38 Hilary Swank Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Maggie Fitzgerald, a poor waitress, asks old gym owner Frankie Dunn to train her, but he refuses. Maggie is encouraged to train at his gym by his associate Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris and eventually convinces Dunn with her determination. Maggie, who has a dysfunctional family, and Dunn, whose daughter is estranged, gradually fill the voids in each other's lives.

The Freedom Writers is a 2007 American drama film which is based on a book titled The Freedom Writers Diary. The film tells the story of a young teacher who inspires her students to learn tolerance as well as apply themselves and pursue education beyond high education. 

The horrifically tragic story depicts the life of a young transgender man Brandon Teena, who was born Teena Renae Brandon and is forced to leave his hometown under threat. Although he later finds love with Lana, two of his ex-convict friends, find out the truth about his gender with violent consequences.  

You’re Not You is a drama film which revolves around a classical pianist Kate Parker, who gets diagnosed with ALS. As she needs a caregiver, a brash college girl named Bec, who likes partying applies for the job, despite her lack of experience.  Despite all her flaws, Kate decides to keep Bec as her caregiver  and soon a bond develops between the two.  

LAPD detectives Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart come to Nightmute, Alaska, to assist in the investigations of the murder of a 17-year-old teenage girl, but while trying to entrap prime suspect Walter Finch, Dormer accidentally shoots Eckhart. With young local detective Ellie Burr investigating Eckhart's death, insomniac Dormer becomes an easy pawn in Finch's psychological game.

When Betty Anne’s brother Kenny gets a life sentence for murder, Betty vows to overturn his conviction. A school drop-out and a working mother, she resolutely completes schooling, and joins law school to re-open the case, though it takes her years. With her friend, Abra, she digs out all available evidence, takes help of forensic investigation to fight for her brother’s freedom. 

In a small American suburb, Middletown, apparently random yet interconnected series of incidents involving different sets of people come together at exactly the same time during early hours of night. The unrelated and peculiar stories of 5 different groups of people, though not connected at first, converge to revolve around 2 automobile accidents, both happening at 11:14.  

After her husband Gerry dies of a brain tumor, Holly loses the will to live despite attempts by family members and friends to cheer her up. However, starting on her 30th birthday, she begins receiving a series of messages from Gerry that he had previously prepared to guide her towards a journey of rediscovery.

Laid off from his tunnel construction job under the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jimmy Logan teams up with his war veteran brother Clyde, who has lost his lower arm in Iraq, to rob the Speedway. For help, they enlist their hairstylist sister Mellie, safe-cracker Joe Bang, now in jail, and Joe's dimwitted brothers, Sam and Fish. But very soon a mix up forces them to put off the operation. 

Clairvoyant Annie Wilson receives a vision that the local school principal Wayne’s fiancée Jessica, who had recently disappeared has actually been murdered. She informs the sheriff Johnson who finds the body in Donnie Barksdale’s pond. Donnie is convicted but then Annie receives another vision that he is innocent and the true murderer is still free. 

I am Mother is a science fiction dystopian thriller film which takes us to a future where the human race has become extinct. In an automated bunker, a robot named Mother cares for a human child over several years. However, the young girl Daughter is not allowed to go into the outside world, as Mother claims that it is quite lethal and toxic. Daughter’s curiosity about the outside world continues to grow, and their lives take a turn when a woman appears outside the bunker and asks for assistance.     

In 1854, strong and independent spinster Mary Bee Cuddy takes on the responsibility of transporting three mentally unstable women in a covered wagon to a church in Iowa, but soon realizes how formidable the task can be. When she saves the life of a claim jumper George Briggs, she asks him to help her transport the women through the perilous harsh Nebraskan territory. 

Birds of America is a comedy drama film which tells the story of Morrie, who had to raise his siblings by himself, after their parents pass away. Over the years, he tries to manage his own difficult life, as well as to make amends for his troublemaking siblings. While his sister Ida is now jobless, and sleeps around with strangers, his brother is having lots of problems in his marriage with Betty.

The Affair of the Necklace is a historical romantic drama film which takes us to a pre-Revolutionary France, and it revolves around a young aristocratic woman who is left penniless by the political unrest happening in her country. Along with a gigolo, her husband and a count, she tries to come up with a scheme to steal a priceless necklace, so that she can buy back her family home.

Amelia Earhart is recruited to be the first woman who will fly over the Atlantic Ocean. However, she is disappointed to see that she did not get the fame she deserves. Therefore, she attempts to make a flight around the world, but unfortunately, she disappears while flying over the Pacific Ocean.

The film depicts several intertwined stories involving varied incidents and emotions experienced by different individuals on the night of the New Year’s Eve and highlights different human elements such as love, hope, and forgiveness, second chance and promise. Second of the three romantic comedy films directed by Garry Marshall, it was a huge box office success.

LAPD Detectives Dwight ‘Bucky’ Bleichert and Lee Blanchard become obsessed with solving the murder of Elizabeth Short, who is nicknamed The Black Dahlia. Things get complicated when Lee ends up getting murdered and Bucky becomes involved with a wealthy woman named Madeleine who bears a striking resemblance to Elizabeth.  

After her family is killed in Sudan, Catholic missionary Katherine Winter loses her faith, and works to disprove religious phenomena. She is sent to small town of Haven, Louisiana, to investigate series of strange occurrences, seemingly representing biblical plagues. She is determined to find logical reasoning; but what confronts her defies scientific explanations. She must re-claim her faith to fight the evil forces.

Buffy Summers is a cheerleader and a popular girl in her school. She eventually comes to know that she belongs to a long line of vampire hunters. Now, she has to eradicate a nest of vampires in Los Angeles.   

A series of bizarre activities across the globe lead the scientists to discover that the earth’s magnetic field has become instable due to lack of movement in the earth’s molten core and the only way to save the earth is to restart its movement.  So a team of experts drill down into the earth in order to resume the core’s rotation by setting off five nuclear explosions. 

Recently separated from boyfriend Jack, ER surgeon Juliet Devereau is surprised to get the apartment of handsome, lonely owner Max at a bargain. Still in love with Jack, yet attracted towards Max, she is soon confronted with strange, unsettling events, and a feeling that she is not alone. Juliet is horrified as she discovers the secrets behind the walls of her apartment.