The 10 Best Eva Green Movies, Ranked
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Eva Green remains one of the most exciting stars working today, and these ten movies are the strongest of her career to date. Set to appear in next year's Wednesday season 3, Green continues to work regularly in the industry, appearing in compelling roles that highlight the actor's strengths, including her strong, charismatic presence and her overwhelming beauty.
Green first appeared in film in 2001, when she played an uncredited part in Michael Haneke's controversial romance movie The Piano Teacher.
Her first major role came two years later in the 2003 drama The Dreamers, a romantic French film set against the backdrop of the 1968 Paris student riots. This launched Green as a face to watch, and she ascended quickly thereafter.
In films and TV shows alike, Green quickly became one of the most memorable performers in recent decades. Her television roles have been iconic, from Camelot to Penny Dreadful and The Luminaries, and she has appeared in all kinds of films that highlight her uniquely edgy charm, which fit especially well into movies by directors like Tim Burton.
Green continues to act, and the world is better for it. She is next set to appear in True Detective creator Cary Joji Fukunaga's upcoming film alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, which has the potential to become one of her best projects yet. In the meantime, these ten films represent the fantastic strengths of her long career.
10 Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is not as strong as the incredibly faithful first comic book adaptation, but there is still much to enjoy in this compelling and exciting film. Like the first movie, A Dame to Kill For combines tremendous style with gritty action to great effect.
Eva Green is especially a highlight in the film. Green plays Ava Lord, the titular Dame to Kill For, with tremendous skill. She is compelling and gorgeous as Dwight’s former lover, and dominates the screen every time that she appears.
This sequel, which may have come a little bit too late, releasing almost ten years after the first film, takes some surprising turns, and the bulk of them work. Especially for Green's memorable performance, A Dame to Kill For remains a must-see.
9 300: Rise Of An Empire
Another lesser follow-up that follows a brilliant Frank Miller adaptation, 300: Rise of an Empire is still a surprisingly strong film that serves as both a prequel and a sequel to 2006's fantastic and memorable Gerard Butler-starring 300.
Like with many other projects in her filmography, Green genuinely steals the 300 prequel. She plays Artemisa, a fantastic villainous force who is portrayed with fantastic dramatic weight and impeccable style. As is typical for Green, she absolutely dominates the screen in every moment that she appears.
A wonderful, if less substantial follow-up to one of the best comic book movies of the 2000s, Rise of an Empire remains a memorable and excellent entry in Green’s career.
8 Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
As Miss Alma Peregrine, Eva Green really gets the chance to shine in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. This Tim Burton project feels tailor-made for her charms, giving her the chance to balance strict rigidity with deep emotionality.
The movie is set at a magical orphanage set in a repeating time loop. Channeling superhero textures through the use of unique and visually interesting power sets, Miss Peregrine's Home is filled with characters who possess abilities that include invisibility and levitation.
The film is colorful and full of life, and Samuel L. Jackson does fantastic work as the villain. Still, it is Green who is the most important piece of the movie's strong ensemble, and it works especially well because of her memorable work.
7 Dark Shadows
Eva Green is a perfect fit for the films of Tim Burton due to her unique and compelling style, and it is no wonder that the two have collaborated multiple times since their first project together. Their professional relationship began with this adaptation of the 1970s TV series Dark Shadows.
Campy, but suffused with fantastic gothic energy, Green has excellent chemistry with the film’s large cast, including Johnny Depp’s Barnabas. Helena Bonham Carter, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Michelle Pfeiffer round out the rest of the project's strong cast.
Well crafted, with a great focus on tone and style, Dark Shadows remains one of Tim Burton’s most underrated films, as well as one of the most underseen movies of the 2010s.
6 The Salvation
The Salvation is a lean Western with a thrilling story and a fantastic cast. Eva Green is a genuine highlight of the film as the mute character Madelaine, and she plays incredibly well off the other performers, including Mads Mikkelsen and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The film presents a unique challenge for Green, as her character's tongue had been cut out long before the story begins. The role of Madelaine therefore required her to act entirely physically, which Green did with incredible skill, crafting a complex and surprisingly emotional performance from the material.
The Salvation is a fantastic 2014 Western, with some dark and brutal action built around its vengeance-soaked plot. It remains a must-see and an excellent entry in the Western genre.
5 White Bird In A Blizzard
Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard is an excellent mystery film with a great cast. Shailene Woodley is strong as the movie's emotional anchor, and Christopher Meloni is excellent as her father, but the film ovrall works largely because of Eva Green's excellent Eve.
Eve has gone missing, and her character mostly appears in flashbacks and dream sequences that lead toward a shocking twist ending. She plays a frustrated 1980s housewife who has a lot of darkness of her own to contend with, including issues with alcoholism.
The film tells a dark and twisted mystery, and the eventual unraveling is shocking. It remains a highlight of Green's career.
4 Perfect Sense
An imaginative sci-fi romance with a fantastic human lens, A Perfect Sense is among Eva Green's best films. The movie depicts a relationship between a chef and an epidemiologist as the world is ravaged by a global pandemic that slowly removes capacity for human sense.
The couple first lose their smell, then their sense of taste, then their hearing, and so on. This terrifying premise is given an effective human grounding in the intimacy between the main characters, played fantastically by Eva Green and Ewan McGregor.
A thoughtful romance with great performances at its center, Perfect Sense is a haunting and beautiful film that uses great performances as an effective anchor for its imaginative premise.
3 Kingdom Of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven is a fantastic historical epic with a tremendous cast. Starring Edward Norton and Orlando Bloom alongside Green, the film depicts moments of the 12th-century Crusades with fantastic visual effects that do a wonderful job in capturing the story's natural tension.
Green's turn as Sibylla, a conflicted princess, is bold and thoughtful. With tremendous skill and subtlety, she imbues the character with fantastic depth that elevates the entire movie around her.
The version of the film matters, however. Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven is an excellent film, but the director's cut, which adds more than 45 minutes of new footage, is the definitive iteration that must be seen.
2 The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan
Eva Green is a French actor, and often she is at her best in her native language, such as in this fantastic two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, The Three Musketeers. This 2023 iteration is among the biggest and most exciting ever seen, featuring a strong cast and fantastic visuals.
Green plays Milady de Winter in the film, a complex villain who clashes with the titular heroes multiple times. She is crafty and clever, with a fantastic backstory that adds tremendous depth to her character by the film's end.
In both The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and its sequel, The Three Musketeers: Milady, Eva Green is a highlight, making these excellent 17th-century period stories worth seeking out.
1 Casino Royale
Casino Royale is not just Eva Green's strongest film; it is also among the best James Bond films ever made. The film launched Daniel Craig as the memorable hero, but it is his character's relationship with Green's Vesper Lynd that made the story so effective.
Vesper's connection to Bond was deep, emotional, and complex in a way that had rarely been seen in the Bond franchise. Her character's twists and turns added to this tension, adding some deeper texture to the film's spy story, and giving its ending a tinge of bittersweetness.
Green's shadow as Vesper Lynd has lasted throughout the rest of Craig's run as Bond, and for good reason. Casino Royale remains a high point in the long-running series, and Eva Green's fantastic work in the film is a significant reason why.
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