| Year | Film | Role |
| 2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Charles Hatton |
| 2001 | AI: Artificial Intelligence | Specialist |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | Major Caterpillar |
| 2001 | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank |
| 1983 | Betrayal | Robert |
| 2005 | BloodRayne | Kagan |
| 1991 | Bugsy | Meyer Lansky |
| 2008 | China’s Stolen Children | Narrator |
| 1993 | Dave | Vice President Gary Nance |
| 1994 | Death and the Maiden | Dr. Roberto Miranda |
| 2008 | Elegy | David Kepesh |
| 1972 | Fear Is The Key | |
| 2008 | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Fergus |
| 1992 | Freddie as F.R.O.7 | Freddie The Frog |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Mohandas Gandhi |
| Harem | Selim | |
| 2003 | House of Sand and Fog | Massoud Behrani |
| 2011 | Hugo Cabret[25] | Georges Méliès |
| 2000 | Islam: Empire of Faith | Narrator |
| 1995 | Joseph | Potiphar |
| 2009 | Journey to Mecca | Narrator |
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | The Rabbi |
| 1987 | Maurice | Lasker-Jones |
| 1995 | Moses | Moses |
| 2005 | Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower |
| 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Simon Wiesenthal |
| 2009 | Noah’s Ark: The New Beginning | Narrator |
| 2005 | Oliver Twist | Fagin |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Geoff Craven |
| 1988 | Pascali’s Island | Basil Pascali |
| 1997 | Photographing Fairies | Minister Templeton |
| 2010 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time[23] | Nizam |
| 2000 | Rules of Engagement | Ambassador Mourain |
| 1993 | Schindler’s List | Itzhak Stern |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Bruce Pandolfini |
| 2001 | Sexy Beast | Don Logan |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Dr. John Cawley |
| 1985 | Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe | Silas Marner |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Cosmo |
| 1995 | Species | Xavier Fitch |
| 2004 | Suspect Zero | Benjamin O’Ryan |
| 2011 | Taj[26] | Shah Jahan |
| 2010 | Teen Patti | Perci Trachtenberg |
| 1988 | Testimony — The Story of Shostakovich | Dmitri Shostakovich |
| 1990 | The 5th Monkey | Cunda |
| 1997 | The Assignment | Amos |
| 1999 | The Confession | Harry Fertig |
| 2007 | The Last Legion | Ambrosinus |
| 2008 | The Love Guru | Guru Tugginmypudha |
| 1987 | The Secret of the Sahara | Sholomon |
| 2006 | The Sopranos | Himself |
| 1998 | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd |
| 2007 | The Ten Commandments | Narrator |
| 2002 | The Triumph of Love | Hermocrates |
| 2008 | The Wackness | Dr. Squires |
| 2004 | Thunderbirds | The Hood |
| 2008 | Transsiberian | Grinko |
| 2002 | Tuck Everlasting | Man in the Yellow Suit |
| 1986 | Turtle Diary | William Snow |
| 1996 | Twelfth Night | Feste |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Walken |
| 1997 | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Julian Messenger |
| 2000 | What Planet Are YOU From? | Graydon |
| 2010 | Whispers Like Thunder[24] | Vice President Charles Curtis |
| 1988 | Without a Clue | Dr. John Watson |
| 2007 | You Kill Me | Frank Falenczyk |