Top 10 Best Anthony Hopkins Movies

As the brilliant but monstrous psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who helps a young FBI agent find a serial killer, Hopkins delivered one of the most iconic villain roles in film history. With barely sixteen minutes of screen time, he won the Oscar for Best Actor.

As an elderly man gradually sinking into dementia, Hopkins makes the viewer literally experience his character's confusion and fear. The role won him his second Oscar at the age of 83.

As a butler who suppresses his own feelings all his life in service of his employer, Hopkins plays one of his most restrained and moving roles opposite Emma Thompson. The film revolves around everything that's never said.

Opposite Jonathan Pryce as the future Pope Francis, Hopkins plays Pope Benedict XVI in the run-up to his resignation. The film consists largely of dialogue between the two, and Hopkins gives Benedict a rigid but human side.

As US President Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone's biographical drama, Hopkins shows the paranoia and loneliness behind one of America's most controversial presidents. The role earned him an Oscar nomination.

As the doctor who takes the severely deformed Joseph Merrick under his wing, Hopkins stars opposite John Hurt in David Lynch's early, understated drama. One of his first major international film roles.

As writer C.S. Lewis, who unexpectedly falls in love later in life and then loses his wife to cancer, Hopkins delivers one of his most emotional roles. The film explores how faith and grief relate to each other.

In Steven Spielberg's drama about a slave revolt aboard a ship, Hopkins plays former US President John Quincy Adams, who argues the case before the Supreme Court. His closing argument is one of the film's strongest scenes.

As the eccentric vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing in Francis Ford Coppola's lavish adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, Hopkins shows a more theatrical, playful side. The film excels above all in its visual style.

As the patriarch of a family in early twentieth-century Montana, Hopkins plays the father of three sons whose lives are torn apart by love and war. The film combines epic landscapes with a multigenerational family drama.

Hopkins plays legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in his conversation with C.S. Lewis about God, faith and conviction. An intellectual, intimate duel between two great minds on the eve of war.

Hopkins brings to life Nicholas Winton, a modest stockbroker who rescued children before the Holocaust. A powerful true story about humanity and courage, with Hopkins bringing warmth and character.

Hopkins returns as Hannibal Lecter, who from exile once again crosses paths with agent Clarice Starling.

Hopkins plays Odin, the mighty king of Asgard and father of Thor, in this first installment of the Marvel franchise.

Hopkins plays a dying business tycoon who makes a deal with Death himself (Brad Pitt) in this romantic fantasy drama.

Hopkins plays the aging Zorro who trains a young thief (Antonio Banderas) to become his successor.

Hopkins plays the mysterious founder of a western theme park full of self-aware androids in this acclaimed HBO series.