Dwayne Johnson as Maui in Disney’s live-action ‘Moana’. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2026 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Dwayne Johnson is arguably the most successful athlete turned actor of all time!
The artist formally known as “The Rock” began his career as a WWE superstar and quickly transitioned into a movie star after a cameo in ‘The Mummy Returns’, which led to his starring role in ‘The Scorpion King’.
Release Date: Apr 19, 2002
Run Time: 1 hr 32 min
Budget: $60,000,000
After small roles in comedies like ‘Get Smart’ and ‘The Other Guys’, Johnson found his place in Hollywood as a “franchise saver”, successfully breathing new life into older franchises like ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ and its sequels, and of course, ‘The Fast and the Furious’ series beginning with 2011’s ‘Fast Five’.
Johnson has also made a name for himself starring in family friendly films like ‘Tooth Fairy’, ‘Jungle Cruise’, ‘Red One’, and the ‘Moana’ franchise.
The actors latest project is a live-action remake of Disney’s 2016 animated blockbuster entitled ‘Moana’, where Johnson reprises his role as Maui.
In honor of the new film, Moviefone is counting down the top 20 films of Dwayne Johnson’s unprecedented career, including his latest.
NOTE: For this list we are only ranking Johnson’s film work, and will not be including his TV projects like ‘Ballers’.
Let’s begin!
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Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam in New Line Cinema’s action adventure ‘Black Adam,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods, and imprisoned just as quickly, Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
“The world needed a hero. It got Black Adam.”
Release Date: Oct 21, 2022
Run Time: 2 hr 5 min
Budget: $200,000,000
Calvin Joyner (Kevin Hart), a mild-mannered accountant whose high school glory days are long behind him, reconnects with an awkward pal (Johnson) from high school through Facebook. After meeting up, Calvin’s mundane life takes an unexpectedly thrilling turn when he’s thrust into the world of international espionage.
“Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson.”
Release Date: Jun 17, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $50,000,000
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot (Johnson) makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter (Alexandra Daddario).
“We always knew this day would come.”
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Run Time: 1 hr 54 min
Budget: $110,000,000
As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.
“New places. New faces. Next level.”
Release Date: Dec 13, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 3 min
Budget: $125,000,000
Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul (Johnson) and Adrian (Anthony Mackie) as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub) and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
“Their American dream is bigger than yours.”
Release Date: Apr 26, 2013
Run Time: 2 hr 10 min
Budget: $25,000,000
Dwayne Johnson stars in ‘The Smashing Machine’. Photo: A24.
In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr (Johnson) aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn (Emily Blunt).
“The unforgettable true story of a UFC legend.”
Release Date: Oct 3, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 3 min
Budget: $50,000,000
Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson) shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer (Naomie Harris) to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Release Date: Apr 13, 2018
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $120,000,000
Hobbs (Johnson) has Dominic (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries; Dominic unexpectedly gets sidetracked with facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez).
“All roads lead to this.”
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Run Time: 2 hr 10 min
Budget: $160,000,000
After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana (Auliʻi Cravalho) journeys alongside Maui (Johnson) and a new crew to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.
“The ocean is calling them back.”
Release Date: Nov 27, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 40 min
Budget: $150,000,000
When a mysterious woman (Charlize Theron) seduces Dom (Vin Diesel) into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
“Never give up on family.”
Release Date: Apr 14, 2017
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Budget: $250,000,000
10. ‘Moana’ (2026)
Catherine Laga’aia as Moana in Disney’s live-action ‘Moana’. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2026 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Moana (Catherine Laga’aia) answers the Ocean’s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui (Johnson) on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.
“The ocean chose her for a reason.”
Release Date: Jul 10, 2026
Run Time: 1 hr 55 min
Budget: $250,000,000
Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank Wolff’s (Johnson) questionable services to guide her downriver on La Quila’”his ramshackle-but-charming boat. Lily is determined to uncover an ancient tree with unparalleled healing abilities’”possessing the power to change the future of medicine. Thrust on this epic quest together, the unlikely duo encounters innumerable dangers and supernatural forces, all lurking in the deceptive beauty of the lush rainforest. But as the secrets of the lost tree unfold, the stakes reach even higher for Lily and Frank and their fate and mankind’s hangs in the balance.
“Only one adventure gets this wild.”
Release Date: Jul 30, 2021
Run Time: 2 hr 7 min
Budget: $200,000,000
When Travis (Seann William Scott), the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck (Johnson), who becomes Travis’s rival for the affections of Mariana (Rosario Dawson), a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words, but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who’s after the same treasure.
“Bulls, guns, whips, gold and one sacred cat.”
Release Date: Sep 26, 2003
Run Time: 1 hr 44 min
Budget: $85,000,000
After 10 years in prison, Driver (Johnson) is now a free man with a single focus, hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
“Slow justice is no justice”
Release Date: Nov 23, 2010
Run Time: 1 hr 38 min
Budget: $24,000,000
Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family for his comatose brother (Luke Evans).
Release Date: Apr 3, 2015
Run Time: 2 hr 18 min
Budget: $190,000,000
(L to R) Ray Park and Dwayne Johnson in ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
“Heroes are made in America.”
Release Date: Mar 29, 2013
Run Time: 1 hr 50 min
Budget: $130,000,000
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!
Release Date: Dec 20, 2017
Run Time: 1 hr 59 min
Budget: $90,000,000
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs (Johnson) and lawless outcast Shaw (Jason Statham) first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton’s (Idris Elba) ruthless actions threaten the future of humanity, they join forces to defeat him.
“Nothing is stronger than family.”
Release Date: Aug 2, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 17 min
Budget: $200,000,000
2. ‘Moana (2016)’
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui (Johnson) reaches an impetuous Chieftain’s daughter’s (Auliʻi Cravalho) island, she answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
Release Date: Nov 23, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $150,000,000
(L to R) Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson in ‘Fast Five,’ directed by Justin Lin. Photo: Universal Pictures.
Former cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) partners with ex-con Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) broke Dom out of custody, they’ve blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
Release Date: Apr 29, 2011
Run Time: 2 hr 11 min
Budget: $125,000,000
