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Mel Gibson has 61 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Braveheart.
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Hacksaw Ridge
2016 · Movie · Director
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Apocalypto
2006 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 1%Hulu · Included

Boss Level
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Hulu · Included

Pocahontas
1995 · Movie · Voice
Top 20%Disney+ · Included

The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Prime Video · Included

The Bounty
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Prime Video · Included

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Mel Gibson, Catherine McCormack, Sophie Marceau

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gerardo Taracena

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Dir. George Miller · With Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
Dir. Mel Gibson · With Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Christo Jivkov

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
Dir. Raja Collins · With Mel Gibson, Shelley Hennig, Jordi Mollà

The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his troops. His target: the Ia Drang Valley, called "The Valley of Death." As Moore prepares for one of the most violent battles in U.S. history, he delivers a stirring promise to his soldiers and their families: "I will leave no man behind...dead or alive. We will all come home together."
Dir. Randall Wallace · With Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Dir. M. Night Shyamalan · With Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin

A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
Dir. Joe Carnahan · With Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
Dir. Brian Helgeland · With Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
Dir. Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg · With Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Dir. Roland Emmerich · With Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson

Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Dir. Farhad Safinia · With Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer

An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.
Dir. Roger Donaldson · With Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
Dir. George Miller · With Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne

When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Dir. Adrian Grünberg · With Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Giménez Cacho

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
Dir. Rosalind Ross · With Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Jacki Weaver

Ex-con Russell Gaines is attempting to rebuild his life with the help of his father, Mitchell. However, the arrival of Maben sends his new life into chaos, leading the pair to go on the run - as their violent pasts catch up to them, the pair must learn to trust each other if they hope to live out the rest of their days.
Dir. Nadine Crocker · With Willa Fitzgerald, Garrett Hedlund, Mel Gibson

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
Dir. Chris Paine · With Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson, Chelsea Sexton

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Dir. Nancy Meyers · With Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei

The origin behind the iconic hotel-for-assassins through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, as he's dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970's New York City to face a past he thought he'd left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel's mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne.
Dir. Greg Coolidge, Kirk Ward, Shawn Simmons · With Colin Woodell, Mel Gibson, Mishel Prada
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