# What are your Top Five Clint Eastwood (director) Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685 "2015-07-20T12:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/1 "2015-07-20T12:39:07Z")
See [Highest Rated Feature Film Director Titles With Clint Eastwood](http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?explore=title_type&role=nm0000142&ref_=filmo_ref_job_typ&sort=user_rating,desc&mode=detail&page=1&job_type=director&title_type=movie) for a complete listing of his directing efforts. I will post another poll for his acting work at a later time. 1. Unforgiven (1992) 2. Gran Torino (2008) 3. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 4. Mystic River (2003) 5. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 6. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 7. Changeling (2008) 8. High Plains Drifter (1973) 9. The Bridges of Madison County (1995) 10. A Perfect World (1993) 11. American Sniper (2014) 12. Invictus (2009) 13. Pale Rider (1985) 14. Bird (1988) 15. Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 16. Play Misty for Me (1971) 17. Breezy (1973) 18. Jersey Boys (2014) 19. Heartbreak Ridge (1986) 20. Absolute Power (1997) 21. White Hunter Black Heart (1990) 22. J. Edgar (2011) 23. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) 24. Sudden Impact (1983) 25. True Crime (1999) 26. Honkytonk Man (1982) 27. Hereafter (2010) 28. Space Cowboys (2000) 29. Blood Work (2002) 30. The Eiger Sanction (1975) 31. The Gauntlet (1977) 32. Bronco Billy (1980) 33. Firefox (1982) 34. The Rookie (1990) **Pick your Top Five and post them here.** ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/2 "2015-07-20T12:54:16Z")
_Unforgiven_ (1992) _Gran Torino_ (2008) _Million Dollar Baby_ (2004) _Mystic River_ (2003) _A Perfect World_ (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/3 "2015-07-20T13:41:35Z")
Unforgiven (1992) Gran Torino (2008) Million Dollar Baby (2004) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) American Sniper (2014) ---
**Author:** ![TennisMenace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@TennisMenace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TennisMenace)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/4 "2015-07-20T17:50:48Z")
1. Unforgiven (1992) 2. Mystic River (2003) 3. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 4. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 5. High Plains Drifter (1973) 6. American Sniper (2014) 7. Invictus (2009) 8. Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 9. Play Misty for Me (1971) 10. Jersey Boys (2014) 11. Absolute Power (1997) 12. Sudden Impact (1983) 13. Space Cowboys (2000) 14. The Rookie (1990) I loved all of these. Favorite 5: 1. Space Cowboys 2. Letters from Iwo Jima 3. high Plains- Josey (tie) 4. Unforgiven 5. Invictus- Jersy Boys (tie) I couldn’t just pick 5. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/5 "2015-07-21T00:45:05Z")
1. Unforgiven 2. Letters from Iwo Jima 3. Bird 4. The Bridges of Madison County 5. Play Misty for Me ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/6 "2015-07-21T01:39:37Z")
Unforgiven (1992) Gran Torino (2008) Mystic River (2003) The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Play Misty for Me (1971) ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/7 "2015-07-21T17:28:36Z")
1. Unforgiven 2. Million Dollar Baby 3. The Outlaw Josey Wales 4. Letters from Iwo Jima 5. Gran Torino ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/8 "2015-07-21T19:49:29Z")
#1- The Outlaw Josey Wales #2- Gran Torino #3- Unforgiven #4- Letters from Iwo Jima #5- Space Cowboys ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/9 "2015-07-21T20:00:12Z")
The Outlaw Josey Wales Pale Rider and that’s just about it for me. If pressed for all five I would consider Play Misty for Me J Edgar Million Dollar Baby ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-clint-eastwood-director-movies/725685/10 "2015-07-21T20:45:09Z")
1. Unforgiven (1992) 2. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 3. High Plains Drifter (1973) 4. Pale Rider (1985) 5. Space Cowboys (2000)