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Ethan Hawke Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Ethan Hawke appears in the billed cast of 23 films in our catalog, from 1985 to 2025. Top of the list is Dead Poets Society ('1989), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.0. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Taking Lives, 6.2 on IMDb against 38 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dead Poets Society '1989 | Drama | 8.1 | 85% | 79 | 8.3 | Peter Weir |
| 2 | Before Sunrise '1995 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 100% | 79 | 8.0 | Richard Linklater |
| 3 | Before Sunset '2004 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 95% | 91 | 7.8 | Richard Linklater |
| 4 | Training Day '2001 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 74% | 71 | 7.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 5 | Gattaca '1997 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.7 | 82% | 64 | 7.6 | Andrew Niccol |
| 6 | Boyhood '2014 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 100 | 7.5 | Richard Linklater |
| 7 | Lord of War '2005 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 62% | 62 | 7.4 | Andrew Niccol |
| 8 | Predestination '2014 | Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.4 | 84% | 69 | 7.4 | Michael Spierig |
| 9 | Alive '1993 | Drama | 7.1 | 63% | 56 | 6.9 | Frank Marshall |
| 10 | The Northman '2022 | Action / Fantasy | 7.0 | 90% | 82 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 11 | Sinister '2012 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 6.8 | 64% | 53 | 6.9 | Scott Derrickson |
| 12 | The Magnificent Seven '2016 | Action / Western | 6.9 | 64% | 54 | 6.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 13 | White Fang '1991 | Action / Drama | 6.7 | 71% | 62 | 6.7 | Randal Kleiser |
| 14 | The Black Phone '2022 | Horror / Thriller | 6.9 | 81% | 65 | 7.5 | Scott Derrickson |
| 15 | Great Expectations '1998 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.8 | 41% | 55 | 6.7 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 16 | Reality Bites '1994 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 6.6 | 62% | 67 | 6.5 | Ben Stiller |
| 17 | Taking Lives '2004 | Thriller | 6.2 | 21% | 38 | 6.4 | D.J. Caruso |
| 18 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets '2017 | Sci-Fi / Action | 6.4 | 47% | 51 | 6.7 | Luc Besson |
| 19 | Explorers '1985 | Sci-Fi | 6.4 | - | 58 | 6.3 | Joe Dante |
| 20 | Leave the World Behind '2023 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.4 | 73% | 68 | 6.4 | Sam Esmail |
| 21 | The Guilty '2021 | Drama / Thriller | 6.3 | 73% | 63 | 6.4 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 22 | Black Phone 2 '2025 | Horror / Thriller | 6.0 | 72% | 61 | 6.6 | Scott Derrickson |
| 23 | The Purge '2013 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller | 5.8 | 41% | 41 | 6.2 | James DeMonaco |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.