5 Great Angelina Jolie Movies To Binge Watch

The Academy Award and three-time Golden Globe Award winner is no stranger to putting on fantastic performances.

Angelina Jolie is an actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian who knows no bounds. Her ability to play different characters with ease is a testament to her acting skills.

The 45-year-old A-list actress has a string of movies to her credit and bagged several Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress several times.

Let's celebrate this legendary actress and international icon's work by viewing some of her best movies.

1. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

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In "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," Jolie shows off her incredible acting skills and ability to take on the lead role. The movie is often referred to as one of the greatest video game movies of all time.

Angelina Jolie plays the main character, Lara Croft, a tomb raider. Lara is on a quest to retrieve two parts of an ancient talisman before it falls into the wrong hands. She is forced to team up with her rivals and enemies to collect the ancient artifact's pieces.

2. Maleficent (2014)

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Maleficent is Disney's attempt to recreate the old classic cartoon, Sleeping Beauty, as a live-action film, albeit from a different perspective -- that of the villain.

Rated as one of her best badass characters by IMDb users, Angelina Jolie plays Maleficent, the wicked witch. As the witch, Jolie is both sinister and sympathetic, and you are compelled to feel for her.

She did such an impeccable job of telling the story from the villain's perspective that she reprised her role in the sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

3. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

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The action-comedy is the movie that brought Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie together, but Mr. and Mrs. Smith also showed us that Jolie’s acting is as good as, if not better than, Brad Pitt’s.

The film revolved around a bored husband and wife who had secret lives the other didn’t know about. They were both assassins for competing agencies. It is hilarious when they are each asked to eliminate the other.

4. Gia (1998)

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Gia is a tragic story based on the life of the 1970s supermodel, Gia Marie Carangi. Jolie has to play a range of emotions in the movie as Gia's life story included drug abuse, wild outbursts, and an AIDs diagnosis.

Angelina Jolie proved she could pull off the role. Not only is Gia the sexiest role Angelina Jolie ever played, but so many years later, it still ranks as one of her most powerful performances.

5.Girl, Interrupted (1999)

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And then there's Girl, Interrupted that won Jolie an Academy Award for acting. The movie is based on a girl's memoir about her stay in a mental institution. Winona Rider plays that girl, Susanna.

Although Angelina Jolie doesn't play the lead role, her character, Lisa, is suggestive, unpredictable, and just as impressive. Many people remember Jolie the most when they think of the film.