The Best John Heard Movies
List of the best John Heard movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. John Heard's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top John Heard movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated John Heard movies will be at the top of the list. John Heard has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest John Heard movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining John Heard films to end the squabble once and for all.
If you think the best John Heard role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest John Heard performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.
List contains films like Waterland and Freak Weather.
"This list answers the questions, "What are the best John Heard movies?" and "What are the greatest John Heard roles of all time?"Notable directors that have worked with John Heard include names like Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Garry Marshall.
- 1Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Ivan Passer
Best friends Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) and Alex Cutter (John Heard) are two middle-class guys living in an upper-class town. The Santa Barbara buddies get dragged into a murder mystery when Richard ...more - Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Chris Columbus
When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters ...more - 3Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Penny Marshall
After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) into a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at MacMillen Toy Company. A chance encounter with the ...more - 4Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Ed Harris
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an ...more - 5Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Penny Marshall
The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form ...more - 6Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Taut thriller about a young law student whose legal brief about the assassination of two Supreme Court justices causes her to be targeted by killers. She realizes just how accurate her accusations ...more - 7Sonia Braga, Chick Vennera, Rubén Blades
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Robert Redford
In the tiny town of Milagro, New Mexico, where the local water is a premium resource, shady developer Ladd Devine (Richard Bradford) has conceived a glitzy resort that will ultimately siphon off all ...more - 8Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 ...more - 9Geraldine Page, John Heard, Rebecca De Mornay
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Peter Masterson
Carrie Watts (Geraldine Page) may be old, but she suffers no shortage of spirit. When her carping daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn) and overprotective son (John Heard) forbid her to travel alone from ...more - 10Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Peter Segal
Ex-presidents Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Douglas (James Garner) have hated each other for years. But when the current administration of President Haney (Dan Aykroyd) -- Kramer's former vice president ...more - 11Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Following the murder of a radio personality in Chicago, all evidence of the crime points to a white supremacist group from Iowa. With the FBI on the case, the department sends inexperienced agent ...more - 12John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert
- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver
Charles (John Heard) meets Laura (Mary Beth Hurt) in the the government office where they both work and is instantly smitten. Unfortunately, Laura is not completely unattached but merely separated ...more - 13Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Chris Columbus
After snarky youth Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) loses track of his father at the airport, he mistakenly gets on a plane headed for New York City -- while the rest of the McCallisters fly to ...more - 14Patrick Dempsey, Donald Sutherland, Mary Stuart Masterson
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Michael Dinner
Heaven Help Us is a 1985 comedy-drama film starring Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Geoffreys, John Heard, and Patrick Dempsey. - Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Garry Marshall
Hillary (Barbara Hershey) and CC (Bette Midler) meet as children vacationing in Atlantic City, N.J., and remain friends throughout the decades. As CC, a loud New Yorker, pursues a singing career, ...more - 16Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Adam Baldwin
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Richard Donner
When their parents divorce, brothers Mike (Elijah Wood) and Bobby (Joseph Mazzello) move to a California suburb with their mother, Mary (Lorraine Bracco). Soon after, she remarries a man (Adam ...more - 17John Heard, Meg Foster, Kevin Conway
- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Rick Hauser
The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne: it aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes ...more - 18Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Robin Bartlett
- Released: 1991
- Directed by: Damian Harris
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders (John Heard) under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne (Goldie ...more - 19Susan Dey, Beverly DAngelo, Robert Loggia
- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Joan Darling
First Love is a 1977 American romance movie. It stars Susan Dey and William Katt and was directed by Joan Darling. The movie is based upon the story Sentimental Education by Harold Brodkey. The ...more - 20Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
The lives of Carolyn Ryan (Meryl Streep), a small-town doctor, and her artist husband, Ben (Liam Neeson), are shaken up when their son, Jacob (Edward Furlong), becomes the prime suspect in the death ...more - 21Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Carl Schultz
Prior to his death on the crucifix, Jesus Christ (Jürgen Prochnow) was offered a drink of water, a kind act turned away by a Roman soldier. These events play a profound role in occurrences during ...more - 22Ralph Fiennes, Jamie Bell, Carrie-Anne Moss
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Arie Posin
After a friend who sells prescription medication is killed, Dean (Jamie Bell) is confronted by Billy (Justin Chatwin), the high-school drug dealer, who demands he hand over the remaining stash. Dean ...more - Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Jaime King
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans), accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites (Anne Dudek, Rochelle ...more - 24Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Justin Timberlake
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: David J. Burke
Ambitious young reporter Pollack (Justin Timberlake) suspects insidious corruption in his town's elite police unit, known as F.R.A.T., and finds a friendly source in Deed (LL Cool J), a dissatisfied ...more - 25Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Denzel Washington
Poet and professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) teaches at the predominately black Wiley College in 1935 Texas. He decides to start a debate team, something nearly unheard of at a black ...more