Jake Gyllenhaal
Fizzled out
Best movie
8.2
Prisoners (2013)
Worst movie
5.6
The Bride! (2026)
First 5 to latest 5
−0.7
7.0 → 6.3 on average
Average rating
6.9
9.9M votes in total
IMDb rating per movie
Cameos
The best rated of the 38 movies Jake Gyllenhaal starred in is Prisoners (2013), at 8.2 on IMDb, and the worst is The Bride! (2026), at 5.6. The first 5 average 7.0 and the latest 5 6.3, down by 0.7. Together they average 6.9, from 9.9M votes in total. One cameo, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), isn't counted.
Movie by movie
| Movie | Role | Released | Votes | Rating | Change | Rating bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Slickers | as Danny Robbins | 1991 | 68.2K | 6.8 | ||
| October Sky | as Homer Hickam | 1999 | 113.5K | 7.8 | +1.0 | |
| Donnie Darko | as Donnie Darko | 2001 | 922.8K | 8.0 | +0.2 | |
| Bubble Boy | as Jimmy Livingston | 2001 | 36.6K | 5.7 | −2.3 | |
| Moonlight Mile | as Joe Nast | 2002 | 15.3K | 6.6 | +0.9 | |
| The Good Girl | as Holden Worther | 2002 | 50.3K | 6.4 | −0.2 | |
| The Day After Tomorrow | as Sam Hall | 2004 | 518.8K | 6.5 | +0.1 | |
| Proof | as Harold 'Hal' Dobbs | 2005 | 48.1K | 6.6 | +0.1 | |
| Brokeback Mountain | as Jack Twist | 2005 | 423K | 7.7 | +1.1 | |
| Jarhead | as Anthony Swofford | 2005 | 227.9K | 7.0 | −0.7 | |
| Zodiac | as Robert Graysmith | 2007 | 693.7K | 7.7 | +0.7 | |
| Rendition | as Douglas Freeman | 2007 | 60.2K | 6.8 | −0.9 | |
| Brothers | as Tommy Cahill | 2009 | 178.1K | 7.1 | +0.3 | |
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | as Prince Dastan | 2010 | 320.3K | 6.5 | −0.6 | |
| Love & Other Drugs | as Jamie Randall | 2010 | 256.5K | 6.7 | +0.2 | |
| Source Code | as Colter Stevens | 2011 | 589.5K | 7.5 | +0.8 | |
| End of Watch | as Brian Taylor | 2012 | 297.2K | 7.6 | +0.1 | |
| PrisonersBest | as Detective Loki | 2013 | 963.5K | 8.2 | +0.6 | |
| Enemy | as Adam / Anthony | 2013 | 245.4K | 6.8 | −1.4 | |
| Nightcrawler | as Louis Bloom | 2014 | 684.4K | 7.8 | +1.0 | |
| Demolition | as Davis Mitchell | 2015 | 140.7K | 7.0 | −0.8 | |
| Southpaw | as Billy 'The Great' Hope | 2015 | 283.2K | 7.3 | +0.3 | |
| Everest | as Scott Fischer | 2015 | 250.1K | 7.1 | −0.2 | |
| Nocturnal Animals | as Tony Hastings / Edward Sheffield | 2016 | 346K | 7.4 | +0.3 | |
| Stronger | as Jeff Bauman | 2017 | 54.9K | 6.9 | −0.5 | |
| Okja | as Johnny Wilcox | 2017 | 143.6K | 7.3 | +0.4 | |
| Life | as Dr. David Jordan | 2017 | 281.1K | 6.6 | −0.7 | |
| The Sisters Brothers | as John Morris | 2018 | 76.2K | 6.9 | +0.3 | |
| Wildlife | as Jerry Brinson | 2018 | 34.2K | 6.8 | −0.1 | |
| Spider-Man: Far from Home | as Quentin Beck / Mysterio | 2019 | 680.2K | 7.3 | +0.5 | |
| Velvet Buzzsaw | as Morf Vandewalt | 2019 | 69.5K | 5.7 | −1.6 | |
| Spider-Man: No Way HomeCameo | as Quentin Beck / Mysterio (archive footage) | 2021 | 1.1M | 8.1 | ||
| The Guilty | as Joe Baylor | 2021 | 181.6K | 6.3 | +0.6 | |
| Strange World | as Searcher Clade (voice) | 2022 | 51.5K | 5.7 | −0.6 | |
| Ambulance | as Danny Sharp | 2022 | 115.3K | 6.1 | +0.4 | |
| The Covenant | as Master Sergeant John Kinley | 2023 | 218.2K | 7.5 | +1.4 | |
| Road House | as Dalton | 2024 | 192.6K | 6.2 | −1.3 | |
| In the Grey | as Bronco | 2026 | 54K | 6.3 | +0.1 | |
| The Bride!Worst | as Ronnie Reed | 2026 | 39.3K | 5.6 | −0.7 |
Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb. Cameos, billed after the first 20 or uncredited, are listed but not counted.
Worked with
Anne Hathaway
From the sublime to the ridiculous
First 5 6.2+0.3Latest 5 6.5
Denis Villeneuve
Ending on a high note
First 4 7.6+0.5Latest 4 8.1
Guy Ritchie
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
First 5 6.7−0.2Latest 5 6.5
Antoine Fuqua
Expect the unexpected
First 5 6.5−0.1Latest 5 6.4
Samuel L. Jackson
Lost the touch
First 5 7.2−1.8Latest 5 5.4
Robert Downey Jr.
Getting better with age
First 5 6.4+1.2Latest 5 7.6