List of the best Jennifer Jones movies: Portrait of Jennie(1948), Good Morning, Miss Dove(1955), Love Letters(1945), Madame Bovary(1949), Gone to Earth(1950), Duel in the Sun(1946), Ruby Gentry(1952), We Were Strangers(1949), Love Is a Many Splendored Thing(1955), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1957), Indiscretion of an American Wife(1953), Tender Is the Night(1962) ... ...
Romance
USA
1948
86 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Ethel Barrymore Cecil Kellaway David Wayne Albert Sharpe Florence Bates Lillian Gish Henry Hull Maude Simmons Felix Bressart
painter girl gallery owner cab driver mother superior dreamy brooding creative fascinating new york city cape cod central park convent apartment pub time poverty art storm love
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Drama
USA
1955
107 Minutes
Miss Dove
Jennifer Jones Robert Stack Kipp Hamilton Robert Douglas Peggy Knudsen Marshall Thompson Chuck Connors Biff Elliot Jerry Paris Mary Wickes
schoolteacher doctor police officer playwright banker convict melodramatic endearing small town school hospital school love respect memory illness growing up sacrifice 1950s
After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.
Drama
USA
1945
101 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Ann Richards Anita Louise Cecil Kellaway Gladys Cooper Byron Barr Robert Sully Reginald Denny Ernest Cossart James Millican
soldier woman mother fiancée melodramatic tense italy party london world war ii love letters long-distance relationship murder amnesia domestic violence mystery love 1940s
Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters; tragedy results. Later, Allen meets a beautiful amnesiac who fears postmen...
Romance
USA
1949
115 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Van Heflin Louis Jourdan James Mason Christopher Kent Gene Lockhart Frank Allenby Gladys Cooper John Abbott Harry Morgan George Zucco
wife husband doctor lawyer wealthy man disheartening emotional hedonistic sultry france small town adultery ambition love wealth marriage love fall temptation wretched excess
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Hazel Woodus
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
Western
USA
1946
130 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten Lionel Barrymore Lillian Gish Herbert Marshall Walter Huston Butterfly McQueen Charles Bickford Tilly Losch Harry Carey
orphan aunt senator outlaw rancher son passionate tense ranch desert texas love-hate relationship love triangle doomed romance cross-cultural romance family dysfunction love revenge rivalry 19th century
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Drama
USA
1952
82 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Charlton Heston Karl Malden Tom Tully Barney Phillips James Anderson Josephine Hutchinson Phyllis Avery Herbert Heyes Myra Marsh Charles Cane
widow businessman brother old flame gold digger dark tense melodramatic suspenseful american south country club swamp murder poverty marriage of convenience second chance morality love transformation rise
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1949
106 Minutes
Jennifer Jones John Garfield Pedro Armendáriz Gilbert Roland Ramon Novarro
revolutionary sister student spy police officer suspenseful engaging cuba house university bank cemetery political repression protest resistance terrorism assassination tunneling revenge adventure
In 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.
Romance
USA
1955
102 Minutes
Dr. Han Suyin
Jennifer Jones William Holden Torin Thatcher Isobel Elsom Jorja Curtright Virginia Gregg Richard Loo Donna Martell
reporter doctor friend sister uncle melodramatic emotional hong kong family home office forbidden love interracial relationship war forbidden love 1950s
A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Romance
UK|USA
1957
105 Minutes
Elizabeth Barrett
Jennifer Jones John Gielgud Bill Travers Virginia McKenna Susan Stephen Vernon Gray Jean Anderson Maxine Audley Leslie Phillips Laurence Naismith Moultrie Kelsall
elizabeth barrett robert browning father sister doctor love interest creepy melodramatic london mansion bedroom poetry confinement illness incest romance sexual repression forbidden love escape transformation
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Romance
Italy|USA
1953
63 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Montgomery Clift Gino Cervi Richard Beymer Paolo Stoppa Nando Bruno
wife lover professor italian nephew passionate tense rome train station affair infidelity romantic dilemma vacation difficult decision forbidden love temptation 1950s
Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
Drama
USA
1962
146 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Jason Robards Joan Fontaine Jill St. John Tom Ewell Cesare Danova Paul Lukas Bea Benaderet
psychiatrist starlet heiress mentally ill person newlywed spoiled girl engaging wild party villa french riviera clinic zurich incest alcoholism mental illness infidelity jealousy humiliation love
A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
Drama
1952
118 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Laurence Olivier Eddie Albert Miriam Hopkins Basil Ruysdael Ray Teal Barry Kelley Sara Berner William Reynolds Mary Murphy Harry Hayden
kept woman salesman restaurant manager sister brother-in-law wife emotional melodramatic chicago train restaurant apartment love triangle forbidden love adultery forbidden love fall 1890s
A farm girl (Jennifer Jones) goes to Chicago, meets men (Laurence Olivier, Eddie Albert) and becomes a stage star.
Drama
1943
156 Minutes
Bernadette
Jennifer Jones Charles Bickford Gladys Cooper William Eythe Vincent Price Lee J. Cobb Anne Revere Roman Bohnen
saint nun priest father mother emotional melodramatic passionate france church countryside spiritual visions saint bernadette christianity religion discovery transformation growing up 1850s
Based on the true story of a 19th-century peasant woman who claimed to see the Virgin Mary near her home in Lourdes.
Comedy
USA
1946
100 Minutes
Charles Boyer Jennifer Jones Peter Lawford Helen Walker Reginald Gardiner Reginald Owen C. Aubrey Smith Richard Haydn Margaret Bannerman Sara Allgood Ernest Cossart
young woman plumber uncle father chemist refugee charming emotional witty england manor village london new york city world war ii love triangle class distinctions father/son relationship marriage jealousy
A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.
Drama
USA
1944
172 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Monty Woolley Shirley Temple Lionel Barrymore Robert Walker Hattie McDaniel
housewife daughter young woman lodger soldier maid melodramatic heartwarming house small town united states war loss young love home front love growing up sacrifice 1940s
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters - and a pair of lodgers who have moved in - alone.
Drama
USA
1956
153 Minutes
Betsy Rath
Gregory Peck Jennifer Jones Fredric March Marisa Pavan Ann Harding Lee J. Cobb Keenan Wynn Gene Lockhart Gigi Perreau Portland Mason Arthur O'Connell
pr person executive wife ex-lover friend boss dark emotional new york city suburbia office family home battlefield italy ambition family business post-traumatic stress disorder secret world war ii
An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
Comedy, Drama
UK|Italy|USA
1953
92 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Jennifer Jones Gina Lollobrigida Robert Morley Peter Lorre Edward Underdown Ivor Barnard Marco Tulli Mario Perrone Alex Pochet Aldo Silvani
husband wife traveler pretty woman criminal amusing campy engaging italy africa treasure expedition travel deception competition rivalry quest adventure 1950s
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
Romance
USA
1957
150 Minutes
Nurse Catherine Barkley
Rock Hudson Jennifer Jones Vittorio De Sica Alberto Sordi Mercedes McCambridge Elaine Stritch Oscar Homolka Kurt Kaszner
american nurse friend german soldier italian lieutenant emotional dark italy switzerland world war i romance pregnancy execution war injury tragic death love rescue escape 1910s
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
Western
1939
57 Minutes
Celia Braddock
John Wayne Raymond Hatton Ray Corrigan Jennifer Jones Eddy Waller Sammy McKim Roy Mason Harrison Greene
rancher cowboy politician builder major granddaughter confident gutsy positive wild west ranch valley courtroom construction land dispute deception negotiation justice flooding rescue
The Three Mesquiteers (John Wayne, Raymond Hatton, Ray Corrigan) defend settlers displaced by dam builders.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1974
165 Minutes
Liselotte
Steve McQueen Paul Newman William Holden Faye Dunaway Fred Astaire Susan Blakely Richard Chamberlain Jennifer Jones O.J. Simpson Robert Vaughn
contractor architect fireman victim thrilling suspenseful skyscraper san francisco fire disaster trapped fear explosion greed rescue 1970s
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.