25 Best Johnny Depp Movies (And Where To Watch Them)

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Discover the 25 best Johnny Depp movies to watch right now. Discover some of his most popular and peculiar performances from across his entire career. The American icon has been a cult figure since his breakout performance on the big screen in the 1984 movie A Nightmare on Elm Street. Johnny Depp made a name for himself by appearing in mostly independent movies and arthouse films from little-known directors.

Depp eventually rose to prominence through his collaborations with director Tim Burton. In a slew of movies, the pair pioneered a gothic aesthetic that is to this day still associated with the actor. Many of the most memorable Johnny Depp performances have been in Tim Burton movies such as Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands.

Johnny Depp movies in the 90s saw him taking on complicated roles and often portraying eccentric and strange characters. In the 2000s, Depp became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood by portraying the oddball Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. Between starring in five movies of the franchise, he also took a leading role in Alice in Wonderland and starred in his first animated movie Rango.

For film aficionados, the best Johnny Depp movies to watch are likely to be earlier in his career with performances in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape or Benny & Joon. But if you want to watch Johnny Depp movies that are entertaining and full of imagination then his later films offer a lot. Search through the 25 best Johnny Depp movies and find out where you can stream them right now.

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  1. Edward Scissorhands

    Edward Scissorhands

    1990

    IMDB 7.9 (523k)

    #1

    A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

  2. What's Eating Gilbert Grape

    #2

    Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

  3. Once Upon a Time in Mexico

    #3

    A CIA agent hires hitman "El Mariachi" to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état.

  4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    #4

    Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

  5. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

    #5

    Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 18th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.

  6. Dead Man

    Dead Man

    1995

    IMDB 7.5 (103k)

    #6

    A fatally wounded white man is found by an outcast Native American who prepares him for the afterlife.

  7. Sleepy Hollow

    Sleepy Hollow

    1999

    IMDB 7.3 (383k)

    #7

    Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator, is determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman.

  8. Platoon

    Platoon

    1986

    IMDB 8.1 (439k)

    #8

    As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

  9. Chocolat

    Chocolat

    2000

    IMDB 7.3 (200k)

    #9

    A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of gypsies arrive by riverboat, the Mayor's prejudices lead to a crisis.

  10. Corpse Bride

    Corpse Bride

    2005

    IMDB 7.4 (298k)

    #10

    Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

  11. Benny & Joon

    Benny & Joon

    1993

    IMDB 7.1 (62k)

    #11

    A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

  12. Finding Neverland

    Finding Neverland

    2004

    IMDB 7.7 (211k)

    #12

    During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.

  13. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    #13

    The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

  14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    #14

    A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.

  15. Secret Window

    Secret Window

    2004

    IMDB 6.5 (209k)

    #15

    Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

  16. A Nightmare on Elm Street

    #16

    Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

  17. Cry-Baby

    Cry-Baby

    1990

    IMDB 6.5 (64k)

    #17

    A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

  18. Public Enemies

    Public Enemies

    2009

    IMDB 7.0 (318k)

    #18

    Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

  19. Ed Wood

    Ed Wood

    1994

    IMDB 7.8 (183k)

    #19

    The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

  20. Donnie Brasco

    Donnie Brasco

    1997

    IMDB 7.7 (332k)

    #20

    An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.