| | Being John Malkovich (1999)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $22.86M Lead Role: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, | Director: Spike Jonze, A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. |
| | Say Anything... (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $20.78M Lead Role: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, | Director: Cameron Crowe, A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. |
| | High Fidelity (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $27.28M Lead Role: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, | Director: Stephen Frears, Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress. |
| | 1408 (2007)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $71.98M Lead Role: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Paul Birchard, | Director: Mikael Håfström, A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. |
| | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $28.01M Lead Role: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, | Director: George Armitage, Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time. |
| | The Grifters (1990)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $13.45M Lead Role: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe, | Director: Stephen Frears, A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play. |
| | Love & Mercy (2014)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $12.55M Lead Role: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, | Director: Bill Pohlad, In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. |
| | Identity (2003)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $51.48M Lead Role: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, | Director: James Mangold, Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain-storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one. |
| | The Butler (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $116.63M Lead Role: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, | Director: Lee Daniels, As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
| | Con Air (1997)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: $101.09M Lead Role: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Colm Meaney, | Director: Simon West, Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control. |
| | The Sure Thing (1985)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $18.14M Lead Role: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, | Director: Rob Reiner, A college student plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman. They hate each other, so naturally... |
| | Eight Men Out (1988)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $5.68M Lead Role: John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, | Director: John Sayles, A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. |
| | Anastasia (1997)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $58.30M Lead Role: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer, | Director: The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death. |
| | 2012 (2009)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: $166.11M Lead Role: John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, | Director: Roland Emmerich, A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind. |
| | Runaway Jury (2003)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 61 | Earnings: $49.44M Lead Role: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, | Director: Gary Fleder, A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer. |
| | Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $50.21M Lead Role: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, | Director: Steve Pink, A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born. |
| | Cradle Will Rock (1999)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $2.90M Lead Role: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, | Director: Tim Robbins, A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production. |
| | Grace Is Gone (2007)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $0.05M Lead Role: John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler, | Director: Jim Strouse, Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip. |
| | Maps to the Stars (2014)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $0.35M Lead Role: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack, | Director: David Cronenberg, A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. |
| | Serendipity (2001)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: $49.97M Lead Role: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Bridget Moynahan, | Director: Peter Chelsom, A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together. |
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