01 A jittery, squeamish Ichabod Crane in Burton's gothic horror.
Johnny Depp – 10 Best Movies
By Vlad Zakh · January 19, 2026
United States Drama thought provoking
Pirates of the Caribbean made him a blockbuster fixture, but Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood show the strange, internal performances that made him interesting first. Donnie Brasco and Sweeney Todd show two very different registers of the same instinct.
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02 A chaotic, hallucinatory turn as Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego.
03 A quiet, grounded lead role opposite a young Leonardo DiCaprio.
04 A stylish, doomed take on bank robber John Dillinger.
05 A strange, reclusive Willy Wonka that split audiences but stuck in memory.
06 An undercover FBI agent slowly losing himself inside the mob.
07 An affectionate, energetic take on Hollywood's most notorious bad director.
08 A vengeful, singing barber in one of his darkest roles.
09 A gentle, tragic outsider in his first collaboration with Tim Burton.
10 Captain Jack Sparrow turned a theme-park ride into a global franchise.