Nicole Kidman’s 5 Best Movies to Watch After Babygirl

Having kicked her career off back in the 80s, Nicole Kidman has been nothing but each of her movies’ centre of attention and Hollywood’s darling.

Decades later, the actress keeps up with her status of one of the leading ladies of the industry due to a wide range of roles she has taken on and the captivating performance that just mesmerises viewers every single time.

Whether it’s a tough businesswoman who seeks fresh air out of the family monotony in last year’s Babygirl or an extravagant cabaret actress in Baz Luhrman’s hit musical Moulin Rouge!, some of Kidman’s best roles are yet another proof of her versatility as an actress, and Babygirl is just the latest reminder of that.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Dream Story, Eyes Wide Shut became some sort of a bitter, yet powerful farewell to Stanley Kubrick who died not long before the movie was set to premiere.

Starring Kidman and her then-real-life husband Tom Cruise, the film follows a married couple whose life is shattered after one of them considers having an affair. Just like Kidman’s most recent erotic thriller Babygirl, Eyes Wide Shut explores its characters’ complicated inner world full of secret desires and intentions they’d never dared reveal until now.

Birth (2004)

A movie that witnessed one of Kidman’s finest performances, Jonathan Glazer’s Birth is a psychological thriller that keeps its viewers just as tense as its lead character portrayed by the actress.

The movie follows Anna who, having spent 10 years mourning her late husband Sean, finally decides to change her life for the better and to marry her new partner Joseph. It is then when Anna gets to know a boy who makes her believe that he’s the reincarnated version of her husband, which slowly brings her down to madness.

Big Little Lies (2017 — 2019)

Kidman’s movie experience is surely what holds her acting legacy, but the actress’ work on TV is another type of the gem, and her universally acclaimed mystery show Big Little Lies is one more proof of it.

In the series, Kidman portrays a seemingly normal wife and mother who initially appears to be more than happy about her life, but that facade is soon demolished when, alongside her friends and neighbours, she gets involved in a horrendous murder that the lead characters have to solve.

The Hours (2002)

So far the only movie that brought Nicole Kidman her well-deserved Academy Award, The Hours centres on Virginia Woolf, portrayed by Kidman, following the writer’s life from the moment she is set to start writing her novel Mrs Dalloway and right until her death in 1941.

In the movie, Kidman is almost unrecognizable due to the prosthetics she had to wear to look more like Woolf, and that, accompanied by the actress’ powerful performance, is just one of many reasons why The Hours still belongs to Kidman’s top list of finest works and generally beloved movies.

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Though the film only brought Kidman her first Academy Award nomination, Satine’s role in Moulin Rouge! is still the actress’ most famous one, mostly due to her extravagant performance that captures Kidman singing on the screen.

Baz Luhrman’s musical drama also got to be a fan-favorite thanks to, well, a heartbreaking tragic ending that some of Moulin Rouge!’s fans haven’t reconciled with yet. The movie’s fame eventually let it enter the list of the cinema’s cult classic and even paved the way for a Broadway musical.