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Best Faye Dunaway movies

Today we present the best Faye Dunaway movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Faye Dunaway:

TOP 25: The Chamber

Faye Dunaway as: Lee Cayhall Bowen
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1996
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.


TOP 24: The Two Jakes

Faye Dunaway as: Evelyn Mulwray (voice)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1990
This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted from the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot involving murder, oil, and even some ghosts from his past.

TOP 23: The Rules of Attraction

Faye Dunaway as: Mrs. Denton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2002
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.


TOP 22: The Yards

Faye Dunaway as: Kitty Olchin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2000
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.


TOP 21: Voyage of the Damned

Faye Dunaway as: Denise Kreisler
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 1976
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

TOP 20: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Original Title: Joan of Arc
Faye Dunaway as: Yolande of Aragon
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, History, War
Release: 1999
In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's diminished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.


TOP 19: The Four Musketeers

Faye Dunaway as: Milady
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1974
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.


TOP 18: Mommie Dearest

Faye Dunaway as: Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama
Release: 1981
In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM studios, her callous and abusive behavior towards her daughter Christina becomes even more pronounced. Christina leaves home and takes her first acting role, only to find her mother's presence still overshadowing her.

TOP 17: Don Juan DeMarco

Faye Dunaway as: Marilyn Mickler
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Release: 1994
John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.


TOP 16: The Thomas Crown Affair

Faye Dunaway as: The Psychiatrist
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Release: 1999
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.


TOP 15: The Arrangement

Faye Dunaway as: Gwen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1969
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. Meanwhile his wife conspires to take his fortune.

TOP 14: The Case for Christ

Faye Dunaway as: Dr. Roberta Waters
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.


TOP 13: The Thomas Crown Affair

Faye Dunaway as: Vicki Anderson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1968
Young businessman, Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.


TOP 12: The Three Musketeers

Faye Dunaway as: Lady de Winter
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1973
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.


TOP 11: Barfly

Faye Dunaway as: Wanda Wilcox
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1987
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

TOP 10: The Champ

Faye Dunaway as: Annie
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 1979
The more you love, the harder you fight. The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. He knows what his flawed but loving father is, was and always will be - The Champ.


TOP 9: Gia

Faye Dunaway as: Wilhelmina Cooper
Genre: TV Movie, Drama, Romance
Release: 1998
Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs – and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.


TOP 8: The Towering Inferno

Faye Dunaway as: Susan
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Release: 1974
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.


TOP 7: And the Oscar Goes To...

Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.


TOP 6: Three Days of the Condor

Faye Dunaway as: Kathy Hale
Genre: Thriller
Release: 1975
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

TOP 5: Arizona Dream

Faye Dunaway as: Elaine Stalker
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1993
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles


TOP 4: Bonnie and Clyde

Faye Dunaway as: Bonnie Parker
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1967
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.


TOP 3: Little Big Man

Faye Dunaway as: Mrs. Louise Pendrake
Genre: Adventure, Western, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1970
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.


TOP 2: Chinatown

Faye Dunaway as: Evelyn Cross Mulwray
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1974
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.


TOP 1: Network

Faye Dunaway as: Diana Christensen
Genre: Drama
Release: 1976
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

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