20 Best Ryan Gosling Movies

Just like Ryan Gosling is the personification of cool on the silver screen!

The actor began his career on 'Barbie'.

Gosling has also become one of the most beloved movie stars working today appearing in such popular movies as 'The Gray Man'.

His latest movie, the big screen adaption of the popular Emily Blunt, opens in theaters on May 3rd.

In honor of his new movie, Moviefone is counting down the 20 best films of Ryan Gosling's career, including his latest.

Let's begin!

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20. 'Gangster Squad' (2013)

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Gosling) who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

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19. 'Murder by Numbers' (2002)

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather (Michael Pitt): cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

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18. 'All Good Things' (2010)

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.

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17. 'Only God Forgives' (2013)

Julian (Gosling), who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family's drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother's recent death.

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16. 'The Gray Man' (2022)

The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.

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15. 'Blue Valentine' (2010)

Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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14. 'Fracture' (2007)

A husband (Embeth Davidtz), in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney (Gosling) trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

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13. 'The Ides of March' (2011)

Directed by George Clooney, dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's (Gosling) idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

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12. ' the Titans' (2000)

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast (Denzel Washington) – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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11. 'The Notebook' (2004)

An epic love story centered around an older man (Rachel McAdams) who is separated by World War II, and is then ionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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10. 'Half Nelson' (2006)

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne (Gosling) leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey (Shareeka Epps) makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

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9. 'The Place Beyond the Pines' (2013)

A motorcycle stunt rider (Gosling) considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife (Bradley Cooper).

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8. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' (2011)

Cal Weaver (Julianne Moore). Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer (Gosling), a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

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7. 'The Big Short' (2015)

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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6. 'The Fall Guy' (2024)

He’s a stuntman (Emily Blunt) while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?

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5. 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017)

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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4. 'The Nice Guys' (2016)

A private eye (Gosling) investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

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3. 'Barbie' (2023)

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken (Gosling).

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2. 'La La Land' (2016)

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Gosling), a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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1. 'Drive' (2011)

Driver (Gosling) is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene (Ron Perlman) behind the robbery.