Best Gore Verbinski Movies, Ranked
Every Gore Verbinski film worth your evening, ranked by audience score. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl sits at the top with 7.8, and the filmography below spans 1997–2026. Whether you are starting from scratch or filling gaps, this is the order to watch them in.
11 titles · average score 6.8 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
★ 7.8 · 22,596 ratingsWhen wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack…
- 2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
★ 7.4 · 17,446 ratingsCaptain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down…
- 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
★ 7.3 · 15,709 ratingsAfter losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip…
- 4
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
★ 7.1 · 845 ratingsA 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial…
- 5
Rango (2011)
★ 6.9 · 7,252 ratingsWhen Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has…
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How this list is ranked
Ranked by average audience score across Gore Verbinski's directing credits, with anything under 150 ratings filtered out so a single obscure short can't outrank a career-defining film. Updated daily from TMDB.
Frequently asked questions
What is Gore Verbinski's best movie?
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), rated 7.8 by 23K viewers — the highest-scoring film they directed. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End come next.
How many Gore Verbinski movies are listed here?
11, spanning 1997 to 2026. Credits with fewer than 150 ratings are left out so the ranking is not skewed by obscure or uncredited work.
Is this list updated?
Yes — it rebuilds every day from TMDB, so newly released movies appear as soon as enough people have rated them. You do not need an account to browse it, and there is no paywall on anything at MovieAI.