15 Best Jeremy Renner Movies Of All Time

POSTED BY Maliha Rafi, UPDATED ON February 15th, 2024
15 Best Jeremy Renner Movies of All time

Jeremy Lee Renner is a flamboyant American actor, singer, and filmmaker. Renner is additionally a lyricist, drummer, keyboardist, and guitarist as well. National Lampoon’s Senior Trip was Renner’s film debut that came in 1995 in which he played the role of a bum student. Renner’s qualities as a performer come from his expressive eyes as well as from his capacity to encapsulate the characters he depicts. Here today we list the 15 best Jeremy Renner movies of all time:

 

15. Ingenious (2009)

Best Jeremy Renner Flick Ingenious 2009

This satirical show depends on a genuine story. Jeremy Renner (Sam) who is exceptionally idiosyncratic in the film, alongside Dallas Roberts (Matt) builds up astounding on-screen chemistry as closest companions attempting to maintain an innovative gift business.

The insignia of their entrepreneurial detachment is high on vitality and thoughts yet low on achievement. The film got the Best Picture honor at the Phoenix Film Festival.

 

14. Take (2007)

Take 2007 Movie

It is a kind of motion picture that keeps you thinking long after you have seen it. Jeremy Renner is incredible to watch in the part of a man battling with his inward individual.

Take has perfect snippets of passion with an account of a battling mother and a betting junkie. Both the leads, Jeremy and Minnie Driver, and the film were honored with various awards.

 

13. Love Comes to the Executioner (2004)

Love Comes to the Executioner 2004

It’s a dark comic drama, brimming with unexpected circumstances and entertaining exchanges. This is an anecdote about a college alum who accepts a position as an executioner at the jail where his brother, Chick (Jeremy Renner), is awaiting execution.

There, his long-lasting kin contention proceeds with Chick, and he gets attracted to Chick’s secondary school sweetheart who is the only lady on death row.

 

12. Fish in a Barrel (2001)

Fish in a Barrel 2001 Movie

This low-budget crime satire is the story of six thieves trapped in a New York apartment with stolen diamonds worth $4 million. Jeremy played a comic character, Remy, in the film.

The director conceded that Jeremy got beat up more than any other person on the set as he did most of his stunts himself. The film earned Jeremy the best-supporting actor award at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2001.

 

11. The Bourne Legacy (2012)

The Bourne Legacy 2012 Movie

This novel-based American thriller is the fourth chapter in the Jason Bourne film series. Renner played a lead role as Aron Cross, a member of a US intelligence project that employs pills known as chems which are supposed to transform the human genome to empower men with incredible mental and physical deftness temporarily.

The film grossed $46.6 million worldwide in the first weekend of its release. The motion picture was recompensed as one of the Top Box Office Films at the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 2013. It’s one of the best Jeremy Renner films from the spy genre.

 

10. Dahmer (2002)

Dahmer 2002 a Biopic

Jeremy encountered his first professional achievement with the role of a savage killer in Dahmer. Even in his real life, he underwent the intensity of the character as it was difficult for him to go for drinking in a club, in the wake of figuring out how the Wisconsin-based executioner would get victims in bars.

Jeffrey’s choice of his victims and the wait-and-watch games he plays with them is the heart of the film. A serial executioner Jeffrey Dahmer earned Jeremy an Independent Spirit Award nomination for the Best Male Lead.

 

9. 12 and Holding (2005)

12 and Holding 2005 Drama Film

This film is about the close affinity of four kids, a bright young lady, an overweight kid, and twin siblings. The film highlights that issues like brutality, race, and heftiness are no more restricted to grown-ups, and have a dynamic influence among youngsters also.

The motion picture earned 5 nominations at various award ceremonies.

 

8. The Immigrant (2013)

The Immigrant jeremy renner movie roles

This film is about an impeccable immigrant lady deceived into a life of vaudeville until an astonishing magician tries to spare and rejoin her with her sister who is being detained in the bounds of Ellis Island. For the role of Orlando, Jeremy was taught numerous magic tricks and card traps over a brief time frame.

The film outperformed in the cinematic world and netted $2 million within two months of its release. The film has been honored with 15 wins and 30 nominations in various film award celebrations.

 

7. 28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Weeks Later 2007 Film

This film is a sequel to 28 Days Later (2002). Six months after the rage virus affected the inhabitants of Great Britain, the US Army secured a little region of London for the survivors to repopulate and begin their lives once more.

Along with 12 nominations in various categories, the film recompensed as the best thriller of the year at the Empire Awards, UK.

 

6. American Hustle (2013)

American Hustle 2013 Movie

In the seventeenth greatest earning film of 2013, Renner (Carmine Polito) played the role of a genuine Mayor of Camden, New Jersey named Angelo Errichetti, who gets trapped in the Abscam outrage and serves three years in prison.

Jeremy’s little girl Ava Renner and sweetheart, Sonni Pacheco made a special cameo in the film. Along with 66 wins at various award functions, the film earned 10 Oscar nominations as well.

 

5. The Town (2010)

The Town 2010 Movie

The Town is about a bunch of robbers being chased by an FBI agent who hopes to cut the looters’ group down. Renner played the role of a steadfast criminal Jem in this bank-heist thriller.

Jeremy Renner surrounded himself with real indicted bank burglars in Charlestown, to learn and help him nail the accent. The film earned Renner his second Oscar nomination.

 

4. Kill the Messenger (2014)

Kill the Messenger 2014

Back in the 1990s, Gary Webb claimed that the CIA was responsible for bringing crack cocaine to America and opened up to the world by publishing the series called “Dark Alliance”. In 2004, Webb was discovered dead at the age of 49, from two bullet injuries to the head.

This film is about the genuine story of the journalist Gary Webb. This is the first film, Jeremy Renner made as a producer. Traverse City Film Festival 2015 recompensed the motion picture as the Best American Film of the Year.

 

3. Neo Ned (2005)

Best Jeremy Renner Film Neo Ned 2005

In this romantic movie, Renner delivers a dazzling execution of a character of the white supremacist living in a mental hospital.

This is the story of a neo-Nazi skinhead in deep love with a dark single mother claiming to be the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler in a psychiatric healing center. For this film, Renner got the Best Actor Award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival.

 

2. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol 2011

This adrenaline-rush movie with a connecting script and awesome stunts is the fourth installment in the Mission: Impossible series. The story is about Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team, struggling to find a fear-monger named Hendricks, who has accessed Russian nuclear dispatch codes and is planning an attack on the United States.

Tom Cruise did most of his stunts by himself including the skyscraper sequence(s) and Jeremy Renner did the hang-in-air stunt for the film. The film won 5 awards at different award functions in the categories of the top film and the best action sequence of the year. It’s certainly one of the best Jeremy Renner films ever.

 

1. The Hurt Locker (2008)

The Hurt Locker jeremy renner military movie

This is a classic war film and the best American film made about the war in Iraq yet. After the success of The Hurt Locker, Renner set up himself as one of Hollywood’s twinkling stars.

His most renowned character as Sergeant First Class William James, who is a maverick bomb disposal expert, scored him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film won 6 Oscars in total.

 

Honorable Mentions

We can’t resist mentioning these epic performances of Jeremy Renner as well:

  • Captain America: Civil War (2016)
  • The Avengers (2012)
  • Senior Trip (1995)

Did we miss any of the best Jeremy Renner movies? Please let us know in the comments below!

One Comment

  1. Melissa noel says:

    SWAT was the first movie I saw of his – absolutely fabulous!

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