Coming back into the spotlight with 2022’s The Whale and winning an Oscar, Brendan Fraser has been a quality star for a long time. Starting his acting career in 1991’s Dogfight, he has been in plenty of other box office successes and critical favorites such as The Mummy and Gods and Monsters. If you enjoy Fraser and want to explore more of his filmography, check out these six best Brendan Fraser movies now.
6. Blast From the Past (1999)
Starting our list of best Brendan Fraser movies is Blast From the Past. Fraser plays a man who has spent the first 35 years of his life living in an underground fallout shelter with his family, headed by his doomsday father. In search of supplies, Adam goes out into the world and realizes it’s completely intact. As he tries to integrate with a completely different world, he meets Eve and sparks fly, even as he stumbles through daily life.
–IMDb score: 6.7
5. School Ties (1992)
Fifth on our list of best Brendan Fraser movies is School Ties. Fraser stars as a student (David) enrolled at an elite Catholic New England prep school who hides his Jewishness in fear of the prejudice he might face. Everything seems to be going well at first until a teacher accidentally exposes the truth, turning the whole campus against David, and he faces a tirade of bigotry and false accusations.
–IMDb score: 6.9
4. The Quiet American (2002)
Next on our list of best Brendan Fraser movies is The Quiet American. Adapted from a novel set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Fraser plays expat Aiden Pyle. Pyle and fellow expat Thomas Fowler fall for the same Vietnamese woman, all while Pyle is a secret CIA agent trying to further America’s interests in the region. Fraser holds his own against two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine, portraying a melancholic world with a very interesting love triangle.
–IMDb score: 7.0
3. The Mummy (1999)
Rounding out the top three best Brendan Fraser movies is The Mummy. Probably his most well-known work, Fraser wins viewers over with his charisma and acting smarts. Fraser plays the swashbuckling adventurer Rick O’Connell, embodying a similar persona to Indiana Jones. While handsome, his goofy disposition really sells the character, even if the film didn’t age as well. Plus, if you want more, just watch The Mummy Returns.
–IMDb score: 7.1
2. Gods and Monsters (1998)
Second on our list of the best Brendan Fraser movies is Gods and Monsters. The film is a semi-fictional account of the last days of the out gay Frankenstein director James Whale (Ian McKellen). As the filmmaker suffers multiple strokes, he starts to reflect on his memories, from his time in a World War I POW camp to his past Hollywood glories. Lonely and sad, he becomes increasingly attached to his heterosexual gardener Clayton Boone (Fraser), convincing him to pose for a couple of sketches.
–IMDb score: 7.3
1. The Whale (2022)
Last but not least on our list of the best Brendan Fraser movies is The Whale. Winning him an Oscar for his performance, Fraser plays Charlie, a 600-pound gay man trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter and find peace as his health declines. Fraser donned several heavy prosthetics to achieve the look of Charlie, and portrayed him in a way that highlighted the character’s struggle with complexity and deep empathy.
–IMDb score: 7.6