| The Penguin Lessons (2025) The Headmaster |
| William Tell (2025) Attinghausen |
| One Life (2023) Martin Blake |
| Soul of the Ocean (2023) Narrator (voice) |
| Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) Jacob Marley (voice) |
| The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking (2022) Self - Narrator |
| All the Old Knives (2022) Bill Compton |
| The Witness is a Whale (2022) Self - Narrator (voice) |
| Save the Cinema (2022) Mr. Morgan |
| Stories of You and I (2021) Narrator |
| The Two Popes (2019) Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis |
| He Dreams of Giants (2019) Himself |
| Piney: The Lonesome Pine (2019) Grandpa Sid |
| The Wife (2018) Joe Castleman |
| To Provide All People (2018) Retired Neurosurgeon |
| The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) Don Quixote |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) Mr. John Dickens |
| Becoming Cary Grant (2017) Cary Grant (voice) |
| The Healer (2017) Raymond Heacock |
| To Walk Invisible (2016) Patrick Brontë |
| Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016) |
| Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance (2016) Special Finale Guest Star |
| The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2016) Shylock |
| The White King (2016) Colonel Fitz |
| Shylock's Ghost (2015) Self |
| Narcopolis (2015) Sidorov |
| Dough (2015) Nat |
| Woman in Gold (2015) Chief Justice Rehnquist |
| Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life (2015) Self |
| Sluizer Speaks (2014) |
| Under Milk Wood (2014) Mr. Pugh |
| The Salvation (2014) Mayor Nathan Keane |
| Listen Up Philip (2014) Ike |
| The Ghost and the Whale (2014) Whale |
| G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) U.S. President |
| King Lear (2012) King Lear |
| Dark Blood (2012) Harry Fletcher |
| Patience (After Sebald) (2012) Voiceover |
| Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching (2011) Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice) |
| Borgríki (2011) Jimmy |
| Hysteria (2011) Dr. Robert Dalrymple |
| The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (2010) |
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) U.S. President |
| Echelon Conspiracy (2009) Mueller |
| Bedtime Stories (2008) Marty Bronson |
| Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (2008) Ian Fleming (voice) |
| My Zinc Bed (2008) Victor |
| What Is Brazil? (2008) Self |
| The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen (2008) Self / Horatio Jackson |
| Leatherheads (2008) CC Frazier |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) Weatherby Swann |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007) Sherlock Holmes |
| The Moon and the Stars (2007) James Clavel / Scarpia |
| Brothers of the Head (2006) Henry Couling |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Weatherby Swann |
| Renaissance (2006) Paul Dellenbach (voice) |
| The New World (2005) King James |
| The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life (2005) Self |
| The Brothers Grimm (2005) Delatombe |
| Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005) The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage) |
| Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane (2004) Self |
| De-Lovely (2004) Gabriel |
| An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Self |
| David Bowie - Sound and Vision (2003) Narrator |
| Quest for the Giant Squid (2003) Narrator |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Weatherby Swann |
| What a Girl Wants (2003) Alistair Payne |
| Mad Dogs (2002) Supreme Being |
| Best Ever Bond (2002) Self / Elliot Carver |
| Unconditional Love (2002) Victor Fox |
| Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) Master Schoemacker |
| Taliesin Jones (2002) Da |
| The Affair of the Necklace (2001) Cardinal Louis de Rohan |
| Victoria & Albert (2001) King Leopold I of Belgium |
| Bride of the Wind (2001) Gustav Mahler |
| Very Annie Mary (2001) Jack Pugh |
| Il gioco (2001) Mark |
| Tales from the Madhouse (2000) The Thief |
| The Suicide Club (2000) Bourne |
| Stigmata (1999) Cardinal Daniel Houseman |
| Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) The Master |
| Titanic: Answers From The Abyss (1999) Narrator |
| Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (1998) Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer |
| Ronin (1998) Seamus O'Rourke |
| Highly Classified: The World of 007 (1998) |
| Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) Elliot Carver |
| The Secrets of 007 (1997) Self |
| Regeneration (1997) Capt. William Rivers |
| David (1997) Saul |
| Evita (1996) Juan Perón |
| A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' (1996) Self |
| Carrington (1995) Lytton Strachey |
| Shopping (1994) Conway |
| A Troll in Central Park (1994) Alan (voice) |
| Great Moments in Aviation (1994) Duncan Stewart |
| Deadly Advice (1994) Dr. Ted Philips |
| A Business Affair (1994) Alec Bolton |
| The Age of Innocence (1993) Rivière |
| Thicker Than Water (1993) Sam |
| Barbarians at the Gate (1993) Henry Kravis |
| Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) James Lingk |
| Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992) Trilby (voice) |
| A Child's Garden of Verses (1992) Narrator / Father (voice) |
| Selling Hitler (1991) Gerd Heidemann |
| The Man from the Pru (1990) William Wallace |
| The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon (1989) Self - 'The Engineer' |
| The Rachel Papers (1989) Norman |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson |
| Consuming Passions (1988) Mr. Farris |
| Man on Fire (1987) Michael |
| Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) Jack |
| Haunted Honeymoon (1986) Charles Abbot |
| The Doctor and the Devils (1985) Robert Fallon |
| Brazil (1985) Sam Lowry |
| An Audience with Mel Brooks (1984) Self (uncredited) |
| Martin Luther, Heretic (1983) Martin Luther |
| The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) James Penfield |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Mr. Dark |
| Murder Is Easy (1982) Mr. Ellsworthy |
| Praying Mantis (1982) Christian Magny |
| Loophole (1981) Taylor |
| The Caretaker (1981) Mick |
| Timon of Athens (1981) Timon |
| Breaking Glass (1980) Ken |
| The Day Christ Died (1980) Herod |
| Comedians (1979) Gethin Price |
| For Tea on Sunday (1978) Nicholas |
| Voyage of the Damned (1976) Joseph Manasse |
| Play Things (1976) Playleader |
| The Death of a Young Young Man (1975) Tommy |
| Flavia de Luce |
| The Thursday Murder Club Stephen Best |