Leonardo DiCaprio's movies, from best to worst
With the premiere of the Quentin Tarantino film ‘Once upon a time in… Hollywood’, Leonardo DiCaprio has savored success as the lead in a movie, something that is not alien to him. The multi-talented actor's career is full of titles that have stood out on the big screen.
But if Leonardo DiCaprio can boast of something, it is that he has dared with everything. The interpreter has a very varied cinematographic trajectory. We travel through the actor's career through a selection of ten films, some successful, others criticized and some very curious, which we have ordered from best to worst according to their votes on the IMDb portal.
1. ‘Origin’
One of the most valued films of Leonardo DiCaprio, both by the public and the critics, is this film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. In it, the Californian actor plays Dom Cobb, a man who is capable of getting into people's minds, while they dream, to steal information from them. To get rid of his legal problems, the character that DiCaprio plays accepts a challenge: instead of extracting ideas from the subconscious, he must be able to implant one. The actor surrounded himself very well in this film, where he was accompanied by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy.
2. 'Django unchained'
When Quentin Tarantino released his first western in 2012, it was well known that Leonardo DiCaprio was a most chameleonic actor. Although there was no doubt about the interpreter's ability to adapt to any character, with his role as the cruel slaver Calvin Candie in "Django Unchained" he demonstrated it again. With the bad slobber of the first villain he played in his career, Leonardo DiCaprio made us forget about the good-looking little face that he had us used to. Although his performance was widely recognized by the public and critics, the Oscar went to his co-star Christopher Waltz.
3. ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
After his experience in the western Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio put himself under the command of Martin Scorsese in this film based on real events. The Californian actor plays Jordan Belfort in 'The Wolf of Wall Street', a young man of humble origins who ends up becoming a histrionic stockbroker without scruples and a lover of excesses.
Leonardo DiCaprio carries practically the entire weight of the film, not an easy task considering the characteristics of his character, a financial shark who had no qualms about scamming. This film cost the actor a lawsuit, who also served as a producer. One of the former Belfort employees, who understood that one of the film's characters was inspired by him, took DiCaprio and his fellow producers to trial for libel and slander.
4. ‘Catch me if you can’
Leonardo DiCaprio's enormous talent has allowed him to work with such film directors as Steven Spielberg. It was precisely with him that he shot 'Catch me if you can', based on real events in which, long before getting into the skin of the 'Wolf of Wall Street', he played Frank Abagnale Jr., another young con artist who, in this case , adopts false identities posing as a lawyer, doctor and even an airplane pilot. DiCaprio shared the limelight with Tom Hanks, who plays an FBI agent who tries to trap his character with careers reminiscent of "Forrest Gump."
5. ‘The reborn’
He was very close to winning an Oscar up to four times, but the prestigious award was resisting Leonardo DiCaprio. It was with ‘El renacido’, the film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, with which he succeeded. The Californian actor won the best actor statuette for his role as Hugh Glass, a fur hunter who was abandoned by his fellow expeditions after he was attacked by a bear. Against all odds the character survives and, traversing hostile territory in the middle of a fierce winter, he seeks revenge on those who left him stranded.
6. ‘Titanic’
Before the James Cameron film, Leonardo DiCaprio already had a dozen films behind him. However, ‘Titanic’ was the great blockbuster that established him as an internationally successful actor. DiCaprio played Jack Dawson, the young artist who stars in the film's love story alongside Rose, the character played by Kate Winslet, aboard the ill-fated ocean liner. A decade after 'Titanic', the actor couple fell in love with each other again in fiction in the Sam Mendes film 'Revolutionary Road'.
7. ‘The Great Gatsby’
In this film set in 1920s New York high society, Leonardo DiCaprio plays the quirky millionaire Jay Gatsby, a man who appears to have it all but is not really happy because he misses an old love, Daisy, who is now married This film is based on the homonymous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which had already been adapted for the big screen previously. In the 1974 adaptation, it was Robert Redford who played the protagonist. Although the 2013 version by Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge’, was not well received by critics, Leonardo DiCaprio lived up to the challenge and received praise again for his performance.
8. ‘Quick and deadly’
The film "Django Unchained," which appears near the top of this list, was not Leonardo DiCaprio's first western. The actor made his Western film debut as a supporting role in Sam Raimi's "The Fast and the Dead." There, playing a young gunman, he shared a cast with Russel Crowe, with whom he met again in Ridley Scott's thriller "Web of Lies." Sharon Stone, who also starred in Sam Raimi's western, wanted DiCaprio to be in the movie and for that she even promised to pay him herself.
9. ‘Don’s Plum’
In the mid-90s, when he was not yet the international star that he became through work and talent, Leonardo DiCaprio participated in a low-budget independent film shot between friends. This black and white film revolved around the conversations of a group of young people who met on Saturday night in a bar. DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, who also appeared in the film, ended up disowning the film and tried to prevent it from being released.
10. ‘Critters 3’
With this horror film, Leonardo DiCaprio kicked off his fruitful film career. The actor's debut in the world of celluloid came in 1991 with the third installment of a horror film saga that emerged in the shadow of the success of "Gremlins." DiCaprio gives life in the film to Josh, a young man who finds that some cannibalistic monsters from space have invaded his building with the intention of making it very brown.
