Top 10 Mark Ruffalo Movies, According To IMDb

The prolific actor Mark Ruffalo is a recognizable figure from his biographical work portraying real-life people throughout history to his more recent starring role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Bruce Banner.

Ruffalo has acted in a wide array of genres throughout his career including drama, romantic comedies, and action movies showing the successful actor’s range in any genre. Ruffalo has mostly starred in films versus television and continues to release creative and new projects, here are his top-rated films so far.

10 You Can Count on Me (2000) – 7.5

Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo star in this dramatic film as brother and sister who reconnect when he moves in with his sister and her son.

Linney’s mother is overprotective of her son as a single mom, but she starts to get out of her routine when she begins to trust her brother to watch her son and help around the house. Although things start off well, various events cause Linney’s character to have to choose between helping her brother or protecting her son.

9 Collateral (2004) – 7.5

Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx star in this action film as a hitman and cab driver respectively. Cruise offers to pay Foxx’s driver a hefty fee to drive him around for the night and Foxx accepts but quickly regrets when he learns Cruise’s true intentions to carry out several hits throughout the night.

Mark Ruffalo portrays a Narcotics detective who gets tangled up in the investigation when he thinks he knows the connection between all of the killings.

8 Zodiac (2007) – 7.7

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this film about the unsolved murders of the Zodiac killer. Gyllenhaal portrays a newspaper cartoonist who is determined to figure out the ciphers that the supposed murder is sending to his newspaper.

Robert Downey Jr. co-stars as a reporter at the newspaper and Mark Ruffalo portrays one of the detectives assigned to the case of the Zodiac killings. The film is a real-life look at one of the most famous unsolved murder cases in recent memory.

7 Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – 7.9

Thor: Ragnarok is the third Thor film and was directed by Taika Waititi, which gives it a more comedic and quirky approach than the rest of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ruffalo reprises his role as Bruce Banner, first appearing as the Hulk for a lot of the film.

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) asks Bruce for his help to stop his sister, Hela (Cate Blanchett), before she can destroy Asgard and then wreak havoc on the rest of the world.

6 The Avengers (2012) – 8.0

Mark Ruffalo portrays Bruce Banner for the first time in this crossover film that brings together major characters in the Marvel universe including Thor, Tony Stark, and Captain America.

The group teams up with Nick Fury, Black Widow, and Hawkeye of S.H.I.E.L.D. to fight against Thor’s villainous brother Loki when he steals the powerful Tesseract and intends on causing destruction.

5 Spotlight (2015) – 8.1

Mark Ruffalo stars in the dramatic and biographical film Spotlight that focuses on the reporters who broke the story of Catholic priests systemically sexually abusing children in the Boston area.

The film follows the team’s investigative journalism efforts to uncover the truth about the story of a Priest being arrested on molestation charges and being quickly released without the public knowing and the Catholic leadership’s inaction against the claims they knew about allowing for the abuse to continue.

4 Shutter Island (2010) – 8.2

Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo star as two U.S. Marshals sent to an insane asylum to investigate an escape in this dramatic film with countless plot twists. The film’s location is terrifying as the asylum is a fortress on a deserted island and the escapee seems to have disappeared.

The further the two lawmen look into the case the more confusing and dangerous it becomes.

3 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) – 8.3

Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star in this dramatic and at times depressing romantic film about the two deciding to erase all memories of their relationship after a painful breakup. The film focuses on Carrey’s procedure to erase his memories and it shows their relationship in bits and pieces before they’re erased forever.

The film explores the highs and lows of relationships and the pain of loss. Mark Ruffalo has a smaller part in the films as one of the technicians working on the procedure to erase memories.

2 Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – 8.4

Avengers: Infinity War follows the Avengers as they face off against the villainous Thanos (Josh Brolin) as he attempts to find and assemble the six infinity stones. The stones will give him the power to do anything he wants and Thanos wants to wipe out half of the world’s population.

The team decides the best plan is to look for the infinity stones and find them before Thanos can get to them.

1 Avengers: Endgame (2019) – 8.4

The remaining Avengers have been trying to cope after Thanos succeeded in his plan to wipe out half of the world’s population including members of their team. They figure out that they might be able to travel back in time and stop Thanos before he carries out his evil plot. Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are able to figure out the logistics and send each Avenger back in time to get the infinity stones so they can secure them.

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