Michael Douglas

Apex — Fatal Attraction (1987)

26,960 feet (The Death Zone)

13th highest of 105

An enduring, oft-rewatched summit, edging Basic Instinct.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Filmography — by elevation

	Film	Year	Elevation
	Fatal Attraction ▲ apex	1987	26,962 ft
	Basic Instinct	1992	26,952 ft
	The War of the Roses	1989	26,397 ft
	Wall Street	1987	25,977 ft
	Black Rain	1989	25,849 ft
	Romancing the Stone	1984	24,860 ft
	The Jewel of the Nile	1985	24,725 ft
	Traffic	2000	24,296 ft
	The Game	1997	24,016 ft
	Don't Say a Word	2001	23,935 ft
	Falling Down	1993	23,930 ft
	A Perfect Murder	1998	23,753 ft
	The American President	1995	23,610 ft
	Shining Through	1992	23,413 ft
	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	2010	23,317 ft
	Disclosure	1994	23,191 ft
	The Sentinel	2006	23,153 ft
	A Chorus Line	1985	23,075 ft
	The Star Chamber	1983	22,858 ft
	King of California	2007	22,791 ft
	One Day in September	1999	22,783 ft
	The Ghost and the Darkness	1996	22,643 ft
	Solitary Man	2009	22,613 ft
	Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	2011	22,519 ft
	It Runs in the Family	2003	22,505 ft
	Beyond the Reach	2014	22,500 ft
	Wonder Boys	2000	22,412 ft
	Ant-Man	2015	22,247 ft
	And So It Goes	2014	22,161 ft
	The In-Laws	2003	22,012 ft
	Behind the Candelabra	2013	22,011 ft
	Napoleon and Samantha	1972	21,867 ft
	The China Syndrome	1979	21,803 ft
	Coma	1978	21,782 ft
	Animal World	2018	21,668 ft
	It's My Turn	1980	21,468 ft
	Ant-Man and the Wasp	2018	21,359 ft
	The Green Fog	2018	21,243 ft
	Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania	2023	21,236 ft
	Trumbo	2007	21,033 ft
	Last Vegas	2013	21,028 ft
	One Night at McCool's	2001	21,023 ft
	Unlocked	2017	20,965 ft
	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	2009	20,931 ft
	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	2009	20,888 ft
	When Michael Calls	1972	20,861 ft
	You, Me and Dupree	2006	20,757 ft
	Haywire	2011	20,663 ft
	Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon	2013	20,213 ft
	Cast a Giant Shadow	1966	20,139 ft
	Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen	2012	20,139 ft
	Avengers: Endgame	2019	20,139 ft
	Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy	2021	20,139 ft