Kristen Stewart at the 16th Governors Awards in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, November 16, 2025. Credit/Provider: Nick Agro / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
Kristen Stewart is one of the most popular and talented actresses working today!
After appearing in director David Fincher‘s ‘Panic Room‘, Stewart’s breakout performance was as Bella Swan in ‘Twilight‘ and its subsequent sequels. But since then she has appeared in such popular and critically acclaimed films as ‘Adventureland‘, ”The Runaways‘, 2019’s ‘Charlie’s Angels‘, ‘Love Lies Bleeding‘ and ‘Spencer‘, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her latest film, ‘The Chronology of Water‘, which marks Stewart’s feature film directorial debut, opens in theaters on January 9th.
Release Date: Jan 9, 2026
Run Time: 2 hr 8 min
In honor of her directorial debut, Moviefone is counting down the top 20 films of Kristen Stewart’s impressive acting career.
Let’s begin!
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Kristen Stewart in ‘Underwater’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
“7 miles below the ocean surface something has awakened”
Release Date: Jan 10, 2020
Run Time: 1 hr 35 min
Budget: $50,000,000
Bella (Stewart) once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward (Robert Pattinson) and her friendship with Jacob (Taylor Lautner), knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
“It all begins… with a choice.”
Release Date: Jun 23, 2010
Run Time: 2 hr 4 min
Budget: $68,000,000
The story of a young man (Jesse Eisenberg) who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
“Anyone who is anyone will be seen at Café Society.”
Release Date: Jul 15, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
Budget: $30,000,000
Bella Swan (Stewart) and Edward Cullen’s (Robert Pattinson) honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tragedies that endanger their world.
“Forever is just the beginning.”
Release Date: Nov 17, 2011
Run Time: 1 hr 57 min
Budget: $110,000,000
Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
“Everyone’s getting smoked.”
Release Date: Aug 21, 2015
Run Time: 1 hr 36 min
Budget: $28,000,000
(L to R) Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in Bleecker Street’s ‘Love Me’. Credit: Bleecker Street.
In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy (Steven Yeun) and a satellite (Stewart) meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf. But before she knows it, she’s thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
“Forbidden to remember. Terrified to forget.”
Release Date: Nov 20, 2009
Run Time: 2 hr 11 min
Budget: $50,000,000
A young woman’s (Mackenzie Davis) plans to propose to her girlfriend (Stewart) while at her family’s annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn’t yet come out to her conservative parents.
“This holiday, everyone’s secrets are coming out.”
Release Date: Nov 25, 2020
Run Time: 1 hr 42 min
After the Evil Queen (Charlize Theron) marries the King (Noah Huntley), she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White (Stewart), is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to find her in the Dark Forest.
Release Date: Jun 1, 2012
Run Time: 2 hr 7 min
Budget: $170,000,000
After the birth of Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
“The epic finale that will live forever.”
Release Date: Nov 16, 2012
Run Time: 1 hr 55 min
Budget: $120,000,000
(L to R) Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux in David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future.’ Photo courtesy of Neon.
With his partner (Léa Seydoux), a celebrity performance artist (Viggo Mortensen) publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator (Stewart) from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission — to use the artist’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
“Surgery is the new sex.”
Release Date: Jun 10, 2022
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $27,000,000
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
“Into the heart. Into the soul.”
Release Date: Oct 19, 2007
Run Time: 2 hr 28 min
Budget: $15,000,000
Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Release Date: Dec 5, 2014
Run Time: 1 hr 41 min
Budget: $5,000,000
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate (Jesse Eisenberg) takes a ‘nowhere’ job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
“Nothing brings people together like a crappy summer job.”
Release Date: Apr 3, 2009
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $9,800,000
Joan Jett (Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways — the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), the band becomes a huge success.
“It’s 1975 and they’re about to explode.”
Release Date: Mar 19, 2010
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $10,000,000
(L to R) Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska and Naomi Scott in 2019’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
Elena Houghlin (Naomi Scott) is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto — a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issue, if not it could be turned into a dangerous weapon. But when the cutting edge technology is pushed to an investor before she can do that, Elena turns to the Townsend Agency for help. Now, it’s up to the Angels — Jane (Ella Balinska), Sabina (Stewart), and the newly recruited Elena — to retrieve Calisto before it can be transformed into a weapon of mass destruction.
“Unseen. Undivided. Unstoppable.”
Release Date: Nov 15, 2019
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
Budget: $48,000,000
Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her young daughter Sarah (Stewart) play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders – Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared Leto) – during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
“It was supposed to be the safest room in the house.”
Release Date: Mar 29, 2002
Run Time: 1 hr 51 min
Budget: $48,000,000
The marriage of Princess Diana (Stewart) and Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. Spencer is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.
Reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Release Date: Mar 8, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 44 min
Budget: $10,000,000
(L to R) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in ‘Twilight’. Photo: Summit Entertainment.
When Bella Swan (Stewart) moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward’s repeated cautions, Bella can’t stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
“When you can live forever, what do you live for?”
Release Date: Nov 21, 2008
Run Time: 2 hr 2 min
Budget: $37,000,000
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