# The best Anthony Hopkins movies

Hannibal Lecter and much more: Sir Anthony Hopkins' best films, ranked from Looper, The Manual and Game Rant's Metacritic ranking.

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## Top 10

1. **The Silence of the Lambs (1991)** (60 · ▲67 ▼7) — Hannibal Lecter: an Oscar for less than twenty minutes on screen.
2. **The Remains of the Day (1993)** (49 · ▲53 ▼4) — Stevens, the butler who never says what he feels.
3. **Howards End (1992)** (49 · ▲53 ▼4) — Henry Wilcox in the Merchant Ivory classic.
4. **The Father (2020)** (40 · ▲51 ▼11) — An old man whose mind is slipping away: his second Oscar.
5. **The Elephant Man (1980)** (39 · ▲45 ▼6) — The doctor who rescues John Merrick, by David Lynch.
6. **The Lion in Winter (1968)** (34 · ▲41 ▼7) — The young Richard the Lionheart, opposite Peter O'Toole.
7. **The Two Popes (2019)** (31 · ▲40 ▼9) — Benedict XVI facing the future Pope Francis.
8. **Shadowlands (1993)** (25 · ▲34 ▼9) — C.S. Lewis falls in love late in life.
9. **Legends of the Fall (1994)** (23 · ▲31 ▼8) — The patriarch of a Montana family.
10. **84 Charing Cross Road (1987)** (22 · ▲29 ▼7) — Decades of letters between a New York writer and a London bookseller.
11. **The Mask of Zorro (1998)** (17 · ▲30 ▼13) — Don Diego de la Vega passes on the mask.
12. **Magic (1978)** (17 · ▲23 ▼6) — A ventriloquist and his sinister dummy.
13. **Nixon (1995)** (14 · ▲27 ▼13) — The disgraced president, for Oliver Stone.

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