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Best Courteney Cox movies

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TOP 15: The Tripper

Courteney Cox as: Cynthia
Genre: Horror
Release: 2006
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.


TOP 14: Zoom

Courteney Cox as: Marsha Holloway
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family
Release: 2006
Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into a new generation of superheroes to save the world from certain destruction.

TOP 13: Masters of the Universe

Courteney Cox as: Julie Winston
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 1987
The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner and he begins to drain her life-force as he waits for the moon of Eternia to align with the Great Eye of the Universe that will bestow god-like power upon him.


TOP 12: Mothers and Daughters

Courteney Cox as: Beth
Genre: Drama
Release: 2016
Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.


TOP 11: Cocoon: The Return

Courteney Cox as: Sara
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 1988
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

TOP 10: Barnyard

Courteney Cox as: Daisy the Cow (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2006
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.


TOP 9: 3000 Miles to Graceland

Courteney Cox as: Cybil Waingrow
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2001
It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, Michael must track down Murphy.


TOP 8: Scream 3

Courteney Cox as: Gale Weathers
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Release: 2000
A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.

TOP 7: Bedtime Stories

Courteney Cox as: Wendy
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Family, Romance
Release: 2008
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?


TOP 6: Mr. Destiny

Courteney Cox as: Jewel Jagger
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction, Romance
Release: 1990
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..


TOP 5: Scream 4

Courteney Cox as: Gale Weathers-Riley
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Release: 2011
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger.

TOP 4: Scream 2

Courteney Cox as: Gale Weathers
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Release: 1997
Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college students are killed in a theatre while watching the new film 'Stab', Sidney knows deep down that history is repeating itself.


TOP 3: The Longest Yard

Courteney Cox as: Lena (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2005
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.


TOP 2: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Courteney Cox as: Melissa Robinson
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Release: 1994
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!


TOP 1: Scream

Courteney Cox as: Gale Weathers
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Release: 1996
A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

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