60 Rita Moreno Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Considered as the ‘greatest musical,’ the film depicts silent era’s popular on-screen pair Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont who are perceived as real-life couple by many, including Lina. When their movie is transformed into a musical, Don sails through beautifully, while Lina’s shrill voice is secretly dubbed by Kathy Selden whom Don is dating. What happens when Lina finds out the truth? 

In the summer of 1957, two rival Manhattan gangs, Jets led by Riff and the other, Sharks led by Bernardo fight for control over West Side's Lincoln Square neighborhood. They decide to have a rumble at an upcoming dance to determine who gets control but Riff’s brother, Tony, falls in love with Bernardo’s sister Maria. 

Academy Awards-winning film follows the widowed Welsh teacher Anna Leonowen who is appointed English tutor for the children of King Mongkut of Siam. Their different outlooks lead to frequent conflicts as King frowns on influence of foreign culture. She convinces the King to host the visiting British delegation in European style and helps make preparation. Despite their differences, eventually Anna earns his respect. 

Carnal Knowledge is a comedy drama film which revolves around two college roommates named Sandy and Jonathan, who becomes good friends. However, their personalities are quite different. While Sandy is gentle and passive, and idolizes women, Jonathan is tough and aggressive, and objectifies them. But what they have in common is that neither of them are able to sustain a relationship with a woman.

The Kettles are a rural family who are invited by Jonathan and Elizabeth Parker, the wealthy parents of their daughter-in-law, on a vacation. They set out to France by air, but things get complicated when they get involved with a gang that is in pursuit of an envelop that is in their possession.

Tony falls for Maria after spotting her a high school dance. Their romance worsens the war between the two rival gangs – the Jets and the Sharks.  

Hard-working Puerto Rican widower, Abraham Rodriguez, is unable to provide his sons a decent life away from the violent Spanish Harlem neighborhood. After witnessing the good treatment given to Cuban exiles, he hatches a plot to set his sons adrift in a boat off Miami Beach, hoping that they’ll be rescued and adopted as Cuban escapees. Do the boys find wealthy homes?

The Toast of New Orleans is a musical drama film which tells the story of a humble and simple fisherman from the Louisiana Bayou, who becomes New Orleans’s most loved opera singer. 

Father Junipero Serra, a Catholic missionary, joins a group of soliders on a quest to find the seven cities of gold. Although Serra himself has no real desire for treasures, he wants to perform missionary work and gain new converts.

Set in 1847, during the Great Famine, the film revolves around Katie O’Neill, and her husband, who immigrates to a troubled South Africa, where the former runs into an old flame. 

A young woman named Alice Parker, arrives at the trading outpost of Rio Galdez, searching for her fiance, who had gone missing while on his quest of gold.  She is soon aided by a jungle trader.

Angus is an overweight teen boy who is quite insecure about himself because of the fact that he is fat, although he is quite good at science and football. He has a huge crush on a beautiful schoolmate named Melissa, but he is too shy, and feels that he has no chance with her. Rick, the guy whom she is dating, rigs an election, so that Melissa beings up Angus’s dance partner at the Winter Ball.

When Major Ives, who had earlier ordered an attack causing Cheyenne massacre, defies the treaty and plans the construction of a fortress on the Cheyenne territory, Chief Fireknife sends a yellow tomahawk as warning of war through scout Adam Reed. Ignoring it, Ives refuses to move women and children to safety. However, when Cheyenne strike to take revenge on Ives, he reveals a surprising secret. 

Slums of Beverley Hills is a comedy drama film which tells the story of Vivian, a teenager, who lives in Beverley Hills, along with her poor family. Their lives start to change after Rita, her wealthy cousin, starts staying with them.  

Dick and Carey are two brothers from North Dakota, who do not believe in law and order. They eventually flee to Canada and join the Royal Police, but they continue to break the law.

This musical romance film takes us to 1461, and tells the story of several French nobles, who join forces with the rebellious Duke of Burgundy, and plan to overthrow the King. Soon they decide to enlist the help of Francois Villon, the leader of the Vagabonds, a vigilante group that is known to rob the rich in order to help the poor people.

Being a millionaire, she fears that men are more interested in her money than her.  Although her current boyfriend is wealthier she is still not convinced; nonetheless follows him to Brazil, when he goes there to play polo, fearing he may fall for some beautiful Latin woman. But there she meets a dashing Brazilian, who sweeps her off her feet.

To ensure peace between a land baron and ranchers, the governor of Texas sends a cowboy, Mike McGann. Upon arrival, he realises that Judd Hastings, the rancher he was sent to help, is actually forcing everyone out of the place and illegally seizing their cattle.

Blu, Jewel and their three children move from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon rainforests. As Blu, accustomed to city life, tries to acclimate in Amazon, he encounters his revenge-seeking old foe, Nigel and also, has to deal with his intimidating father-in-law, Eduardo. Besides, the habitat is threatened by illegal woodcutters out to destroy the life-forms. Can the couple avert this crisis?