| | American Beauty (1999)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $130.06M Lead Role: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, | Director: Sam Mendes, A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. |
| | The Kids Are All Right (2010)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $20.80M Lead Role: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, | Director: Lisa Cholodenko, Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life. |
| | 20th Century Women (2016)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $5.66M Lead Role: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, | Director: Mike Mills, The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979. |
| | The Grifters (1990)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $13.45M Lead Role: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe, | Director: Stephen Frears, A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play. |
| | Mars Attacks! (1996)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: $37.75M Lead Role: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, | Director: Tim Burton, Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor. |
| | Ruby Sparks (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $2.54M Lead Role: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, | Director: A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence. |
| | The Report (2019)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, | Director: Scott Z. Burns, Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets. |
| | The American President (1995)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $65.00M Lead Role: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, | Director: Rob Reiner, Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway. |
| | Mother and Child (2009)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $1.11M Lead Role: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Alexandria M. Salling, | Director: Rodrigo García, A drama centered around three women: A 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago, and an African American woman looking to adopt a child of her own. |
| | Being Julia (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $7.74M Lead Role: Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Maury Chaykin, Jeremy Irons, | Director: István Szabó, Set in '30s London, the film involves stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge. |
| | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $0.39M Lead Role: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave, | Director: Paul McGuigan, A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady. |
| | Ginger & Rosa (2012)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 69 | Earnings: $1.01M Lead Role: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening, Oliver Platt, | Director: Sally Potter, A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship. |
| | Danny Collins (2015)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: $5.35M Lead Role: Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, | Director: Dan Fogelman, An aging rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon. |
| | Valmont (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $1.13M Lead Role: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, | Director: Milos Forman, Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an... |
| | Hope Gap (2019)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Bill Nighy, Annette Bening, Josh O'Connor, Aiysha Hart, | Director: William Nicholson, A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother. |
| | The Siege (1998)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 53 | Earnings: $40.93M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, | Director: Edward Zwick, The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist, leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, that lead to the declaration of martial-law. |
| | Running with Scissors (2006)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: $6.75M Lead Role: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow, | Director: Ryan Murphy, Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family. |
| | The Face of Love (2013)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 51 | Earnings: $0.31M Lead Role: Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Jess Weixler, | Director: Arie Posin, A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband. |
| | The Search (2014)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 37 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev, | Director: Michel Hazanavicius, A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. |
| | Georgetown (2019)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 46 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Corey Hawkins, | Director: Christoph Waltz, Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players. |
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