- Actor Brad Pitt has starred in numerous films throughout his Hollywood career.
- After getting his start with movies like "Thelma & Louise" and "Kalifornia," Pitt went on to star in blockbusters like "Fight Club" and "Ocean's Eleven."
- Pitt has also appeared in films like "Seven," with Kevin Spacey, and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," with his now ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
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While Brad Pitt is most well-known for his roles in "Fight Club" and "Ocean's Eleven," the actor has actually appeared in numerous films throughout his career in Hollywood.
Pitt got his start with supporting roles in films like 1991's "Thelma & Louise," and went on to star in '90s classics like "Interview With the Vampire," "Seven," and "Fight Club."
The actor has also appeared in several period films, including 2007's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."
And in recent years, Pitt had roles in major movies like "12 Years a Slave" and "The Big Short."
Critics have been divided over some of Pitt's movies, but there are some clear standouts, too.
Here are all of Pitt's movies, ranked according to critics' scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
44. Pitt played a diseased man in 1988's "The Dark Side of the Sun."
Synopsis: "Traveling in search of a cure for a rare skin disease, a man finds freedom and love along the way."
Rotten Tomatoes score: No score yet
43. The actor played a college student in the 1989 film "Happy Together."
Synopsis: "When freshman Chris (Patrick Dempsey) arrives at his university dormitory, he is shocked to discover that his assigned roommate Alex is actually a woman, Alexandra (Helen Slater)."
Rotten Tomatoes score: No score yet
42. In 1991, Pitt played a track star in "Across the Tracks."
Synopsis: "Two brothers — one, a delinquent, the other, a perfectionist — are pitted against each other as track stars from rival high schools."
Rotten Tomatoes score: No score yet
41. He played a WWII vet trapped in an animated realm in the 1992 film"Cool World"
Synopsis: "A comic strip femme fatale seeks to seduce her cartoonist creator in order to cross over into the real world."
40. In 1989's "Cutting Class," Brad Pitt played a high-schooler.
Synopsis: "A series of deaths at a high school turn out to be murder, as a young delinquent — sent to a home after killing his father — is returned to class."
39. And In 1994's "The Favor," Pitt played the unwitting boyfriend of a woman having an affair.
Synopsis: "A long-running sex fantasy, and vicarious thrills are the basis for this lightweight comedy. For years now Kathy has been dreaming of making passionate love to her handsome high school sweetheart, Tom. Though she is in a humdrum, but perfect marriage to Peter, a college professor, and has two wonderful children, she continues to be haunted by Tom."
38. 1991's "Johnny Suede" saw Pitt play a wannabe rock star with wild hair.
Synopsis: "A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star."
37. 2015's "By the Sea" was written and directed by Pitt's then-wife, Angelina Jolie.
Synopsis: "A couple tries to repair their marriage while staying at a hotel in France."
36. Pitt appeared in 2013's "The Counselor," which featured a talented cast and crew, but wasn't well-received by critics.
Synopsis: "A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking."
35. In the 1997 film "The Devil's Own," Pitt played an IRA soldier on the run.
Synopsis: "A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding."
34. Pitt's most recent film role was in 2017's "War Machine."
Synopsis: "An idiosyncratic General confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuilding operation in Afghanistan."
33. Pitt played an embodiment of death in 1998's "Meet Joe Black."
Synopsis: "Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth, and in the process, he falls in love with his guide's daughter."
32. Pitt played legendary Greek warrior Achilles in 2004's "Troy."
Synopsis: "An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved."
31. Pitt played Rusty Ryan in 2004's "Ocean's Twelve," part of the "Ocean's" franchise.
Synopsis: "Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11."
30. In 2001, Pitt portrayed a criminal trying to transport a gun across the border in "The Mexican."
Synopsis: "A man tries to transport an ancient gun called The Mexican, believed to carry a curse, back across the border, while his girlfriend pressures him to give up his criminal ways."
29. Pitt played a brooding heartthrob in 1994's "Legends of the Fall"
Synopsis: "In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war."
28. In 1993's "Kalifornia," the actor played a psychopathic murderer.
Synopsis: "A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself."
27. Pitt met his future wife Angelina Jolie on the set of their 2005 film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."
Synopsis: "A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other."
26. 1997's "Seven Years in Tibet" was one of Pitt's more ambitious films.
Synopsis: "True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet."
25. The 2016 WWII romance "Allied," starring Pitt, received mixed reviews from critics.
Synopsis: "In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war."
24. Pitt reunited with his "A River Runs Through It" director Robert Redford in 2001's "Spy Game."
Synopsis: "Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors."
23. Pitt acted opposite Tom Cruise and a young Kirsten Dunst in 1994's horror classic "Interview With the Vampire."
Synopsis: "A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger."
22. The zombie apocalypse is the focus of the 2013 film "World War Z," which starred Pitt.
Synopsis: "Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself."
21. In 2006's "Babel," Pitt played the husband of Cate Blanchett's character.
Synopsis: "Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families."
20. The actor appeared in the third installment of the "Ocean's" franchise, 2007's "Ocean's Thirteen."
Synopsis: "Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff."
19. Pitt starred as a man who aged backwards in the 2008 film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
Synopsis: "What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timelessness."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 71% (Certified Fresh)
18. In 1996's "Sleepers," the actor played a lawyer with a history of childhood abuse.
Synopsis: "After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, they get their chance for revenge."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 73% (Certified Fresh)
17. In 2000's "Snatch," Pitt played an Irish boxer.
Synopsis: "Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond."
16. 2012's "Killing Them Softly" told the story of a robbery and its aftermath, and included Pitt in a supporting role.
Synopsis: "Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a mob-protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74% (Certified Fresh)
15. 2007's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" featured Pitt as the outlaw, Jesse James.
Synopsis: "Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 76% (Certified Fresh)
14. Pitt had a role in 2014's WWII drama "Fury."
Synopsis: "A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 77% (Certified Fresh)
13. 2008's "Burn After Reading" saw the actor play a dimwitted gym agent.
Synopsis: "A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 78% (Certified Fresh)
12. The 1999 action film "Fight Club" is one of the most iconic movies of Pitt's career.
Synopsis: "An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79% (Certified Fresh)
11. Pitt received recognition for his dramatic acting chops due to his role in the 1992 film "A River Runs Through It."
Synopsis: "The story about two sons of a stern minister — one reserved, one rebellious —growing up in rural Montana while devoted to fly fishing."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 80% (Certified Fresh)
10. The 1995 crime-thriller "Seven" featured Pitt as a quick-tempered LAPD detective.
Synopsis: "Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 81% (Certified Fresh)
9. The 2001 film "Ocean's Eleven" starred Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
Synopsis: "Danny Ocean and his eleven accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 82% (Certified Fresh)
8. Pitt got his first role in a major film with 1991's "Thelma & Louise."
Synopsis: "Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon play Thelma and Louise, two working-class friends who together have planned a weekend getaway from the men in their lives. Thelma's husband, Darryl, is an overbearing oaf, and Louise's boyfriend, Jimmy, simply will not commit. Though the road trip starts out as a good time, the pair eventually wind up at a bar. A tipsy Thelma ends up in the parking lot of the bar with a would-be rapist. Louise shoots the man dead. The two decide that they have no choice but to go on the run."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 84% (Certified Fresh)
7. The Terence Malick-directed 2011 film "The Tree of Life" featured Pitt as a Midwestern father.
Synopsis: "The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 85% (Certified Fresh)
6. Pitt produced and starred in 2015's "The Big Short."
Synopsis: "In 2006 to 2007, a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88% (Certified Fresh)
5. In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 "Inglourious Basterds," Pitt played a Jewish-American soldier trying to take down Hitler
Synopsis: "In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 88% (Certified Fresh)
4. Pitt played an insane fanatic in the 1995 hit film "12 Monkeys"
Synopsis: "In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89% (Certified Fresh)
3. Pitt had a small but memorable role in the 1993 film "True Romance."
Synopsis: "In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the Mob, track them down in an attempt to reclaim it."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 92% (Certified Fresh)
2. 2011's "Moneyball" was one of Pitt's most successful films to date.
Synopsis: "Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94% (Certified Fresh)
1. Pitt won his first Oscar for the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave," but not for acting.
Synopsis: "In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95% (Certified Fresh)
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