| Yıl | Film | Rolü | Notlar |
|---|
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls | Assistant stage manager | uncredited |
| The Graduate | Boarding House Resident | uncredited |
| 1968 | The Young Runaways | Terry | |
| 1969 | Hello Down There | Harold Webster | |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | Aday gösterildi —Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy | |
| The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | |
| Inserts | Boy Wonder | |
| 1975 | Jaws | Matt Hooper | Aday gösterildi —BAFTA En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Ödülü |
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | Aday gösterildi —Saturn Award for Best Actor |
| The Goodbye Girl | Elliott Garfield | En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Akademi Ödülü BAFTA En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Ödülü David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Altın Küre Ödülü - Müzikal veya Komedi Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor |
| 1978 | The Big Fix | Moses Wine | |
| 1980 | The Competition | Paul Dietrich | |
| 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Ken Harrison | |
| 1984 | The Buddy System | Joe | |
| 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | David 'Dave' Whiteman | |
| Stand by Me | The adult Gordie LaChance, narrating | |
| 1987 | Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | |
| Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | |
| Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | Aday gösterildi —En İyi Yardımcı Erkek Oyuncu Altın Küre Ödülü - Sinema |
| 1988 | Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah/President Alphonse Simms | |
| 1989 | Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | |
| Always | Pete Sandich | |
| 1990 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | |
| Postcards from the Edge | Doctor Frankenthal | |
| 1991 | Once Around | Sam Sharpe | |
| Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | |
| What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | |
| Another Stakeout | Detective Chris Lecce | |
| 1994 | Silent Fall | Dr. Jake Rainer | |
| 1995 | The Last Word | Larry | |
| The American President | Senator Bob Rumson | |
| Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | Aday gösterildi —Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Aday gösterildi —Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Centipede | Seslendirme |
| Mad Dog Time | Vic | |
| 1997 | Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | |
| Oliver Twist | Fagin | |
| 1998 | Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. James Krippendorf | |
| 2000 | The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo/Anlatıcı | |
| 2001 | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Antonio Bolivar | Aday gösterildi —Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor |
| Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | |
| The Education of Max Bickford | Max Bickford | TV dizisi Aday gösterildi —Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series |
| The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | TV film Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Aday gösterildi —Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
| 2003 | Coast to Coast | Barnaby Pierce | |
| 2004 | Silver City | Chuck Raven | |
| 2006 | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | |
| 2007 | Tin Man | Mystic Man | TV miniseries |
| 2008 | Signs of the Time | Anlatıcı | |
| W. | Dick Cheney | |
| America Betrayed | Anlatıcı | |
| 2009 | My Life in Ruins | Irv | |
| Leaves of Grass | TBA |
| 2010 | Piranha 3-D | TBA |