Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | Locked (2025) | William |
| 2023 | Freud's Last Session (2023) | Sigmund Freud |
| 2023 | Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) | Jimmy |
| 2023 | One Life (2024) | Nicholas Winton |
| 2022 | Zero Contact (2022) | Finley Hart |
| 2022 | The Son (2022) | Actor |
| 2022 | Armageddon Time (2022) | Aaron Rabinowitz |
| 2022 | Where Are You (2022) | Actor |
| 2021 | The Virtuoso (2021) | The Mentor |
| 2020 | Elyse | Dr. Philip Lewis |
| 2020 | The Father (2021) | Anthony |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict |
| 2018 | King Lear (1969) | Actor |
| 2018 | NT LIVE: KING LEAR | Lear |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Sir Edmund Burton |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok (2017) | Odin |
| 2016 | Collide (2017) | Hagen Kahl |
| 2016 | Misconduct | Arthur Denning |
| 2015 | Kidnapping Mr. Heineken | Freddy Heineken |
| 2015 | Solace (2016) | John Clancy |
| 2015 | Blackway | Lester |
| 2014 | Noah (2014) | Methuselah |
| 2013 | RED 2 | Bailey |
| 2013 | Marvel Studios 10th: Thor: The Dark World: An IMAX 3D Experience | Odin |
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2011 | 360 | John |
| 2011 | Marvel Studios 10th: Thor: An IMAX 3D Experience | Odin |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Sir John Talbot |
| 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Alfie |
| 2008 | Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story | Narrator |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Felix Bonhoeffer |
| 2007 | Beowulf | King Hrothgar |
| 2007 | Fracture | Ted Crawford |
| 2007 | Shortcut to Happiness | Daniel Webster |
| 2007 | The City of Your Final Destination | Adam |
| 2006 | All the King's Men (2006) | Judge Irwin |
| 2006 | Bobby (2006) | John Casey |
| 2005 | Proof | Robert |
| 2005 | The World's Fastest Indian | Burt Munro |
| 2004 | Alexander (2004) | Old Ptolemy |
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Coleman Silk |
| 2002 | Bad Company | Gaylord Oakes |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Hannibal Lecter |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Hannibal Lecter |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Ted Brautigan |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Mission Commander Swanbeck |
| 2000 | Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) | Narrator |
| 1999 | Titus | Titus Andronicus |
| 1999 | Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | Narrator |
| 1999 | Instinct | Ethan Powell |
| 1998 | Meet Joe Black | William Parrish |
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro |
| 1997 | The Edge (1997) | Charles Morse |
| 1997 | Amistad | John Quincy Adams |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso |
| 1995 | Nixon | Richard M. Nixon |
| 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Col. William Ludlow |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | Stevens |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | Jack Lewis |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Professor Abraham Van Helsing/Chesare |
| 1992 | Howards End | Henry J. Wilcox |
| 1992 | Chaplin | George Hayden |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| 1990 | Desperate Hours | Tim Cornell |
| 1989 | Heartland | Jack |
| 1988 | Across the Lake | Donald Campbell |
| 1988 | The Tenth Man (1998) | Jean Louis Chavel |
| 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Frank P. Doel |
| 1986 | Blunt: The Fourth Man | Guy Burgess |
| 1984 | The Bounty | Lieutenant William Bligh |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) | Quasimodo |
| 1981 | The Bunker | Adolf Hitler |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man (1981) | Dr. Frederick 'Freddie' Treves |
| 1978 | Magic | Corky Withers/Fats |
| 1978 | International Velvet | Capt. Johnson |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Lieutenant Colonel Frost |
| 1977 | Audrey Rose (1977) | Elliot Hoover |
| 1976 | Dark Victory (1976) | Dr. Michael Grant |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Bruno Richard Hauptmann |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Supt. John McLeod |
| 1974 | All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried |
| 1974 | QB VII | Adam Kelno |
| 1970 | The Looking Glass War | John Avery |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Richard |
| 1967 | Red, White and Zero | Brechtian |
