Good or bad cop, villain, protagonist of a dystopian universe…he’s done a lot.

Keanu Reeves is undoubtedly Hollywood’s most beloved “guy” and as much as we struggle to realize it, on the 2nd of the month he turned 60 years old.

Of course, he remains one of the most charming men in cinema and, as they say, one of the best guys in the field.

Having participated in dozens of productions, and on the occasion of his birthday, the Guardian summarizes the 20 best films in which he starred.

20. Little Buddha (1993)

Tibetan Buddhists are searching for a child who is the reincarnation of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje. Lama Norbu and his monk friends believe they have found his reincarnation: a little boy named Jesse Conrad, the son of an architect and a teacher who lives in Seattle.

19. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. 16th century Sicily: Hiroo and Claudio are about to get married. Meanwhile the evil Don John (Keanu Reeves) plans to ruin the impending wedding by accusing Hiro of infidelity

18. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The script was written by himself together with James W. Hart and is based on Bram Stoker’s book Dracula. Keanu Reeves impressed joining a rich cast with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins.

Vlad Dracula, a member of the Order of Dragons, returns home after his victory against the Turks. His wife, Elizabeth, has committed suicide, and in a fit of rage, Dracula tears down his chapel and swears to God that he will rise from the grave to avenge her death.

17. My Own Private Idaho (1991)

A blockbuster based largely on the works of William Shakespeare, Keanu co-starred with his sidekick River Phoenix who “passed” at the age of 23 from a drug overdose.

My Idaho officially premiered at the 48th Venice International Film Festival to mostly positive reviews from critics. The film was a moderate financial success, grossing a total of over $6.4 million in North America, exceeding its budget estimate of $2.5 million.

16. Something’s Gotta Give (2003)

Harry Sanborn is a wealthy record label owner who only dates women under 30, including his latest girlfriend, Marin Klein.

The two drive to her mother’s beach house in the Hamptons, expecting to be alone.

However, her mother, a playwright named Erica Barry, and her sister Zoe arrive unexpectedly.

15. Street Kings (2008)

A veteran Los Angeles police officer is in the wrong place at the wrong time and is framed for the murder of a colleague.

14. The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

A charismatic young lawyer starts working for a large firm. As his wife is haunted by terrifying visions, the lawyer slowly begins to realize that the owner of the company is not what he seems and is in fact the Devil himself.

13. Destination Wedding (2018)

Lindsey and Frank meet for the first time at an airport and the conversations they exchange are enough to create a mutual dislike between them from the very first moment. As they are forced to travel side by side, they soon discover that they have the same destination: the wedding of Lindsay’s ex and Frank’s stepbrother.

12. Constantine (2005)

John Constantine has the gift of seeing demons roaming free on earth and intends to send them back to hell. When he meets on his way a desperate policewoman who asks him for help in the mysterious death of her twin sister, then the Gates of Hell open for a terrible war.

11. The Gift (2000)

Annie Wilson has the gift of seeing visions and “reading” the future. The disappearance of a young girl forces the authorities to turn to her for help.

10. A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Undercover cop Bob Arctor is forced to spy on his friends. When he is asked to watch his own self, a nightmarish journey into the absurd begins, where identities and mutual trust cannot be deciphered.

9. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

The Fugitive is a Canadian-American cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Robert Longo.

Keanu Reeves plays the title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information.

The film depicts Gibson’s dystopian idea of ​​the future, with the world dominated by big business and heavily influenced by East Asia.

8. Man of Tai Chi (2013)

Man of Tai Chi is the directorial debut of Keanu Reeves who takes on the role of the villain.

Tiger Chen plays a young Tai Chi connoisseur who becomes involved, out of financial necessity, in an illegal gladiator business. Will he sacrifice his ideals and learn to kill?

7. River’s Edge (1986)

A young man murders his girlfriend and his classmates are divided whether they should protect him or not.

6. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

The world in the not-so-distant future is a true utopia, thanks to the lyrics of Bill and Ted, two no-nonsense rockers of the 20th century. But a would-be tyrant sends two robot saviors of Bill and Ted into the past (our present) with the aim of killing them and changing the course of history.

Now dead, Bill and Ted must literally escape Haru’s teeth, meet God, return to the land of the living to defeat the evil robots.

5. Point Break (1991)

A gang of robbers in Los Angeles commits their crimes wearing masks of four former American presidents. The FBI believes that its members may be surfers and therefore sends a young undercover agent, Johnny Utah, to approach the surfers and gather information.

4. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

John Wick is the well-known and iconic American neo-noir multimedia action franchise created by Derek Kolstad and follows John Wick, a former contract killer who is forced to return to the world of crime.

3. The Matrix (1999)

And of course…The Matrix!

A future in which the world as man knows it is the Matrix, a virtual reality created and maintained by intelligent machines in order to appease, subjugate, and exploit the ignorant human population as a source of energy, with their mandatory connection to the Matrix via implants.

It contains numerous references to cyberpunk and hacker subcultures, philosophical and religious ideas, messianism and Cartesianism, but also Socratic and Platonic idealism.

It also borrows elements from the Platonic Allegory of Plato’s Cave.

In 2012 the film was designated by the Library of Congress as “culturally, aesthetically, and historically significant” and selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry.

2. Speed ​​(1994)

The film follows a Los Angeles police officer who tries to rescue the passengers of a bus that has been planted with a bomb programmed to explode if the bus slows down or any of the passengers try to escape.

1. John Wick (2014)

At the top, of course, is the ultimate, as it appeared from the hype, action movie character, John Wick, with Keanu considered to be giving the ultimate recital in the fourth chapter of the production that was released in cinemas in 2014.