The best Natalie Wood’s drama movies

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

20/07/1938- 29/11/1981
Today we present the best Natalie Wood’s 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 Natalie Wood’s movies.
Available on:

West Side Story

West Side Story
7.6/10
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1955
  • Character: Judy
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street
7.9/10
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1969
  • Character: Carol Sanders
Bob and Carol Sanders are best friends with Ted and Alice Henderson. After attending a weekend self-help/ self-discovery getaway, Bob and Carol feel newly enlightened, and want their friends to feel the same way.

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/10/1961
  • Character: Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

This Property Is Condemned

This Property Is Condemned
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/08/1966
  • Character: Alva Starr
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge.

Gypsy

Gypsy
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 01/12/1962
  • Character: Louise 'Gypsy Rose Lee' Hovick
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

The Star

The Star
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/12/1952
  • Character: Gretchen
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.

The Candidate

The Candidate
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/06/1972
  • Character: Natalie Wood
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Love with the Proper Stranger

Love with the Proper Stranger
7.2/10
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion. Rocky agrees to help, but after seeing the unsanitary abortion facility, he refuses to let Angie go through with the procedure and attempts to make her an honest woman.

One Desire

One Desire
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1955
  • Character: Seely Dowder
The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clint's younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.

The Silver Chalice

The Silver Chalice
4.6/10
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever
7.3/10
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

Inside Daisy Clover

Inside Daisy Clover
6.1/10
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

Kings Go Forth

Kings Go Forth
6.5/10
Toward the end of World War II, two American soldiers fighting in Southern France become romantically involved with a young, American woman. Her background will reveal more about them than her.

All the Fine Young Cannibals

All the Fine Young Cannibals
6/10
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.

Bombers B-52

Bombers B-52
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/11/1957
  • Character: Lois Brennan
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.

Cash McCall

Cash McCall
6.3/10
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.

Driftwood

Driftwood
7/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 15/09/1947
  • Character: Jenny Hollingsworth
A young Natalie Wood stars as an orphan who helps a doctor (Dean Jagger) fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Willie and Phil

Willie and Phil
5.9/10
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.

Related actors