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The Best Natalie Wood Movies
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List of the best Natalie Wood movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Natalie Wood's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Natalie Wood movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Natalie Wood movies will be at the top of the list. Natalie Wood has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Natalie Wood movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Natalie Wood films to end the squabble once and for all.
If you think the best Natalie Wood role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Natalie Wood performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.
List contains films like Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and This Property Is Condemned.
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1Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Elia Kazan
Bud (Warren Beatty) and his high school sweetheart, Deanie (Natalie Wood), are weighed down by their parents' oppressive expectations, which threaten the future of their relationship. Deanie's mother ...more
2Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson- Released: 1966
- Directed by: Sydney Pollack
In this film adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play, Alva (Natalie Wood) is a radiant Southern belle who clashes with her oppressive mother, Hazel (Kate Reid). Hazel is trying to force Alva to take ...more![Rebel Without a Cause]()
3James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo- Released: 1955
- Directed by: Nicholas Ray
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark (James Dean) is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some ...more![Love with the Proper Stranger]()
4Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood), 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 ...more![West Side Story]()
5Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
A musical in which a modern day Romeo and Juliet are involved in New York street gangs. On the harsh streets of the upper west side, two gangs battle for control of the turf. The situation becomes ...more![Gypsy]()
6Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden- Released: 1962
- Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Rose Hovick (Rosalind Russell) pushes her two young daughters into the entertainment industry, traveling and promoting them with minimal success. After years in the business, younger daughter June ...more![Inside Daisy Clover]()
7Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Christopher Plummer- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Robert Mulligan
Teen tomboy Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood) dreams of fame -- and gets her wish when big-time movie producer Raymond Swan (Christopher Plummer) comes calling. But, as her image is remolded for the media ...more![Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice]()
8Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould- Released: 1969
- Directed by: Paul Mazursky
After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders (Robert Culp) and his wife, Carol (Natalie Wood), find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, ...more![Miracle on 34th Street]()
9Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn- Released: 1947
- Directed by: George Seaton
In this Christmas classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) fills in for an intoxicated Santa in Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Kringle proves to be such a hit that ...more![Sex and the Single Girl]()
10Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda- Released: 1964
- Directed by: Richard Quine
Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) is a tabloid magazine writer looking to score an interview with Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood), a young and beautiful research psychologist who recently authored the ...more![The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]()
11Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders- Released: 1947
- Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Defying her conventional in-laws, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) leaves London with her young daughter and moves away for a quieter life in a secluded seaside cottage. Lucy discovers the ghost ...more![The Cracker Factory]()
12Natalie Wood- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Burt Brinckerhoff
The Cracker Factory is an American television movie directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. The teleplay by Richard Shapiro is based on the best-selling 1977 novel by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt. The film was ...more![The Affair]()
13Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Gilbert Cates
Courtney Patterson (Natalie Wood) is a beautiful young songwriter who is physically disabled due to polio. Her condition has made her emotionally guarded, but when she meets Marcus Simon (Robert ...more![The Great Race]()
14Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Blake Edwards
A spectacular land race from New York to Paris in the early 20th century is planned, the two main competitors being the handsome, dashing hero in white, The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis), and the ...more![Marjorie Morningstar]()
15Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Irving Rapper
Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood), a college girl from a conventional Jewish family, finds herself increasingly drawn to the acting profession after becoming smitten with Catskills entertainer Noel ...more![Kings Go Forth]()
16Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Delmer Daves
During World War II, in a picturesque town on the French Riviera, U.S. Army Lt. Sam Loggins (Frank Sinatra) and Cpl. Britt Harris (Tony Curtis) both fall for the same local girl, the American-born ...more![Brainstorm]()
17Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Douglas Trumbull
Researchers Michael Brace (Christopher Walken) and Lillian Reynolds (Louise Fletcher) develop a system that allows the recording and playback of a person's thoughts onto videotape. The project spins ...more![The Last Married Couple in America]()
18George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Gilbert Cates
Jeff Thompson (George Segal) and his wife, Mari (Natalie Wood), are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. ...more![Peeper]()
19Natalie Wood, Michael Caine, Micahel Constantine- Released: 1975
- Directed by: Peter Hyams
Peeper is a 1976 comedy-mystery film directed by Peter Hyams that starred Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker, a bungling private investigator. It was a send-up of the 1940s film noir genre, but it was ...more![Penelope]()
20Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn- Released: 1966
- Directed by: Arthur Hiller
When Penelope (Natalie Wood) gets married to banker James Elcott (Ian Bannen), she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank while in disguise. After she ...more- 21John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood
- Released: 1956
- Directed by: John Ford
In this revered Western, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns home to Texas after the Civil War. When members of his brother's family are killed or abducted by Comanches, he vows to track down his ...more ![The Star]()
22Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood- Released: 1952
- Directed by: Stuart Heisler
Oscar-winning actress Margaret Elliot (Bette Davis) is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen (Natalie Wood), and ...more![Meteor]()
23Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Ronald Neame
In this disaster movie, Americans and Soviets must put aside their differences to save civilization from a huge meteor bearing down on the planet. Paul Bradley (Sean Connery) enlists the expertise of ...more![Cash McCall]()
24James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Joseph Pevney
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall (James Garner) makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen ...more![Willie & Phil]()
25Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites -- pompous teacher Willie (Michael Ontkean) and quiet photographer Phil (Ray Sharkey) -- become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," ...more
