Best Leonardo DiCaprio Movies, Ranked
Leonardo DiCaprio's best films, ranked by the people who watched them rather than by box office. Inception leads at 8.4, with Shutter Island and Django Unchained close behind. The list runs from 1993 to 2025 and covers the roles actually worth seeking out.
30 titles · average score 7.3 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
Inception (2010)
★ 8.4 · 39,912 ratingsCobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the…
- 2
Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2 · 26,247 ratingsWorld War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Django Unchained (2012)
★ 8.2 · 28,421 ratingsWith the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
- 4
The Departed (2006)
★ 8.2 · 16,492 ratingsTo take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a…
- 5
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
★ 8.0 · 26,329 ratingsA New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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How this list is ranked
Ranked by average audience score across Leonardo DiCaprio's screen 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 Leonardo DiCaprio's best movie?
Inception (2010), rated 8.4 by 40K viewers — the highest-scoring film they appear in. Shutter Island and Django Unchained come next.
How many Leonardo DiCaprio movies are listed here?
30, spanning 1993 to 2025. 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.