The Best Nicole Kidman Movies and Where To Watch Them

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Rachel Ulatowski

Rachel Ulatowski

JustWatch Editor

Nicole Kidman dazzled in the 2024 erotic thriller Babygirl, which critics hailed as one of the year's best movies with its deep dive into power dynamics and the female experience. The actress offers one of her career-best performances as the bold, intimidating CEO Romy Mathis, who harbors secret desires and feelings of dissatisfaction. While Kidman has caught audiences’ attention with Babygirl, it’s far from the only notable film on her resume.

Viewers can use our guide to find out where to watch all of the best Nicole Kidman movies across her 40+ year Hollywood career.

Kidman has always shined in psychological or erotic thrillers. She enjoyed her breakthrough role in the award-winning Dead Calm, which follows grieving couple Rae (Kidman) and John Ingram (Sam Neill), whose outing on the water turns into a nautical horror story when they rescue Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane) from a sinking ship, unaware he’s a dangerous killer. Kidman beautifully portrayed Rae, the grieving mother and headstrong woman fighting for survival, while the film’s intense premise conveyed genuine horror.

Ten years after her success in Dead Calm, Kidman starred in the erotic thriller Tom Cruise) insecurity over his wife Alice Hartford’s (Kidman) sexual fantasies results in him seeking a sexual escapade of his own with dismal results. While Alice isn’t as nuanced and complex as Romy, Eyes Wide Shut probes similar themes of desire and gratification.

By 2001, Kidman earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress with her role in Birth as a woman who believes her husband has been reincarnated also arguably warranted an Oscar nomination.

More recently, Kidman wowed with her nearly unrecognizable transformation into comedy icon Lucille Ball in the biopic I Love Lucy stars Ball and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem). It offers a small glimpse into the personal lives of its larger-than-life figures, though the real allure lies in Kidman’s captivating performance as Ball.

However, Kidman doesn’t require the spotlight to leave an impression. Some of her best movies are those in which she boasted ing roles. She adds an unforgettable touch of parental sacrifice and tenderness to The Northman are a few more top-notch movies in which she boasted a notable ing role. With her incredible range and ability to capture everything from charisma to intimidation to grief, Kidman has elevated countless movies through both big and small roles.

Where to watch all of the best Nicole Kidman movies streaming online

Check out our list below for more of the best Nicole Kidman movies you can watch online in the U.S.! The movies are ranked from the best based both on the quality of Kidman’s performance and the movie.

  1. The Hours

    The Hours

    2002

    # 1

    The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

  2. Babygirl

    Babygirl

    2024

    # 2

    A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.

  3. Moulin Rouge!

    Moulin Rouge!

    2001

    # 3

    A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a ionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

  4. Rabbit Hole

    Rabbit Hole

    2010

    # 4

    Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

  5. Dead Calm

    Dead Calm

    1989

    # 5

    An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.

  6. Eyes Wide Shut

    Eyes Wide Shut

    1999

    # 6

    After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, its to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

  7. To Die For

    To Die For

    1995

    # 7

    Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

  8. Birth

    Birth

    2004

    # 8

    It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

  9. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    # 9

    Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

  10. Paddington

    Paddington

    2014

    # 10

    A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

  11. Lion

    Lion

    2016

    # 11

    A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

  12. Boy Erased

    Boy Erased

    2019

    # 12

    Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

  13. The Northman

    The Northman

    2022

    # 13

    Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.

  14. Being the Ricardos

    Being the Ricardos

    2021

    # 14

    Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.

  15. The Beguiled

    The Beguiled

    2017

    # 15

    During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

  16. Bombshell

    Bombshell

    2019

    # 16

    Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.

  17. Aquaman

    Aquaman

    2018

    # 17

    Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.

  18. The Family Fang

    The Family Fang

    2016

    # 18

    A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.

  19. BMX Bandits

    BMX Bandits

    1983

    # 19

    Teens P.J. and Goose get their thrills on BMX bikes, performing hair-raising tricks all across Sydney, Australia. Along with their new friend Judy, they discover a box of walkie-talkies -- and find out that a gang of criminals intends to use them to monitor police signals during a bank robbery. When the young trio snatches the devices, it propels them on a hair-raising adventure in which their pedaling skills might just save their necks.

  20. Dogville

    Dogville

    2003

    # 20

    When beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.