Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in ‘Megalopolis’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate.
Adam Driver has quickly become one of the most popular and acclaimed actors working today.
Following his breakout role on the HBO series ‘Girls,’ Driver rose to fame playing the iconic role of Kylo Men in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ and its sequels, but has also appeared in such critically acclaimed films as ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis,’ ‘House of Gucci,’ and ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and ‘Marriage Story,’ for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Driver starred in last year’s ‘Megalopolis‘, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and is being rereleased on January 1st, 2026 in select theaters across the US.
“If you can’t see a better future, build one.”
Release Date: Sep 27, 2024
Run Time: 2 hr 18 min
Budget: $120,000,000
In honor of the rerelease, Moviefone is counting down the 20 best movies of Adam Driver’s career, including ‘Megalopolis’.
Let’s begin!
(L to R) Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley in ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.’ Photo: Lucasfilm.
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Release Date: Dec 20, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 22 min
Budget: $489,900,000
19. ‘65‘ (2023)
An astronaut (Driver) crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he’s not alone.
Release Date: Mar 10, 2023
Run Time: 1 hr 32 min
Budget: $45,000,000
An aspiring dancer (Greta Gerwig) moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
“I’m not messy, I’m busy.”
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Run Time: 1 hr 26 min
A professor (Driver), husband and father to four is torn asunder by a rail car chemical spill that releases an “Airborne Toxic Event”, forcing him to confront his biggest fear – his own mortality.
“You can’t hear it if it’s everywhere.”
Release Date: Nov 25, 2022
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Budget: $100,000,000
Two Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield and Driver) travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
“Sometimes silence is the deadliest sound.”
Release Date: Jan 1, 2017
Run Time: 2 hr 41 min
Budget: $46,000,000
(L to R) Adam Driver and Matt Damon in ‘The Last Duel.’ Photo: 20th Century Studios.
King Charles VI (Alex Lawther) declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris (Driver), by challenging him to a duel.
“The true story of a woman who defied a nation and made history.”
Release Date: Oct 15, 2021
Run Time: 2 hr 33 min
Budget: $100,000,000
A father (Michael Shannon) and son (Jaeden Martell) go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Release Date: Mar 18, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 52 min
Budget: $18,000,000
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll and Driver) return to their childhood home and are requested — with an admonition — to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother (Jane Fonda) and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
“Welcome home. Get uncomfortable.”
Release Date: Sep 19, 2014
Run Time: 1 hr 43 min
Budget: $19,800,000
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father (Dustin Hoffman).
Release Date: Oct 13, 2017
Run Time: 1 hr 52 min
The revealing story of the 16th US President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Release Date: Nov 16, 2012
Run Time: 2 hr 29 min
Budget: $65,000,000
Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari in director Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari.’ Photo: Neon.
A biopic of automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari (Driver), whose family redefined the idea of the high-powered Italian sports car and practically spawned the concept of Formula One racing.
Release Date: Dec 25, 2023
Run Time: 2 hr 11 min
Budget: $95,000,000
The story of Daniel Jones (Driver), lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
Release Date: Nov 15, 2019
Run Time: 1 hr 59 min
Budget: $8,000,000
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy (Channing Tatum) and Clyde Logan (Driver) set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
“See how the other half steals.”
Release Date: Aug 18, 2017
Run Time: 1 hr 59 min
Budget: $29,000,000
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren (Driver) and his army of Stormtroopers.
“Every generation has a story.”
Release Date: Dec 18, 2015
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Budget: $245,000,000
When Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
“A legacy worth killing for.”
Release Date: Nov 24, 2021
Run Time: 2 hr 38 min
Budget: $75,000,000
Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina in ‘Megalopolis’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate.
Genius artist Cesar Catilina (Driver) seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.
“If you can’t see a better future, build one.”
Release Date: Sep 27, 2024
Run Time: 2 hr 18 min
Budget: $120,000,000
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Release Date: Dec 10, 2013
Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
Budget: $11,000,000
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman (Driver), his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Release Date: Aug 10, 2018
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Budget: $15,000,000
A stage director (Driver) and an actress (Scarlett Johansson) struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
“Where there’s a love, there’s a way.”
Release Date: Nov 6, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 17 min
Budget: $18,000,000
Adam Driver in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’. Photo: Lucasfilm.
Rey (Daisy Ridley) develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Release Date: Dec 15, 2017
Run Time: 2 hr 32 min
Budget: $300,000,000