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The Best and Worst Harrison Ford Movies

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Few Hollywood stars have achieved the bankability of iconic action hero Harrison Ford. He was Han Solo, the adventurous mercenary in five Star War films – part of the most valuable movie franchise of all time. He has played Indiana Jones, the swashbuckling archaeologist who battles Nazis and evil cults, in another five movies. He twice played Jack Ryan, author Tom Clancy’s data-consuming CIA operative. And he starred in the two dystopian Blade Runner flicks. (Ford is certainly among the most popular action stars of all time.)

According to The Numbers, an online movie database owned by Nash Information Services, movies in which Ford was a lead actor have brought in a total of $6.27 billion over the years. (These are the world’s most bankable actors right now.)

Ford has proved his star quality in films outside the action genre, too. He played a mergers and acquisitions hot shot who falls in love with Melanie Griffith in the rom-com “Working Girl.” He was a detective trying to protect a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder in “Witness.” He was an Irish-American cop in New York up against Brad Pitt as an IRA operative looking to export black-market missiles in the thriller “The Devil’s Own.”

To determine the best Harrison Ford, 24/7 Tempo developed an index using average ratings on IMDb, an online movie database owned by Amazon, and a combination of audience scores and Tomatometer scores on Rotten Tomatoes, an online movie and TV review aggregator, as of July 2023, weighting all ratings equally. Director and actor credits are from IMDb.

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42. Random Hearts (1999)
> IMDb user rating: 5.2/10 (20,745 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 24% (9,826 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 15% (87 votes)
> Directed by: Sydney Pollack

After a police sergeant (Harrison Ford) and a congresswoman running for re-election (Kristin Scott Thomas) lose their respective spouses in a plane crash, they find out that the two were having an affair. Their shared grief leads to an intimate relationship.

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41. Paranoia (2013)
> IMDb user rating: 5.7/10 (36,041 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 35% (23,411 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 7% (108 votes)
> Directed by: Robert Luketic

In the thriller “Paranoia,” Harrison Ford plays Jock Goddard, a company executive embroiled in corporate espionage. Goddard’s former protégé (Gary Oldman), now a rival, blackmails a former employee (Liam Hemsworth) into trying to steal trade secrets from Goddard’s company.

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40. Hollywood Homicide (2003)
> IMDb user rating: 5.3/10 (36,721 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 27% (49,628 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 30% (163 votes)
> Directed by: Ron Shelton

Ford plays financially strapped Los Angeles detective Joe Gavilan, who juggles solving a high-profile murder case with his side job as a real estate agent. His pursuit of justice is complicated by past rivalries and personal distractions.

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39. Firewall (2006)
> IMDb user rating: 5.8/10 (57,150 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 37% (268,376 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 18% (158 votes)
> Directed by: Richard Loncraine

In this techno-thriller, Ford plays a bank security chief coerced by a criminal mastermind whose men are holding his family hostage into transferring $100 million robbery to his offshore account. Jack turns the tables by hacking into the account, then discovering his family’s location via the GPS tracker in his dog’s collar and rescuing them in a bloody finale.

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38. Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
> IMDb user rating: 5.8/10 (74,915 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 36% (126,845 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 38% (40 votes)
> Directed by: Ivan Reitman

In this rom-com, Ford plays Quinn Harris, a gruff pilot who crash-lands on a deserted island with magazine editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche), who is on assignment. The movie follows the two stranded Americans as they evade pirates and become attracted to each other, while their significant others believe they’re dead.

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37. Crossing Over (2009)
> IMDb user rating: 6.7/10 (23,211 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 49% (50,407 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 15% (110 votes)
> Directed by: Wayne Kramer

In the crime drama “Crossing Over”, Ford portrays Max Brogan, an ICA/Homeland Security agent whose life becomes embroiled with a variety of undocumented immigrants – including a Bangladeshi teenager, an Australian actress, an atheist Jewish musician, and a young Mexican mother. The film deals with themes of document fraud, the asylum process, and the clash of cultures.

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36. The Devil’s Own (1997)
> IMDb user rating: 6.2/10 (62,816 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 41% (43,010 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 35% (40 votes)
> Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

An Irish Republican Army operative (Brad Pitt) arrives in the U.S. to buy black-market missiles, complicating the life of the Irish-American policeman (Ford) who has unwittingly taken him in – and who must both stop him from completing his mission and save him from being killed by the authorities.

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35. Heroes (1977)
> IMDb user rating: 6.1/10 (1,761 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 49% (607 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 29% (14 votes)
> Directed by: Jeremy Kagan

The same year Ford starred in the first Star Wars movie, he was featured in “Heroes,” a film about a Vietnam War vet (Henry Winkler) suffering from post traumatic stress disorder who escapes from a VA hospital and goes on a road trip to fulfill his dream of starting a worm farm in California with other veterans. Ford plays one of his wartime buddies, now a dysfunctional stock car driver, who he hopes to enlist in the project.

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34. Extraordinary Measures (2010)
> IMDb user rating: 6.4/10 (17,183 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 53% (74,349 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 28% (144 votes)
> Directed by: Tom Vaughan

In “Extraordinary Measures,” Ford plays a determined researcher aiding a man (Brendan Fraser) in developing a life-saving drug for his two children suffering from Pompe disease. Amid time and financial pressures, they race against the clock.

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33. Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
> IMDb user rating: 6.0/10 (213,740 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 43% (104,810 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 44% (257 votes)
> Directed by: Jon Favreau

In “Cowboys & Aliens,” set in the 19th century, Ford co-stars as a wealthy cattleman, Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde, who forms a posse with an amnesiac outlaw (Daniel Craig) and a mysterious traveler (Olivia Wilde) to rescue townspeople abducted by aliens.

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32. Hanover Street (1979)
> IMDb user rating: 6.0/10 (5,713 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 40% (2,500 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 63% (8 votes)
> Directed by: Peter Hyams

In London during World War II, American pilot David Halloran (Ford) and English nurse Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down) fall in love, though she is married to someone else. Tensions rise when Margaret’s husband (Christopher Plummer) joins Halloran on a dangerous mission in Nazi-occupied France.

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31. Morning Glory (2010)
> IMDb user rating: 6.5/10 (76,900 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 51% (50,344 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 55% (181 votes)
> Directed by: Roger Michell

In “Morning Glory,” Ford plays Mike Pomeroy, a veteran journalist turned reluctant morning show co-host. Despite his initial resistance to the efforts of new executive producer Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) and his subsequent attempts to sabotage the show, Pomeroy ultimately helps boost the program’s ratings, saving it from cancellation – and even happily does an on-air cooking demonstration as an indication of his new outlook.

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30. What Lies Beneath (2000)
> IMDb user rating: 6.6/10 (121,523 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 58% (279,030 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 47% (126 votes)
> Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

In this eerie supernatural drama, Ford plays Norman, a scientist and college professor whose wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) suspects him of murder after she experiences supernatural events. The plot thickens when she discovers that he had an affair with one of his students, who has gone missing.

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29. Regarding Henry (1991)
> IMDb user rating: 6.7/10 (30,988 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 63% (21,221 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 43% (30 votes)
> Directed by: Mike Nichols

“Regarding Henry” follows Ford as a successful if unscrupulous lawyer who, after being shot and losing his memory, struggles to regain his speech and mobility. His recovery uncovers his past immorality and rejuvenates his family relationships.

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28. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
> IMDb user rating: 6.7/10 (64,418 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 52% (45,812 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 61% (170 votes)
> Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

In “K-19: The Widowmaker,” Ford plays Captain Alexei Vostrikov, commander of the Soviet nuclear submarine, K-19. Facing multiple crises, Vostrikov makes tough decisions to prevent a nuclear disaster, despite facing mutiny among his crew.

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27. The Frisco Kid (1979)
> IMDb user rating: 6.4/10 (8,582 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 67% (500 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 54% (28 votes)
> Directed by: Robert Aldrich

Ford is featured as kind-hearted bank robber Tommy Lillard, who accompanies Avram Belinski (Gene Wilder), a Polish rabbi newly arrived in America who is journeying to San Francisco. The two encounter numerous challenges and adventures along the way, with Belinski ultimately safely reaching his destination andLillard finding redemption.

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26. Force 10 From Navarone (1978)
> IMDb user rating: 6.4/10 (19,015 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 56% (5,000 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 67% (21 votes)
> Directed by: Guy Hamilton

In “Force 10 from Navarone,” based on the adventure novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean, Ford plays Lieutenant Colonel Mike Barnsby who leads an American sabotage unit sent to find a German spy. They join forces with British commandos, overcome dangerous obstacles, and plan a strategic demolition.

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25. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
> IMDb user rating: 6.1/10 (438,015 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 53% (1,320,929 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 78% (277 votes)
> Directed by: Steven Spielberg

In 1957, in the midst of the Cold War, Indy (Ford, in one of his iconic roles) is kidnapped by Soviets looking for a telepathic crystal skull in Peru. He escapes and survives a nuclear blast in the Nevada desert before reconnecting with his old love interest, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) and with a young tough named Mutt (Shia LaBeouf) who turns out to be their son. The Soviets are ultimately defeated, and Indy finally marries Marion.

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24. Sabrina (1995)
> IMDb user rating: 6.3/10 (38,714 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 64% (52,271 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 65% (48 votes)
> Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack remade this classic Billy Wilder romance, with Ford playing Linus (a role originated by Humphrey Bogart), the older brother of a playboy (Greg Kinnear) who falls in love with Sabrina (Julia Ormond), the daughter of their family’s chauffeur. Linus initially woos Sabrina to protect a business deal, but ends up falling for her.

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23. Ender’s Game (2013)
> IMDb user rating: 6.6/10 (230,868 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 65% (118,637 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 62% (224 votes)
> Directed by: Gavin Hood

In “Ender’s Game,” a military science-fiction film based on Orson Scott Card’s children’s series, Ford portrays Colonel Hyrum Graff. The colonel identifies and mentors gifted child Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), preparing him at a space academy to lead a future counterattack against alien invaders.

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22. The Age of Adaline (2015)
> IMDb user rating: 7.2/10 (163,096 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 67% (38,966 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 54% (169 votes)
> Directed by: Lee Toland Krieger

“The Age of Adaline” is a romantic fantasy film about a woman who ceases to age after an accident. Despite numerous identities and a life on the run, she finds love and eventually accepts her unique circumstances. The film explores the complexities of time, love, and life. Ford plays William, the father of Adaline’s love interest.

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21. The Mosquito Coast (1986)
> IMDb user rating: 6.6/10 (28,160 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 61% (15,269 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 76% (21 votes)
> Directed by: Peter Weir

“The Mosquito Coast,” based on Paul Theroux’s novel of the same name, is about a family led by inventor Allie Fox (Ford), who abandons the United States for a simpler life in Central America. Their dream quickly turns into a nightmare as Allie’s erratic behavior escalates, eventually leading to their home and his invention being destroyed.

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20. Air Force One (1997)
> IMDb user rating: 6.5/10 (187,679 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 66% (378,990 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 78% (59 votes)
> Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

“Air Force One” is an action thriller in which the presidential airplane, carrying President James Marshall (Ford) is hijacked by terrorists led by Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman). Marshall fights back, and his military experience and cunning allow him to outmaneuver the hijackers. The film was commercially and critically successful.

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19. Frantic (1988)
> IMDb user rating: 6.9/10 (51,488 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 64% (22,110 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 76% (42 votes)
> Directed by: Roman Polanski

In “Frantic,” Ford plays Dr. Richard Walker, a surgeon whose wife mysteriously disappears during a visit to Paris. He embarks on a dangerous journey, teaming up with a drug smuggler, to trade a nuclear detonator for his wife’s life.

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18. Patriot Games (1992)
> IMDb user rating: 6.9/10 (107,538 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 72% (70,769 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 73% (41 votes)
> Directed by: Phillip Noyce

“Patriot Games” is an action thriller starring Ford as ex-CIA analyst Jack Ryan, who thwarts a terrorist attack in London but becomes the target of a vengeful Irish Republican Army faction. Ford is one of five actors who has portrayed Ryan, the others being Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, and Ben Affleck in movies and John Krasinski on television.

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17. Working Girl (1988)
> IMDb user rating: 6.8/10 (54,575 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 67% (33,636 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 84% (43 votes)
> Directed by: Mike Nichols

In this romantic comedy, Ford plays Jack Trainer, a mergers and acquisitions associate who teams up with Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), an ambitious secretary at another company posing as her incapacitated boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), to advance a profitable merger idea she she came up with but that Parker claimed as her own.

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16. The Call of the Wild (2020)
> IMDb user rating: 6.8/10 (43,887 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 89% (9,368 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 62% (206 votes)
> Directed by: Chris Sanders

“The Call of the Wild,” based on the Jack London classic, is an adventure film about a dog who is stolen from his home in California and sent to the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. There, he befriends an old outdoorsman (Ford) and embarks on a life-changing journey.

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15. Presumed Innocent (1990)
> IMDb user rating: 6.9/10 (39,897 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 67% (23,090 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 87% (55 votes)
> Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Based on Scott Turow’s best-selling novel of the same name, “Presumed Innocent” is a legal thriller starring Ford as Rusty Sabich, a prosecutor charged with the murder of his colleague and one-time lover, Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi).

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14. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
> IMDb user rating: 6.9/10 (94,828 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 74% (61,796 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 80% (45 votes)
> Directed by: Phillip Noyce

In Ford’s second and last turn as Tom Clancy’s hero Jack Ryan, “Clear and Present Danger,” Ryan becomes involved in a covert war mounted against a Colombian drug cartel by the U.S. government.

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13. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
> IMDb user rating: 6.8/10 (76,974 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 88% (5,000 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 69% (376 votes)
> Directed by: James Mangold

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is the fifth and presumably last of the Indiana Jones films starring Ford as the titular archeologist-adventurer. In this installment, Indy and his goddaughter, Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), attempt to locate a powerful artifact before a Nazi-turned-NASA scientist uses it to alter World War II’s outcome. Despite lukewarm reviews, the film has thus far grossed $335 million worldwide.

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12. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (465,229 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 81% (717,093 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 83% (69 votes)
> Directed by: Steven Spielberg

In this prequel to the original Indiana Jones film, set in 1935, Jones, along with Short Round (future Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan) and Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw), embarks on a quest in India to retrieve a sacred stone and rescue children from a Thuggee cult engaging in human sacrifice and child slavery.

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11. 42 (2013)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (90,371 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 85% (119,807 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 81% (195 votes)
> Directed by: Brian Helgeland

Ford plays Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in this historical sports biography of Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black player in Major League Baseball. The movie grossed $97.5 million and received positive reviews.

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10. Witness (1985)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (90,557 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 80% (46,853 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 93% (41 votes)
> Directed by: Peter Weir

“Witness” follows Detective Sergeant John Book (Ford) as he seeks to protect an Amish boy who witnessed a murder. The film is a sympathetic portrait of Amish life, highlighting cultural conflicts and forbidden romance.

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9. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
> IMDb user rating: 8.0/10 (498,432 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 81% (51,506 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 88% (441 votes)
> Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

In this belated sequel (after 35 years!) to the original classic “Blade Runner,” a replicant “blade runner” named K (Ryan Gosling), working for the LAPD, discovers a secret that can destabilize society. Ford reprises his role from the first movie as ex-cop Rick Deckard – now living in seclusion in the ruins of Las Vegas.

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8. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (885,086 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 85% (235,773 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 93% (442 votes)
> Directed by: J.J. Abrams

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, which takes place 30 years after the events in 1983’s “Return of the Jedi”, Han Solo (Ford) joins in the search for Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last Jedi, now in hiding – while battling Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the First Order. Carrie Fisher appears as General (formerly Princess) Leia.

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7. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
> IMDb user rating: 8.3/10 (986,400 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 94% (1,014,017 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 82% (96 votes)
> Directed by: Richard Marquand

The third film in the original Star Wars trilogy, following up on the events of its predecessor, “The Empire Strikes Back” (1977), “Return of the Jedi” is about the Rebel Alliance’s attempt to attack a second Death Star and definitively defeat the Galactic Empire. After Han Solo (Ford) is rescued from the clutches of Jabba and Hutt, he joins their efforts. Concurrently, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), now a Jedi Knight, strives to turn his father, Darth Vader, back to the light side of the Force.

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6. Blade Runner (1982)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (721,985 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 91% (338,132 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 90% (121 votes)
> Directed by: Ridley Scott

Though it underperformed at the box office upon release, this sci-fi classic has become a cult favorite, often hailed as one of the best examples of the genre of all time. The film depicts a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles in which synthetic humans, called replicants, are created for space colonies. When a group of replicants escapes, ex-cop Rick Deckard, played by Ford, is tasked with hunting them down.

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5. The Fugitive (1993)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (279,123 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 89% (267,937 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 96% (79 votes)
> Directed by: Andrew Davis

Based on the popular TV series of the same name, “The Fugitive” is an action thriller about a Chicago doctor (Ford) who is wrongfully accused of murdering his wife. After escaping from custody while being transported to Death Row, he is pursued by U.S. marshals led by Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) as he attempts to find the real killer and clear his name.

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4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
> IMDb user rating: 8.2/10 (717,370 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 94% (768,808 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 88% (73 votes)
> Directed by: Steven Spielberg

In this, the third installment in the Indiana Jones franchise, the title character (Ford) embarks on a perilous quest to rescue his father (Sean Connery), a scholarly expert on the Holy Grail, who has been kidnapped by Nazis.

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3. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
> IMDb user rating: 8.6/10 (1,277,193 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 96% (863,326 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 92% (132 votes)
> Directed by: George Lucas

Despite its title – it was originally called simple “Star Wars” – this was the first film in what was to become a legendary franchise. Ford co-stars as Han Solo, a smuggler hired by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) for transport as the Rebel Alliance fights against the oppressive Galactic Empire.

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2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
> IMDb user rating: 8.4/10 (917,143 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 96% (827,087 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 96% (84 votes)
> Directed by: Steven Spielberg

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” introduced audiences to archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones (Ford) as he competes with the Nazis in a race to recover the legendary sacred Ark of the Covenant, which the Germans believe will make any army invincible. Aided by his former love, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), Jones battles rival archaeologist Dr. René Belloq (Paul Freeman) to prevent the Ark’s power falling into the wrong hands.

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1. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
> IMDb user rating: 8.7/10 (1,205,389 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 97% (1,058,608 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating: 94% (105 votes)
> Directed by: Irvin Kershner

In “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” – the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy – the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia Carrie Fisher), who is rejoined by Han Solo (Ford), again battles the malevolent Galactic Empire. The sequel is renowned for its plot twist revealing Darth Vader as Luke’s father.

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