The best Jennifer Connelly’s drama movies
Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970), is an American film actress and former child model who started modeling after a friend of her parents suggested an audition.
She subsequently appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising. Connelly made her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America, then, while continuing her career as a model, starred as a teenager in films such as Labyrinth and Career Opportunities. She gained critical acclaim following her work in the 1998 science fiction film Dark City and for her portrayal of Marion Silver in Darren Aronofsky's 2000 drama, Requiem for a Dream. In 2002, Connelly won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress along with many other awards for her role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's 2001 biopic A Beautiful Mind. Other film credits include the 2003 Marvel superhero film Hulk, the 2005 thriller Dark Water, the drama Blood Diamond, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You. Since 2005, Connelly has served as the Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education for the United States. Magazines, including Time, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times, have included her on their lists of the world's most beautiful women.
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Top Gun: Maverick
8.2/10
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.
Spider-Man: Homecoming
7.4/10
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
A Beautiful Mind
8.2/10
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Blood Diamond
8/10
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Once Upon a Time in America
8.3/10
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Noah
5.8/10
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
He's Just Not That Into You
6.4/10
Remember that really cute girl/guy who said they'd call – and didn't? Maybe they lost your number. Maybe they're in the hospital. Maybe they're awed by your looks, brains or success. Or maybe... They're just not that into you.
Only the Brave
7.6/10
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Little Children
7.5/10
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
5.5/10
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
Career Opportunities
5.8/10
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
Stuck in Love
7.2/10
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Creation
6.6/10
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
Higher Learning
6.5/10
Malik is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.
Requiem for a Dream
8.3/10
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Winter's Tale
6.1/10
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Inventing the Abbotts
6.4/10
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
Of Love and Shadows
4.9/10
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.
Mulholland Falls
6.3/10
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Some Girls
5.7/10
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.
