| — | Cold Pursuit 2 | Nels Coxman |
| — | Charlie Johnson in the Flames | |
| — | 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank | Danny |
| — | The Trainer | John Moore |
| — | Deception | Fergus Lamb |
| — | Mongoose | Ryan "Fang" Flanagan |
| — | Hotel Tehran | |
| — | Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey | Narrator |
| — | Run All Night 2 | Jimmy Conlon |
| 2025 | Cold Storage | Robert Quinn |
| 2025 | Untitled Naked Gun Reboot | Frank Drebin Jr. |
| 2024 | Thug | Thug |
| 2022 | Ireland | |
| 2022 | Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici | Self |
| 2020 | WAMEGO: Addendum | |
| 2018 | The Last Horsemen of New York | |
| 2017 | In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America | Narrator |
| — | The Big Bang | Himself |
| — | Narco Sub | |
| — | The Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky | Mike McCann |
| — | The Riker's Ghost | |
| 2024 | Wildcat | Father Flynn |
| 2023 | Retribution | Matt Turner |
| 2023 | Marlowe | Philip Marlowe |
| 2023 | In the Land of Saints and Sinners | Finbar Murphy |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited) |
| 2022 | Memory | Alex Lewis |
| 2022 | Blacklight | Travis Block |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return | Self - Qui-Gon Jinn |
| 2022 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) |
| 2022 | Benjamin Franklin | Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice) |
| 2022 | The U.S. and the Holocaust | |
| 2022 | Bonnie | Self |
| 2022 | Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman | Self |
| 2021 | The Ice Road | Mike |
| 2021 | The Marksman | Jim |
| 2020 | Honest Thief | Tom Dolan |
| 2020 | Made in Italy | Robert |
| 2020 | The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) |
| 2019 | Men in Black: International | Agent High T |
| 2019 | Cold Pursuit | Nels Coxman |
| 2019 | Ordinary Love | Tom |
| 2019 | Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis | Narrator |
| 2019 | Lost Lives | |
| 2018 | The Commuter | Michael MacCauley |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") |
| 2018 | Widows | Harry Rawlings |
| 2018 | Derry Girls | Chief Inspector Byers |
| 2018 | Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History | Self - Narrator |
| 2017 | Daddy's Home 2 | Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2017 | The Orville | Jahavus Dorahl |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Mark Felt |
| 2017 | Spielberg | Self - Segment "Schindler's List" |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Daniel |
| 2017 | Karenina & I | Leo Tolstoy |
| 2017 | And the Winner Isn't | Self |
| 2017 | Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence | Self |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2016 | A Monster Calls | The Monster (voice) |
| 2016 | Silence | Ferreira |
| 2016 | Atlanta | Liam Neeson |
| 2016 | Operation Chromite | Douglas MacArthur |
| 2016 | For the Love of Spock | Leo Cutter (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Dream Corp LLC | Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice) |
| 2016 | The Last Laugh | Self |
| 2016 | 1916 | Narrator |
| 2016 | How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story | Narrator |
| 2016 | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats | Himself |
| 2015 | Ted 2 | Customer |
| 2015 | Run All Night | Jimmy Conlon |
| 2015 | Entourage | Liam Neeson |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | A Christmas Star | Narrator / Radio DJ |
| 2015 | Coldplay's Game of Thrones: The Musical | Narrator |
| 2015 | Nature Is Speaking | Ice |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) |
| 2014 | Taken 3 | Bryan Mills |
| 2014 | Non-Stop | Bill Marks |
| 2014 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Clinch |
| 2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | Matthew Scudder |
| 2014 | The Nut Job | Raccoon (voice) |
| 2014 | Third Person | Michael |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | |
| 2014 | The Prophet | Mustafa (voice) |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Manny | Narrator |
| 2014 | Road | Narrator |
| 2014 | Love Thy Nature | Narrator |
| 2014 | Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys | Himself - Narrator |
| 2013 | Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | History Channel Host (uncredited) |
| 2013 | Khumba | Phango (voice) |
| 2013 | Girl Rising | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Himself (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! | The Journalist |
| 2013 | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Ra's Al Ghul |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | Bryan Mills |
| 2012 | Battleship | Admiral Shane |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans | Zeus |
| 2012 | The Grey | John Ottway |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) |
| 2012 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Self |
| 2012 | Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Unknown | Dr. Martin Harris |
| 2011 | Life's Too Short | Liam Neeson |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self |
| 2011 | A Child's Garden of Poetry | Self (voice) |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Zeus |
| 2010 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Aslan (voice) |
| 2010 | The A-Team | Hannibal |
| 2010 | The Next Three Days | Damon |
| 2010 | Chloe | David Stewart |
| 2010 | Conan | Self |
| 2010 | The Wildest Dream | Narrator |
| 2010 | Buccaneers & Bones | |
| 2009 | After.Life | Eliot Deacon |
| 2009 | Five Minutes of Heaven | Alistair Little |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Live from Studio Five | Self |
| 2008 | Taken | Bryan Mills |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Aslan (voice) |
| 2008 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) |
| 2008 | The Other Man | Peter |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2007 | Trumbo | Self |
| 2007 | The Birth of Christ | Himself - Narrator |
| 2006 | Seraphim Falls | Carver |
| 2006 | El hormiguero | Self |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self - Guest |
| 2006 | Home | |
| 2006 | Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity | Narrator |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self |
| 2006 | Sergeant York: Of God and Country | |
| 2006 | Xavier | Narrator |
| 2006 | The Path to Redemption | Self |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Ducard |
| 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Aslan (voice) |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Godfrey de Ibelin |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | Father Liam |
| 2005 | George Lucas: Creating an Empire | Self |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey |
| 2004 | The Story of Star Wars | Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | Self |
| 2004 | Patrick | Narrator |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Daniel |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest |
| 2003 | Coral Reef Adventure | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Martin Luther | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York | Self |
| 2003 | Martin Luther | Narrator |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | "Priest" Vallon |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Mikhail Polenin |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids | John Paul Jones |
| 2001 | The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' | Self |
| 2001 | Journey into Amazing Caves | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | The Mind's Big Bang | Self |
| 2000 | Gun Shy | Charles Mayough |
| 2000 | The Endurance | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Himself - Narrator |
| 2000 | Inside The Space Station | Himself - Narrator |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Narrator |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Qui-Gon Jinn |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Liam Neeson (voice) |
| 1999 | The Haunting | Dr. David Marrow |
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 1998 | Everest | Narrator |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Michael Collins | Michael Collins |
| 1996 | Before and After | Ben Ryan |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self - Guest |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Robert Roy MacGregor |
| 1995 | Lumière and Company | (segment "John Boorman") |
| 1995 | Miss Sarajevo | Himself |
| 1994 | Nell | Dr. Lovell |
| 1994 | Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America | William Murphy (voice) |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Ethan Frome | Ethan Frome |
| 1992 | Husbands and Wives | Michael Gates |
| 1992 | Leap of Faith | Sheriff Will Braverman |
| 1992 | Shining Through | Franze-Otto Dietrich |
| 1992 | Ruby Cairo | Fergus Lamb |
| 1991 | Under Suspicion | Tony Aaron |
| 1991 | Revolver | Man |
| 1990 | Darkman | Peyton Westlake / Darkman |
| 1990 | The Big Man | Danny Scoular |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Father Sean (voice) |
| 1989 | Next of Kin | Briar Gates |
| 1988 | The Dead Pool | Peter Swan |
| 1988 | High Spirits | Martin Brogan |
| 1988 | Satisfaction | Martin Falcon |
| 1988 | The Good Mother | Leo Cutter |
| 1988 | This Morning | Self |
| 1988 | Sweet As You Are | Martin Perry |
| 1987 | Suspect | Carl Wayne Anderson |
| 1987 | A Prayer for the Dying | Liam Docherty |
| 1987 | Sworn to Silence | Vincent Cauley |
| 1986 | The Mission | Father John Fielding |
| 1986 | The Delta Force | Delta Force Member (uncredited) |
| 1986 | If Tomorrow Comes | André Trignant |
| 1986 | Lamb | Michael Lamb |
| 1986 | Duet for One | Totter |
| 1985 | Arthur the King | Grak |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Blackie O'Neill |
| 1985 | The Innocent | John Carns |
| 1984 | The Bounty | Charles Churchill |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Sean Carroon |
| 1984 | An Audience with Mel Brooks | Self (uncredited) |
| 1983 | Krull | Kegan |
| 1983 | Across the Water | Martin |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator (voice) |
| 1981 | Excalibur | Gawain |
| 1981 | Nailed | Young Catholic |
| 1979 | Christiana | |
| 1979 | The Last Window Cleaner | Himself |
| 1978 | Pilgrim's Progress | Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self |
| 1978 | Dinner at the Sporting Club | Dermot |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Blacksmith |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Him |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self |
| 1966 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
