Nicole Kidman Movies: Release Order
Nicole Kidman's international career began with the Australian thriller Dead Calm, which showcased her ability to carry intense, psychological material. Her Hollywood breakthrough followed a year later with Days of Thunder, leading to a string of diverse roles throughout the 1990s that established her range across action, romance, and dark comedy.
The 2000s marked her transformation into one of cinema's most respected actresses. Her Oscar-winning performance as Virginia Woolf in The Hours cemented her dramatic credentials, while she continued taking risks with auteur directors like Lars von Trier and Stanley Kubrick. From blockbusters like Aquaman to challenging independent films, Kidman has maintained an impressive balance between commercial and artistic projects, earning multiple Oscar nominations and consistently working with acclaimed filmmakers.
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Dead Calm
An Australian couple on a healing sailing trip encounters a disturbed survivor from a sinking ship, leading to a deadly psychological thriller on the open ocean.
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Days of Thunder
A talented but unproven stock car driver gets his big break and, under the guidance of a veteran crew chief, quickly makes a name for himself on the NASCAR circuit. When a dangerous rivalry with a fellow racer leads to a devastating crash, he must overcome both physical injuries and psychological barriers to get back behind the wheel.
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Flirting
Two free-spirited teenagers at separate boarding schools challenge their authoritarian teachers while navigating the complexities of young love and rebellion against conformity.
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Billy Bathgate
Set in 1935, a teenage boy becomes involved with notorious gangster Dutch Schultz while experiencing first love in Depression-era New York.
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Far and Away
A young Irish couple flees to America during the 1893 Oklahoma Land Rush, seeking a new life and free land. They must overcome harsh conditions, betrayal, and her family's attempts to bring her back home.
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Malice
A happily married couple's lives are turned upside down when the wife requires emergency surgery from an arrogant doctor with a god complex.
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My Life
A successful man's life is turned upside down when he's diagnosed with terminal cancer just as his wife is expecting their first child. With only months to live, he begins making video recordings to share his wisdom and love with the child he may never meet.
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Batman Forever
Batman must stop two dangerous villains, Two-Face and the Riddler, who threaten Gotham City while he navigates a new romance with psychologist Chase Meridian.
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To Die For
Suzanne Stone is an ambitious woman determined to become a famous news anchor, and she'll stop at nothing to achieve her goal. Her ruthless pursuit of fame leads her to manipulate and destroy anyone who stands in her way.
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The Portrait of a Lady
A spirited young American woman inherits wealth and independence, allowing her to explore Europe and form new relationships, but she gradually discovers how her fortune affects the people around her.
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The Peacemaker
A nuclear specialist and a Special Forces Colonel must work together to recover stolen atomic warheads after a mysterious train crash in the former Soviet Union reveals a deadly conspiracy.
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Practical Magic
Two sisters from a magical family must use their inherited witchcraft powers when a dangerous situation threatens their lives and their family's legacy.
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Eyes Wide Shut
After his wife confesses to having sexual fantasies about another man, a New York doctor becomes obsessed with exploring his own desires and discovers a mysterious underground world of sexual intrigue.
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Moulin Rouge!
A young poet falls into the glamorous world of Paris's infamous Moulin Rouge nightclub and begins a passionate romance with its most celebrated star. This musical celebration of love and creativity unfolds at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Others
A deeply religious woman living in a darkened house with her two light-sensitive children begins to suspect their home is haunted by mysterious supernatural forces.
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Birthday Girl
A lonely banker's life is turned upside down when he marries a Russian mail-order bride, only to discover that his new wife comes with unexpected and dangerous complications.
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The Hours
Three women from different time periods are connected by their shared struggles with depression and their search for meaning in life. Their stories interweave across decades, exploring themes of identity, creativity, and the impact of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway.
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Dogville
A woman fleeing from criminals seeks refuge in a small Colorado town, where the residents agree to hide her in exchange for her labor, but their protection comes with unexpected costs.
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The Human Stain
A respected professor's career is destroyed after an innocent comment is misconstrued as racist, leading him into a complicated affair with a troubled younger woman while harboring a life-changing secret about his identity.
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Cold Mountain
Set during the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier deserts his unit and embarks on a dangerous journey across the South to return to his beloved wife, who struggles to maintain their farm with the help of a mysterious drifter.
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The Stepford Wives
A woman moves to the seemingly perfect suburban town of Stepford, where she discovers the disturbing secret behind the unnaturally flawless behavior of the local wives.
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Birth
A woman preparing to remarry ten years after her husband's death encounters a young boy who claims to be her deceased husband reincarnated, possessing uncanny knowledge about their past life together.
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The Interpreter
A United Nations interpreter overhears an assassination plot and must work with a Secret Service agent to prevent it from being carried out.
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Bewitched
An egotistical actor gets more than he bargained for when he casts what he believes is an unknown actress in a TV remake of "Bewitched," not realizing she's actually a real witch.
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
A fictionalized account of photographer Diane Arbus's artistic awakening in 1958 New York, as a privileged housewife discovers her passion for photography through an encounter with a mysterious neighbor.
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The Invasion
A Washington D.C. psychologist discovers an alien virus from a crashed space shuttle that transforms people into emotionless drones while they sleep. She must race to save her son, who may hold the key to stopping the epidemic before humanity is lost.
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Margot at the Wedding
A sharp-tongued short story writer unexpectedly arrives at her estranged sister's wedding at the family seaside home, leading to a brutally honest examination of complicated family relationships.
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The Golden Compass
A young orphan girl named Lyra embarks on an epic adventure to the far North after discovering a dangerous secret, accompanied by her shape-shifting daemon companion in a parallel world where people's souls exist as animal companions.
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Australia
An English aristocrat inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly partners with a rugged stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across the unforgiving landscape. Set against the backdrop of World War II, their journey becomes a test of survival and unexpected romance.
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Nine
A self-absorbed Italian film director struggles with creative block and personal relationships while desperately trying to complete his latest project with only a week left before filming begins.
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Rabbit Hole
A grieving couple struggles to cope and rebuild their relationship after the tragic accidental death of their young son.
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Just Go with It
A plastic surgeon enlists his assistant to pose as his fake wife to impress a younger woman, but their elaborate deception spirals out of control during a weekend getaway in Hawaii.
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Trespass
A wealthy couple's marriage is tested when four masked intruders break into their gated home demanding cash and diamonds from their safe. As the husband tries to negotiate with the robbers, dark secrets from both the family's and the criminals' pasts begin to surface.
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The Paperboy
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate, uncovering dark secrets in the swampy South.
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Stoker
After her father's death, a teenage girl becomes fascinated with her mysterious uncle Charlie who comes to live with her and her unstable mother. As she grows suspicious of his true motives, she finds herself drawn to his dark charm rather than repelled by it.
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The Railway Man
Based on a true story, a World War II veteran who survived the brutal construction of the "Death Railway" embarks on a journey to confront those responsible for his wartime torture.
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Grace of Monaco
Former Hollywood star Grace Kelly faces a crisis of identity as Princess of Monaco during a tense political dispute between her husband Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle in the early 1960s.
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Before I Go to Sleep
A woman suffering from memory loss wakes up each day unable to remember her past due to a traumatic accident. As she begins to uncover disturbing truths about her condition, she starts to question whether those closest to her can be trusted.
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Paddington
A polite young Peruvian bear arrives in London searching for a new home and finds temporary refuge with the kindly Brown family after getting lost at Paddington Station.
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Strangerland
When a couple's two teenage children mysteriously disappear in a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are consumed by suspicion and torment as they search for answers.
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Queen of the Desert
A biographical drama chronicling the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, a British explorer, writer, and archaeologist who became instrumental in shaping the political landscape of the Middle East in the early 20th century. Her deep understanding of tribal cultures and politics helped establish the modern kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
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Secret in Their Eyes
A team of FBI investigators is torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered, leading to a devastating personal investigation.
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The Family Fang
A brother and sister return to their childhood home to search for their world-famous artist parents who have mysteriously vanished.
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Genius
Set in 1920s New York, this biographical drama follows legendary editor Max Perkins as he discovers and nurtures a brilliant but chaotic unknown writer, transforming a massive manuscript into literary gold.
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Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy becomes lost in Calcutta and is eventually adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, he embarks on a determined quest to find his birth family using modern technology and childhood memories.
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties
In 1970s London, a teenage outsider falls in love with a rebellious alien girl who has come to Earth for a party, leading them to navigate intergalactic culture and first love together.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
A renowned cardiovascular surgeon's perfect family life becomes increasingly disturbed when a mysterious teenager begins inserting himself into their world in unsettling ways.
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The Beguiled
During the Civil War, the women at a Southern girls' boarding school take in an injured Union soldier, leading to escalating sexual tension and dangerous rivalries that threaten to tear their secluded world apart.
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Destroyer
A damaged detective confronts her troubled past when she's forced to revisit a disastrous undercover assignment that destroyed her life years earlier.
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Boy Erased
A 19-year-old son of a Baptist pastor faces an ultimatum from his family after being outed: attend gay conversion therapy or be permanently exiled from everyone he knows.
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Aquaman
Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry embarks on an epic journey to discover his true destiny and determine if he's worthy of ruling the underwater kingdom of Atlantis.
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The Goldfinch
After his mother dies in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a young boy is taken in by a wealthy family and becomes entangled with a stolen masterpiece painting. The film follows his journey as the painting draws him into unexpected and dangerous circumstances.
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Bombshell
A drama about the women who exposed sexual harassment at Fox News, leading to the downfall of media mogul Roger Ailes.
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The Upside
A wealthy quadriplegic man hires a struggling ex-convict as his caretaker, leading to an unexpected friendship that transforms both their lives.
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The Prom
When a conservative Indiana high school bans same-sex couples from prom, a group of Broadway performers arrives to support two lesbian students and fight for inclusion.

Being the Ricardos
A behind-the-scenes look at one tumultuous week in the lives of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as they navigate professional and personal challenges that threaten both their hit show and their marriage.

The Northman
A Viking prince seeks revenge against his uncle who murdered his father and kidnapped his mother decades earlier. This brutal tale of vengeance follows Amleth's relentless quest to fulfill his destiny and reclaim his family's honor.
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Black Manta seeks revenge against Aquaman for his father's death, wielding the powerful Black Trident to become a formidable threat. To defend Atlantis from this new menace, Arthur must forge an unlikely alliance with his imprisoned brother.
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A Family Affair
A young woman's job as assistant to a demanding movie star becomes complicated when she discovers he's romantically interested in her mother.

Babygirl
A successful CEO risks everything when she becomes involved in a passionate affair with a much younger intern at her company.
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Holland
A teacher's quiet life in Holland, Michigan takes a dark turn when she and a colleague begin investigating a mysterious secret that threatens to unravel everything.
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