Kevin Hart’s Movies: Complete Filmography, Box Office and Best Roles

Kevin Hart has appeared in more than 50 films since 2002, and the five that matter most to his career are Think Like a Man (2012), Ride Along (2014), Central Intelligence (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and, for what it says about where he is heading, 72 Hours (2026) — the Jumanji entry grossed roughly $962 million worldwide and permanently moved him from comedy headliner to global box-office name. He was born on July 6, 1979 in Philadelphia, which makes him 47 as of September 2026.

Two things sit on his 2026 calendar that make this the most consequential year of his screen career since 2017. 72 Hours, a Netflix comedy released on July 24, 2026, reunited him with Tim Story, the director who made him a leading man, and cast him as a man too old for the party he has talked his way into. And on December 25, 2026, Jumanji: Open World arrives as the fifth and final film in the series that gave him his biggest hit. This is a working guide to the whole filmography rather than a highlight reel: the complete list of significant films with years and roles, the box-office numbers that explain his standing, the five distinct phases his screen career has moved through, where the money actually comes from, and honest notes on which titles are worth your time and which are not. Every credit below is a real, verifiable release.

Kevin Hart: the essentials

What changed in 2025 and 2026

Any list of Hart’s films that stops at Borderlands is now two years out of date, and the two years it misses have a clear shape.

He started playing his age. The 2025 Netflix stand-up film was called Kevin Hart: Acting My Age, and it earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the awards’ stand-up comedy category in 2026. 72 Hours takes the same idea into a scripted feature: Hart plays Joe, an advertising specialist passed over for a promotion because he is considered too old, who responds by crashing a younger group’s Miami bachelor weekend and trying to keep up. The premise is the joke, and it is a noticeably more self-aware one than the fast-talking small guy he played for a decade.

He consolidated at Netflix. 72 Hours was produced under a first-look overall deal with the platform, through HartBeat alongside Davis Entertainment, Counterbalance Entertainment and Will Packer Productions. That arrangement is why so much of his recent output — Lift, Me Time, True Story, Fatherhood, the stand-up specials, the competition show Funny AF with Kevin Hart and The Roast of Kevin Hart — lives in one place.

The franchise is being closed out. Jumanji: Open World, directed by Jake Kasdan from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, is billed as the fifth and final installment in the series. Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Alex Wolff, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Ser’Darius Blain, Rhys Darby, Nick Jonas and Awkwafina all return alongside Hart as Franklin “Mouse” Finbar, with Danny DeVito back as Eddie Gilpin. It opens on December 25, 2026.

And a third Ride Along is in early development, with Hart attached to reprise Ben Barber and to produce. No release date has been set.

The five phases of Kevin Hart’s film career

Reading his filmography as one long list makes it look scattershot. Read as phases, it makes obvious sense.

Phase one: the supporting decade (2002–2011)

Hart spent nearly ten years in small parts, and the volume is easy to underestimate. He debuted in Paper Soldiers (2002), played CJ in Scary Movie 3 (2003), took his first lead in the poorly received Soul Plane (2004), and turned up for a single memorable scene as a Smart Tech customer in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). Then came a run of spoof and supporting work most retrospectives skip entirely: Epic Movie (2007), Fool’s Gold, Drillbit Taylor, Superhero Movie, Meet Dave and Extreme Movie (all 2008), and Not Easily Broken (2009). His most substantial work of the period was Brian in Death at a Funeral (2010). Meanwhile he was doing the thing that actually built the career: touring stand-up relentlessly and releasing concert films — I’m a Grown Little Man (2009), Seriously Funny (2010) and the self-financed, self-distributed Laugh at My Pain (2011), which grossed close to $8 million from a limited theatrical run.

Phase two: the ensemble breakout (2012–2015)

Think Like a Man (2012) was the pivot. As Cedric Ward, the loud divorcé narrating the group’s romantic disasters, Hart was the standout in an ensemble, and the film’s roughly $96 million worldwide take against a $12 million budget made studios pay attention. A cameo as himself in This Is the End (2013) put him in the room with the Apatow comedy generation, and a supporting turn in Chris Rock’s Top Five (2014) showed what he could do with better-written material. Ride Along (2014) then proved he could open a movie by himself. Get Hard and The Wedding Ringer followed in 2015.

Phase three: the global blockbuster era (2016–2019)

This is the stretch that changed his scale. Central Intelligence (2016) paired him with Dwayne Johnson and established a double act that studios kept returning to. The Secret Life of Pets (2016) gave him a franchise voice role as Snowball. Then Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) turned into a near-billion-dollar hit, and its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) added roughly $800 million more. Night School (2018) and The Upside both cleared $100 million. He also appeared uncredited as Air Marshal Dinkley in Hobbs & Shaw (2019), a favor to Johnson that doubles as a neat summary of how embedded the partnership had become.

Phase four: streaming and range (2020–2023)

The center of gravity moved to streaming and to roles that ask for more than jokes. Fatherhood (2021) is the clearest example — a largely dramatic Netflix film based on a real widower’s memoir. True Story (2021), a Netflix limited series opposite Wesley Snipes, is the darkest thing he has done and earned him an NAACP Image Award. The action-comedies continued with The Man from Toronto (2022) and Me Time (2022), alongside voice work in DC League of Super-Pets and a supporting turn in Back on the Strip (2023).

Phase five: producer-first, and acting his age (2024–present)

Lift (2024) and Borderlands (2024) closed out the old formula, the latter badly. What replaced it is a model in which Hart originates most of what he appears in. Across 2024 to 2026 the output is roughly half film and half television and specials — Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, The Roast of Tom Brady, an Abbott Elementary guest spot, the animated Lil Kev, a Love, Death & Robots voice role, hosting the BET Awards and Netflix’s Funny AF, co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, and being roasted himself on Netflix in 2026. The film work in this phase is 72 Hours and Jumanji: Open World.

Complete Kevin Hart filmography: the significant credits

The box office, in order

Worldwide grosses, rounded. These are the numbers that explain why he keeps getting the big roles.

Two patterns stand out. First, his four biggest films are all ensemble or voice work — he is a reliable amplifier in a big cast rather than a solo draw at the $500 million level. Second, the solo vehicles cluster tightly between $100 million and $155 million, which is a very bankable, very predictable range for a mid-budget comedy.

The third pattern is newer and matters more: the box-office table has stopped growing. Since Borderlands in August 2024, every Hart release except Jumanji: Open World has gone straight to a streaming service, where no gross is published. Judging his commercial standing by theatrical receipts now measures a shrinking slice of his output. The December 2026 Jumanji release is the first real theatrical test he has faced in more than two years.

The five films worth watching first

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Hart plays Franklin “Mouse” Finbar, the avatar inhabited by a tall, confident high-school football player — a joke built entirely on the gap between how the character sees himself and what he now looks like. It is his most disciplined comic performance because the premise does the work and he plays the frustration straight.

Central Intelligence (2016)

As Calvin Joyner, a former high-school golden boy stuck in accounting, Hart is the anxious realist reacting to Dwayne Johnson’s unhinged CIA operative. The reversal is what makes it work: for once Hart is the sensible one, and the restraint sharpens him.

The Upside (2017/2019)

Dell Scott, an ex-convict hired to care for a quadriplegic billionaire played by Bryan Cranston, is the role that proved he could carry drama. Reviews were mixed and the film sat on a shelf for over a year after its Toronto premiere while its distributor collapsed, but it took roughly $126 million against a modest budget, and Hart’s performance is the least mannered of his career.

Fatherhood (2021)

Based on Matt Logelin’s memoir about raising his daughter after his wife died the day after childbirth, this is the clearest evidence of his range. There are comic beats, but the film asks him to play grief, and he does it without reaching for a joke to escape.

Top Five (2014)

The underrated entry. Chris Rock’s film about a comedian trying to be taken seriously gave Hart a small, sharp role and is the best-written thing on his early résumé. If you want to see him working inside somebody else’s much better script, start here.

Television, streaming and stand-up

His screen career is not only theatrical, and by 2026 the non-theatrical half is the larger one. Real Husbands of Hollywood, the BET mockumentary series he co-created and starred in, ran for 60 episodes from 2013 to 2016 and returned in 2022. Die Hart, the action-comedy series in which he plays a heightened version of himself, has run since 2020 and earned him two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. True Story (Netflix, 2021) is a seven-part dramatic thriller in which he plays a comedian entangled in a killing alongside his brother, played by Wesley Snipes — comfortably the furthest he has moved from his stage persona, and the role that won him an NAACP Image Award.

The 2024 to 2026 stretch is unusually varied. Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (Peacock, 2024) cast him as Chicken Man in a limited series based on a real 1970 Atlanta robbery. He hosted The Roast of Tom Brady for Netflix in 2024 and was the subject of The Roast of Kevin Hart in 2026. He guested on Abbott Elementary, voiced a character in the anthology Secret Level, voiced an air ionizer in a 2025 Love, Death & Robots episode, launched the animated Lil Kev in 2025, hosted the BET Awards that year, co-hosted the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in December 2025, and hosted Netflix’s stand-up competition Funny AF with Kevin Hart in 2026.

The stand-up specials remain the foundation under everything else: I’m a Grown Little Man (2009), Seriously Funny (2010), Laugh at My Pain (2011), Let Me Explain (2013), What Now? (2016, filmed in front of roughly 50,000 people at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field), Irresponsible (2019), Zero F**ks Given (2020), Reality Check (2023) and Acting My Age (2025). In 2024 the Kennedy Center awarded him the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the most established institutional honor in the field, one year after Adam Sandler and one year before Conan O’Brien. The economics of that side of the business — arena touring plus a streaming special — is the same model that underwrites most modern comedy fortunes, including Tom Segura’s.

The awards ledger

He has never been nominated for an Academy Award, and the 2025 Razzie nomination for Borderlands sits in the ledger one year after the Mark Twain Prize, which is a fair summary of how wide his range of outcomes is.

Behind the camera

Hart has produced most of his own vehicles since roughly 2018 through HartBeat, the company formed by merging his production arm with the Laugh Out Loud comedy network. That structure is why he appears as producer on Night School, Fatherhood, Me Time, Lift, 72 Hours and others: he is not only cast in these films, he originates and packages a large share of them.

The financial scale is worth being precise about, because it is the real story behind the net-worth headlines. HartBeat took outside investment and was valued at $650 million in May 2022, a figure that later proved difficult to sustain as the streaming content market contracted. Estimates of Hart’s personal earnings across 2015 to 2025 run past $600 million from all sources combined — touring, film, television, merchandise and endorsements. The gap between that cumulative earnings figure and the $300 to $450 million range quoted for net worth is ordinary: taxes, reinvestment, team costs and the difference between a company’s paper valuation and cash in hand all sit in between. Treat every published net-worth number as an outsider’s estimate, because that is what it is.

The honest criticisms

Two recur, and both are fair. The first is repetition: across a stretch of mid-2010s comedies, the panicked, fast-talking small guy opposite a large calm one became a formula, and by Ride Along 2 it was visibly tired. The second is material selection — Soul Plane, Me Time and Borderlands are weak films that no performance could rescue, and Borderlands in particular was savaged by critics and audiences alike, earning him a Razzie nomination.

72 Hours shows the pattern has not been fully broken. It holds an 18% approval rating from 39 critics on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 4.1 out of 10, and a 41 out of 100 on Metacritic from 15 reviews. Variety’s Todd Gilchrist called it a “mediocre The Hangover knockoff”, while RogerEbert.com’s Robert Daniels was gentler at two and a half stars, granting that there is “some unquestionable charm to seeing Hart’s well-worn comedic impulses collide with a script whose references appear to be just as dated.” The premise — a man confronting his own age — was the most interesting idea he has had in years, and most reviewers felt the execution did not use it.

The counter-argument sits in the same filmography. The Upside, Fatherhood, True Story and Top Five are all work outside the formula, and all four landed better than the safe choices around them. If you have only seen the buddy comedies, you have not really seen the range.

Where to start, depending on what you want

• Best overall entry point: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
• Best pure comedy: Central Intelligence (2016)
• Best drama: Fatherhood (2021)
• Best ensemble: Think Like a Man (2012)
• Best performance in someone else’s good film: Top Five (2014)
• Best stand-up: Laugh at My Pain (2011), with Acting My Age (2025) as the late-career companion piece
• Best television: True Story (2021)
• Best for older kids: The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
• Safe to skip: Soul Plane (2004), Borderlands (2024) and, on the reviews, 72 Hours (2026)

If you follow entertainment careers closely, our profiles of Gabbriette Bechtel and KJ Smith cover other figures whose screen work has broken through recently, and our rundowns of Kendall Jenner’s screen credits and Camila Cabello’s film work take the same filmography-first approach to performers better known for something other than acting.

The recurring collaborators

A striking amount of Hart’s filmography is repeat business with the same handful of people, which is unusual for a comic actor at his volume and explains a lot about the consistency of the output.

The Tim Story relationship deserves particular note, and it has a neat symmetry now. Story directed the two films — Think Like a Man and Ride Along — that took Hart from ensemble player to solo headliner inside two years, then both of their sequels, and then, twelve years after Ride Along, the comedy in which Hart plays a man told he is too old. Very few careers pivot that sharply on one director, and fewer still come back around to the same collaborator to comment on it.

What the numbers say about his standing in 2026

Judged purely commercially, Hart’s position is unusual. He has never headlined a film that grossed half a billion dollars on his own, yet he has appeared in four films that cleared $400 million, and his solo comedies have landed in a narrow $100–155 million band with rare misses. For a studio budgeting a $30–50 million comedy, that predictability is worth more than a single spectacular hit.

The streaming era has reinforced it and obscured it at the same time. Netflix films such as Fatherhood, Me Time, Lift and 72 Hours do not report box office, but they consistently place near the top of the platform’s weekly viewing charts, which is the metric that now determines whether more get commissioned. Critical reception has stopped tracking commercial outcome almost entirely: Lift and 72 Hours both drew poor reviews and both performed for the platform that paid for them. Combined with HartBeat’s production slate and his continuing arena stand-up tours, the film work is one of several revenue lines rather than the only one — which is precisely why he can take drama roles that pay less and carry more risk.

Two things are worth watching. The first is Jumanji: Open World on December 25, 2026, which as the final entry in the series is both his largest theatrical exposure since 2019 and the last scheduled use of the format that produced his two biggest hits. The second is whether the self-aware turn holds. Acting My Age earned a Golden Globe nomination; 72 Hours tried the same idea in a scripted feature and did not convince critics. Hart is 47, the buddy-comedy lane is closing on its own, and the interesting question for the next five years is which version of the older Kevin Hart the material lets him play.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many movies has Kevin Hart been in?

More than 50 feature films since his 2002 debut in Paper Soldiers, counting animated voice roles and his nine stand-up concert films. Around 20 of those are leading or co-leading roles; the rest are supporting parts, mostly from his first decade, which included five bit parts in 2008 alone.

What is Kevin Hart’s newest movie?

72 Hours, a Netflix comedy released on July 24, 2026 after a world premiere at the Paris Theater in Manhattan on July 20. Directed by Tim Story, it casts Hart as Joe, an advertising specialist passed over for promotion for being too old who joins a younger group’s Miami bachelor weekend. The cast includes Marcello Hernández, Mason Gooding, Kam Patterson, Ben Marshall and Teyana Taylor. His next release is Jumanji: Open World, in theaters December 25, 2026.

Is there another Jumanji movie with Kevin Hart?

Yes. Jumanji: Open World opens in US theaters on December 25, 2026. Jake Kasdan directs from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, and it is billed as the fifth and final film in the series. Hart returns as Franklin “Mouse” Finbar alongside Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Awkwafina and Danny DeVito.

What is Kevin Hart’s highest-grossing movie?

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), which took roughly $962 million worldwide. The animated The Secret Life of Pets (2016) is second at about $875 million, and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) third at around $800 million. His recent films have gone to streaming, where no box-office figures are published.

What was Kevin Hart’s first movie?

Paper Soldiers (2002), in which he played Shawn. His first leading role came two years later in Soul Plane (2004), a film that was poorly reviewed and that he has since made a running joke of in his stand-up.

Which Kevin Hart movies are dramas rather than comedies?

Four are worth knowing: The Upside, where he plays a caregiver to Bryan Cranston’s quadriplegic billionaire; Fatherhood (2021), based on Matt Logelin’s memoir of raising his daughter alone after his wife’s death; the Netflix limited series True Story (2021) opposite Wesley Snipes, which won him an NAACP Image Award; and Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist (2024), a Peacock crime miniseries based on a real 1970 Atlanta robbery.

How many movies have Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson made together?

Five by the end of 2026: Central Intelligence (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), the animated DC League of Super-Pets (2022) and Jumanji: Open World (December 2026). Hart also made an uncredited cameo as Air Marshal Dinkley in Johnson’s Hobbs & Shaw in 2019.

What is Kevin Hart’s net worth in 2026?

Published estimates disagree. Celebrity Net Worth listed $300 million as of May 2026, while other outlets have carried figures nearer $450 million. What is better documented is the underlying business: his company HartBeat was valued at $650 million in May 2022, and estimates of his total earnings from all sources between 2015 and 2025 exceed $600 million. Every net-worth figure for a private individual is an outside estimate, not a disclosed number.

Has Kevin Hart won any major awards?

He has won multiple NAACP Image Awards, People’s Choice Awards, MTV Movie & TV Awards and a 2025 Sports Emmy for the Olympics interactive experience, and in 2024 he received the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2026 for the stand-up film Kevin Hart: Acting My Age, and for a Razzie in 2025 for Borderlands. He has never been nominated for an Academy Award.