For almost three decades, Jennifer Lopez has dominated all areas of the entertainment industry, including the silver screen, where, despite having one of the most famous faces in the world, she manages to completely disguise herself in a role.
Lopez has come a long way since her beginnings as a Fly Girl in the comedy series ˜In Living Color’. She has managed to turn it into a career in acting, with numerous awards and films, from horror to science fiction, from romantic comedies to biopics.
7 best movies with Jennifer Lopez
With all these talents in mind and with more than 40 films in the career of the actress, here are the 7 of the best films with Jennifer Lopez:
1.Selene (1997)
J.Lo plays Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in Gregory Nava’s “Selena,” the film that launched her to stardom and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. This biopic tells the story of Selena’s rise to fame, a Texas Tejano singer who dominated the charts before her tragic murder at the age of 23.
2. My Dream Wedding (2001)
Lopez cemented her leading man status in Hollywood with her portrayal of Mary Fiore, a highly regarded wedding planner who, realizing that her life lacks romantic love, falls in love with the boyfriend of one of her clients, played by Matthew McConaughey.
3. Love Encounter (2002)
While some details of the film haven’t aged well — which seems to be a common feature of romantic comedies of the era — in this film written by John Hughes, confusion leads to J.Lo’s character Marisa, a single mother who works as a a waitress in a posh Manhattan hotel, to falling in love with a high-profile politician (Ralph Fiennes) who stays at her workplace.
4. Turnaround (1997)
This crime thriller, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone (also responsible for “Natural Born Killers”), stars Sean Penn. In the plot, the actor travels to Las Vegas to pay off a gambling debt and, fleeing the mafia, ends up in Arizona, where he meets a couple (Nick Nolte and Jennifer Lopez) who want to hire him to kill each other.
5. The Cell (2000)
Tarsem Singh’s grotesquely violent sci-fi film, acclaimed mainly for its inventive aesthetics, is part of Jennifer Lopez’s horror film career. Using new technology, a social worker (Lopez) tries to enter the mind of a serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) to save one of his latest kidnapped victims.
6. Tricksters (2019)
The film, by Lorene Scafaria, stars Julia Stiles as a journalist working on a story about a former exotic dancer named Destiny (Constance Wu) and her former friend and mentor Ramona Vega (Lopez). Destiny’s rise and her tumultuous relationship with Ramona as told in the film was inspired by a true story of women who drug rich men and then steal their money.
7. Irresistible Passion (1998)
This Steven Soderbergh film is described as both a comedy thriller and a crime drama, and is also Lopez’s highest rated film on Rotten Tomatoes (94%). A bank robber (George Clooney) escapes from prison and kidnaps a police officer (Lopez). The plot unfolds as they decide whether their flirtation during a high-stakes robbery attempt is motivated by love or by law.
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