heavy damage after being ambushed off the coast of Brazil. Despite Europe falling to Napoleon, Aubrey is determined to complete the mission against the decidedly superior vessel with the help of his crew and trusted friend, the ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin.

Holland March, a private detective is hired to investigate an apparent suicide. His investigation leads him to Amelia, who in turn hires another violent private investigator, Jackson Healy, to protect her. When more people turn up dead and Amelia herself goes missing, the two unwillingly join hands and unravel a huge conspiracy.

Lara Brennan, sentenced to life in prison for murdering her boss, becomes suicidal when she fails to prove her innocence after three years of appealing and grows detached from her son Luke. Her husband John, who took care of Luke in the meantime, becomes obsessed with breaking her out of prison and consults ex-convict Damon Pennington.

Proof is a romantic drama film which tells the story of Martin, a blind man, who takes photographs of places and labels them in Braille, as described by other people. The film shows his relationship with his maid Celia, and Andy, a friend whom he thinks is trustworthy.

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.

Congressman Stephen Collins is leading an investigation into PointCorp, a private defense contractor. But when his mistress Sonia Baker, also a researcher on his staff is murdered, he calls his old friend journalist Cal McAffrey for help. What follows is a trail of betrayals that hide a much deeper conspiracy. 

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent on the hunt for an elusive terrorist leader, Al Saleem, Body of Lies is an action-thriller film that portrays the tensions and drama between the agent, his supervisor and their Jordanian intelligence counterparts. Russel Crowe plays the CIA agent's boss whose unclear directives have the agent doubting his motives to catch the terrorist.

A few years after the end of the Gallipoli campaign, an Australian farmer and water diviner Joshua Connor travels to Turkey, to find his three sons, Arthur, Edward, and Henry who were presumed dead after fighting in the war. On his quest, Joshua encounters hotel owner war-widow Ayshe and Major Hasan who fought against his sons. 

Jack Davis is an award-winning novelist who lives with his wife and daughter. However, one night, they meet an unfortunate accident, in which his wife passes away. Jake receives severe injuries which causes brain damage, and he undergoes treatment for seven months. His daughter is eventually adopted by her aunt and uncle. Years later, when his daughter Katie grows up, she develops problems of her own in forming relationships.

Max Skinner, a trader from London inherits his Uncle Henry’s vineyard estate in Southern France. Soon his cousin, Christie, a previously unknown illegitimate daughter of Henry, arrives as the true owner of the estate. As Max starts falling in love with local café owner, Fanny Chenal, he must figure out what he wants from life. 

Boy Erased is a biographical drama film which tells the story of Jared Eamons, son of a successful car dealer and Baptist preacher. His life takes a turn when his parents find out that he is homosexual, and they decide to send him to a conversion therapy camp.

The amateur ice-hockey team of hockey-loving small Alaskan town of Mystery is scheduled to face the National Hockey League’s well-known team, New York Rangers, in an exhibition match. Keeping their internal differences aside, the townsfolk get set for the nationally televised event and join forces to encourage their team comprising of town sheriff, a high school senior, town’s grocer and a deliveryman. 

Robin Longstride, a skilled archer travels to Nottingham from the crusades. He falls in love with Lady Marion and creates a band of warriors to combat corruption in Nottingham. But he soon finds himself in a war against the French. His valor wins the war but the corrupt King John of England declares him an outlaw. 

A mysterious woman named The Lady arrives at Redemption, an Old West town ruled by a merciless outlaw called Herod and announces her participation in a fast-draw single elimination tournament in which the loser dies. Although she insists that she is only interested in the large cash prize she may have some other hidden agenda. 

Proof of Life is an American action thriller film, which tells the story of a woman Alice, whose engineer husband gets kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America. Therefore, she hires Terry Thorne, an experienced hostage negotiator, in order to save her husband. 

A disgraced ex-cop and now a private investigator in New York City, Billy Taggart is hired by Mayor Hostetler to investigate his wife Cathleen. Hostetler suspects that Cathleen is having an affair which can harm his chances at the up-coming elections. As Billy unearths darker facts during investigations, he realizes that Hostetler has double-crossed him, and fights to get to the truth.

Peter, a thief, who is raised by a supernatural demon, goes to Beverley Penn’s mansion attempting to rob it. However, he instead falls in love with the heiress named Beverley, who is poisoned and dies in his arms. After learning that he has the gift of reincarnation, he decides to set out in order to save her. 

Tom Cooper is a vengeful psychopath who parks his car outside of the house of his ex-wife. He kills her, along with her new lover, and sets the house on fire, and drives away. The next day, he comes across Rachel, who honks at his truck, when he is blocking traffic. He apologizes and asks her to apologize as well. But since Rachel refuses, Tom starts following her.     

Guided by visions from the creator, Noah begins constructing an enormous vessel capable of housing him, his wife, his three sons and adoptive daughter, as well as breeding pairs of every animal species on Earth. However, learning about the impending catastrophic flood, Tubal-cain, descendant of Cain, gathers an army to take over the ark by force.

Virtuosity is a science-fiction action thriller film which tells the story of two detectives in Los Angeles, John Donovan and Parker Barnes, trying to track down a serial killer at a restaurant. The serial killer is a virtual reality simulation who is an amalgam of some of the most violent psychopathic killers in history.  

High priest Imhoptep is sentenced to suffer Hom Dai after murdering Pharaoh Seti I. When he is accidentally resurrected during an excavation in Hamunaputra, he unleashes evil and will not stop until he has resurrected his lover Anck-su-namun. Only Rick O’Connell, Evelyn, Ardeth Bay and a few others stand in his way. 

Lori is an unhappy teen girl, living with her single mother, who is frustrated due to receiving too much sexual attention from men, including her boss at a retail store and Gary, the man dating her mother. She develops an unlikely friendship with Eric, an eighteen year old boy who had killed his parents, shortly after he is released from the juvenile detention facility.

This is the story of a liberated American slave, who has escaped to China after killing a white. Trained to use his body energy to accomplish superhuman feats, he finally settles down in a jungle village as a blacksmith, producing and selling deadly weapons. The film focuses on his fight against some ruthless thugs, eager to steal the governor’s gold. 

Elyne Mitchell narrates the story of Thowra, an illustrious silver steed, to her daughter Indi. Thowra is fit to become the leader of a band of wild horses as he reaches maturity. However, a man, living in the wilderness, is set to capture the animal. The horse has to now fight for his own freedom.

A few years after the end of the Gallipoli campaign, an Australian farmer and water diviner Joshua Connor travels to Turkey, to find his three sons, Arthur, Edward, and Henry who were presumed dead after fighting in the war. On his quest, Joshua encounters hotel owner war-widow Ayshe and Major Hasan who fought against his sons. 

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.  

War Machine is a war drama comedy film, revolving around a successful, charismatic four-star general, Glenn McMahon, who has to confront opposition from enemies, allies and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan.