Entertainment
The Best Movies For Guys
List Rules
Vote up your favorite movies that are great "guy" movies.
These are the best guy movies of all time, ranked by fans and critics. This list includes some of the greatest cool guy movies ever to hit the big screen - those whose quotable lines all guys seem to know, manly characters, masculine themes that guys love. They aren't just action movies either - the best manly movies are as diverse as the men who love them. Comedies old and new - from Animal House to The Hangover - fall into the category of movies dudes love, as do bromance movies like Superbad and I Love You Man. This list includes war movies like Saving Private Ryan and cult favorite guy films like A Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting, which are just as popular as good male sports films like Major League, The Natural, and The Blind Side.
Vote on the movies for guys you love most to move them up the list, or hit "rerank" to personalize your own list of guy flicks to watch.
Check out more lists like a list of movies with tough guys without superpowers, movies where the villain wins, and the films most likely to make men cry.
Ranked by
- 1Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Ridley Scott
Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) takes power and strips rank from Maximus (Russell Crowe), one of the favored generals of his predecessor and father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the great stoical philosopher. ...more - 2Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
A young man grows up in the mob and works very hard to advance himself through the ranks. He enjoys his life of money and luxury, but is oblivious to the horror that he causes. A drug addiction and a ...more - The Die Hard series is an American action film series that began in 1988 with Die Hard, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. The series follows the adventures of John ...more
- The Godfather film series consists of three crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the novel of the same name by Italian American author Mario Puzo. The series follows the trials of ...more
- The Terminator series is a science-fiction franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. It encompasses a series of films, comics, novels, and additional media concerning battles between ...more
- 6Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
- Released: 1967
- Directed by: Sergio Leone
In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an uneasy partnership -- Joe turns in the bandit for the reward ...more - 7Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Mel Gibson
Tells the story of the legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero named William Wallace (Mel Gibson). Wallace rallies the Scottish against the English monarch and Edward I (Peter Hanly) after he ...more - 8Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick's take on the Vietnam War follows smart-aleck Private Davis (Matthew Modine), quickly christened "Joker" by his foul-mouthed drill sergeant (R. Lee Ermey), and pudgy Private Lawrence ...more - 9Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his brothers, Morgan (Bill Paxton) and Virgil (Sam Elliott), have left their gunslinger ways behind them to settle down and start a business in the town of Tombstone, ...more - 10Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Frank Darabont
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't ...more - 11Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine
- Released: 2005 - 2012
- Directed by: Christopher Nolan
The Dark Knight Trilogy is a British-American superhero film trilogy based on the DC Comics character Batman. The trilogy consists of Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight ...more - 12Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Shia LaBeouf
- Released: 1981 - Present
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
The Indiana Jones franchise is an American media franchise based on the adventures of Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, a fictional archaeologist. It began in 1981 with the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. A ...more - 13Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: David Fincher
A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is ...more - 14Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
- Released: 1971
- Directed by: Don Siegel
Cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) attempts to track down a psychopathic rooftop killer before a kidnapped girl dies. When he is found Harry abuses the murderer's civil rights putting him back on ...more - 15Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: John McTiernan
Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes ...more - 16Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer
- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Brian De Palma
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his ...more - 17Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Vietnam veteran and drifter John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) wanders into a small Washington town in search of an old friend, but is met with intolerance and brutality by the local sheriff, Will ...more - 18John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is ...more - 19Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Zack Snyder
In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, ...more - 20Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
- Released: 1976
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) watches helplessly as his wife and child are murdered, by Union men led by Capt. Terrill (Bill McKinney). Seeking revenge, Wales joins the Confederate Army. He refuses to ...more - 21Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: John Sturges
Imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. ...more - 22George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates
- Released: 1970
- Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Biography of controversial World War II hero General George S. Patton. The film covers his wartime activities and accomplishments, beginning with his entry into the North African campaign and ending ...more - 23Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn
- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Mel Brooks
In this satirical take on Westerns, crafty railroad worker Bart (Cleavon Little) becomes the first black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new ...more - 24Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Retired auto worker and Korean War vet Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) fills emptiness in his life with beer and home repair, despising the many Asian, Latino and black families in his neighborhood. ...more - 25Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
- Released: 1960
- Directed by: John Sturges
A Mexican village is at the mercy of Calvera, the leader of a band of outlaws. The townspeople, too afraid to fight for themselves, hire seven American gunslingers to free them from the bandits' ...more
