The 12 Best Dakota Johnson Movies, Ranked

by Audrey Fox-Jul 28, 2025

The 12 Best Dakota Johnson Movies, Ranked

As one of Hollywood's most dazzling "Star II" (which we say is not derogatory), Dakota Johnson was born under the halo of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, and was destined to have the opportunity to enter the entertainment industry from birth.Although she has experienced some ups and downs and controversies in her career (such as the polar reviews triggered by the "The Legend of the Demon Spider" and "The Fifty Shadows of Gray" series), she has also won the audience's love for many wonderful works.

Johnson has a relaxed and natural charm and a slightly ironic sense of humor that impresses her no matter what movie she appears in.She has been in the industry for fifteen years (not including her childhood guest appearance in "Crazy Alabama" starring her mother in 1999), and she has accumulated rich performance experience.So, among her many works, which ones are the most worth watching?Some are high-profile blockbusters, while others are low-key but moving independent productions, but without exception, they are all the most representative works of Dakota Johnson.

"Five Years of Love": A Love interrupted by reality

Sometimes, a relationship does not develop as you wish.I originally planned to enter the marriage hall with a reasonable time, but the promise was torn apart by the trivialities of life.In the romantic comedy "Five Years of Inclusion", a happy engagement couple played by Jason Segel and Emily Blunt encounter such a dilemma.

The two of them separated and tried to live their own lives at one point. Tom (Segel) moved to San Francisco to work as a sous chef in a restaurant and met Audrey, a restaurant hostess played by Dakota Johnson.While the relationship is destined to be short-lived--it is a romantic comedy after all, and the protagonist must try to get back together--Johnson shows her unique charm and delicate emotional expression in her limited scenes.

The film has had a moderate success at the box office, and what is more remembered now is that it brings together new faces that later became comedy superstars, including Chris Pratt, Alison Brie and Kumail Nanjiani.

"Black Mass": The Tenderness Behind Sin

Somerville, a suburb of Boston, has long been swallowed up by modernization, but in the 1970s it was once a heavy gangster force, especially the Winter Hill community, ruled by the infamous Whitey Bulger.

In Black Mass, Johnny Depp vividly portrays the ruthless Irish gangster leader, while Dakota Johnson plays his girlfriend Lindsay, a gentle yet tough woman.Lindsay and their son Douglas are the only existence Whitey can evoke human emotions.

The video shows the fragility and struggle deep inside Bulger through Douglas' unfortunate death due to aspirin allergy.The film received widespread praise, and Depp was nominated for the Best Actor Award at the American Actors Union Awards, and many people even believed that he should be nominated for the Oscar.

"The Queen's Little Assistant": A Symphony of Dreams and Companionship

In this warm and moving musical drama, Tracee Ellis Ross plays a legend R who is in a trough of his career.