10 Angelina Jolie Movies To Check Out On Netflix

 As we await her MCU debut in Eternals, it's a good time to bone up on Angelina Jolie's eclectic back catalog of acting, directing, and voice roles.

As one of the biggest movie stars in the world, Angelina Jolie has had an incredible career. With the upcoming release of Marvel's Eternals, where Jolie will star as the iconic Thena, it's worth priming oneself for her MCU debut by looking back on her filmography, both films that she's starred in and films that she's directed, specifically on Netflix.

Netflix is available in a number of different countries and because of this, it's worth noting which of her films are available in which country. And of course, as Netflix lineups change all the time, these movies are only guaranteed to be available for Netflix in their given country as of the time of this writing.

10Girl, Interrupted (Germany)

The film that has earned Jolie her only Academy Award (for Best Supporting Actress), Girl, Interrupted is a psychological drama based on Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name. This 1999 film stars Winona Ryder as Susanna during her time in a 1960s psychiatric hospital.

Jolie's portrayal of Lisa, a charismatic and manipulative sociopath who had been in the hospital since she was a child, also earned Jolie worldwide acclaim, her third Golden Globe in a row, and her second SAG award.

9Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Germany & Japan)

The film that kicked off Jolie's action star status, 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is an action-adventure movie inspired by the popular video game franchise and its iconic protagonist. Jolie did weapons training and kickboxing to help prepare herself for the role and did many of her own stunts, one of which led to an injury.

Tomb Raider not only had Jolie's father, Jon Voight, on the cast but also a young Daniel Craig, a few years before becoming an action star in his own right when he took over as James Bond starting with 2006's Casino Royale.

8Lara Croft: Tomb Raider — The Cradle Of Life (Japan)

Jolie returns as Lara Croft in the 2003 sequel subtitled The Cradle of Life. This time, Jolie's Lara teams up with Gerard Butler's Terry Sheridan to find Pandora's Box.

With the threat of a deadly plague, the two travel all over the world to recover items, fight bad guys, and make subtle nods to the video game franchise. This was the last time Jolie played the role that cemented her as an action movie star, and it would be the last Tomb Raider film until the franchise was rebooted in 2018 with Alicia Vikander taking over as the spelunker.

7Kung Fu Panda (Germany & Japan)

In 2008, Jolie's second voice acting role (after 2004's Shark Tale) was as Master Tigress in Kung Fu Panda. Tigress is a martial arts master who thinks that she will become the Dragon Warrior, but the universe has other plans in mind when it's Po the panda (voiced by Jack Black) who is chosen instead.

Beautifully animated, hilarious, and brimming with action, Kung Fu Panda and its sequels are the most family-friendly of Jolie's films.

6Wanted (Japan)

An action/crime flick about a secret society of assassins and their ability to curve the trajectory of bullets in mid-air, 2008's Wanted stars Jolie as an assassin named Fox. A huge box office success, Wanted is based on a comic book series of the same name, by writer Mark Millar and artist J.G. Jones.

Jolie's character becomes a mentor to the movie's main protagonist (played by James McAvoy) whose estranged and deceased father was a member of the secret society.

5The Tourist (Japan)

Around the time that The Tourist was released, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp were two of the biggest movie stars in the world, helping make this 2010 romantic thriller a box office smash. Jolie stars as Elise Clifton-Ward, a British woman being followed by French police.

She picks out Depp's character, Frank Tupelo, as a patsy for the police, making them believe that Tupelo is her lover, Pearce, a man who owes a lot of money in back taxes, and as well as to the mob.

4Kung Fu Panda 2 (Germany & Japan)

Kung Fu Panda's anticipated sequel, Kung Fu Panda 2,  came out in 2011, and with it, Jolie reprised her role as Master Tigress.

While Po tries to find where he comes from and searches for inner peace, a weapon that can destroy kung fu has come to take over China. As Tigress helped Po with his martial arts training, Po helped Tigress become softer and more open, rather than cold and stoic like she had previously been.

3Unbroken (Germany & Japan)

Jolie's third film as a director, 2014's Unbroken tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympian-turned-bombardier in WWII who survived in a raft for 47 days after his plane crashed, only to be picked up by the Japanese navy and sent to a series of POW camps.

While the film received mild acclaim and success, it was nominated for three Oscars and made the American Film Institute's Top 10 Films of the Year list. It took two years for Unbroken to be released in Japan.

2By The Sea (United States)

Written and directed by as well as starring Angelina Jolie, By The Sea is a 2015 film where she starred opposite her then-husband Brad Pitt. It marks the second film the pair starred in together after they had met on the set of 2004's Mr. & Mrs. Smith while Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston.

By The Sea is a romance/drama set in mid-1970s France about a couple and their marriage problems, which echoed the pair's real-life relationship as they would announce their separation and begin divorce proceedings the following year after the movie's release.

1First They Killed My Father (All Regions)

Jolie's latest role as writer-director-producer was 2017's First They Killed My Father, which is distributed through Netflix, making it the only film with Jolie that currently plays on Netflix in every country.

A biographical war film, First They Killed My Father is based on a memoir of the same name by Loung Ung, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jolie. The film follows Ung as she became separated from her family and was then trained to be a child soldier during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.