The Best Rosa Salazar Movies
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Vote for your favorite Rosa Salazar movies, regardless of critic reviews or how big the role was.
This list will determine the best Rosa Salazar movies. Most likely, best known for her role as Alita in Alita: Battle Angel. With that said, the best Rosa Salazar performances will not necessarily come from the greatest movies but most of the time the answer is the same. Therefore, vote up the movies where Rosa Salazar acted her best, no matter how big or small the role. Jamesy Boy is Rosa Salazar’s first feature-length movie but she has since been in much larger movies such as The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials and The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
This list of Rosa Salazar movies also includes Bird Box, Jamesy Boy and Search Party.
With so many great Rosa Salazar films to choose from, vote up the ones where you enjoyed Rosa Salazar the most to make sure it makes it to the top of the list. Her filmography consists of both dramatic and comedic roles so vote up the movies on the list below not based on how good the movie is but based on how good Rosa Salazar is in the role. Check back in for new and recent movies starring Rosa Salazar as they come out so you can vote on those as well.
- 1Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keean JohnsonIn the visually stunning cyberpunk world of Alita: Battle Angel, a compassionate doctor, Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz), salvages a discarded cyborg core, Alita (Rosa Salazar). Amidst the scrapyard metropolis of Iron City, he rebuilds her into a new body and she awakens with no memory of her past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, she discovers latent fighting skills that hint at a dark history. Meanwhile, shadowy figures from behind-the-scenes steer her towards an uncertain future. This action-packed film is layered with intrigue and mystery, as it takes the audience on an unforgettable journey through memory, identity, and redemption.More Alita: Battle Angel
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- 2Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Michael ChernusA teacher sees such great promise in her 5-year-old student that she goes to unreasonable lengths to protect his talent.More The Kindergarten Teacher
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- 3Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Giancarlo EspositoTransported to a remote fortified outpost, Thomas and his fellow teenage Gladers find themselves in trouble after uncovering a diabolical plot from the mysterious and powerful organization WCKD. With help from a new ally, the Gladers stage a daring escape into the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with dangerous obstacles and crawling with the virus-infected Cranks. The Gladers only hope may be to find the Right Hand, a group of resistance fighters who can help them battle WCKD.
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- 4Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya ScodelarioThomas leads some escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions that the Gladers have been asking since they arrived in the maze.
- 5Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Jacki WeaverIn Bird Box, Malorie (Sandra Bullock), a woman with a hardened resolve, grapples with an unseeable threat that drives the world to suicide. She embarks on a treacherous journey with her two children, Boy and Girl (Julian Edwards and Vivien Lyra Blair), down a river, blindfolded. The film, a gripping mixture of horror and drama directed by Susanne Bier, takes audiences through flashbacks of Malorie's past, revealing pieces of the apocalyptic puzzle. It was nominated for Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, showcasing its unique blend of suspense and terror.
- 6Adam Pally, Rosa Salazar, Rob HuebelNight Owls is a 2015 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Charles Hood. Workaholic, Kevin (Adam Pally) has a one night stand with his bosses ex-mistress, Madeline (Rosa Salazar), and when he discovers she has ingested a bottle of sleeping pills, he must keep her awake all night.
- 7Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Octavia SpencerNow on the run from Jeanine (Kate Winslet) and the rest of the power-hungry Erudites, Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) search for allies and answers in the ruins of Chicago. They must find out what Tris' family sacrificed their lives to protect and why the Erudites will do anything to stop them. Side by side, Tris and Four face one seemingly insurmountable challenge after another, as they unravel the secrets of the past and -- ultimately -- the future of their world.More Insurgent
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Jamesy Boy
Spencer Rocco Lofranco, Mary-Louise Parker, James WoodsIn a maximum-security prison, a teenager (Spencer Lofranco) begins to turn his life around with the help of a convicted murderer (Ving Rhames). - 9Adam Pally, T.J. Miller, Thomas MiddleditchTwo buddies (Adam Pally, T.J. Miller) travel to Mexico to rescue their friend (Thomas Middleditch) after a carjacker leaves him naked, penniless and stranded in the desert.
- 10Michael Peña, Dax Shepard, Vincent D'OnofrioJon Baker and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello have just joined the California Highway Patrol in Los Angeles, but for very different reasons. Baker is a former motorbike rider who's trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky, undercover FBI agent who's investigating a multimillion dollar heist that may be an inside job. Forced to work together, the inexperienced rookie and hardened veteran begin clashing instead of clicking while trying to nab the bad guys.More CHiPs
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Submerged
Jonathan Bennett, Talulah RileySubmerged is a 2016 American survival thriller film directed by Steven C. Miller. A young woman and her friends must battle the elements and a group of kidnappers in order to survive.
