46 Best Nicole Kidman Movies: List of Rated Films From the Actress' Filmography

Great, versatile, beautiful and indomitable actress Nicole Kidman is a true icon of cinematography. During her career, spanning more than forty years, she has played an incredible number of diverse roles, always convincingly and brilliantly.

Born in Hawaii in 1967, Nicole Kidman lives in Australia and has dedicated her life to acting and charity work, and in 2022 was included in the list of the 50 greatest actresses of all time. Here are the best movies from the extensive filmography of Nicole Kidman, the brightest star of her generation.

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Aquaman (dilogy)

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Production: USA, Australia / 2018
Budget: $160,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $1,148,461,807
Director: James Wan
Starring: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Defoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, Ludi Lin, Michael Beech

Aquaman is a previously little-mentioned DC Comics character, the son of former Atlantis queen Atlanna and her savior, a simple lighthouse keeper named Thomas Curry. The woman returns home, leaving her father her son Arthur, a boy with unusual powers and the ability to communicate with sea creatures.

So begins the adventures of Aquaman in the world of ancient forces, a bizarre civilization of Atlanteans and scientists who can destroy this very world. And Nicole Kidman played in both movies the mother of the main character, Atlanna. The second movie will be released in December 2023.

The performer of the main role Jason Momoa admitted that he pranked all colleagues on the set, but did not dare to joke on Nicole Kidman.

The Northman

IMDB Rating – 7.0
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama
Production: USA / 2022
Budget: $90,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $69,633,110
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lind, Elliott Rose, Willem Defoe, Phil Martin, Eldar Skar.

A very powerful historical film by Robert Eggers, whose events unfold during the Viking domination of Northern Europe, circa 900 AD. Once again, Nicole Kidman plays the majestic queen, the mother of the protagonist Amleth.

The plot is based on ancient Scandinavian legends, with the fantasies of director and Irish screenwriter Sion. Conung Aurvandil is murdered in front of his wife Geruda and young son Amleth by his treacherous brother Fjolnir. Amleth escapes, and now it is his fate to avenge his father’s murderer.

Archaeologists Neil Price, author of books about the Vikings, and literary scholar Johanna Fridriksdottir acted as consultants for the movie. By the way, Queen Geruda’s headdress is Finnish. It is believed to be her husband’s war trophy.

Being the Ricardos

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Drama, Biography
Production: USA / 2021
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jake Lacy, Linda Lavin, Ronnie Cox, John Rubinstein

In the historical-biographical drama Sorkin Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem play the roles of actors of the famous TV series of America in the 50’s “I Love Lucy”. Events cover a week, during which a serious crisis unfolds between two creative people.

Lucille Ball, who played the leading role in this popular show, was also its creator. Desi Arnaz, the male lead performer is Lucille’s husband. They experience events that put their future, career and even marriage in question.

For this role, Nicole Kidman won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar.

Boy Erased

IMDB Rating – 6.9
Genre: Drama, Biography
Production: Australia, USA, China / 2018
Budget: $11,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $11,853,081
Director: Joel Edgerton
Starring: Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton, Madeline Kline, Victor McKay, David Joseph Craig, Troy Sivan, Emily Hinkler, Devin Michael

Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe portray the Imons, a Baptist family with a boy named Jared, whose prototype is the real-life Garrard Conley, now a writer and social activist.

One day his parents, alarmed by the psychological state and tendencies of their offspring, send him to a Christian conversion therapy camp, where pseudoscientific practices are applied to children, breaking the psyche and literally erasing the past personality. Jared honestly tries to be a good son and do everything the adults demand of him, but his depression only deepens.

Good friends Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe have been looking for a project in which they could play together for a long time, and one opportunity went up in smoke back in 2005. So this is the first movie in which they are colleagues on the set.

Destroyer

IMDB Rating – 6.2
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Detective
Production: USA / 2018
Budget: $9,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $5,580,940
Director: Karin Kusama
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan, Scoot McNary, Bradley Whitford, Toby Hass, James Jordan, Beau Napp, Jade Pettyjohn

A crime drama from independent director Karin Kusama, known for her hard-hitting films with female characters at the center of the story. Nicole Kidman, portraying police detective Erin Bell, is hard to recognize in makeup.

Back at the beginning of her professional journey, Erin was embedded in a gang, working undercover, but fell in love with her partner, which led to severe consequences. And now, 17 years later, the leader of that gang bursts into her life, hungry for retribution, but he is waiting for strange discoveries about the past.

Nicole Kidman, by her admission, came to recover from the role for several weeks, “shaking” from the psyche of the image of Erin.

Bombshell

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Drama, Biography
Production: USA, Canada / 2019
Budget: $32,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $61,404,394
Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow, Allison Janney, Malcolm McDowell, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Liv Hewson, Bridgett Lundy-Payne

Many people have heard of the wave of sex scandals that swept across America in the 2000s. “Many powerful people were caught in the crosshairs and had to answer to the full extent of the law, regardless of their position or bank account.

One such person was Roger Ailes, the director of the scandalously fake Fox News channel. His collapse and downfall was triggered by three women he had once mistreated. It is about them and this high-profile case that the movie Scandal, in which Nicole Kidman plays one of the main characters, Gretchen Carlson, a former Miss America, is about.

Nicole Kidman revealed that she was talked into the role by Meryl Streep.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

IMDB Rating – 7.0
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Fantasy, Detective
Production: Ireland, UK / 2017
Worldwide Box Office: $6,938,106
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sonny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Camp, Denis Dal Vera, Barry J. Burnson

An impressive psychological horror movie in which Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell play married couple Anna and Stephen Murphy, parents of two children – teenage girl Kim and baby Bob.

Stephen brings 16-year-old Martin, the son of a longtime patient who passed away on Stephen’s table, into the house one day. Martin tries to force the surgeon, whom he blames for his father’s death, to take his place and live with his mother, and when that fails, Stephen’s family begins to have strange and creepy problems.

Alicia Silverstone, who played Martin’s mother, and Nicole Kidman have long wanted to work with Yorgos Lanthimos, and both asked to be cast in the movie.

The Beguiled

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Military
Production: USA / 2017
Budget: $10,500,000
Worldwide Box Office: $27,869,129
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Una Lawrence, Engauri Rice, Addison Rickey, Emma Howard, Wayne Pepper, Matt Storey

In one of the South Atlantic states, during the raging Civil War, a boarding school for girls, run by the strict Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman), is hidden from the outside world in a deep forest. By 1864, only five students and one teacher remain under Martha’s tutelage.

And then one day Amy, one of the pupils, found a wounded soldier in the woods, whom she could not leave to his fate and dragged him to the boarding house, where the appearance of a handsome young man becomes an extremely destructive event.

All the actresses, including Nicole Kidman, took a small course where they took lessons in etiquette, tying a corset, dressing wounds in the style of medicine of the century before last, and director Sofia Coppola presented each with a vintage book, How to Be a Good Southern Lady.

Lion

IMDB Rating – 8.0
Genre: Drama, Biography
Production: Australia, UK, USA, India / 2016
Budget: $12,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $140,312,928
Director: Garth Davis
Starring: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Sunny Pawar, Abhishek Bharate, Priyanka Bose, Khushi Solanki, Shankar Nisode, Tannishtha Chatterjee

A touching international movie about a long homecoming. Once again Nicole Kidman embodies the maternal image, playing Susan Brierley, the adoptive mother of the main character. The movie is based on the autobiographical book “The Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley, an Australian with Indian roots.

The action begins in 1986 in India. Saroo, a 5-year-old boy from the outback, falls asleep on a train and wakes up alone in a strange city. Saroo can’t remember the name of his village or even his last name. After wandering, he finds himself in a foster family of Australians, the Brierleys, who surround him with warmth. It is only after 20 years that Saroo firmly decides to find his homeland and, perhaps, his real parents.

For this work actress Kidman received nominations for all major film awards. By the way, Nicole for this role was chosen by the real Sue Brierley, and during preparations for filming women very close on the background of a common love for their adopted children.

Queen of the Desert

IMDB Rating – 5.7
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Biography, History
Production: USA, Morocco / 2014
Budget: $15,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $1,592,853
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis, Jihad Abdou, Jenny Agutter, David Calder, Christopher Fulford, Nick Waring, Holly Earl

The epic film by German director and screenwriter Werner Herzog is based on the biography of the famous British explorer and traveler Gertrude Bell, whose image was embodied on the screen by Nicole Kidman.

The flighty Gertrude in her youth was desperately bored among the balls and social gatherings. In search of the meaning of life, she went to Tehran, where her relative served in the embassy, imbued with the culture of the East and fell in love with “unsuitable party,” according to her relatives.

Gertrude’s family separated the lovers, but after that the girl did not return home to submit to the will of her parents, but devoted her life to the study of the Middle East, gradually becoming an important figure in international politics.

For her role, Nicole Kidman studied Bell’s writings and also learned to ride camels.

Grace of Monaco

IMDB Rating – 5.7
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Biography
Production: France, Italy / 2014
Budget: $30,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $27,515,247
Director: Olivier Daan
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Paz Vega, Parker Posey, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Somerville, Nicholas Farrell, Robert Lindsay, Derek Jacobi

Another biography of a remarkable woman who left her mark on history, brought to life on the screen thanks to the efforts of Nicole Kidman. The French film, which opened the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, was literally trampled on by film critics, but was loved by audiences.

Grace Kelly was a rising Hollywood star, but love pushed her into a life-changing act – she married the ruler of Monaco, Prince Rainier III (played by actor Tim Roth), becoming a princess of a country from which France threatens to take away its independence. And soon she has to choose between the interests of the state and her husband, who relies on her, and the work she loves.

Production on the movie began on the 30th anniversary of Grace Kelly’s death.

Before I Go to Sleep

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Thriller, Detective, Drama
Production: UK, USA, France, Sweden / 2013
Budget: $22,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $17,669,776
Director: Rowan Joffe
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Ben Crompton, Anne-Marie Duff, Adam Levy, Gabriel Strong, Flynn McArthur, Dean-Charles Chapman, Hannah Blamyers

A great idea, a wonderful cast including Nicole Kidman, Mark Strong, Colin Firth and others, did not save this psychological detective from failure at the box office because of the rather clumsy realization of the project by British director Rowan Joffe.

Christine (Kidman) wakes up every morning remembering nothing about herself. Her caring and patient husband Ben (Colin Firth) tells her about how they met, got married, and how she lost her memory in a car accident.

On another such day, Christine begins treatment with neuropsychologist Nash, who gives her a camera to record her “yesterday” memories, and soon the woman discovers that there are too many inconsistencies in the stories her husband feeds her.

Nicole Kidman thoroughly researched all the amnesia material available to her in preparation for her role.

Stoker

IMDB Rating – 6.7
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Production: USA, UK / 2012
Budget: $12,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $12,077,441
Director: Park Chang-wook
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Phyllis Somerville, Jacki Weaver, Ralph Brown, Alden Ehrenreich, Lucas Till, Tyler von Tagen.

A highly symbolic psychological thriller from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, in which Nicole Kidman once again stars as Evelyn Stocker, a mother who has recently lost her husband Richard and is raising her teenage daughter India.

Both mother and daughter live in a huge rich house with servants. Evelyn is slightly unstable and India has a passion for dancing. Then one day a mysterious and charming man arrives who introduces himself as Richard’s brother, Charlie, whom Richard has never mentioned.

Charlie quickly gains the trust of the family, and India takes a serious interest in him, despite the many misunderstandings and oddities in the story of this new relative.

At first, Nicole Kidman refused the role, as she did not want to leave her family for a long time. And then the director placed the set five minutes from the actress’ home in Nashville.

The Railway Man

IMDB Rating – 7.1
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Military, Biography
Production: Australia, UK / 2013
Budget: $18,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $24,174,885
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tanro Ishida, Stellan Skarsgard, Sam Reed, Tom Hobbs, Akos Armont, Ben Eldridge

A strong anti-war drama, a movie in which Colin Firth plays the role of Eric Lomax, an elderly British officer who was a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II. Slavery and deprivation left severe traumas in his psyche that are still fresh years later. Thanks to his wife Patricia (Nicole Kidman), Eric finds the strength to move on with his life.

But one day Eric learns that the Japanese officer Nagase, who tortured him, is alive, and goes to the place of his torture to take revenge on the cruel executioner at any cost. This trip will turn out to be the most surprising discoveries for him.

The movie is based on real events described by the real Eric Lomax.

The real Patricia Lomax was present at the premiere of the movie, and her husband did not live to see the release of this movie for less than a year.

The Paperboy

IMDB Rating – 5.7
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Detective
Production: USA / 2012
Budget: $12,500,000
Worldwide Box Office: $3,783,865
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Macy Gray, David Oyelowo, Scott Glenn, Ned Bellamy, Nialla Gordon, Edric Brown.

This film adaptation of Pete Dexter’s book of the same name was rather negatively received by critics, who praised only Nicole Kidman’s performance in it. Some even claimed that this is the best role of the actress.

The action takes place in the 60s. Convicted for the murder of Sheriff Hillary Van Wetter (played by John Cusack) claims that he is innocent. Journalist Ward Jensen (Matthew McConaughey) returns to his hometown to investigate the case and find the real culprit. He is helped by Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), who is in correspondence with Hillary, who has won her heart.

Nicole Kidman admitted that she used a “method” in this movie, a set of stage techniques based on Stanislavski’s system, and was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Hemingway & Gellhorn

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Biography
Production: USA / 2012
Budget: $19,500,000
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn, Rodrigo Santoro, Molly Parker, Parker Posey, Tony Shaloub, Santiago Cabrera, Lars Ulrich, Peter Coyote.

Nicole Kidman is once again appearing as a famous strong woman in history. This time her character is Martha Gellhorn, the wife of the famous Hemingway, played by the British Clive Owen.

Martha is a famous war reporter, a completely fearless woman. Hemingway is a famous writer and heartbreaker who has left a trail of broken hearts behind him. In 1936, they meet in an inconspicuous Florida bar and soon become spouses. And 5 years later, Martha files for divorce, stunning the writer and inspiring him to create the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.

Robin Wright was initially invited to play the role of Martha, but she turned it down.

Just Go with It

IMDB Rating – 6.4
Genre: Melodrama, comedy
Production: USA / 2011
Budget: $80,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $214,945,591
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck, Dave Matthews, Kevin Nealon, Rachel Dratch.

Bright and funny romcom, according to the audience, one of the best films of this genre in the 2010s with three nominations (laughter in the audience) for the “Golden Raspberry”, including a “berry” and for Nicole Kidman.

Danny Maccoby (played by Adam Sandler), having gone through a breakup with his fiancée, has developed a great scheme to seduce women by telling sob stories about his tyrant wife and his poor kids. But one day he really falls in love with the object of his hunt and, to save face, asks his friend and colleague Catherine (Jennifer Aniston) to play his wife.

Things go pretty smoothly, but soon Katherine meets her successful classmate Devlin Adams (Nicole Kidman), who has always bullied her, and it’s Danny’s turn to play the role of the good husband.

Despite the “Golden Raspberry” Kidman admitted that she was pleased to participate in an atypical for her project, especially since the shooting took place in Hawaii, where she was born.

Trespass

IMDB Rating – 5.3
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Production: USA, Bulgaria / 2011
Budget: $35,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $10,117,966
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn, Liana Liberato, Cam Gigandet, Jordana Spiro, Dash Mayock, Emily Meade, Nico Tortorella, Brandon Belnap

The latest feature from the acclaimed Joel Schumacher is a sharp, disturbing home invasion thriller, a movie starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman.

The Miller couple’s home is filled with light and care. Kyle, a jeweler, is on his way home for dinner, lovingly prepared by wife Sarah, and daughter Avery is sulking in her room because she wasn’t allowed to go to a party at a friend’s house.

But a nice family dinner doesn’t work out: the daughter sneaks off to her friends’ house, and burglars break into the house to get the diamonds. Kyle tries to protect the family by convincing the robbers not to commit a crime, and with that, critical cracks appear in the impeccable facade of the Miller family.

Notice Nicole Kidman remains barefoot throughout the action.

Rabbit Hole

IMDB Rating – 7.0
Genre: Drama
Production: USA / 2010
Budget: $10,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $3,409,780
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller, Tammy Blanchard, Sandra Oh, Giancarlo Esposito, John Tenney, Stephen Mailer, Mike Doyle

An incredible story of acceptance and forgiveness for the sake of getting on with life. American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, the author of the play underlying the movie and who wrote the screenplay, is not afraid to bring up the truly painful topic of losing a child.

Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart portray Corbett, Rebecca and Howard, a couple who lost their 4-year-old son Danny, who ran out into the road, in a car accident. In an attempt to lessen their grief, the Corbetts attend group therapy, socialize with people, and search for themselves. But all for nothing until Becca meets the man responsible for the accident, young Jason, who changes everything for the grieving parents.

For this challenging movie, Nicole Kidman personally chose actor Eckhart to play her husband.

Australia

IMDB Rating – 6.6
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Western, Military
Production: Australia, UK, USA / 2008
Budget: $130,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $211,342,221
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, David Wenham, David Galpililil, Shea Adams, Eddie Baru, Ray Barrett, Tony Barry.

An impressive epic in the spirit of “Gone with the Wind” from the famous director Baz Luhrmann. The action unfolds in 1939 somewhere in the Australian outback. English aristocrat Sarah Ashley (Kidman) after the death of her husband inherits a large cattle farm in Australia.

She takes to running the ranch on her own, but her property is claimed by Carney, a local beef monopolist, enlisting the support of Sarah’s farm manager Neil Fletcher.

The woman fires the traitor and, in order to move and sell the cattle, hires Drover (Hugh Jackman), an independent drover who is friends with the natives and is therefore considered an outcast. Thus begins an incredible story of love and courage among the Australian prairies.

Nicole Kidman saved Hugh Jackman from a scorpion sting on set by simply removing it from the actor’s leg with her hat.

The Invasion

IMDB Rating – 5.9
Genre: Fantastic, thriller
Production: USA, Australia / 2007
Budget: $80,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $40,170,558
Director: Oliver Hirschbigel
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright, Joseph Sommer, Celia Weston, Roger Rees, Eric Benjamin.

This sci-fi horror is the 4th adaptation of Jack Finney’s famous novel “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. A space shuttle returning to Earth explodes in the atmosphere, throwing into it, as scientists later find out, an alien fungus that causes a large-scale epidemic. Those infected are completely changed, as if the personality dies and is replaced by something else.

At the center of the plot is psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), the ex-wife of the first human infected, Tucker Kaufman, director of the Center for Disease Control. This woman will play an important role in freeing humanity.

Nicole Kidman had a minor accident while filming a movie, but was able to continue working the next day.

The Golden Compass

IMDB Rating – 6.1
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Family
Production: USA, UK / 2007
Budget: $180,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $372,234,864
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtney, Ian McShane.

A magical children’s fantasy tale that earned an Oscar for special effects. Nicole Kidman plays the role of the main villain, Miss Coulter, who is part of an organization that kidnaps children and sends them to the North for experiments.

The main character of the movie is a girl named Lyra, who one day gets hold of a powerful artifact called the Golden Compass, which can always show the owner the truth. Lyra escapes from Ms. Coulter and embarks on a thrilling journey in search of the kidnapped children.

Philip Pullman, the author of the book on which the movie is based, originally dreamed that Ms. Coleman would one day be played by Nicole Kidman.

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Melodrama, Biography
Production: USA / 2006
Budget: $12,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $2,280,048
Director: Steven Sheinberg
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clark, Genevieve McCarthy, Boris McGyver, Marceline Hugo, Mary Duffy

A surreal movie, the idea of which is based on the real personality of the eccentric female photographer Diane Arbus (played by Nicole Kidman), but the plot is entirely fictional.

Filled with symbolism and bizarre details, the story follows the life of Diane Arbus, who has a knack for spotting the most unusual and disturbing things in her life. She lives a rather dull life with her photographer husband, Allan, until she begins an affair with her oddball neighbor, wig maker Lionel Sweeney, who one day gives her mistress a wondrous gift: a jacket made from his own hair.

By the way, there are no pictures of Diana herself in the movie. Her relatives forbade the use of Arbus’s work.

The Interpreter

IMDB Rating – 6.4
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Detective
Production: UK, France, Germany, USA / 2005
Budget: $80,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $162,944,923
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Esper Christensen, Ivan Attal, Earl Cameron, George Harris, Michael Wright, Clyde Kusatsu, Eric Keenleyside.

Sydney Pollack’s latest directorial work is a detective thriller starring Nicole Kidman. Her heroine is a synchronic translator Sylvia, who one day unwittingly overhears the negotiations on the organization of an assassination attempt on an African dictator.

Sylvia reports what she overhears to the UN internal police, but soon becomes one of the suspects in the plot, as the language in which the crime was discussed is spoken by almost no one on the planet. For the investigator Tobin Keller the case is complicated by the fact that he gradually falls in love with Sylvia and unsuccessfully tries to remain objective.

Nicole Kidman has admitted that mimicking a South African accent is the most difficult part of “The Sound” job in her entire acting career.

The Stepford Wives

IMDB Rating – 5.3
Genre: Horror, sci-fi, thriller, comedy
Production: USA / 2004
Budget: $90,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $101,297,248
Director: Frank Oz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Dylan Hurtigan, Fallon Brookin.

A cult movie based on Ira Levin’s novel of the same name, starring Nicole Kidman as Joanna Eberhart, a successful woman who nearly loses everything overnight.

A crisis hits Joanna at the height of her career as an executive producer when one of the contestants on her reality show tries to kill a woman. Joanna loses her job, suffers an acute psychological breakdown, and her husband declares divorce instead of support, as he is tired of raising the children alone and submitting to his wife’s overbearing nature.

After discussing their differences, the Eberharts decide to move to the quiet town of Stapford, where Joanna will try to become a good wife and mother. The couple do not know that this will be the beginning of eerie adventures and shocking discoveries for them.

Kidman agreed to the role without a second thought, as she always wanted to work with Frank Oz. But on the set, numerous conflicts broke out between the actors and the director because of the constant rewriting of the script.

Birth

IMDB Rating – 6.2
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: UK, France, Germany, USA / 2004
Budget: $20,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $23,925,492
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott, Arliss Howard, Michael Desautels, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine.

Psychological drama with a distinct bias towards mysticism, where Nicole Kidman acts as the main character Anna. This woman 10 years ago lost her beloved husband Sean, maintained relations with his relatives, honestly grieved.

But it’s time to move on. Anna is going to remarry Joseph, a calm and sensitive man who has been by Anna’s side for quite some time. But on the day the engagement is to take place, a 10-year-old boy approaches Anna and claims to be the reincarnation of her first husband. The boy knows the most personal details of Anna’s life and she begins to seriously consider that this incredible story may be true….

This movie is one of actress Nicole Kidman’s favorites and, in her opinion, seriously underrated by audiences.

Dogville

IMDB Rating – 8.0
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, France, Finland, Norway, Italy / 2003
Budget: DKK 10 000 000
Worldwide Box Office: $16,680,836
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Harriet Andersson, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, Jeremy Davies, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Lauren Bacall.

This eccentric experiment by the unique Danish director Lars von Trier is created in the style of a theater production with almost no scenery. The plot is structured like a play, and the action takes place in the 30s of the last century in a small American town surrounded by mountains.

The central character is Tom Edison, a young boy who dreams of succeeding his father as spiritual leader of the Dogville community. One day Grace (Nicole Kidman), a charming young woman fleeing from gangsters, shows up in the town.

Tom hides her from her pursuers, then convinces her that Grace needs to prove herself to the locals in order to be left in Dogville. And that has far-reaching consequences for both the town, Tom and hapless Grace.

Lars von Trier wrote the role of Grace especially for Kidman. But filming this difficult story was so difficult for Kidman that she vowed never to take part in the director’s films again, although they remained good friends.

The Human Stain

IMDB Rating – 6.2
Genre: Drama, melodrama
Production: Germany, USA / 2003
Budget: $30,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $24,863,804
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller, Jacinda Barrett, Harry J. Lennix, Clark Gregg, Anna Deavere Smith, Lizanne Mitchell.

This movie is worth watching if only for the sake of the wonderful tandem of Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins. And also because it’s a fine psychological thriller based on a good book of the same name by Philip Roth.

Coleman Silk (Hopkins) is the Dean Emeritus of a university in Massachusetts, an elderly, universally respected Jew and a teacher of classical literature. One day he allows himself an ironic remark in the direction of two absent students, and unwittingly his remark sounds like a racist taunt

The professor immediately becomes the object of accusations and attacks, but defiantly leaves the post of dean and has an affair with a woman half his age – janitor Phonia Farley (Nicole Kidman), reflecting on his life and the long-standing secret that once determined his fate.

In preparation for the role, Kidman spent a lot of time at women’s shelters talking to victims of abuse.

Cold Mountain

IMDB Rating – 7.2
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Military
Production: USA, Italy, Romania, UK / 2003
Budget: $79,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $173,013,509
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winston, Kathy Baker, Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland.

Inman (Jude Law) is a simple carpenter in love with the priest’s daughter Ada (Nicole Kidman). Both live in a Coldwater town in the 1860s. But the Civil War begins. Inman goes to the front, and the girl is left waiting for him at home.

Soon after being wounded, Inman decides to leave the army and return to his beloved. His long journey home is filled with dangerous events. At the same time, the town where Ada waits for her fiancé comes under the rule of the Confederate forces, and the cruel Colonel Teague has his sights on the girl to get her estate.

Nicole Kidman lost a lot of weight for this role and, incidentally, played all the parts on the piano. They with Jude Law tabloids came up with a novel, and for this gossip Kidman sued the English magazine, won the case and donated compensation to an orphanage.

The Hours

IMDB Rating – 7.5
Genre: Drama, Biography
Production: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany / 2002
Budget: $25,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $108,846,072
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Ed Harris, Miranda Richardson, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Toni Collette

The movie for which Nicole Kidman won her first Oscar. A movie worth seeing at least once. A movie in which the incredible dramatic talent of three superb actresses shines brightly: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman.

This is the story of three women living in different eras and observing world events. They are all connected by the book Mrs. Dalloway. One of them, Virginia Woolf (Kidman), is writing this immortal masterpiece and contemplating suicide. Another, Laura (Moore), a 50-something housewife, reads the book and reflects on her vastly gray, albeit rich, life. A third, the energetic businesswoman of today, Clarissa, cares for a terminally ill former lover and responds to the nickname “Dalloway.”

This is the only movie in which Nicole Kidman wore a prosthetic nose. And she liked it so much that she kept it on even off set.

Moulin Rouge!

IMDB Rating – 7.6
Genre: Musical, Melodrama, Drama
Production: Australia, USA / 2001
Budget: $50,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $179,213,434
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Harry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kerry Walker, Caroline O’Connor.

A vibrant musical movie about love and passion in which Nicole Kidman plays Satine, a courtesan who performs in a famous cabaret. In order for the Moulin Rouge to continue to exist, cabaret owner Harold Siedler convinces Satine to seduce the wealthy Duke, who could be a much-needed investor.

But in the meantime, Satine is having an affair with the poor poet Christian. The sincere love between the two young people enrages the Duke, who has a serious crush on the girl, and he tries to keep her close to him with threats and influence. However, fate does not allow him to achieve what he wants.

300 costumers worked on the movie, and Nicole Kidman wore the most expensive $1 million necklace in the history of filmmaking, won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar for the movie.

The Others

IMDB Rating – 7.6
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Detective
Production: Spain, USA, France, Italy / 2001
Budget: $17,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $209,947,037
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Finola Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy, Renee Asherson, Gordon Reed, Keith Allen.

Magnificent and bizarre, very exciting and creepy ghost horror movie from the famous Spanish director, screenwriter and composer Alejandro Amenabar. Unusual plot, which is interwoven with notes of military drama, anxiety, rapidly increasing in the plot, excellent cast and unexpected ending, turning the whole picture.

The events unfold in the Channel Islands in 1945. Nicole Kidman plays Grace Stewart, the owner of a rich house and mother of two different-sex children with a rare disease – intolerance to bright light. Grace is resigned to the thought of the death of her husband, who is missing somewhere in the war fields and tries to live as if nothing had happened. Then one day the house is shrouded in fog and ghosts appear inside.

The executive producer of the movie was Tom Cruise, and this was his last collaboration with Nicole Kidman. Next came divorce and the breakup of any relationship, including business ones.

Birthday Girl

IMDB Rating – 6.0
Genre: Thriller, comedy, crime
Production: UK, USA / 2001
Budget: $13,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $16,171,098
Director: Jez Butterworth
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans, Stephen Mangan, Alexander Armstrong, Sallie Phillips, Joe McInness, Ben Miller.

A curious adventurous romantic comedy with hints of Russian crime. Nicole Kidman plays Nadia, who meets a rich and lonely Englishman John, and then comes to him and seduces the man. John is crazy about his girlfriend and considers himself lucky.

Closer to Nadia’s birthday, two men come to visit John, whom she introduces as her brother and his friend Yuri and Alexei. And soon the unhappy lover finds himself in the thick of criminal events, committing crimes, which are forced on him by his new “relatives”.

Nicole Kidman contacted the Russian embassy in Australia to learn Russian and worked on set with a woman from the embassy.

Eyes Wide Shut

IMDB Rating – 7.5
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Detective
Production: USA, UK / 1999
Budget: $65,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $162,091,208
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Maria Richardson, Rade Sherbedjia, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw, Skye Dumont, Faye Masterson, Lili Sobieski.

The latest work of one of the greatest directors of the XX century – a psychological thriller with married to each other Cruise and Kidman in the lead roles. They play Bill and Alice Harford, two successful and quite satisfied with life spouses.

One day Alice tells her husband about her fantasies, revealing to him her secret thoughts and bewildering array of unsatisfied desires. Resentment and jealousy push Bill to real adventures, which turn out to be an amazing immersion in the world of personal fantasies.

Cruise and Kidman signed an open-ended contract with the director, assuming that they would be engaged in the project for as long as it took Kubrick, and filming really dragged on so that the children of the star couple acquired a British accent. By the way, the great Stanley died four days after the release of the final version of the movie.

Practical Magic

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Melodrama, Comedy
Production: USA / 1998
Budget: $75,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $46,683,731
Director: Griffin Dunne
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Goran Vishnich, Aidan Quinn, Evan Rachel Wood, Alexandra Artrip, Mark Feuerstein, Caprice Benedetti.

The charming duo of Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star in this mystical romcom from director Griffin Dunne. Sally and Gillian Owen are hereditary witches who have inherited not only a magical gift, but also a family curse. Any man who falls in love with a girl of the Owen family ends up very badly.

And one day frivolous Gillian decides to tie up her life with charismatic Jimmy, but he turns out to be a terrible tyrant, from whom the two sisters-witches can not get rid of for a long time.

While filming a domestic coven, Nicole Kidman brought tequila to the set and all the actresses got safely drunk right in front of the cameras.

The Portrait of a Lady

IMDB Rating – 6.2
Genre: Drama, melodrama
Production: UK, USA / 1996
Worldwide Box Office: $17,692,836
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Winters, Richard E. Grant, Shelley Duvall, Christian Bale, Viggo Mortensen.

A wonderfully beautiful melancholy costume drama set in the high society of the second half of the 19th century, based on the novel by Henry James. Nicole Kidman plays a young American woman Isabel Archer, who has inherited a huge fortune.

On the hand of the girl immediately announced a horde of applicants, one another more handsome and imposing. However, the girl herself is not in a hurry to marry, wanting to see the world. And, as it usually happens, the clever but overconfident and naïve beauty falls under the influence of the hard-boiled bitch Madame Serena Merle and her cynical friend Gilbert.

Nicole Kidman first read the novel in elementary school. By the way, during the filming she wore a corset that significantly reduced her waist.

To Die For

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Production: USA, UK, Canada / 1995
Budget: $20,000,000
US box office: $21,284,514
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland, Dan Hedaya, Wayne Knight, Kurtwood Smith, Holland Taylor.

Crime thriller, full of light humor and created in the genre of pseudo-documentary, in which Kidman played the role of Susan Stone and won a Golden Globe for it. Susan is an ambitious girl who graduated from journalism school and is obsessed with the dream of working on television.

She marries wealthy Larry Maretto to provide her dreams with financial support, and soon gets a job at a local TV station, and then starts shooting a documentary about teenagers, having an affair with one of them.

Meanwhile, the Maretto family wants Susan to give an heir to their son and join the family business, but she has very different plans, including how to get rid of her pesky husband …

Nicole Kidman asked for the role herself, and her acting was inspired by Rosamund Pike in her hit movie “Vanished.”

Batman Forever

IMDB Rating – 5.4
Genre: Action, Adventure
Production: USA, UK / 1995
Budget: $100,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $336,529,144
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O’Donnell, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Drew Barrymore, Debi Mazar, Elizabeth Sanders.

This movie is the third installment of the Bruce Wayne tetralogy started by Tim Burton. Robin, played by Chris O’Donnell, and femme fatale psychiatrist Chase Meridian, played by Nicole Kidman, appear for the first time in this epic series.

Chase helps Batman solve the puzzles that the Enigma throws at him, then the woman is kidnapped by Two-Face, and in the finale she watches Edward Nygma go insane at Arkham Asylum, Gotham City’s institution for the most dangerous and mentally ill criminals.

This is Kidman’s only appearance in the Batman franchise, but not her last in the DC superhero universe. The actress will next play the role of Aquaman’s mother in the 2018 film and will reprise it in the 2023 sequel.

Malice

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Detective
Production: Canada, USA / 1993
Budget: $20,000,000
US box office receipts: $46,405,336
Director: Harold Becker
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Newworth, George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Peter Gallagher, Joseph Sommer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tobin Bell

One of the highest-grossing films of 1993, this intricate detective thriller starring Alec Baldwin, Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman is often ranked alongside The Silence of the Lambs. The plot is so twisty and unpredictable that it stuns the viewer literally every five minutes, and in the end anyone will become firmly uncomfortable.

Dr. Jedd Hill (Alec Baldwin) is a surgeon with a god complex who involves a young college professor Andy Safian and his beautiful wife Tracy in a whirlwind of tangled intrigue. But they too are not shabby and start their own game, which involves more and more people and sinister events.

The screenplay for the movie was written by Aaron Sorkin, implying actress Nicole Kidman as Tracy.

My Life

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Drama
Production: USA / 1993
Worldwide Box Office: $27,857,007
Director: Bruce Joel Rubin
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Michael Keaton, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah, Michael Constantine, Rebecca Schull, Mark Lowenthal, Lee Garlington, Tony Sawyer, Haing S. Ngor

A warm, surprisingly family drama starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. They play a married Jones couple, Bob and Gail, who learn that Bob has inoperable kidney cancer.

Gail is pregnant, and Bob is distraught that he won’t live to see the day when he can communicate with his child. So he starts recording video messages for his future offspring, and at the same time he thinks about his life and important things, mends his relationship with his parents and discovers a whole world of human emotions.

Director Bruce Joel Rubin met Nicole Kidman at a casting call for 1990’s The Haunting (a movie starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore). Kidman was turned down because they wanted a more famous star, so Rubin offered her a role in his movie.

Far and Away

IMDB Rating – 6.6
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Western
Production: USA / 1992
Budget: $60,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $137,783,840
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Michelle Johnson, Jared Harris, Cyril Cusack, Eileen Pollock.

A thoughtful western about the fate of settlers who dream of obtaining land in the New World. The events unfold in the late 19th century, and begin in Ireland. Joseph Donnelly (Tom Cruise) after the death of his father is deprived of ancestral land because of the intrigues of the rich Daniel Christie. After unsuccessfully trying to get revenge on the rich man, Joseph escapes to America with his daughter Shannon (Nicole Kidman).

While the young people are experiencing the trials of the new land, Shannon’s parents are broke and also go to America to take part in the “Great Land Race” in an effort to grab a good piece of the family land.

Cruise and Kidman (husband and wife at the time) received an MTV Movie Awards nomination for Best Screen Couple.

Billy Bathgate

IMDB Rating – 5.9
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Production: USA / 1991
Budget: $48,000,000
US box office receipts: $15,565,363
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Lauren Dean, Bruce Willis, Stephen Hill, Steve Buscemi, Billy Jay, John Costello, Timothy Jerome, Stanley Tucci.

A crime drama about New York in the 30s, in which Nicole Kidman portrays a young beautiful woman Drew Preston, a toy in the hands of tough criminals. The main character of the movie is a major gangster Dutch Schultz (a real historical figure, by the way), played by Dustin Hoffman.

He kills his handmaiden Bo for betrayal, and his girlfriend Drew takes him. Being away for a long time on his business, Schultz entrusts Drew to the care of his new assistant Billy Bathgate (Lauren Dean), who has an affair with Drew and decides to run away with her away from the criminal world, which leads to bloody consequences.

Nicole Kidman has two nude scenes in this movie and a Golden Globe nomination for her role.

Days of Thunder

IMDB Rating – 6.1
Genre: Drama, Sports, Melodrama
Production: USA / 1990
Budget: $60,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $157,920,733
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker, Fred Dalton Thompson, John C. Reilly, J.C. Quinn, Don Simpson

An old driving movie about racing starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cole Trickle is a promising rookie who dreams of trying his hand at NASCAR racing. He begins to coach him scandalously famous experienced coach Harry Hogg.

At first everything goes perfectly, Cole shows stunning results. But this success is interrupted by an accident, after which the young racer finds himself in the hospital, meets his love Claire Lewicki and begins to think about the future, in which there are not only high-speed cars.

It was on the set of this movie between Nicole and Tom Cruise had a romance, because of which the actor divorced his previous wife and married Kidman.

Dead Calm

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Production: Australia / 1988
Budget: $10,400,000
US box office: $7,825,009
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mulinar, Joshua Tilden, George Shevtsov, Michael Long, Lisa Collins, Paula Hudson-Brinkley, Sharon Cook

John (Sam Neill) and Ray (Nicole Kidman) Ingram take a trip together on their small yacht to cope with the loss of their young son who died in a car accident. At sea, they stumble upon another yacht in distress and rescue Hugh, the sole survivor of some gruesome intestinal infection.

John goes to the half-sunken vessel to find out if it can be saved, leaving his wife with a barely alive Hugh. On board the stranger’s yacht, he realizes that it wasn’t the infection that took the lives of all those people at all, and now he has to find a way to get back to his wife, who has been held captive by a cruel stranger.

For this movie, Nicole Kidman took lessons in yacht management.

Windrider

IMDB Rating – 5.1
Genre: Drama, Melodrama, Comedy
Production: Australia / 1986
US box office receipts: $19,367
Director: Vincent Monton
Starring: Tom Burlinson, Nicole Kidman, Jill Perryman, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Simon Chilvers, Kim Bullad, Stig Wemyss, Mark Williams, Alastair Cumming, Robin Miller.

A cute Australian surfing movie in which Nicole Kidman played singer Jade, one of the central characters. Stuart Simpson is the heir to a wealthy family, whose father dreams of a solid career for his son, while he himself is obsessed only with windsurfing, devoting all his time to the sport.

When a major competition approaches, Stuart develops a brand new board with his father’s engineer and strives to win the grand prize, a dream that pales in comparison to his father’s discontent and his love for the charming Jade.

After filming the movie, Nicole Kidman had a short-lived affair with her filming partner Tom Burlinson, who is 11 years older than her.

Bush Christmas

IMDB Rating – 5.2
Genre: Drama, Family
Production: Australia / 1983
Director: Henry Safran
Starring: John Ewart, John Howard, Mark Spaine, James Wingrove, Peter Sumner, Nicole Kidman, Manalpai, Vineta O’Malley, Maurice Hughes, Roger Corbert.

The debut of 16-year-old Nicole Kidman in the movie was in an old movie about Christmas, a remake of the 1947 film of the same name. The action takes place in the Australian countryside of Queensland (incidentally, the movie was shot there, on location) in the 50s.

The plot centers on the Thompson family, which hopes that their horse Prince will win the New Year’s race as the main prize and solve the family’s financial problems. Two bandits learn of the prized animal and steal it. The Thompson children, Helen (Nicole Kidman) and John, their cousin Michael and an Aboriginal man working on the farm, Mannalai, follow the thieves’ trail to get Prince back.

The movie features music by the extremely popular 70’s and 80’s folk band “The Bushwackers”.