Nicole Kidman Filmography

Australia

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Set against the scenic backdrop of pre-World War II Australia, Baz Luhrmann's romantic period adventure stars Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch, and Hugh Jackman as the rough-and-tumble cattle driver who helps protect her property from greedy English cattle Read More

Monte Carlo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nicole Kidman

Synopsis: Nicole Kidman turns to romantic comedy territory with this vacationing tale of three middle-aged schoolteachers who ditch their drab Midwestern lives so they can live it up under wealthy pretenses with the posh crowd in Monte Carlo. Family Stone director Thomas Bezucha co-adapted the script with Maria Maggenti Read More

The Golden Compass

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green

Synopsis: A young girl ventures into a perilous parallel universe to rescue her best friend and fight the forces of darkness in director Chris Weitz's adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's best-selling fantasy trilogy. Screen newcomer Dakota Blue Richards stars as young heroine Lyra Read More

Margot at the Wedding

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, a woman who travels with her son to the wedding of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The relationship between the two siblings has never been harmonious Read More

Lagerfeld Confidential

Actors: Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour, Nicole Kidman, Princess Caroline of Monaco

Synopsis: Chanel head Karl Lagerfeld not only qualifies as one of the most resonantly successful and influential fashion designers of the late 20th century, but one of the most defiantly elusive. With the documentary portrait Lagerfeld Confidential, filmmaker Rodolphe Marconi attempts to change this status. Read More

The Invasion

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: A mysterious, mind-altering epidemic has infected mankind, and when a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist discovers that the outbreak seems to be extraterrestrial in origin, she struggles to save her son from infection in this sci-fi thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and directed by Read More

God Grew Tired of Us

Actors: John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, Daniel Abul Pach, Nicole Kidman

Synopsis: Three young men leave behind a land in chaos to find new lives in a thoroughly different culture in this documentary. As the African nation of Sudan fell into political disarray near the dawn of the 21st century, with unspeakable violence following in its wake, thousands of refugees attempted to Read More

I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Simon Wiesenthal, Richard Seibel, Pauline Kreisberg, Zvi Aharoni, Peter Michael Ungers

Synopsis: Richard Trank's documentary I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal joins Into the Arms of Strangers, The Power of Good, and other recent nonfiction films that reflect on WWII-era individuals emotionally invested in the pursuit of justice. This heart-rending film Read More

Happy Feet

Actors: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Magda Szubanski, Steve Irwin

Synopsis: In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he'll have to resort to some fancy footwork Read More

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: Nicole Kidman assumes the identity of visionary photographer Diane Arbus in a film that draws inspiration from author Patricia Bosworth's best-selling biography to tell the tale of a once-shy woman who becomes one of her generation's most strikingly original visual artists. Diane Arbus was a Read More

Bewitched

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: Nora Ephron directed and co-wrote this updated adaptation of a classic situation comedy that also casts a satirical eye on the entertainment industry. Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) is a movie star whose career has been going into a slow and steady decline. Desperate for a project that will give his Read More

The Interpreter

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal

Synopsis: An overheard conversation leads a woman into a dark world of deadly intrigue in this political thriller. Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an African émigré who works as an interpreter at the United Nations. One of the languages she understands is Ku, a dialect spoken in her home country of Matobo. Read More

Birth

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Jonathan Glazer, Birth takes place in New York's Upper East Side, where Anna (Nicole Kidman), a 35-year-old widow, resides. Just as Anna has shaken off what she thought were the final remnants of her old life -- she has even found love with a new man, Joseph (Danny Huston), whom she Read More

The Stepford Wives

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Faith Hill, Lorri Bagley

Synopsis: Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Read More

Dogville

Actors: Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis: Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small mining town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison Read More

Cold Mountain

Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman Read More

The Human Stain

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller

Synopsis: For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins Read More

In the Cut

Crew: Producer

Actors: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh

Synopsis: Jane Campion directs the erotic thriller In the Cut, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Susanna Moore. Set in New York City during the summertime, the film is centered on Frannie Avery (Meg Ryan), a middle-class English teacher in the midst of researching a book project about colloquial Read More

Rita

Actors: Kim Basinger, Yasmin Aga Kahn, James Hill, Nicole Kidman, Ann Miller

Synopsis: The life and career of 1940s sex symbol Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) is affectionately but uncompromisingly recounted in this cable TV documentary, produced by Hugh Hefner and narrated by actress Kim Basinger. Born into a show business family, Rita Cansino was still a pre-teen when she attracted the Read More

Dogville Confessions

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Lars von Trier, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall

The Hours

Actors: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette

Synopsis: Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her Read More

Birthday Girl

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Evans

Synopsis: A man looking for love gets more than he bargained for when he chooses his prospective wife on the internet in this dark comedy. The manager of a bank in a small British community (Ben Chaplin) decides that he's in need of long-term companionship, and through an on-line marriage broker called From Read More

The Others

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy, Alakina Mann, Eric Sykes

Synopsis: Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar's first English-language production is a creepy period ghost story that continues in the vein of his earlier art house hit Open Your Eyes (1997). Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a devoutly religious mother of two ailing children who has moved with her family to a Read More

Moulin Rouge

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh

Synopsis: The third film from pop-music-obsessed director Baz Luhrmann tweaks the conventions of the musical genre by mixing a period romance with anachronistic dialogue and songs in the style of his previous Romeo+Juliet (1996). Ewan McGregor stars as Christian, who leaves behind his bourgeois father Read More

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Actors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely private man who rarely gave interviews and produced most of his films under a shroud of secrecy, which tended to foster a great deal of rumor and speculation about his working Read More

Eyes Wide Shut

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood's most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London Read More

The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick & "Eyes Wide Shut"

Actors: John Boorman, Tom Cruise, Jan Harlan

Synopsis: Produced by the British television network Channel 4, this documentary takes a look at the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, with special emphasis on the production of what proved to be his final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Family, friends, and collaborators of the great director Read More

Practical Magic

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Griffin Dunne directed this romantic fantasy adapted from the 1995 Alice Hoffman novel about the Owens family of witches, regarded as outcasts in the town where they live. Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing) and her sister Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) tried to pass on practical magic skills to their Read More

The Peacemaker

Actors: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Alexander Baluev, Rene Medvesek

Synopsis: The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the Read More

The Portrait of a Lady

Actors: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young American woman who, after the death of her parents, has been sent to England to visit relatives. While her family's tragedy has left her penniless, Isabel's beauty has Read More

Leading Man

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy follows the amorous backstage shenanigans of the cast and crew as they prepare to stage "The Hit Man," noted playwright Felix Webb's latest play. The trouble begins when director Humphrey Beal hires Felix's extramarital lover Hilary Rule as his leading lady. Working in Read More

Batman Forever

Actors: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell

Synopsis: Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he Read More

To Die For

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland

Synopsis: The price of fame is murder -- or at least it is in the mind of one woman in New Hampshire. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has spent most of her life wanting to be famous; she's attractive, speaks well, and imagines herself to be intelligent ("imagines" is the key word here), so she has set her Read More

My Life

Actors: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: In My Life, Michael Keaton stars as Bob Jones, who has just been informed that his wife Gail (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant with their first child. However, he has also been told he has kidney cancer that has spread to his lungs; the longest Bob is expected to live is four months, which will deny him Read More

Malice

Actors: Joshua Malina, Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Alec Baldwin stars in this thriller as Dr. Jed Hill, a brilliant young trauma specialist who begins to believe he can do no wrong after he saves the life of a patient given up for dead by another doctor. Jed runs into an old classmate, Andy Safian (Bill Pullman), who is now a college dean. Andy Read More

Saturday Night Live: Nicole Kidman

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Stone Temple Pilots

Synopsis: This 1993 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Nicole Kidman and features musical guest Stone Temple Pilots. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Flirting

Actors: Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman, Bartholomew Rose, Felix Nobis, Kiri Paramore

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker John Duigan followed up his captivating The Year My Voice Broke with Flirting. Noah Taylor repeats his "Danny" characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school. Billeted at a nearby Read More

Far and Away

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock

Synopsis: In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has recently lost both his father and his home to the agents of his unscrupulous landlord. On a mission to avenge his family's injustice at the hands of the ruthless land baron Joseph Read More

Billy Bathgate

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill

Synopsis: In this film version of E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman). Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new moll, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), while Dutch Read More

Days of Thunder

Actors: Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Michael Rooker

Synopsis: The Top Gun team of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, director Tony Scott, and superstar Tom Cruise reunite for this excursion into stock-car racing that incorporates the vroom and rumble of deafening car engines with a rehash of the same elements that worked so effectively in Cruise's Top Gun Read More

Dead Calm

Actors: Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane

Synopsis: Grieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they rescue a young man from a drifting vessel. The couple soon discover that the other ship's crew had been brutally murdered by their Read More

Bangkok Hilton

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: In one of her first adult starring roles, Nicole Kidman played the lead in the three-part Australian miniseries Bangkok Hilton. Searching for her long-estranged father at Bangkok airport, Katrina "Kat" Stanton unwittingly becomes a "mule" for drug-smuggler Arkie Ragan (Jerome Ehlers). Captured by Read More

Emerald City

Actors: John Hargreaves, Nicole Kidman, Robyn Nevin, Chris Haywood, Rebel Russell, Ruth Cracknell

Synopsis: Australian author David Williamson adapted Emerald City from his own stage play. The title may conjure up images of the Wonderful Land of Oz, but the plot is set in the Munchkin-free Australian film industry. John Hargreaves stars as a prosperous screenwriter who is perfectly willing to accept the Read More

Windrider

Actors: Tom Burlinson, Nicole Kidman, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Jill Perryman, Simon Chilvers

Synopsis: This is a youth-oriented romantic drama about the relationship of a champion surfer and a rock singer. Enhanced by impressive sequences of surfboard derring-do and the exotic scenery of western Australia (as well as the first adult role for Nicole Kidman), this film has plenty to keep young Read More

Night Master

Synopsis: In this chop-socky actioner, karate students find themselves forced to face down vengeful Ninjas after their instructor kills a man who is unable to defend himself. The film is also titled Watch the Shadows Dance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Watch the Shadows Dance

Synopsis: In this martial-arts film, a highly-principled karate student accidentally sees his sen-sei kill an unarmed man, and must now fight for his life until justice is done. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bit Part

Actors: Chris Haywood, Nicole Kidman, Katrina Foster, John Wood, Maurie Fields

Synopsis: Career counsellor Michael Thornton (Chris Haywood) decides to change his career and become an actor in this low-budget comedy. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend in actress Mary McAllister (Nicole Kidman) Read More

Five Mile Creek: Season 03

Actors: Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Liz Burch, Michael Caton

Synopsis: It is perhaps a blessing that Hannah Scott, daughter of American-born Australian settler Maggie Scott (Louise Caire Clark), had been sent off to boarding school school before the third season of Five Mile Creek got under way (this move was motivated by the departure of series regular Priscilla Read More

Archer's Adventure

Actors: Nicole Kidman

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the like-vintage "sword and sorcery" TV pilot of the same name, director Denny Lawrence's Archer's Adventure was lensed in Australia. Brett Climo plays Dave Power, a young and ambitious caretaker of a racehorse named Archer. In order to get Archer to the 1861 Melbourne Cup Read More

Wills & Burke

Actors: Garry McDonald, Kim Gyngell, Jonathan Hardy, Peter Collingwood, Mark Little, Nicole Kidman

Synopsis: Cashing in on the release of Burke and Wills, this undistinguished comedy by Bob Weiss tries to turn the tragic crossing of Australia's desert in 1860 into fodder for humor, but it is tasteless fodder in the end. Robert O'Hara Burke (Gary McDonald) and William John Wills (Kim Gyngell) set out from Read More

Room to Move

Synopsis: In this drama two teens become quite close when their parents refuse to listen. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wacky World of Wills & Burke

Synopsis: This Australian lampoon of historical epics stars Kim Gyngell as William John Wills and Garry McDonald as Robert O'Hara Burke, two real-life Australian explorers. Setting about to travel across the Australian continent and back again, Wills and Burke both perish on the return trip. In rehashing Read More

BMX Bandits

Actors: Angelo D'Angelo, James Lugton, Nicole Kidman, David Argue, John Ley

Synopsis: PJ (Angelo D'Angelo), and Goose (James Lugton) are bored Australian BMX riders whose bikes have been totaled. Setting off on an intended fishing trip with their friend Judy (Nicole Kidman), they stumble instead upon a cache of stolen police walkie-talkies, which they decide to sell for new BMX Read More

Five Mile Creek: Season 01

Actors: Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Liz Burch, Priscilla Weems, Michael Caton

Synopsis: In the first of the 13 episodes comprising Five Mile Creek's first season, San Francisco-bred Maggie Scott (Louise Caire Clark) and her daughter Hannah (Priscilla Weems) arrive in the Australia of the 1860s, in search of Maggie's husband Adam, a prospector who'd headed "Down Under" during the Read More

Bush Christmas

Actors: John Ewart, John Howard, Nicole Kidman, Mark Spain

Synopsis: An entertaining and exciting adventure story for any age, Bush Christmas, set in the Australian outback, has three tense situations developing along parallel lines: Ben (Peter Sumner) and Kate Thompson (Vineta O'Malley) have to pay off the mortgage on their homestead by January 1st or they lose Read More

Chase Through The Night

Synopsis: This crime drama features an interesting turn about when the six Australian hostages taken by a group of bank robbers make sure that the crooks cannot escape from them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More<