Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2024 | The Beekeeper (2024) | Wallace Westwyld |
| 2023 | The Flash (2023) | Alfred Pennyworth |
| 2023 | The Cello (2023) | Francesco |
| 2021 | House of Gucci (2021) | Rodolfo Gucci |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) | Alfred Pennyworth |
| 2021 | Munich: The Edge of War | Neville Chamberlain |
| 2019 | The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders | Narrator |
| 2018 | Red Sparrow | General Korchnoi |
| 2018 | An Actor Prepares | Atticus |
| 2018 | Better Start Running | Garrison |
| 2017 | Justice League (2017) | Alfred |
| 2016 | Assassin's Creed | Rikkin |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Alfred |
| 2016 | Race | Avery Brundage |
| 2016 | Their Finest | Secretary of War |
| 2016 | The Sultan and the Saint | Narrator |
| 2015 | High-Rise | Anthony Royal |
| 2015 | The Man Who Knew Infinity | G.H. Hardy |
| 2013 | Beautiful Creatures | Macon Ravenwood |
| 2013 | Night Train to Lisbon | Raimund Gregorius |
| 2012 | The Words | The Old Man |
| 2012 | Trashed | Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Seeds of Freedom | Narrator |
| 2011 | The Last Lions | Narrator |
| 2011 | Margin Call | John Tuld |
| 2009 | The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) | Avellaneda |
| 2009 | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz |
| 2009 | The Power of the Powerless | Narrator |
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Randall Bragg |
| 2006 | Eragon | Brom |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Kingsley |
| 2006 | Eye of the Leopard | Narrator |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Tiberias |
| 2005 | Casanova (2005) | Pucci |
| 2004 | Being Julia | Michael Gosselyn |
| 2004 | William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice | Antonio |
| 2002 | The Time Machine (2002) | Uber-Morlock |
| 2002 | And Now...Ladies and Gentlemen | Valentin |
| 2002 | Callas Forever | Larry Kelly |
| 2001 | The Fourth Angel | Jack Elgin |
| 2000 | Dungeons & Dragons (2000) | Profion |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Aramis |
| 1997 | Lolita (1998) | Humbert Humbert |
| 1997 | Chinese Box | John |
| 1996 | Stealing Beauty | Alex |
| 1995 | Die Hard With a Vengeance | Simon Gruber |
| 1994 | The Lion King (1994) | Scar the Lion |
| 1993 | M. Butterfly | René Gallimard |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Esteban Trueba |
| 1992 | Damage | Dr. Stephen Fleming |
| 1992 | Waterland | Tom Crick |
| 1991 | Kafka | Kafka |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow |
| 1989 | Danny, the Champion of the World | William Smith |
| 1989 | Australia (1989) | Edouard Pierson |
| 1988 | Dead Ringers (1988) | Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle |
| 1986 | The Mission (1986) | Gabriel |
| 1984 | Swann in Love | Charles Swann |
| 1983 | The Wild Duck | Harold |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) | Charles Henry Smithson/Mike |
| 1980 | Nijinsky | Mikhail Fokine |
| 1978 | Langrishe, Go Down | Otto Beck |
