Ranking every Clint Eastwood film from worst to first
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We're willing to bet you didn't even know some of these existed.
- Tessa Boyce, PrettyFamous.com
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"Go ahead, make my day." For over six decades, Hollywood tour de force has starred on the silver screen. From humble beginnings in 1950s horror flicks like "," to a slew of action adventure hits in the '70s and '80s and an extremely successful directing career, Eastwood has done a bit of everything. At the age of 86, it appears he has no plans to slow down -- his 2016 film "" had great reviews and brought in impressive box office revenue.
With the considerable length of his career in mind, , an entertainment data site by , found the highs and lows throughout Eastwood's time in show business. The data experts ranked all of Clint Eastwood's films (including both films he directed and/or acted in) based on their Smart Rating. The Smart Rating is a score out of 100 that takes into account each movie's Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer and Audience Score, IMDb rating, Metacritic Metascore, Gracenote rating and the inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross.
Eastwood's more recent directorial projects shine through, including "" and "," but it's his earlier, grittier Western action films that reign supreme. You may start to feel some nostalgia for Dirty Harry or the bad-boy Josey Wales.
Note: Descriptions for each movie were sourced (with minor edits) from Gracenote.
Compiled by Tessa Boyce,
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 33.55
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $22,494,600
Release Year: 1989
Role: Actor
A bail-bond skip tracer (Clint Eastwood) chases a woman (Bernadette Peters) in a classic car with her baby and an armed hate group's counterfeit cash.
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Production Artistes Associes
Smart Rating: 34.28
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $95,861,500
Release Year: 1984
Role: Actor
A police detective (Clint Eastwood) backs up his private-eye ex-partner (Burt Reynolds) on a gangland double cross in 1933 Kansas City.
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RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 36.00
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1969
Role: Actor
The same actress (Silvana Mangano) plays five different women in five sketches by five Italian filmmakers.
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20th Century Fox
Smart Rating: 36.33
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1956
Role: Actor
An 1890s corset designer (Ginger Rogers) leaves New York with her secretary (Carol Channing) to sell barbed wire in Texas.
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Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 40.8
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1905
Role: Actor
Roaming ex-Confederates join a cavalry sergeant (Scott Brady) taking a prisoner through Indian country.
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Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Smart Rating: 41.99
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1958
Role: Actor
An American (Tab Hunter) loves a Paris streetwalker (Etchika Choureau) while flying for France in World War I.
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Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Smart Rating: 43.7
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $3,222,950
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
Florida aquarium workers (John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield) communicate by cattle prod with a captured gill-man.
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RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 49.87
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $14,201,600
Release Year: 1956
Role: Actor
A California doctor (Rock Hudson) with an 8-year-old daughter reunites at last with his long-lost wife (Cornell Borchers).
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 50.39
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1957
Role: Actor
Rescued from a plane, an American boy (Jon Provost) sets out with a Japanese boy to find his parents (Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell) in Tokyo.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 50.72
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $226,252,000
Release Year: 1980
Role: Actor
A bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) battles crooks with his orangutan, girlfriend (Sondra Locke), buddy and mother (Ruth Gordon).
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Universal International Pictures Co., Inc.
Smart Rating: 50.78
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $36,728,400
Release Year: 1990
Role: Actor, Director
Car thieves take a police veteran (Clint Eastwood) hostage, putting pressure on his latest partner (Charlie Sheen) to save him.
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Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 52.21
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
An 11th-century noblewoman (Maureen O'Hara) opens her Saxon husband's (George Nader) eyes by riding bareback through town.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 58.07
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $73,842,400
Release Year: 1997
Role: Actor, Director
A veteran thief (Clint Eastwood) catches the president (Gene Hackman) of the United States in adultery and a murder cover-up.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 58.92
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $136,788,000
Release Year: 1982
Role: Actor, Director
An American pilot (Clint Eastwood) sneaks into Russia to steal a superfast jet that runs by telepathy and is armed with nuclear weapons.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 60.30
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
U.S. Army officer Lt. Peter Sterling is mistaken for his lookalike in the U.S. Navy, Bosun's Mate 'Slicker' Donevan, and then gets shipped to Donevan's base. With his old friend Francis, Sterling continues his misadventures in the Navy.
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Kennedy/Marshall / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 63.45
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $313,479,000
Release Year: 1978
Role: Actor
A truck driver (Clint Eastwood) woos a country singer (Sondra Locke) and fights bare-knuckle brawls egged on by his orangutan.
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Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 63.81
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $35,586,100
Release Year: 2010
Role: Director
An American construction worker (Matt Damon), a French journalist and a London schoolboy set out on a spiritual journey after death touches their lives in different ways.
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Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 64.40
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $75,757,300
Release Year: 1988
Role: Actor
San Francisco's "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) protects a newswoman (Patricia Clarkson) and others on a celebrity hit list.
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Imagine Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 65.69
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1956
Role: Actor
The sheriff's (John Agar) caught between farmers and cattlemen who disagree about hanging a gunman (Richard Boone).
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The Malpaso Company / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 67.20
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $39,305,200
Release Year: 2011
Role: Director
Controversy surrounds the life of J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), the first director of the FBI.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 69.36
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $87,919,000
Release Year: 1969
Role: Actor
Prospectors (Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood) share a wife (Jean Seberg) and a scheme to collect gold dust lost in a California boomtown.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 70.23
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $34,515,200
Release Year: 2002
Role: Actor, Director
A former FBI agent (Clint Eastwood) comes out of retirement to find the killer who murdered his heart donor.
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Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 75.35
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $23,664,900
Release Year: 1999
Role: Actor, Director
An investigative reporter (Clint Eastwood) has only 12 hours to prove a condemned man's (Isaiah Washington) innocence in a robbery/homicide.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 75.67
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $179,161,000
Release Year: 1983
Role: Actor, Director
San Francisco's "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) meets an artist (Sondra Locke) with her own code of vigilante justice.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 75.77
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $37,032,400
Release Year: 1997
Role: Director
A reporter (John Cusack) covering a society Christmas party in Savannah, Georgia, stays for the host's (Kevin Spacey) murder trial.
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The Malpaso Company / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 77.98
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $36,907,900
Release Year: 2012
Role: Actor
When his bosses call his judgment into question, an aged baseball scout (Clint Eastwood) is forced to take his estranged daughter (Amy Adams) with him on a road trip to North Carolina to check out a hot prospect.
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Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 80.57
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $59,640,000
Release Year: 1976
Role: Actor, Director
An art professor (Clint Eastwood) must draw on his abilities as an assassin to kill an unknown enemy agent during a Swiss mountain climb.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 81.56
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $77,668,100
Release Year: 1980
Role: Actor, Director
A New Jersey shoe salesman (Clint Eastwood) plays cowboy with a runaway heiress (Sondra Locke) and losers in his Wild West show.
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Malpaso Productions / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.13
U.S. Box Bffice (inflation-adjusted): $123,368,000
Release Year: 1984
Role: Actor
A New Orleans police detective (Clint Eastwood) finds he has some of the same traits as a serial killer of prostitutes.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 84.38
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1973
Role: Director
A middle-aged California businessman (William Holden) rebounds from divorce to an affair with a hippie (Kay Lenz).
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 84.59
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $101,987,000
Release Year: 1977
Role: Actor, Director
Las Vegas oddsmakers say a detective (Clint Eastwood) and a prostitute (Sondra Locke) will never make it back to Phoenix alive.
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Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.93
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $124,492,000
Release Year: 2000
Role: Actor, Director
Four aging astronauts, (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland) who never made it into space, agree to go up and repair a 1950s satellite.
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Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.99
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $32,059,600
Release Year: 1972
Role: Actor
A land baron's (Robert Duvall) gunman (Clint Eastwood) joins a rebel (John Saxon) fighting for Spanish land grants in 1900 New Mexico.
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Malpaso Company/Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 85.29
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $186,898,000
Release Year: 1976
Role: Actor
"Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) and his female partner (Tyne Daly) hunt rocket-armed radicals holding the mayor on Alcatraz.
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Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 85.45
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $9,909,360
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
Desert scientists (John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll) try to stop a fortified spider the size of a building.
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Imagine Entertainment / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 85.58
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $20,440,500
Release Year: 1968
Role: Actor
An ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ lawman (Clint Eastwood) comes to Manhattan and shows a detective (Lee J. Cobb) how to extradite a murderer.
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Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 86.62
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $39,305,700
Release Year: 2008
Role: Director
After her son is kidnapped and later found, a woman (Angelina Jolie) insists that the boy who was returned to her is not her child.
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The Malpaso Company / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 86.92
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $28,051,900
Release Year: 1970
Role: Actor
Profane Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine) recruits a drifter (Clint Eastwood) to help Mexican rebels attack a French fort.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 87.56
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $55,312,700
Release Year: 1971
Role: Actor, Director
An avid listener (Jessica Walter) becomes obsessed with a California disc jockey (Clint Eastwood) who had an affair with her.
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Revelations Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 87.60
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $88,594,200
Release Year: 1986
Role: Actor, Director
A veteran Marine sergeant (Clint Eastwood) keeps in touch with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) while beating a platoon into shape for Grenada.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 87.90
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $41,404,100
Release Year: 2009
Role: Director
Following the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) tries to unite his countrymen by supporting the South African rugby team's underdog bid for the 1995 World Cup Championship.
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The Malpaso Company / United Artists
Smart Rating: 88.20
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $193,448,000
Release Year: 1973
Role: Actor
Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) links vigilante killings to the San Francisco Police Department.
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The Malpaso Company / United Artists
Smart Rating: 88.34
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $99,912,800
Release Year: 1974
Role: Actor
A thief (Clint Eastwood) and a young drifter (Jeff Bridges) join forces with the thief's former partners for a repeat robbery at the scene of their last crime.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 88.76
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $47,023,000
Release Year: 1969
Role: Actor
An innocent rancher (Clint Eastwood) is saved from the noose and deputized to hunt down the men who tried to hang him.
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Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 89.36
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $48,790,400
Release Year: 1993
Role: Actor, Director
A Texas Ranger (Clint Eastwood) hunts an escaped convict (Kevin Costner) who takes a 7-year-old boy hostage in 1963.
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DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 89.55
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $3,010,110
Release Year: 1990
Role: Actor, Director
Filmmaker John Wilson (Clint Eastwood) tries to shoot an elephant instead of his movie, "The African Trader."
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Amblin Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 89.77
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $39,469,800
Release Year: 2006
Role: Director
Some of the servicemen who raised the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima at the end of World War II live to hear of their status as heroes.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Smart Rating: 89.83
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $109,668,000
Release Year: 1995
Role: Actor, Director
Memoirs tell a deceased woman's (Meryl Streep) children of her four-day affair in 1965 with a photographer (Clint Eastwood) on assignment.
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Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 89.94
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $28,885,200
Release Year: 1970
Role: Actor
An Army officer (Clint Eastwood) and his buddies (Telly Savalas, Don Rickles) go behind enemy lines with a tank escort to steal gold bars from the Nazis.
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Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 90.18
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $167,574,000
Release Year: 1993
Role: Actor
An assassin (John Malkovich) toys with a White House Secret Service agent (Clint Eastwood) haunted for 30 years by his failure in 1963 Dallas.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 90.29
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $11,258,300
Release Year: 1982
Role: Actor, Director
A 1930s country singer (Clint Eastwood) tries to reach Nashville sober, with his nephew (Kyle Eastwood), to audition at the Grand Ole Opry.
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Double Nickel Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 90.39
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $100,642,000
Release Year: 1985
Role: Actor, Director
Gold miners are saved from corporate villains by the miracle of a mysterious preacher (Clint Eastwood) on a pale horse.
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Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 90.48
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $163,009,000
Release Year: 2008
Role: Actor, Director
An unlikely friendship forms between a bigoted war veteran (Clint Eastwood) and an Asian boy (Bee Vang) who tried to steal the man's treasured automobile.
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Winkast Film Productions / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Smart Rating: 90.53
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $123,287,000
Release Year: 2016
Role: Director
After landing U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) faces an investigation that threatens to destroy his career and reputation.
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Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.05
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $43,050,000
Release Year: 1969
Role: Director
Allied agents (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood) lead commandos sent to free a general from a castle in Bavaria.
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Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.05
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $350,517,000
Release Year: 2014
Role: Actor
Sniper and U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) saves many lives on battlefields in Iraq while striving to be a good husband and father to his loved ones back in America. The film won an Oscar for best sound editing.
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The Malpaso Company / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.3
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $3,007,120
Release Year: 1988
Role: Director
Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker) lives fast and self-destructs, dead at 34 in 1955. The film won an Oscar for best sound mixing.
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Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.42
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $147,502,000
Release Year: 1979
Role: Actor
Based on the true story of a hardened convict who engineered an elaborate plan to bust out of the famed prison in 1962.
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The Malpaso Company / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.49
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $5,740,000
Release Year: 1971
Role: Actor
Southern girls and their headmistress (Geraldine Page) punish a sly, wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood).
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 91.57
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $76,814,700
Release Year: 1973
Role: Actor, Director
A mysterious stranger (Clint Eastwood) forces cowardly citizens of Lago to prepare a garish welcome for three escaped convicts.
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The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 92.48
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $129,290,000
Release Year: 1976
Role: Actor, Director
A Missouri farmer (Clint Eastwood) hunts down the Union soldiers who killed his family and left him for dead.
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Jolly Film
Smart Rating: 92.94
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $104,642,000
Release Year: 1964
Role: Actor
Sergio Leone's classic about a mysterious drifter's involvement with warring factions in a Mexican border town.
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Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.56
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $116,098,000
Release Year: 2003
Role: Director
A detective (Kevin Bacon) investigates the brutal beating and murder of the daughter of a childhood friend (Sean Penn), then questions a second friend (Tim Robbins). The film won Oscars for best actor (Sean Penn) and best supporting actor (Tim Robbins).
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Kurt Vinion / Getty Images
Smart Rating: 94.95
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $16,169,100
Release Year: 2006
Role: Director
Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) leads Japanese troops in a brave but hopeless battle against American forces invading the island during World War II. The film won Oscar for best sound editing.
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Malpaso Company/ Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 95.33
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $187,729,000
Release Year: 1971
Role: Actor
A police detective (Clint Eastwood) defies his superiors to capture a sniper terrorizing San Francisco.
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Warner Bros., Lakeshore Entertainment
Smart Rating: 95.35
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $125,994,000
Release Year: 2004
Role: Actor, Director
A deep bond develops between a cantankerous trainer (Clint Eastwood) and the female boxer (Hilary Swank) he reluctantly takes under his wing. The film won four Oscars (best supporting actor, best actress, best director and best picture).
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eBay / Wikipedia
Smart Rating: 95.98
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $168,930,000
Release Year: 1992
Role: Actor, Director
An old gunslinger (Clint Eastwood), his ex-partner (Morgan Freeman) and a quick-draw kid go bounty hunting in a town called Big Whiskey. Won four Ocars (best film editing, best supporting actor, best director and best picture).
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Silver Screen Collection / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 96.21
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $108,250,000
Release Year: 1967
Role: Actor
A man with no name (Clint Eastwood) and a man with a mission (Lee Van Cleef) hunt a Mexican bandit (Gian Maria Volonte) for different reasons.
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Produzioni Europee Associati
Smart Rating: 97.86
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $180,846,000
Release Year: 1967
Role: Actor
A drifter (Clint Eastwood), a bandit (Eli Wallach) and a bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) reach a standoff over buried gold.
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- Tessa Boyce, PrettyFamous.com
Hulton Archive / Getty Images
"Go ahead, make my day." For over six decades, Hollywood tour de force has starred on the silver screen. From humble beginnings in 1950s horror flicks like "," to a slew of action adventure hits in the '70s and '80s and an extremely successful directing career, Eastwood has done a bit of everything. At the age of 86, it appears he has no plans to slow down -- his 2016 film "" had great reviews and brought in impressive box office revenue.
With the considerable length of his career in mind, , an entertainment data site by , found the highs and lows throughout Eastwood's time in show business. The data experts ranked all of Clint Eastwood's films (including both films he directed and/or acted in) based on their Smart Rating. The Smart Rating is a score out of 100 that takes into account each movie's Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer and Audience Score, IMDb rating, Metacritic Metascore, Gracenote rating and the inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross.
Eastwood's more recent directorial projects shine through, including "" and "," but it's his earlier, grittier Western action films that reign supreme. You may start to feel some nostalgia for Dirty Harry or the bad-boy Josey Wales.
Note: Descriptions for each movie were sourced (with minor edits) from Gracenote.
Compiled by Tessa Boyce,
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 33.55
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $22,494,600
Release Year: 1989
Role: Actor
A bail-bond skip tracer (Clint Eastwood) chases a woman (Bernadette Peters) in a classic car with her baby and an armed hate group's counterfeit cash.
Production Artistes Associes
Smart Rating: 34.28
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $95,861,500
Release Year: 1984
Role: Actor
A police detective (Clint Eastwood) backs up his private-eye ex-partner (Burt Reynolds) on a gangland double cross in 1933 Kansas City.
RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 36.00
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1969
Role: Actor
The same actress (Silvana Mangano) plays five different women in five sketches by five Italian filmmakers.
20th Century Fox
Smart Rating: 36.33
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1956
Role: Actor
An 1890s corset designer (Ginger Rogers) leaves New York with her secretary (Carol Channing) to sell barbed wire in Texas.
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 40.8
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1905
Role: Actor
Roaming ex-Confederates join a cavalry sergeant (Scott Brady) taking a prisoner through Indian country.
Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Smart Rating: 41.99
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1958
Role: Actor
An American (Tab Hunter) loves a Paris streetwalker (Etchika Choureau) while flying for France in World War I.
Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
Smart Rating: 43.7
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $3,222,950
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
Florida aquarium workers (John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield) communicate by cattle prod with a captured gill-man.
RKO Radio Pictures
Smart Rating: 49.87
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $14,201,600
Release Year: 1956
Role: Actor
A California doctor (Rock Hudson) with an 8-year-old daughter reunites at last with his long-lost wife (Cornell Borchers).
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 50.39
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1957
Role: Actor
Rescued from a plane, an American boy (Jon Provost) sets out with a Japanese boy to find his parents (Teresa Wright, Cameron Mitchell) in Tokyo.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 50.72
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $226,252,000
Release Year: 1980
Role: Actor
A bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) battles crooks with his orangutan, girlfriend (Sondra Locke), buddy and mother (Ruth Gordon).
Universal International Pictures Co., Inc.
Smart Rating: 50.78
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $36,728,400
Release Year: 1990
Role: Actor, Director
Car thieves take a police veteran (Clint Eastwood) hostage, putting pressure on his latest partner (Charlie Sheen) to save him.
Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 52.21
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
An 11th-century noblewoman (Maureen O'Hara) opens her Saxon husband's (George Nader) eyes by riding bareback through town.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 58.07
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $73,842,400
Release Year: 1997
Role: Actor, Director
A veteran thief (Clint Eastwood) catches the president (Gene Hackman) of the United States in adultery and a murder cover-up.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 58.92
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $136,788,000
Release Year: 1982
Role: Actor, Director
An American pilot (Clint Eastwood) sneaks into Russia to steal a superfast jet that runs by telepathy and is armed with nuclear weapons.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 60.30
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
U.S. Army officer Lt. Peter Sterling is mistaken for his lookalike in the U.S. Navy, Bosun's Mate 'Slicker' Donevan, and then gets shipped to Donevan's base. With his old friend Francis, Sterling continues his misadventures in the Navy.
Kennedy/Marshall / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 63.45
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $313,479,000
Release Year: 1978
Role: Actor
A truck driver (Clint Eastwood) woos a country singer (Sondra Locke) and fights bare-knuckle brawls egged on by his orangutan.
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 63.81
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $35,586,100
Release Year: 2010
Role: Director
An American construction worker (Matt Damon), a French journalist and a London schoolboy set out on a spiritual journey after death touches their lives in different ways.
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 64.40
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $75,757,300
Release Year: 1988
Role: Actor
San Francisco's "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) protects a newswoman (Patricia Clarkson) and others on a celebrity hit list.
Imagine Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 65.69
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1956
Role: Actor
The sheriff's (John Agar) caught between farmers and cattlemen who disagree about hanging a gunman (Richard Boone).
The Malpaso Company / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 67.20
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $39,305,200
Release Year: 2011
Role: Director
Controversy surrounds the life of J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), the first director of the FBI.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 69.36
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $87,919,000
Release Year: 1969
Role: Actor
Prospectors (Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood) share a wife (Jean Seberg) and a scheme to collect gold dust lost in a California boomtown.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 70.23
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $34,515,200
Release Year: 2002
Role: Actor, Director
A former FBI agent (Clint Eastwood) comes out of retirement to find the killer who murdered his heart donor.
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 75.35
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $23,664,900
Release Year: 1999
Role: Actor, Director
An investigative reporter (Clint Eastwood) has only 12 hours to prove a condemned man's (Isaiah Washington) innocence in a robbery/homicide.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 75.67
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $179,161,000
Release Year: 1983
Role: Actor, Director
San Francisco's "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) meets an artist (Sondra Locke) with her own code of vigilante justice.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 75.77
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $37,032,400
Release Year: 1997
Role: Director
A reporter (John Cusack) covering a society Christmas party in Savannah, Georgia, stays for the host's (Kevin Spacey) murder trial.
The Malpaso Company / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 77.98
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $36,907,900
Release Year: 2012
Role: Actor
When his bosses call his judgment into question, an aged baseball scout (Clint Eastwood) is forced to take his estranged daughter (Amy Adams) with him on a road trip to North Carolina to check out a hot prospect.
Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 80.57
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $59,640,000
Release Year: 1976
Role: Actor, Director
An art professor (Clint Eastwood) must draw on his abilities as an assassin to kill an unknown enemy agent during a Swiss mountain climb.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 81.56
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $77,668,100
Release Year: 1980
Role: Actor, Director
A New Jersey shoe salesman (Clint Eastwood) plays cowboy with a runaway heiress (Sondra Locke) and losers in his Wild West show.
Malpaso Productions / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.13
U.S. Box Bffice (inflation-adjusted): $123,368,000
Release Year: 1984
Role: Actor
A New Orleans police detective (Clint Eastwood) finds he has some of the same traits as a serial killer of prostitutes.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 84.38
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): N/A
Release Year: 1973
Role: Director
A middle-aged California businessman (William Holden) rebounds from divorce to an affair with a hippie (Kay Lenz).
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 84.59
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $101,987,000
Release Year: 1977
Role: Actor, Director
Las Vegas oddsmakers say a detective (Clint Eastwood) and a prostitute (Sondra Locke) will never make it back to Phoenix alive.
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.93
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $124,492,000
Release Year: 2000
Role: Actor, Director
Four aging astronauts, (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland) who never made it into space, agree to go up and repair a 1950s satellite.
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 84.99
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $32,059,600
Release Year: 1972
Role: Actor
A land baron's (Robert Duvall) gunman (Clint Eastwood) joins a rebel (John Saxon) fighting for Spanish land grants in 1900 New Mexico.
Malpaso Company/Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 85.29
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $186,898,000
Release Year: 1976
Role: Actor
"Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) and his female partner (Tyne Daly) hunt rocket-armed radicals holding the mayor on Alcatraz.
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 85.45
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $9,909,360
Release Year: 1955
Role: Actor
Desert scientists (John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll) try to stop a fortified spider the size of a building.
Imagine Entertainment / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 85.58
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $20,440,500
Release Year: 1968
Role: Actor
An ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ lawman (Clint Eastwood) comes to Manhattan and shows a detective (Lee J. Cobb) how to extradite a murderer.
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 86.62
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $39,305,700
Release Year: 2008
Role: Director
After her son is kidnapped and later found, a woman (Angelina Jolie) insists that the boy who was returned to her is not her child.
The Malpaso Company / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 86.92
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $28,051,900
Release Year: 1970
Role: Actor
Profane Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine) recruits a drifter (Clint Eastwood) to help Mexican rebels attack a French fort.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 87.56
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $55,312,700
Release Year: 1971
Role: Actor, Director
An avid listener (Jessica Walter) becomes obsessed with a California disc jockey (Clint Eastwood) who had an affair with her.
Revelations Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 87.60
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $88,594,200
Release Year: 1986
Role: Actor, Director
A veteran Marine sergeant (Clint Eastwood) keeps in touch with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) while beating a platoon into shape for Grenada.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 87.90
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $41,404,100
Release Year: 2009
Role: Director
Following the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) tries to unite his countrymen by supporting the South African rugby team's underdog bid for the 1995 World Cup Championship.
The Malpaso Company / United Artists
Smart Rating: 88.20
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $193,448,000
Release Year: 1973
Role: Actor
Inspector "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Clint Eastwood) links vigilante killings to the San Francisco Police Department.
The Malpaso Company / United Artists
Smart Rating: 88.34
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $99,912,800
Release Year: 1974
Role: Actor
A thief (Clint Eastwood) and a young drifter (Jeff Bridges) join forces with the thief's former partners for a repeat robbery at the scene of their last crime.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 88.76
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $47,023,000
Release Year: 1969
Role: Actor
An innocent rancher (Clint Eastwood) is saved from the noose and deputized to hunt down the men who tried to hang him.
Malpaso Productions / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 89.36
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $48,790,400
Release Year: 1993
Role: Actor, Director
A Texas Ranger (Clint Eastwood) hunts an escaped convict (Kevin Costner) who takes a 7-year-old boy hostage in 1963.
DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 89.55
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $3,010,110
Release Year: 1990
Role: Actor, Director
Filmmaker John Wilson (Clint Eastwood) tries to shoot an elephant instead of his movie, "The African Trader."
Amblin Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 89.77
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $39,469,800
Release Year: 2006
Role: Director
Some of the servicemen who raised the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima at the end of World War II live to hear of their status as heroes.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Smart Rating: 89.83
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $109,668,000
Release Year: 1995
Role: Actor, Director
Memoirs tell a deceased woman's (Meryl Streep) children of her four-day affair in 1965 with a photographer (Clint Eastwood) on assignment.
Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 89.94
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $28,885,200
Release Year: 1970
Role: Actor
An Army officer (Clint Eastwood) and his buddies (Telly Savalas, Don Rickles) go behind enemy lines with a tank escort to steal gold bars from the Nazis.
Castle Rock Entertainment / Columbia Pictures
Smart Rating: 90.18
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $167,574,000
Release Year: 1993
Role: Actor
An assassin (John Malkovich) toys with a White House Secret Service agent (Clint Eastwood) haunted for 30 years by his failure in 1963 Dallas.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 90.29
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $11,258,300
Release Year: 1982
Role: Actor, Director
A 1930s country singer (Clint Eastwood) tries to reach Nashville sober, with his nephew (Kyle Eastwood), to audition at the Grand Ole Opry.
Double Nickel Entertainment / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 90.39
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $100,642,000
Release Year: 1985
Role: Actor, Director
Gold miners are saved from corporate villains by the miracle of a mysterious preacher (Clint Eastwood) on a pale horse.
Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 90.48
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $163,009,000
Release Year: 2008
Role: Actor, Director
An unlikely friendship forms between a bigoted war veteran (Clint Eastwood) and an Asian boy (Bee Vang) who tried to steal the man's treasured automobile.
Winkast Film Productions / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Smart Rating: 90.53
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $123,287,000
Release Year: 2016
Role: Director
After landing U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) faces an investigation that threatens to destroy his career and reputation.
Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.05
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $43,050,000
Release Year: 1969
Role: Director
Allied agents (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood) lead commandos sent to free a general from a castle in Bavaria.
Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.05
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $350,517,000
Release Year: 2014
Role: Actor
Sniper and U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) saves many lives on battlefields in Iraq while striving to be a good husband and father to his loved ones back in America. The film won an Oscar for best sound editing.
The Malpaso Company / Paramount Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.3
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $3,007,120
Release Year: 1988
Role: Director
Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker (Forest Whitaker) lives fast and self-destructs, dead at 34 in 1955. The film won an Oscar for best sound mixing.
Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.42
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $147,502,000
Release Year: 1979
Role: Actor
Based on the true story of a hardened convict who engineered an elaborate plan to bust out of the famed prison in 1962.
The Malpaso Company / Universal Pictures
Smart Rating: 91.49
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $5,740,000
Release Year: 1971
Role: Actor
Southern girls and their headmistress (Geraldine Page) punish a sly, wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood).
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 91.57
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $76,814,700
Release Year: 1973
Role: Actor, Director
A mysterious stranger (Clint Eastwood) forces cowardly citizens of Lago to prepare a garish welcome for three escaped convicts.
The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 92.48
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $129,290,000
Release Year: 1976
Role: Actor, Director
A Missouri farmer (Clint Eastwood) hunts down the Union soldiers who killed his family and left him for dead.
Jolly Film
Smart Rating: 92.94
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $104,642,000
Release Year: 1964
Role: Actor
Sergio Leone's classic about a mysterious drifter's involvement with warring factions in a Mexican border town.
Village Roadshow Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures
Smart Rating: 94.56
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $116,098,000
Release Year: 2003
Role: Director
A detective (Kevin Bacon) investigates the brutal beating and murder of the daughter of a childhood friend (Sean Penn), then questions a second friend (Tim Robbins). The film won Oscars for best actor (Sean Penn) and best supporting actor (Tim Robbins).
Kurt Vinion / Getty Images
Smart Rating: 94.95
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $16,169,100
Release Year: 2006
Role: Director
Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) leads Japanese troops in a brave but hopeless battle against American forces invading the island during World War II. The film won Oscar for best sound editing.
Malpaso Company/ Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 95.33
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $187,729,000
Release Year: 1971
Role: Actor
A police detective (Clint Eastwood) defies his superiors to capture a sniper terrorizing San Francisco.
Warner Bros., Lakeshore Entertainment
Smart Rating: 95.35
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $125,994,000
Release Year: 2004
Role: Actor, Director
A deep bond develops between a cantankerous trainer (Clint Eastwood) and the female boxer (Hilary Swank) he reluctantly takes under his wing. The film won four Oscars (best supporting actor, best actress, best director and best picture).
eBay / Wikipedia
Smart Rating: 95.98
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $168,930,000
Release Year: 1992
Role: Actor, Director
An old gunslinger (Clint Eastwood), his ex-partner (Morgan Freeman) and a quick-draw kid go bounty hunting in a town called Big Whiskey. Won four Ocars (best film editing, best supporting actor, best director and best picture).
Silver Screen Collection / Warner Bros.
Smart Rating: 96.21
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $108,250,000
Release Year: 1967
Role: Actor
A man with no name (Clint Eastwood) and a man with a mission (Lee Van Cleef) hunt a Mexican bandit (Gian Maria Volonte) for different reasons.
Produzioni Europee Associati
Smart Rating: 97.86
U.S. Box Office (inflation-adjusted): $180,846,000
Release Year: 1967
Role: Actor
A drifter (Clint Eastwood), a bandit (Eli Wallach) and a bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) reach a standoff over buried gold.
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