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Best Ashley Judd movies

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TOP 25: Someone Like You...

Ashley Judd as: Jane Goodale
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2001
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.


TOP 24: The Passion of Darkly Noon

Ashley Judd as: Callie
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1995
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.

TOP 23: Allegiant

Ashley Judd as: Natalie Prior
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Action, Mystery
Release: 2016
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.


TOP 22: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Ashley Judd as: Younger Vivi Abbott Walker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2002
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.


TOP 21: Bug

Ashley Judd as: Agnes White
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2007
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

TOP 20: Flypaper

Ashley Judd as: Kaitlin
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2011
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.


TOP 19: Crossing Over

Ashley Judd as: Denise Frankel
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2009
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.


TOP 18: High Crimes

Ashley Judd as: Claire Kubik
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2002
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

TOP 17: Insurgent

Ashley Judd as: Natalie Prior
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2015
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.


TOP 16: Olympus Has Fallen

Ashley Judd as: Margaret Asher
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 2013
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.


TOP 15: De-Lovely

Ashley Judd as: Linda Porter
Genre: Drama, Music
Release: 2004
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest sons of the twentieth century.

TOP 14: Kiss the Girls

Ashley Judd as: Kate McTiernan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1997
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.


TOP 13: Good Kids

Ashley Judd as: Gabby
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2016
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.


TOP 12: Double Jeopardy

Ashley Judd as: Elizabeth "Libby" Parsons
Genre: Thriller
Release: 1999
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.


TOP 11: Simon Birch

Ashley Judd as: Rebecca Wenteworth
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 1998
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.

TOP 10: Dolphin Tale 2

Ashley Judd as: Lorraine Nelson
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 2014
The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.


TOP 9: Helen

Ashley Judd as: Helen
Genre: Drama
Release: 2009
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.


TOP 8: A Dog's Way Home

Ashley Judd as: Terri
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 2019
A Dog’s Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.


TOP 7: Divergent

Ashley Judd as: Natalie Prior
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2014
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.


TOP 6: Dolphin Tale

Ashley Judd as: Lorraine Nelson
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 2011
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

TOP 5: Where the Heart Is

Ashley Judd as: Lexie Coop
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2000
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.


TOP 4: A Time to Kill

Ashley Judd as: Carla Brigance
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.


TOP 3: Smoke

Ashley Judd as: Felicity
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1995
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.


TOP 2: Frida

Ashley Judd as: Tina Modotti
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2002
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.


TOP 1: Heat

Ashley Judd as: Charlene Shiherlis
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1995
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

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