74 Nicole Kidman Movie Performances, Ranked Best to Worst

Five year old Saroo lives with his poor family and steals coal with his elder brother Guddu to fulfil his family’s needs. One day, while out on work, he gets separated from his brother and accidentally reaches Kolkata. After months of struggle, he finds himself in an orphanage from where he is adopted by an Australian couple. When he grows up, he decides to look for his real family.

In a remote country house, Grace Stewart awaits the return of her husband from WWII while bringing up her two photosensitive children with strict discipline. Her peaceful life is shattered when a trio of new servants join in. Strange thing begin to happen and her daughter starts interacting with an unknown boy. Grace must overcome her fears and find the truth.

After they lost their son in a car crash, a Navy officer and his wife set out for a vacation alone on their yacht. While on sea, they see a drifting boat with a stranger on it, asking for help, claiming that his ship is sinking and his mates are all dead. Skeptical about his story, the officer boards the abandoned ship alone, leaving his wife with the stranger. 

Set in the Civil War era, Cold Mountain is a period drama that revolves around a Confederate soldier as he makes an epic journey back to his beloved, who is also trying to rebuild her life in the face of trouble and danger. Starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger, it is a touching saga of love and war.

Christian, a depressed young English writer comes to Paris to join the Bohemian movement and falls in love with Satine, the star courtesan of the cabaret Moulin Rouge. However, a love triangle emerges as she is also coveted by the Duke of Monroth, to whom the night club's owner has promised Satine in exchange for his patronage.

Grace Mulligan is given refuge from gangsters by the people of Dogville, an American town, in exchange for doing small chores. But things take a darker turn when chores turn into torture and rape. When Grace finally accepts her identity of being the gang leader’s daughter she burns the town and its people to the ground. 

To Die For is a black comedy crime film, which tells the story of Suzanne, a beautiful but naive girl, who is willing to do anything to achieve her career dreams of becoming a television newscaster. She is even willing to destroy anything or anyone that stands in her way, regardless of the cost or means.   

Cardiothoracic surgeon Steven Murphy leads a happy life with his wife Annie, teenage daughter Kim, and younger son Bob. When Steven introduces teenager Martin to the family, one by one everyone in Steven’s family starts falling ill and nearing death. As Martin’s connection to Steven’s past is revealed, things take a much darker turn. 

The movie revolves around the lives of three women of three different generations, Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf. Their lives are interconnected by Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway. The movie unfolds the personal struggles of each woman in the span of a single day in different decades ending with transcendent revelations. 

Coming to Australia weeks before WWII, English woman Sarah Ashley finds her husband murdered and learns from half-Aboriginal child Nullah how administrator Neil Fletcher steals cattle from her farm. She travels for miles through dangerous desert with few loyal employees and an independent cattle drover to sell 1,500 cattle to army in Darwin competing with a cattle baron.

After his wife confesses to having sexual fantasies about a stranger, reputable physician Bill Hartford strolls through the streets of night desperately searching for random sexual encounters, and eventually sneaks into an invite-only masked party full of temptations. Despite his disguise, he is recognized and confronted for the misadventure, which puts his entire family in danger.

Half human-half Atlantean Arthur, learns that he is the legitimate king of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis. However, Atlantis is under his half-brother Orm who aims to join the seven underwater forces in a battle against those living on land. Arthur, along with Mera, must now find Trident of Atlan to reclaim his kingship and avert a possible war. But Orm is pursuing them. 

Based on the autobiography of British Army Officer Eric Lomax. During WWII, Lomax, a POW at Japanese labor camp, was tortured by a Japanese officer after the secret radio that Lomax built was discovered. Years later, learning that his tormentor is still alive, Lomax’s wife, Patti, who wishes to free her husband of his past pains, coaxes him to confront the man.

Irish tenant farmer, Joseph Donnelly, who tries to seek justice from his oppressive landlord, finds himself accompanying landlord’s disgruntled daughter Shannon as they travel to the US to acquire land of their dreams. Joseph starts earning as a bare-fisted boxer, but they fall on hard times and subsequently, face separation. After an arduous journey of ups-and-downs they succeed in realizing their dreams.

Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah find themselves trapped in a secret panic room, built inside their new apartment. On their first night, they must survive a home invasion by three men Raoul, Burnham, and Junior, who are after the US $3 million in bearer bonds hidden in the panic room.

India Stoker’s world comes tumbling down when her loving father Richard passes away in a car accident on her 18th birthday. Things get even more complicated when her previously unknown uncle Charlie comes to take care of the family. Sinister motives and revelations about Charlie will change India Stoker forever. 

Christine Lucas wakes up every day with no memory because of anterograde amnesia and can’t retain new memories. Every morning she has to get reacquainted with her husband Ben. As Christine starts keeping a video diary at the advice of her doctor she uncovers horrifying truths about her past and starts to doubt everyone around her. 

Silvia Broome, who grew up in South Africa, is an expert in various languages and thus works as an interpreter in the United Nations. One day, she accidentally overhears a conversation around a plan to kill the African dictator Zuwanie who is accused of genocide. Secret Service agent Keller and Woods are tasked to protect him. Keller, however has his doubts about Silvia’s claim and intention.

Rabbit Hole is an American drama film, which tells the story of a couple who tries to deal with the grief caused by their four-year-old son’s death. While the husband starts attending a self-help group, the wife finds solace in Jason, the teenage driver of the car that killed their son. 

Sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are witches. Their family curse dictates that any man they fall in love with will die an untimely death. Sally suffers the fate and so does Gillian when her abusive boyfriend Jimmy dies. After they use a forbidden spell, Jimmy’s spirit returns with the intention of ending the Owens family. 

After being cheated by his fiancée, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee began posing as an unhappily married man to get into no-strings-attached relationships with beautiful women. He falls for a young woman named Palmer, and instead of telling her the truth, creates a web of lies by convincing his loyal assistant Katherine to pose as his cheating wife.

A former detective reinvestigates her daughter's death after her friend, a former FBI agent, finds some new clues thirteen years later. The American thriller-mystery is a remake of a 2009 Argentine film of the same name, both of which are based on a novel.

In a parallel universe where the ruling power detests free thinkers, an unknown group is kidnapping children. An orphan joins a bunch of sailors, on their way to the far North, to look for the missing children. This fantasy adventure is based on the 1995 book Northern Lights.

Birth is a mystery drama film, which revolves around Anna, a widow who decides to move on in life after her husband passes away. She gets engaged to a man named Joseph, but things take a turn when she meets a young boy claiming to be her former husband reborn. 

Coleman, a lecturer in a college, is suspended after he passes a racist comment. He soon begins a romance with a mysterious younger woman who is haunted by her dark and twisted past.

Based on Pete Dexter’s 1995 novel, which in turn was inspired by a true story, the film follows a Miami reporter, who returns to his hometown in Florida to exonerate a death row inmate on the request of his girlfriend. She has fallen in love with the convict after exchanging letter with him without ever meeting him face to face.              

A US Army Colonel, Thomas Devoe, and Julia Kelly, a nuclear expert, is on a mission to find a set of Russian nuclear weapons which are believed to be stolen by terrorists. 

This 2007 sci-fi horror film revolves around a psychiatrist who discovers an epidemic caused by a space shuttle crash that turns human beings around her into emotional beings. She soon discovers that her sign might be a key to prevent this epidemic from spreading further. 

Racer Cole Trickle wants to join the Indianapolis 500; but does not have a suitable car. Meanwhile, he is hired to race for Tim Daland’s team in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and develops rivalry with Rowdy Burns, which culminates into an accident during Firecracker 400. Later, howeve,r they develop close friendship and Rowdy offers Cole his car to race the Daytona 500 against Russ Wheeler.

Guido Contini, the gifted Italian film director, has only few days before he starts his new ambitious venture, but he doesn’t have a story for it yet. With his personal and professional life in chaos, he escapes to a resort and desperately tries to find an inspiration from his relationships with various women…..his wife, his mistress, his agent, his muse and mother.

Monte Carlo is a comedy film, which revolves around three young women, who are vacationing in Paris, but find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo, after one of them is mistaken for a British heiress. 

A superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman, the movie focuses on Batman trying to stop the villainous Two-Face and the Riddler from implementing their malicious scheme of stealing confidential information that could threaten Gotham city’s freedom. 

Successful reality show executive producer Joanna Eberhart relocates with her husband and children to the Connecticut suburb of Stepford after an attempted shootout by a disheartened participant. There she finds the wives to be rather insipid, shallow and overly obedient. Soon, she starts suspecting that everything is not right. 

The Millers, diamond dealer Kyle, his architect wife Sarah, and teenage daughter Avery, are an affluent family. One night four hooded criminals invade their mansion and take them hostage for their cash and diamonds. Kyle, the only one who knows the safe’s combination, tries to negotiate, as he is aware that their lives will be in danger once the thieves get the combination.

Narcissistic actor, Jack Wyatt ,is asked to play the role of Darrin in the movie version of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched. He convinces a completely unknown and inexperienced Isabel to play the other lead, Samantha. Little does he know Isabel is an actual witch and he is about to be bewitched into love.  

After an earthquake destroys his home, a rare Peruvian bear belonging to a species that can learn to speak English arrives in London in search of a new home. Named Paddington, the bear soon finds a home with the Browns but taxidermist, Millicent Clyde, wants to kill and stuff Paddington to become rich and famous. 

Male emperor penguins need to sing to attract a female for mating. However, Mumble is quite a disappointment in this field. Instead, he tap dances very well which appeals to Gloria, the object of his affection. But the elders despise it and consider this anomaly to be the cause of the recent fish shortage. Exiled, Mumble sets out to discover the root cause of the problem.