Ana de Armas’ 15 Best Movies Ranked from Worst to Best

15. Deep Water (2022)

Melinda is the kind of role that should dominate an erotic thriller, and Ana de Armas does everything she can to make that happen. She plays her with a teasing mix of recklessness, vanity, and boredom, always making it feel like she is pushing the room just to see who breaks first. What keeps the performance interesting is how casually cruel she can be one second and strangely fragile the next. Even when Deep Water loses its grip on tone, she keeps the danger alive through attitude alone. It is a seductive performance in a film that never quite matches her wavelength. | © Hulu

14. Knock Knock (2015)

There is no subtle way to play Bel, so de Armas wisely does not try. She throws herself into the film’s nasty sense of humor, turning sweetness into menace with a speed that makes the character memorable long after the shock tactics wear off. The script gives her more provocation than depth, but she still finds a sly rhythm in the chaos, especially in the way she weaponizes innocence. Knock Knock is not one of her most layered roles, yet it already shows the confidence of someone who knows how to control a scene. That spark is what lifts it above disposable thriller work. | © Lionsgate

13. Overdrive (2017)

A movie like Overdrive can easily turn every supporting character into background decoration, which is exactly why de Armas stands out in it. As Stephanie, she gives the film a pulse it does not always earn, bringing warmth and a bit of wit to a very mechanical action setup. She never overplays the material, but she does make the emotional beats feel less hollow whenever she is around. That matters in a movie built mostly on speed, swagger, and polished surfaces. The role is not especially demanding, yet she sells it with the easy presence of someone who already looked bigger than the project containing her. | © Paramount Pictures

12. Blonde (2022)

No matter where someone places Blonde, it is impossible to deny how much de Armas gives to Norma Jeane and Marilyn Monroe. She does not coast on imitation or familiar iconography; instead, she plays the role like a person being crushed by the image the world insists on seeing. That level of commitment is what makes the performance so haunting, even when the film around it can feel punishingly one-note in its misery. The vulnerability is raw, the physical transformation is impressive, and the emotional exhaustion looks real. As a piece of acting, it is fearless. As a role, it lands a little lower because the character is so often trapped inside the movie’s own fixation on suffering. | © Netflix

11. Eden (2024)

Some performers disappear into a character by shrinking inward, but de Armas goes the opposite direction in Eden. Her Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn arrives like a disruption, carrying glamour, self-invention, and a touch of theatrical danger into a story already full of tension. She understands that the role works best when it feels slightly too much for everyone else around it, and that is exactly what makes it fun. There is vanity in the performance, but also calculation, and she plays both without losing control. It is not her deepest work, though it is undeniably vivid, and in a crowded ensemble that kind of sharp impression counts for a lot. | © Vertical

10. The Night Clerk (2020)

What helps de Armas in The Night Clerk is that she never treats Andrea Rivera like a twist delivery system. She gives the character a calm, inviting presence that softens the film’s voyeuristic unease and makes the connection with Bart feel believable instead of purely functional. That softness is important, because the movie depends on us understanding why he becomes drawn to her so quickly. She plays Andrea with just enough mystery to keep the tension moving, but never so much that the role turns cold or mechanical. It is a restrained performance, smaller than many others on this list, yet it adds a human center to a story that could have felt far more clinical without her. | © Saban Films

9. Sergio (2020)

In a film built around diplomacy, idealism, and catastrophe, de Armas chooses patience over showiness. Carolina Larriera could have been written as little more than the emotional support system orbiting the title character, but she gives her enough intelligence and inner life to resist that trap. The result is a performance that feels mature in a different way from her flashier roles. She does not fight for attention in Sergio; she steadies the movie and helps the personal stakes land without melodrama. There is affection in the performance, but also steel, and that balance keeps the relationship at the center from feeling overly polished or sentimental. | © Netflix

8. Ballerina (2025)

Action stardom asks for more than looking good with a weapon, and Ballerina finally gives de Armas the space to prove that. As Eve, she brings real physical conviction to the role, but the better surprise is how clearly she tracks the character’s anger, discipline, and exhaustion beneath all the choreography. She does not play the revenge arc as one long scream; there is control in it, and that control makes the bursts of violence land harder. What pushes this role into the upper half is that she is not just surviving inside an established franchise, she is carrying it. Ballerina feels like the moment her action-hero image fully became sustainable on its own. | © Lionsgate

7. Hands of Stone (2016)

Biopics often treat the wife character as a sentimental checkpoint, but de Armas refuses to let that happen in Hands of Stone. Her Felicidad has warmth, yes, though what really works is the sense of lived-in loyalty and frustration she brings to the role. She does not make grand speeches to announce importance; she lets the emotional cost of Roberto Durán’s life come through in smaller reactions and quieter moments. That kind of grounded work can be easy to overlook next to bigger performances, but it is exactly what helps a sports drama feel less generic. She gives the film texture, and that matters. | © The Weinstein Company

6. The Gray Man (2022)

Dani Miranda is the sort of part that can get swallowed by franchise mechanics, but de Armas attacks it with enough force to keep that from happening. She gives the character competence without stiffness, humor without turning her into comic relief, and chemistry without forcing a romance the movie does not need. That combination is why she feels so useful every time the story threatens to become just another globe-trotting barrage of noise. In The Gray Man, she moves like an action lead, talks like someone who has no time for nonsense, and still finds room for actual personality. It is slick studio work, elevated by her refusal to be merely efficient. | © Netflix

5. Wasp Network (2019)

The best thing de Armas does in Wasp Network is make the political feel painfully personal. As Ana Margarita Martínez, she is not playing the loudest role in the film, but she may be playing one of the saddest, because her character is constantly forced to live with partial truths and emotional fallout she never asked for. She taps into that ache without making it performative, which gives the movie some of its strongest intimate moments. There is a quiet anger in her work here that suits the material perfectly. In a story crowded with spies, loyalties, and shifting agendas, she is the one who most clearly registers the human damage left behind. | © Netflix

4. War Dogs (2016)

It would have been easy for Iz to exist only as the conscience of the movie, but de Armas gives her more weight than that. She plays the part with directness and emotional clarity, which is exactly what War Dogs needs while its male leads spiral deeper into greed and delusion. Every time the film threatens to get drunk on its own bad-boy energy, she pulls it back toward real consequences. What makes the performance strong is that she never overstates the morality of the character. She simply makes Iz feel like the only adult in the room, and that grounded presence gives the chaos around her something solid to bounce off. | © Warner Bros

3. Knives Out (2019)

This is the role that changed the way a lot of people looked at her, and it is not hard to see why. Marta Cabrera requires comic timing, panic, decency, and just enough steel to survive a house full of monsters in expensive sweaters. De Armas handles all of it with an ease that makes the performance look effortless, which is usually the best sign that it is not. She becomes the emotional anchor of Knives Out without ever slowing down the fun, and that balance is incredibly hard to pull off in an ensemble this stacked. By the end, the entire movie belongs to her because she earns it scene by scene. | © Lionsgate

2. No Time to Die (2021)

Some supporting turns are good, and some arrive, detonate, and leave audiences wishing the movie had secretly been about them all along. Paloma belongs in the second category. De Armas steps into No Time to Die for a relatively short stretch and somehow makes the character feel fully formed, hilarious, and dangerous in almost no time at all. She understands the old Bond template well enough to play with it instead of simply repeating it, which is why the performance feels so fresh. The action is sharp, the comic rhythm is perfect, and the confidence is infectious. Very few brief appearances in a blockbuster have ever stolen quite this much attention. | © MGM

1. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Joi could have remained a clever idea instead of a real character, and that is exactly why this performance stands above the rest. De Armas gives the hologram longing, tenderness, playfulness, and something close to existential grief, all while the film keeps asking whether any of it is real. She never pushes too hard, which is crucial in a movie built on mood and silence, but she leaves an emotional mark that lingers over everything. Blade Runner 2049 works in part because she makes artificial intimacy feel heartbreakingly sincere. It is a beautifully calibrated performance, and it remains the clearest example of how much soul she can bring to material that looks cold on the surface. | © Warner Bros.