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Johnny Depp has 64 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Nightmare on Elm Street.
La La Land
2016
Comedy · Drama

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

Edward Scissorhands
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Max · Included

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Disney+ · Included

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Disney+ · Included

When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest

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...
Dir. Wes Craven · With Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Dir. Mike Johnson, Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson

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.
Dir. Lasse Hallström · With Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
Dir. David Yates · With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

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.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip on the seas under Lord Cutler Beckett—now in control of Davy Jones—the fate of piracy hangs by a thread. Now, they must unite the pirate lords for one final stand. But as loyalties are tested and alliances shift, each must ultimately choose where they stand in the battle for freedom on the high seas.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson

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.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Dir. Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes · With Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly

Rebellious young Axel Blackmar gets caught up into the family car business when his cousin, Paul, coaxes him to come to Arizona to attend the wedding of their Uncle Leo. As Axel makes the decision to try selling Cadillacs with his family, he meets an eccentric woman named Elaine and her equally quirky stepdaughter, Grace. Their lives become inextricably intertwined through romance, dreams – and death.
Dir. Emir Kusturica · With Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway

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.
Dir. Marc Forster · With Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
Dir. Lasse Hallström · With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik · With Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Dir. David Yates · With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler

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.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman

A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.
Dir. Wayne Roberts · With Johnny Depp, Rosemarie DeWitt, Odessa Young

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.
Dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky · With Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr.

John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.
Dir. Jeremy Leven · With Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway

Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Dir. Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning · With Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush

The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison— made The Doors one of America's most iconic and influential rock bands. Using footage shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison's death in 1971, it follows the band from the corridors of UCLA's film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas.
Dir. Tom DiCillo · With Johnny Depp, Jim Morrison, John Densmore

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Dir. James Bobin · With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Dir. John Waters · With Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Dir. Andrew Levitas · With Johnny Depp, Minami, Hiroyuki Sanada
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