20 Best Jamie Lee Curtis Movies

Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis is Hollywood Royalty.

The daughter of Halloween' and has gone on to reprise her role in several sequels and reboots.

She's also appeared in such beloved films as 'Academy Award for Best ing Actress.

In honor of Curtis' new movie, 'Moviefone is counting down the best films of Jamie Lee Curtis' long and impressive career, including her latest.

Let's begin!

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20. 'Halloween H20: 20 Years Later' (1998)

Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode (Curtis) finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the heistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.

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19. 'Drowning Mona' (2000)

The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Danny DeVito) immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.

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18. 'Forever Young' (1992)

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

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17. 'Homegrown' (1998)

Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation (Kelly Lynch) in the next town, they plot their next move.

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16. 'Halloween Kills' (2021)

The nightmare isn't over as unstoppable killer Michael Myers escapes from Laurie Strode's (Curtis) trap to continue his ritual bloodbath. Injured and taken to the hospital, Laurie fights through the pain as she inspires residents of Haddonfield, to rise up against Myers. Taking matters into their own hands, the Strode women and other survivors form a vigilante mob to hunt down Michael and end his reign of terror once and for all.

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15. 'Haunted Mansion' (2023)

A woman (Rosario Dawson) and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

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14. 'You Again' (2010)

History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni (Kristen Bell) learns that Joanna (Sigourney Weaver).

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13. 'The Tailor of Panama' (2001)

A British spy (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.

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12. 'Halloween Ends' (2022)

Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie (Curtis) has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man (Rohan Campbell) is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.

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11. 'My Girl' (1991)

Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher (Griffin Dunne), and s a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J. (Macaulay Culkin), her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly (Curtis), and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

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10. 'The Last Showgirl' (2025)

Shelly (Pamela Anderson), a glamorous Las Vegas showgirl, must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.

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9. 'Blue Steel' (1990)

Megan Turner (Curtis), a rookie NYC cop, foils an armed robbery on her first day and then engages in a cat-and-mouse game with one of the witnesses (Ron Silver) who becomes obsessed with her.

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8. 'Freaky Friday' (2003)

Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna (Lindsay Lohan) wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's (Curtis) fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.

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7. 'Halloween' (2018)

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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6. 'Trading Places' (1983)

A snobbish investor (Dan Aykroyd) and a wily street con-artist (Eddie Murphy) find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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5. 'Knives Out' (2019)

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.

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4. 'A Fish Called Wanda' (1988)

A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.

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3. 'True Lies' (1994)

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent (Bill Paxton) while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

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2. 'Halloween' (1978)

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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1. 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022)

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