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Best Catherine Zeta-Jones movies

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TOP 25: The Phantom

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Sala
Genre: Adventure, Action
Release: 1996
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.


TOP 24: 1001 Nights

Original Title: Les 1001 nuits
Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Sheherazade
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 1990
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

TOP 23: Lay the Favorite

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Tulip Heimowitz
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2012
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.


TOP 22: The Haunting

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Theo
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1999
Dr. David Marrow invites Eleanor Vance, Luke Sanderson, and Theo to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself β€” and they soon see the true nature of its horror.


TOP 21: Playing for Keeps

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Denise
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2012
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

TOP 20: Death Defying Acts

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Mary McGarvie
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Release: 2007
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.


TOP 19: America's Sweethearts

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Gwen Harrison
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2001
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.


TOP 18: Intolerable Cruelty

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Marilyn Rexroth
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Romance
Release: 2003
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

TOP 17: Broken City

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Cathleen Hostetler
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2013
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force - and the mayor's worst nightmare.


TOP 16: The Rebound

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Sandy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2009
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?


TOP 15: The Legend of Zorro

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Elena
Genre: Action, Adventure
Release: 2005
Having spent the last 10 years fighting injustice and cruelty, Alejandro de la Vega is now facing his greatest challenge: his loving wife Elena has thrown him out of the house! Elena has filed for divorce and found comfort in the arms of Count Armand, a dashing French aristocrat. But Alejandro knows something she doesn't: Armand is the evil mastermind behind a terrorist plot to destroy the United States. And so, with his marriage and the county's future at stake, it's up to Zorro to save two unions before it's too late.

TOP 14: Entrapment

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Virginia "Gin" Baker
Genre: Romance, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1999
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.


TOP 13: Rock of Ages

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Patricia Whitmore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 2012
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.


TOP 12: Sinbad and the Cyclops Island

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Marina
Release: 2003
Marina, Sinbad and his crew are resting on a small island. They soon find out they're not alone.


TOP 11: No Reservations

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Kate
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

TOP 10: RED 2

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Katja
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2013
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.


TOP 9: Ocean's Twelve

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Isabel Lahiri
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2004
Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.


TOP 8: The Mask of Zorro

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Elena Montero / Elena Murrieta
Genre: Action, Adventure
Release: 1998
It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.


TOP 7: Side Effects

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Dr. Victoria Siebert
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2013
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.


TOP 6: Cocaine Godmother

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Griselda Blanco
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2017
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with local drug runners. Griselda masterminded the use of beautiful women, the elderly and children as the mules and created false-bottom suitcases to smuggle cocaine from Colombia.

TOP 5: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Marina (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2003
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.


TOP 4: Traffic

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Helena Ayala
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Release: 2000
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.


TOP 3: Chicago

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Velma Kelly
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.


TOP 2: High Fidelity

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Charlie Nicholson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 2000
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to find out why they left, he keeps up his efforts to win Laura back.


TOP 1: The Terminal

Catherine Zeta-Jones as: Amelia Warren
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2004
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.

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