The 12 Best Robert Redford Movies to Celebrate an Eternal Icon

7. Jeremiah Johnson (Jeremiah Johnson, 1972)

In this existential western, Redford plays a war veteran who decides to abandon civilization to live as a mountain man. It’s a film about survival, loneliness, and the brutal confrontation between man and wild nature. One of his most physical and introspective performances.

A curiosity is that a scene from this film became famous on the internet for showing Redford nodding positively.