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Best Jennifer Garner movies

We present our ranking of the best Jennifer Garner movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jennifer Garner.

TOP 25: Arthur

Jennifer Garner as: Susan Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2011
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn't like.


TOP 24: Nine Lives

Jennifer Garner as: Lara Brand
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2016
A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.

TOP 23: Butter

Jennifer Garner as: Laura Pickler
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2011
An adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their Iowa town's annual contest.


TOP 22: Valentine's Day

Jennifer Garner as: Julia Fitzpatrick
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2010
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter. A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love. Two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon. A TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA. A star quarterback contemplates his future. Two strangers meet on a plane. Grandparents, together for years, face a crisis. An 'I Hate Valentine's Day' dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to.


TOP 21: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Jennifer Garner as: Jenny Perotti
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2009
When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. The experience changes his attitude and allows him to reconnect with his first and only love, Jenny.

TOP 20: Catch and Release

Jennifer Garner as: Gray Wheeler
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2006
Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray moves in with her late love's best friends. While Sam and Dennis do their best to cheer Gray up, Fritz doesn't seem to care. Once Gray breaks through Fritz's defenses, however, she finally sees why her fiancé thought so highly of him. As they spend more time together, Gray learns that her chances for love have not died out with her fiancé. But when some surprise guests show up on their doorstep, it'll take the love of all of her new friends to help Gray learn that life may be messy, but love is messier.


TOP 19: Mother's Day

Jennifer Garner as: Dana Barton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2016
Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother's Day.


TOP 18: Wakefield

Jennifer Garner as: Diana Wakefield
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.

TOP 17: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Jennifer Garner as: Kelly Cooper
Genre: Comedy, Family
Release: 2014
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.


TOP 16: The Invention of Lying

Jennifer Garner as: Anna McDoogles
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2009
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.


TOP 15: Wonder Park

Jennifer Garner as: June's Mom
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2019
A young girl named June with a big imagination makes an incredible discovery -- the amusement park of her dreams has come to life. Filled with the world's wildest rides operated by fun-loving animals, the excitement never ends. But when trouble hits, June and her misfit team of furry friends begin an unforgettable journey to save the park.

TOP 14: Peppermint

Jennifer Garner as: Riley North
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 2018
A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.


TOP 13: Men, Women & Children

Jennifer Garner as: Patricia Beltmeyer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2014
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.


TOP 12: 13 Going on 30

Jennifer Garner as: Jenna Rink
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2004
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!


TOP 11: The Kingdom

Jennifer Garner as: Janet Mayes
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama
Release: 2007
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

TOP 10: Draft Day

Jennifer Garner as: Ali
Genre: Drama
Release: 2014
At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.


TOP 9: Danny Collins

Jennifer Garner as: Samantha Leigh Donnelly
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Release: 2015
An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.


TOP 8: The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Jennifer Garner as: Cindy Green
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2012
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.


TOP 7: Pearl Harbor

Jennifer Garner as: Sandra
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Release: 2001
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.


TOP 6: Juno

Jennifer Garner as: Vanessa Loring
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2007
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

TOP 5: Miracles from Heaven

Jennifer Garner as: Christy Beam
Genre: Drama
Release: 2016
When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.


TOP 4: Deconstructing Harry

Jennifer Garner as: Woman in Elevator
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1997
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.


TOP 3: Dallas Buyers Club

Jennifer Garner as: Dr. Eve Saks
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2013
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.


TOP 2: Catch Me If You Can

Jennifer Garner as: Cheryl Ann
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2002
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.


TOP 1: Love, Simon

Jennifer Garner as: Emily Spier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2018
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

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