Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | NT Live: Dr. Strangelove | Actor |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) | Paddy Meyers |
| 2024 | Despicable Me 4 (2024) | Silas |
| 2024 | The Penguin Lessons (2025) | Tom Michel |
| 2022 | The Lost King (2023) | John Langley |
| 2020 | The Trip to Greece | Self |
| 2019 | Greed (2020) | Sir Richard McCreadie |
| 2018 | Holmes & Watson | Gustav Klinger |
| 2018 | Ideal Home | Erasmus |
| 2018 | Stan & Ollie | Stan Laurel |
| 2018 | Hot Air (2019) | Lionel Macomb |
| 2017 | Despicable Me 3 | Fritz/Silas Ramsbottom |
| 2017 | The Dinner (2017) | Paul Lohman |
| 2017 | The Trip to Spain | Steve |
| 2016 | The Secret Life of Pets | Ozone |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Colonel Nigel Briggs |
| 2016 | Dying Laughing | Self |
| 2016 | Dancer | Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Minions (2015) | Professor Flux/Tower Guard |
| 2014 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Octavius |
| 2014 | The Trip to Italy | Steve |
| 2014 | Northern Soul | Mr. Banks |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 (2013) | Silas |
| 2013 | The Look of Love | Paul Raymond |
| 2013 | Philomena | Martin Sixsmith |
| 2013 | Alan Partridge | Alan Partridge |
| 2012 | Ruby Sparks | Langdon Tharp |
| 2012 | What Maisie Knew | Beale |
| 2011 | Our Idiot Brother | Dylan |
| 2010 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Hades |
| 2010 | Marmaduke | Raisin |
| 2010 | The Other Guys | David Ershon |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Octavius |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Constituent |
| 2009 | What Goes Up | Campbell Babbitt |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | Damien Cockburn |
| 2008 | Hamlet 2 | Dana Marschz |
| 2008 | Finding Amanda | Michael Henry |
| 2008 | Tales of the Riverbank | Roderick |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | Metropolitan Police Inspector (uncredited) |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette (2006) | Count Mercy d'Argenteau |
| 2006 | Snow Cake | Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Lies and Alibis | Ray Elliot |
| 2005 | Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story | Tristram Shandy/Walter Shandy/Steve Coogan |
| 2004 | Ella Enchanted | Heston |
| 2004 | Around the World in 80 Days (2004) | Phileas Fogg |
| 2003 | Coffee and Cigarettes | Steve |
| 2002 | 24 Hour Party People | Anthony Wilson |
| 2001 | The Parole Officer | Simon Garden |
| 1996 | The Wind in the Willows | Kret |
| 1995 | The Indian in the Cupboard | Tommy Atkins (British medic) |
