Braveheart (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 223 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $75.60M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, | Director: Mel Gibson,

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Aggregate Rating: 181 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $65.21M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, | Director: Richard Donner,

A veteran policeman, Murtaugh, is partnered with a younger, suicidal officer, Riggs. They both have one thing in common: hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers.

Mad Max 2 (1981)

Aggregate Rating: 172 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $9.00M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps, | Director: George Miller,

In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

Chicken Run (2000)

Aggregate Rating: 172 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $106.79M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, | Director:

When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $147.25M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, | Director: Richard Donner,

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Mad Max (1979)

Aggregate Rating: 163 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, | Director: George Miller,

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Aggregate Rating: 156 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $36.20M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, | Director:

After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.

The Patriot (2000)

Aggregate Rating: 156 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $113.33M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, | Director: Roland Emmerich,

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.

Signs (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 150 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $227.97M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, | Director: M. Night Shyamalan,

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Ransom (1996)

Aggregate Rating: 146 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $136.45M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Gary Sinise, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, | Director: Ron Howard,

When a multimillionaire man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then turns the tables on the kidnappers when he uses the ransom money as a reward for the capture of the kidnappers.

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Aggregate Rating: 146 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $78.12M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, | Director: Randall Wallace,

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.

Gallipoli (1981)

Aggregate Rating: 144 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, | Director: Peter Weir,

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Dragged Across Concrete (2018)

Aggregate Rating: 140 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, | Director: S. Craig Zahler,

Once two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their just due.

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)

Aggregate Rating: 140 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco, | Director: Peter Weir,

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Pocahontas (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 137 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: $141.60M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Joe Baker, | Director:

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.

Blood Father (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 137 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks, | Director: Jean-François Richet,

An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 17-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.

The Beaver (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 134 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $0.96M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Cherry Jones, | Director: Jodie Foster,

A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.

The Man Without a Face (1993)

Aggregate Rating: 132 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $24.76M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Fay Masterson, | Director: Mel Gibson,

Chuck wants to leave home, but can't make the grade for boarding school. Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby, is an ex-teacher.

What Women Want (2000)

Aggregate Rating: 127 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 47 | Earnings: $182.81M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda, | Director: Nancy Meyers,

After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.

Tequila Sunrise (1988)

Aggregate Rating: 126 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $41.29M

Lead Role: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, | Director: Robert Towne,

A former L.A. drug dealer tries to go straight but his past and his underworld connections bring him into the focus of the DEA, the Mexican feds and the Mexican drug cartels.