Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | The King of Kings (2025) | High Priest Caiaphas |
| 2025 | The Thursday Murder Club (2025) | Ibrahim |
| 2024 | The Killer's Game (2024) | Zvi Rabinowitz |
| 2024 | William Tell (2025) | Actor |
| 2023 | Jules (2023) | Milton Robinson |
| 2023 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) | Imdad Khan/Croupier |
| 2022 | The School for Good and Evil (2022) | Actor |
| 2022 | Daliland (2023) | Salvador Dali |
| 2019 | Spider in the Web | Adereth |
| 2018 | Backstabbing for Beginners | Pasha |
| 2018 | Operation Finale | Adolf Eichmann |
| 2018 | Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood | Self |
| 2018 | Intrigo: Death of an Author | Henderson |
| 2018 | Night Hunter (2019) | Cooper |
| 2017 | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Woodruff |
| 2017 | War Machine | President Karzai |
| 2017 | An Ordinary Man | The General |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book (2016) | Bagheera |
| 2016 | Collide (2017) | Geran |
| 2015 | The Walk (2015) | Papa Rudy |
| 2015 | Self/less | Damian |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups | Voice |
| 2015 | Unity | Narrator |
| 2015 | Life (2015) | Jack Warner |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Archibald Snatcher |
| 2014 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Merenkahre |
| 2014 | War Story | Albert |
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Nun |
| 2014 | Stonehearst Asylum | Silas Lamb |
| 2014 | Learning to Drive | Darwan |
| 2014 | Robot Overlords | Robin Smythe |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Actor |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 (2013) | The Mandarin |
| 2013 | Ender's Game | Mazer Rackham |
| 2013 | A Birder's Guide to Everything | Lawrence Konrad |
| 2013 | Walking With the Enemy | Regent Horthy |
| 2013 | The Physician | Ibn Sina |
| 2012 | The Dictator | Tamir |
| 2012 | It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl | Narrator |
| 2012 | A Common Man | Actor |
| 2011 | Hugo | Papa Georges/Georges Méliès |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Dr. Cawley |
| 2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Nizam |
| 2010 | Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg |
| 2010 | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice |
| 2010 | Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny | Narrator |
| 2008 | Elegy | David Kepesh |
| 2008 | The Love Guru (2008) | Guru Tugginmypuddha |
| 2008 | The Wackness | Dr. Squires |
| 2008 | Transsiberian | Grinko |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Walken |
| 2008 | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus |
| 2007 | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus |
| 2007 | You Kill Me | Frank |
| 2007 | The Ten Commandments (2007) | Narrator |
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi |
| 2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton |
| 2005 | Bloodrayne | Kagan |
| 2004 | Thunderbirds | The Hood |
| 2004 | Suspect Zero | Benjamin O'Ryan |
| 2003 | House of Sand and Fog | Massoud Amir Behrani |
| 2002 | Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit |
| 2001 | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates |
| 2000 | Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain |
| 2000 | What Planet Are You | Graydon |
| 2000 | Sexy Beast | Don Logan |
| 2000 | Spooky House | The Great Zamboni |
| 1997 | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger |
| 1997 | Photographing Fairies | Reverend Templeton |
| 1996 | Twelfth Night | Feste |
| 1995 | Species (1995) | Xavier Fitch |
| 1994 | Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern |
| 1993 | Dave | Vice President Gary Nance |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Cosmo |
| 1991 | Bugsy | Meyer Lansky |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal |
| 1988 | Pascali's Island | Basil Pascali |
| 1988 | Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson |
| 1987 | Maurice (1987) | Lasker-Jones |
| 1985 | Turtle Diary | William Snow |
| 1982 | Gandhi (1982) | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| 1973 | Hard Labour | Actor |
| 1972 | Fear Is the Key | Royale |
