45 Kim Basinger Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Based on James Ellroy's 1990 bestselling novel, L.A. Confidential follows three LAPD officers—Bud White, Ed Exley and Jack Vincennes—as they go about investigating multiple murders at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop, in the early 1950s, in their own individual way.

Starring Michael Keaton in the eponymous role of DC Comics superhero, Batman, and Jack Nicholson as his nemesis, Joker, this film is the first in the Batman series. After falling into a vat of chemicals, Jack Napier a.k.a. Joker terrorizes Gotham City until Batman manages to save the day along with his love interest, reporter Vicki Vale, played by Kim Basinger.

A struggling baseball team in the 1930s meet a legendary baseball player who appears out of nowhere and possesses almost supernatural skill. He joins their team, and they eventually soar to the top of the league. However, this new player’s identity is still a mystery. 

Holland March, a private detective is hired to investigate an apparent suicide. His investigation leads him to Amelia, who in turn hires another violent private investigator, Jackson Healy, to protect her. When more people turn up dead and Amelia herself goes missing, the two unwillingly join hands and unravel a huge conspiracy.

Containing autobiographical elements of Eminem’s life, the movie tells the story of white rapper Rabbit, as he tries to establish a career in the hip-hop genre, which mostly features African-American artists. The movie also features the Academy Award-winning song “Lose Yourself”. 

The film shows the life of Sylvia who appears to live a confident life as the manager of a restaurant but hides the fact that she is depressed and suicidal. The film then takes us to the past, where a young girl Mariana, tries to figure out why her mother started having an affair.  

Set in an exclusive beach community, the film tells the story of Ted Cole, who is a writer and illustrator of children’s books. He lives with his young daughter Ruth and his wife Marion. Their lives have been unstable since their two sons died in a car crash. Due to her depression, Marion starts having an affair with Ted’s assistant.

When schoolteacher, Jessica Martin, is abducted by a gang led by Ethan Greer, her only line of communication for help is a broken phone. She dials a random number and reaches Ryan. When Ryan realizes the truth he tries to locate Jessica and help her with the aid of Sergeant Bob Mooney. 

Based on the novel The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud, this film tells the story of Charlie, who loses his brother in a car crash which he survives. He receives a gift of seeing his dead brother and others whom he has lost. However, he falls in love with a girl, and when her life is at risk, he must choose between her and his brother. 

Back in 1980s, boxers Henry "Razor" Sharp and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen were fierce rivals until Razor suddenly announced his retirement, leaving a three match series unresolved, thus effectively ending their career. 30 years later, a boxing promoter approaches him to face Kid in one last bout and he grudgingly accepts the challenge. 

Third Person is a romantic drama film which tells the story of a well-known novelist who struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, set in three different cities, i.e. Rome, Paris and New York.

The film revolves around two heavy metal enthusiasts, Wayne and Garth, who try to organize a rock concert. Meanwhile Wayne also needs to fend off a record producer who is eyeing his girlfriend. 

Based on the 1961 James Bond novel Thunderball, this film tells the story of a SPECTRE Agent, who has stolen two nuclear warheads. It is up to the British spy James Bond to find them before they are detonated. 

A secret service agent gets framed for an assassination attempt on the President. Now, he must not only clear his name, but also foil another assassination attempt from taking place, while on the run from another agent.  

John and Elizabeth meet only twice before they start dating. Soon their courtship turns into a sexual adventure with John pushing Elizabeth into more and more daring escapades. The film, based on an eponymous memoir by Ingeborg Day, depicts the effect of such eroticism on Elizabeth, who must now decide her future course of action. 

Water is a young PR executive who goes on a blind date with Nadia. However, due to her wild behavior, the date turns out to be quite chaotic. Things turn even worse when it appears that her ex-lover is following them.

Isaac is a psychiatrist who gets romantically involved with Heather, the sister of one of his patients. However, their lives get complicated because of their affair, since Heather is married to an influential gangster.

Andrea Spalding hires Jean Dupre to search for her lost husband, George, in the wilderness of northern British Columbia. Once there, they encounter prospector Silas McGee and his brother Ian who are intent on protecting their silver mine. As they uncover the truth about George’s disappearance they find their lives threatened.  

The Getaway is a crime drama action thriller film which tells the story of Carter McCoy and his wife Carol, who receive a task of breaking the nephew of a Mexican drug lord out of jail for a payment of $ 300,000. Although they manage to successfully carry out their task, they soon realize that the drug lord wanted his nephew out in order to kill him.

The Marrying Man is a romantic drama musical film which tells the story of Charley, a rich millionaire playboy, who meets a singer named Vicki and falls madly in love with her, despite the fact that he barely even knows her. However, her boyfriend is a gangster, and when he finds them together in bed, instead of killing Charley, he forces them to get married. This jeopardizes Charley’s life as his girlfriend leaves him, and it soon seems that Vicki is not his kind of woman at all.

Kyle, a factory worker in a small Texas town, is not particularly ambitious. However, his girlfriend Jodie feels she should move to bigger city to achieve her goals. After meeting her friend Caroline, now a successful country singer, who has returned home for a visit, Jodie is even keener on accomplishing her big-city ambitions, but feels torn between her dreams and love. 

Karen McCoy, a former bank robber is released from prison, with nothing but the clothes on her back. Despite her criminal past, she now wishes to settle down and begin a new life. When her former boss contacts her and asks her to take part in a bank heist, she refuses. Therefore, they decide to kidnap her son to force her to carry out the heist.

Based on real events, I Dreamed of Africa is a romantic adventure drama film which tells the story of a beautiful but bored socialite in Italy, who decides to abandon her comfortable and monotonous life and begin another new life in the African wilderness with her son Emanuele and Paolo, her new husband. However, life is not going to be easy for her, and she must face dangers in the form of venomous snakes as well as murderous poachers.

Eli, who works as a PR professional, witnesses his client’s girlfriend get murdered. Soon, it seems that his client is involved in a scandal, and very powerful people are behind the murder. He feels that he might be their next target.

When widower astrophysicist Steven Mills accidently sends out energy waves destroying a planet’s gravity, they send an attractive extraterrestrial, Celeste, to investigate and reverse the effects of his research. Instead, she finds herself enjoying her life with Steve and his daughter, Jesse. As she experiences emotions and feelings like love for the first time, Celeste is reluctant to return to her home-planet.

As the Paris Fashion Week gets closer, models, designers and journalists prepare for it. However, things get complicated when the Head of the Fashion Council, Olivier de la Fontaine, chokes to death on a sandwich.

Bless the Child is a crime drama horror film which revolves around a psychiatric nurse Maggie, who adopts her newborn niece, Cody, after she is abandoned by Jenna, Maggie’s sister who is a heroin addict. From an early age, Cody starts displaying special abilities. Things take a turn when Maggie learns that a Satanic cult is seeking to abduct Cody, to use her supernatural abilities.

This suspense drama film takes us to Los Angeles in the 1980s and tells the story of a group of self-absorbed hedonists who try to navigate through their lives without any moral compass.

Based on a novel of the same name, this 2017 erotic romantic drama film revolves around the life of Christian Grey, who starts getting nightmares after his partner Anastasia leaves him. As he tries to get her back into his life, her editor Jack Hyde, starts to create problems for him. 

Jack is a cartoonist spending time in prison for murdering a man whom he found sleeping with his wife. During his sentence he creates a series of comics, but he soon finds himself in his comics’ universe, where he meets Holli Would, the character he created.