6 Best Jennifer Jones Movies

By Vlad Zakh · January 22, 2026

Jennifer Jones brought luminous emotional intensity to Hollywood melodrama and won acclaim for roles ranging from saintly devotion to smouldering passion. The Song of Bernadette is the saintly one, Duel in the Sun the smouldering one. Portrait of Jennie obsesses a painter with a woman who appears from nowhere, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing complicates a Hong Kong romance with prejudice, and A Farewell to Arms falls in love amid the First World War. Since You Went Away rounds out the list.

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

TMDB ★ 6.2

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love amid the chaos of Italy in the First World War.

Directed by Charles Vidor · 2h 32m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

TMDB ★ 7.1

A Eurasian doctor's romance with an American journalist is complicated by war and prejudice.

Directed by Henry King · 1h 42m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Portrait of Jennie (1948)

TMDB ★ 7.3

A struggling painter becomes obsessed with a mysterious young woman who seems to age impossibly fast.

Directed by William Dieterle · 1h 26m · Rated NR

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Duel in the Sun (1946)

TMDB ★ 6.6

A fiery mixed-race woman ignites a dangerous rivalry between two feuding cattle baron brothers.

Directed by King Vidor · 2h 24m

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Since You Went Away (1944)

TMDB ★ 7.3

An American family copes with hardship, romance and uncertainty on the home front during the Second World War.

Directed by John Cromwell · 2h 57m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video

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The Song of Bernadette (1943)

TMDB ★ 7.2

Alan Napier features in this drama about a poor young French girl who claims to have witnessed a vision of the Virgin Mary.

Directed by Henry King · 2h 36m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Darkroom · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Jennifer Jones Movies

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Since You Went Away (1944)

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

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