53 Matt Dillon Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Crash revolves around a few Los Angeles citizens as their lives get overturned by racial tensions and bigotry. Characters like a racist district attorney and his wife, racist cops, a victimized Middle Eastern store owner, two black carjackers, an African-American couple, a Hispanic locksmith, all serve as a thrilling commentary of the racial injustice running in the USA.  

Nothing But the Truth is a mystery drama film, which revolves around Rachel Armstrong, a journalist, who pens a story that divulges the identity of a secret CIA agent. She also refuses to reveal her source, and therefore she is eventually put in jail.  

Thirteen years earlier, Ted’s prom date with Mary was a complete fiasco. Nonetheless, he still loves her and hires a private investigator, Pat Healy to find her. Healy, not just finds her, but also falls for her. He misleads Ted and begins to date Mary himself. However, Ted soon finds out the truth and sets out to win Mary’s heart.

In an Oklahoma town during the mid-1960s, two rival teen gangs, working-class ‘Greasers’ and well-to-do ‘Socials’ are frequently at loggerheads with each other. One night, Socs gang attacks two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, who fight back, killing a Socs member in the scuffle. As they hide in an abandoned church, this incidence leads to a chain of grim events involving all the Greasers.

Beautiful Girls is a romantic comedy drama film, which tells the story of a few small-town friends who meet at their high-school reunion, and discuss their lives and their relationships.

Rumble Fish is a crime drama film, which tells the story of an absent-minded street thug named Rusty James, who struggles to live up to the reputation of his legendary older brother.

Clifford is a sensitive and well-to-do teen who joins a new school, after which he is targeted by Melvin Moody, the school bully. Tired of this harassment, he hires a tough kid named Ricky Linderman to be his bodyguard. However, their friendship doesn’t last long.

To Die For is a black comedy crime film, which tells the story of Suzanne, a beautiful but naive girl, who is willing to do anything to achieve her career dreams of becoming a television newscaster. She is even willing to destroy anything or anyone that stands in her way, regardless of the cost or means.   

A romantic comedy set in the Seattle of the grunge music era, the film follows interrelated stories of a group of young adults in their 20s, living in the same apartment building. The singles, who are in search of love and success, are at an interesting phase of their lives where each individual's relationship takes an intriguing turn. 

When well-liked guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo, is suddenly accused of rape by two students, Kelly Van Ryan and Suzie Toller, he hires sleazy lawyer Ken Bowden to defend him. After the girls admit to lying to get revenge on him and settle the case, police detective, Ray Duquette, suspects that they are scamming Kelly's wealthy family together.

Joe, Willie and Albert, three lifelong friends get cheated of their pension money by a bank. Therefore, they plan to rob the same bank, in order to be able to take care of themselves and their loved ones. 

Factotum is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of a writer who is trying to avoid the various distractions in his life such as gambling, women and drinking. Meanwhile he has to fund himself through mindless and poorly paid jobs to complete his latest work.   

Howard is a popular teacher, but his friends and family are shocked, when one of his students announces that he is gay. This leads to Howard questioning his sexuality, as well as trying his best to prove that he is straight.  

The Art of the Steal is a heist comedy film which revolves around Crunch Calhoun, a semi-reformed art thief, who agrees to reunite with his old gang to perform one last heist.

Takers is a 2010 action thriller film which tells the story of a group of skilled and successful bank robbers who are now planning their biggest heist. However, they must also face a Los Angeles detective who is willing to risk his life to see them behind bars. 

After escaping a rape and shooting the man, sultry Jewel meets Randy, a bar-tender at McCool’s, and seduces him. Randy takes her home but soon turns into a thief to provide for Jewel’s unending demands. Randy’s cousin Carl finds himself crazily obsessed with the sexy Jewel, while detective Dehling, who is investigating the killing and robberies, also finds himself besotted with the femme-fatale. 

After losing his job at the bank, David’s day gets even worse, after his fiancée breaks up with him and throws him out of the house. He plans to go to his boss’s office in order to shoot him for terminating him from the job, but things get complicated when he sees that the bank is being robbed. He gets shot by the robbers and is forced into their getaway car.

When a robbery attempt ends up in disaster, three criminals are forced to flee. They eventually find themselves surrounded by police at a bar, but soon it seems that the police are actually there for a suspected illegal arms dealer.

This film is an anthology of stories involving a man looking for his kidnapped wife, a group of meth addicts, and an Elvis impersonator. Their lives are brought together by the General Lee Pawn Shop.

City of Ghosts is a crime drama thriller film which tells the story of Jimmy, a con man, who is forced to flee from the US, after a scam he was involved in, goes wrong. He begins to suspect that he may have been double-crossed by Marvin, his long-time partner and mentor. Therefore, he sets off to Cambodia, looking for Marvin, hoping to obtain his promised cut. However, he finds himself a hostile and mysterious environment, from which there might be no return.

During 1940s, a Texas teenaged farm-boy Jack falls in love with wealthy Ginny, town banker’s daughter. Despite stiff resistance from Ginny’s father, the two run away to Louisiana, where parental consent in not necessary for 17-years-old to marry. Jack gets a job and a pregnant Ginny visits town’s doctor. But soon family secrets come to light, casting shadows over the youngsters’ future.

Bad Country is an action thriller crime drama film which tells the story of a detective who is on a mission to bring down a powerful criminal organization to justice. Eventually, he manages to arrest the contract killer working for the organization. To protect his family, the contract killer is forced to become an informant.

War veteran Ty Hackett is having financial troubles raising his brother alone, so he joins an armored truck company as a security guard. His mentor, Mike Cochrane, persuades him into joining a plan to rob their own trucks carrying $42million. Ty agrees only when Mike convinces him of a foolproof plan with harm to none. But an unexpected turn makes everything about the heist go wrong. 

After failing in her career as a playwright and being left by her partner, a young woman attempts suicide. She eventually returns to her home in New Jersey but must now deal with her eccentric mother. She soon learns that her father never died but left to pursue a PhD.

Jonathan Corliss murders Dorothy, his secret girlfriend, after she tells him that she is pregnant, and stages the murder as suicide. He then moves to New York, where he tries to win over her twin sister Ellen. However, Ellen is not convinced that her sister’s death was a suicide, and therefore, she decides to investigate the matter herself.

Newlyweds Carl and Molly Peterson are living happily until Carl invites his jobless best friend Randy Dupree to come and live with them, who threatens to become a permanent addition to the house. As Carl keeps getting further infuriated with him, things are made worse due to the machinations of Carl’s disapproving father-in-law, Bob. 

Deuces Wild is a crime drama film which tells the story of Leon and Bobby Anthony, two brothers, who are members for the Deuces, a Brooklyn street gang that protects their Sunset Park neighborhood. They try to keep drugs off their turf, since their youngest brother had died due to a drug overdose. However, a gang war seems imminent when Marco, the leader of the Vipers, a rival gang, is released after three years in prison.        

Dan and Charlie are best friends, single and co-owner of a successful marketing firm. While they are preparing for an important business deal, Dan’s ex-wife asks him to take care of their two kids while she is away. Dan agrees on the condition that Charlie must help him.  But the problem is, none of them have any idea about child rearing.  

Herbie: Fully Loaded is a sports comedy film, which revolves around Maggie, an aspiring racer, who comes across Herbie, a sentient car. They form a friendship and become a formidable team on the race track.  

After serving an 11-year sentence for tax evasion, Chicago mob-boss Al Capone is released but kept under surveillance. Slowly deteriorating with untreated neurosyphillis and suffering from hallucinations of his past brutalities, he tries to recollect where he has hidden his millions. With steadily worsening mental and physical conditions, he dies in 1947 while the place of his allegedly hoarded booty remains undisclosed.

City of Ghosts is a crime drama thriller film which tells the story of Jimmy, a con man, who is forced to flee from the US, after a scam he was involved in, goes wrong. He begins to suspect that he may have been double-crossed by Marvin, his long-time partner and mentor. Therefore, he sets off to Cambodia, looking for Marvin, hoping to obtain his promised cut. However, he finds himself a hostile and mysterious environment, from which there might be no return.