Last Updated on 11 July 2025
I searched the Internet for lists of the best Michael Caine movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 25 lists of either his roles or his movies. I took the 25 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 25) were:
- The Man Who Would Be King (1975) – 22 lists
- The Italian Job (1969) – 21 lists
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) – 21 lists
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) – 19 lists
- Alfie (1966) – 19 lists
- Batman Begins (2005) – 18 lists
- Get Carter (1971) – 18 lists
- The Ipcress File (1965) – 18 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- IMDb – 11 Jul 2025
- The Numbers – 11 Jul 2025
- Rotten Tomatoes – 11 Jul 2025
- Ranker – 15 Jun 2025
- Express – 10 Mar 2025
- Gold Derby – 7 Mar 2025
- Yahoo! Entertainment – 10 Feb 2025
- CBR – 19 Dec 2024
- JustWatch – 31 May 2024
- Far Out Magazine – 27 Jan 2024
- Screen Rant – 18 Jan 2024
- Collider – 2 Dec 2023
- DigitalTV – 17 Oct 2023
- MovieWeb – 24 Sep 2023
- We Got This Covered – 23 Mar 2023
- Gentleman’s Journal – 14 Mar 2023
- Ultimate Movie Rankings – 14 Mar 2023
- Humanizing the Vacuum – 12 Feb 2023
- SlashFilm – 7 Apr 2022
- The Guardian – 14 Jun 2019
- Taste of Cinema – 6 Feb 2015
- Listal – 7 Jan 2015
- Deccan Herald – no date
- Flickchart – no date