# The best Gene Hackman movies

Popeye Doyle, Little Bill, Harry Caul and Lex Luthor: the Gene Hackman roles that keep coming up in the tributes by Zenda, El Español and El Universal after his death in 2025.

- 6 votes · 14 items
- Sep 2, 2026 · danielapuebla
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## Top 14

1. **The Conversation (1974)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Francis Ford Coppola. A surveillance expert trapped by what he has recorded.
2. **Mississippi Burning (1988)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alan Parker. An FBI agent investigates the disappearance of three activists.
3. **Scarecrow (1973)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jerry Schatzberg. Two drifters, him and Al Pacino, crossing the country.
4. **Under Fire (1983)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Roger Spottiswoode. Journalists in the Nicaraguan revolution.
5. **Unforgiven (1992)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Clint Eastwood. Sheriff Little Bill Daggett won him his second Oscar.
6. **Bonnie and Clyde (1967)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arthur Penn. Buck Barrow, Clyde's brother, and his first nomination.
7. **The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wes Anderson. Royal, the patriarch who comes back pretending to be ill.
8. **Superman (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Richard Donner. His Lex Luthor, half cunning, half comedy.
9. **Night Moves (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Arthur Penn. A private eye on a case that slips away from him.
10. **Enemy of the State (1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tony Scott. The surveillance veteran who helps Will Smith.
11. **Crimson Tide (1995)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tony Scott. The submarine captain facing Denzel Washington.
12. **Absolute Power (1997)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Clint Eastwood. A US president with something to hide.
13. **The French Connection (1971)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — William Friedkin. His first Oscar, as detective Popeye Doyle.
14. **Hoosiers (1986)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — David Anspaugh. A high school basketball coach in Indiana.

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