46 Ava Gardner Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

The Killers is mystery crime drama film which tells the story of an insurance investigator who uncovers a string of crimes, while trying to find the beneficiary of a murdered boxer.

After the President offers his support to a nuclear disarmament treaty, several military leaders in the US plan to overthrow him, as they fear an attack from the Soviets.

The Night of the Iguana is a drama film which tells the story of Lawrence Shannon, who is working as a tour guide in Mexico. While leading a tourist group from a Baptist women’s college, he finds himself attracted to Charlotte, the younger niece of Judith, the group’s leader, after the girl tries to seduce him. However, Judith accuses Shannon of trying to seduce her, and declares that she is going to ruin him.

On the Beach is a science fiction film which takes us to 1964, where a third World War has caused total destruction of the World’s Northern Hemisphere, where nuclear fallout has eliminated the life of all humans. Meanwhile, survivors in Australia detect a signal coming from the West Cost of the US.  

Harry is a film director going through hard-times and he is forced to work for an abusive business tycoon named Kirk Edwards, who wants to produce a film just to boost his monumental ego. While working on the film, Harry meets a dancer and takes a liking to her.       

Shortly after he rides into a West Texas border town named Vinegaroon, he is beaten up by the customers in a saloon and left to die. However, a young girl named Maria finds him and helps him, after which returns to town and shoots the three men who had wronged him. Seeing that the town is without law and order, he appoints himself as the judge, and decides to deliver justice in his own way.

During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Matt Lewis, an American major, tries to lead the defense and keep the rebels at bay, while waiting for an international military relief force to arrive. 

While traveling from Moscow, writer Fedya becomes fascinated with gambling addict, the stunning Pauline Ostrovsky. When he abandons his own journey and follows her, he also decides to write a character study on gambling addicts. Unfortunately, his love for Pauline leads him down a path of gambling and crime from which he never recovers. 

Mogambo is a romantic adventure drama film which tells the story of Eloise Kelly, a socialite, who arrives at a remote African outpost. She is upset after finding out that her acquaintance has canceled his trip, due to unrest in his region. She soon meets a hunter and wild animal catcher Victor Marswell, who soon develops a liking towards her.  

An American pearl smuggler’s bride-to-be goes missing when the church, in which she was waiting to marry him, is bombed by the Japanese during the WWII. Unable to find her anywhere, he finally leaves Singapore; but when he returns 5 years later, everybody believes he is here to seek the pearls he has left. In the meantime, he sees his bride-to-be. 

The Sentinel is a supernatural horror film which tells the story of Alison Parker, a model in New York City, who has a troubled past. She decides to change her life, which makes her leave her boyfriend, and relocate to a different apartment in a building where the only other resident is a blind priest. Unknown to Alison, the building houses a sinister evil, which is why the priest is present, to keep a check on it.

A group of passengers on a train that is travelling from Geneva to Stockholm are exposed to an extremely deadly virus. In order to ensure that the virus doesn’t spread, the driver receives explicit orders not to stop or let anyone off the train. 

Priest of Love is a British biographical drama film which tells the story of an author DH Lawrence, whose novel ‘The Rainbow’, attracts huge controversy and gets banned, due to which he is forced to leave his native country England, and go to the US, in order to escape the outrage. He soon writes ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, which becomes his greatest work.  

Lone Star is a 1952 black-and-white Western film that tells the story of Devereaux Burke, a cattleman from Texas, who has to help the President of the US, to prevent the Republic of Texas from signing a treaty with Mexico. 

Barbara Beaurevelle lives in New Orleans with her autocratic aunt and cousin, Paail. Although she is in love with Dr. Mark Lucas their romance is broken up by Paul. Believing that Barbara has stood him up, Mark marries Connie on the rebound. Later Barbara inherits a huge amount of money from her grandmother. She now wants Mark back and sets up Paul to break his marriage.  

Maisie is overworked at her defense job, until she is given a vacation for two weeks. She meets a man named Tommy, who offers her a job of singing with his band in Reno. However, she needs to get there on her own. At the bus station, she meets a soldier who asks her to deliver a letter for his wife, who is waiting for a divorce.

Bandit Jose Esqueda hates settlers in his Texas town and attacks them. Jose’s adoptive brother, Rio, teams up with new settler, King Cameron, and gets close to Cameron’s wife Cordelia. As Rio continues to save Cameron’s life and Cordelia falls in love with him, a final gunfight with Jose will decide all of their fates.   

Three Men in White is a drama comedy film which revolves around two young doctors Red and Lee who are competing to be the assistant of Dr Gillespie.  Therefore, they are given a test. Lee’s task is a small girl who falls ill whenever she has a candy, while Red’s task is a girl’s mother who is suffering from arthritis.

The film is based on the Celtic legend Tam-Lin. Michaela Cazaret is a glamorous, enigmatic, old woman who uses her riches and witchcraft to keep herself surrounded with young admirers. Her favorite amongst them, an artist called Tom Lynn, gets captivated by local vicar’s daughter Janet Ainsley, which makes Michaela jealous. Tom has aroused the witch’s wrath. Can Janet’s innocence save him?

Dr Ann Wotters is a scientist working at Brockhurst Institute of Research in Los Angeles. She is shocked when she learns that her uncle is going to be let off because the institute can’t afford to keep him anymore. When she learns that the institute needs $ 20,000 to afford his services, along with her colleagues, she plans to try their luck at a racetrack.  

Stuart manages to resolve his marital woes with his wife Remy, but things turn worse when the city is hit by a series of devastating earthquakes. The rest of the story revolves around how common people are affected by this.

Set in the backdrop of Spanish Civil War, the story follows a young Catholic priest, who resigns from priesthood due to the church’s indifference to the poor. Later in the same day, he meets an attractive entertainer and over the time they are drawn towards each other. Meanwhile the civil war continues to rage, engulfing the duo in its orbit. 

Sir Philip Ashlow and his wife, Lady Susan Ashlow, are shipwrecked on a deserted island. Accompanying them is his close friend Henry Brittingham-Brett. Ignored by her husband, Susan tries to attract his attention by demonstrating a romantic interest in Henry. Problem arises when Henry starts taking those advances seriously and suggests that like food and water they share Susan too. 

After being away for two years, Mary returns to her home in her small town. She tries to reconcile with Kenny, her former lover, but he seems to be quite jealous and bitter, and therefore, she goes to Lew, a nightclub owner, who is Kenny’s mortal enemy. Angered at this, Kenny decides to get rid of Lew, but Mary foils his plans, although she is still not sure between the two men.     

Alexander Diakim is a revolutionary who has been banished from his country, but he soon sees an opportunity to return and lead an uprising to remove the fascist regime in power in his nation.  

Ignoring his Secret Service agent's warnings, US President Adam Scott carries on with a state visit to Canada. He is soon kidnapped by a South American terrorist who keeps the president captive in an armored truck packed with timed explosives.

In this US-Soviet co-production, peasant kids, Tyltyl and Mytyl, set out to look for the Blue Bird of Happiness to make a young sick girl in the neighbourhood happy. The journey takes the two siblings to the kingdoms of past and future as well as the land of night and luxury. Accompanying them on their journey are human forms of various living and non-living things.

An aging couple wants peace and harmony in their family, but things get quite complicated when their only son returns after a long absence with his fiancée.

A resentful ex-employee floods the city sewers with petrochemicals by opening valves of an oil refinery which was built at the center of the town with a corrupt mayor’s consent. After a major explosion at refinery the fire spreads rapidly throughout the city. Dr. Whitman and Nurse Harper at the city hospital and fire-chief, Risley, fight valiantly to save the disaster victims. 

The Band Wagon is a romantic comedy musical film which tells the story of Tony Hunter, a musical movie star who fears that his career may be dying. Things change when two of his friends come up with a Broadway project in order to revive his career. But things get complicated when the egotistical director decides to hire a ballerina named Gaby Gerard as the leading lady.   

After a jockey is found shot dead in the locker room, famous detective Nick’s friend Lt. Abrams asks him to help out. Soon, Nick begins investigating the case along with his wife Nora. Soon, he feels that the only way to find the culprit would be to gather all the suspects in a room.

Subjected to various scientific experiments since her arrival as a foundling at the Institute of Child Psychology, little Alpha does not know what normal childhood is. She first comes in contact with outside world when a reporter comes to interview her and taking pity on her, he helps her to sneak out of the institute and see the world for herself. 

In this movie, based on John P. Marquand bestselling novel - H. M. Pulham, Esq - a middle aged wealthy businessman Harry Pulham looks back at his life after he receives a phone call from his former Harvard friend about a college reunion and another one from a lady, Marvin Myles, who he was once in love with. The two calls make him reflect on his own disciplined life and whether he ever was happy.

Kid Glove Killer is a crime drama thriller film which tells the story of Gerard L Latimer, an ambitious young lawyer, who helps Daniels, the mayoral candidate and Turnely, the district attorney candidate to get elected. Daniels and Turnely has one thing in common: they want to clean the city of all crime. However, they are unaware that their lawyer Gerald is also working with one of the most notorious gangsters of the city.

A sailor helps two sisters start a service canteen, and soon falls in love with Jean, the gorgeous one of the two. However, he is unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him. 

It is fictionalized version of historical WWII events. Brutal Nazi commander Reinhardt Heydrich, who inflicted atrocities in Czechoslovakia, is fatally attacked by the partisans in the village of Lidice. Under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, the village is demolished, the men are gunned down and women are taken to concentration camp. As a reprisal, the Czech village of Lidice is set ablaze. 

Mighty Lak a Goat is a short comedy film which tells the story of a group of kids, who gets splashed by mud from a passing car. They try to get rid of the mud, but unknowingly create a bad odor among themselves.  They reach school, but upon reaching, they are thrown out of the classroom.

This short film gives us an explanation and also shows the origin of various customs such as hand-shaking, kissing, the tradition of the wedding ring, and the breaking of wine bottles during ship launchings.

Coatroom attendant, Louis Blore, adores the nightclub's star singer, May Daly, who is in love with poor dancer Alec Howe but wants to marry an arrogant patron for money. When Louis wins a huge sum in sweepstakes, he immediately wants to marry May, but after having a spiked drink, slips into a dream that changes his perspective.

When a young man suffering from mental disorders suddenly goes on a killing spree, Dr Gillespie is called in to investigate.

Joe Smith, American is a drama film which tells the story of Joe, a simple American citizen who works as an aircraft mechanic. His life turns upside down when he gets kidnapped by Nazi spies, since they need information regarding a new bombsight. They begin to torture him, so that he would give them the information they need.

Lowell Blackford is a skilled musician, but he is also cursed with an ‘evil eye’ which has hypnotic powers. He goes in search of a Broadway producer, but he soon gets involved with a boxer.  

When his wife is out of town, Lee White pays a visit to her parents just for some company. Things get interesting when Lee’s father-in-law Harry asks him to quit his job as a car saleseman and join the real-estate business. Lee agrees and his first assignment is to sell a piece of land to a wealthy property investor named Arthur. Eventually, due to Harry’s bossy and interfering nature, problems arise in Lee’s marital life.

Roscoe is a boxing trainer whose students reside together in a boardinghouse where no women are allowed. However, things get complicated after the arrival of Judy, the landlady’s neice, as the men seem to get distracted.

Josephine, a woman with two children, is dating a professor named Michael Kingsley. However, problem arises because her children do not approve of the relationship, and they try to disrupt it.  They tell Kingsley that incidents from their mother’s books are actually true events, hoping that Kingsley would be displeased.  

Blonde Fever is a comedy drama film which revolves around Peter Donay, who owns Café Donay, a fancy roadside establishment. His marriage is not very successful , and therefore, he soon starts falling for a nightclub waitress named Sally. However, Sally is only interested in Peter’s money and business. When his wife comes to know about this, she tries to get rid of Sally.