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6.1

♡ 15

43%

Sebastian Gutierrez Director

Carla Gugino as Coco Chavez

Emma Thompson as FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins

Googy Gress as Sal

William Lucking as Wally

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

Effie Gray

2014

6.0

♡ 18

43%

Richard Laxton Director

Dakota Fanning as Effie Gray

Tom Sturridge as John Everett Millais

Emma Thompson as Lady Eastlake

James Fox as Sir Charles Eastlake

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

King Lear

2018

6.2

♡ 34

91%

Richard Eyre Director

Florence Pugh as Cordelia

Emma Thompson as Goneril

Anthony Hopkins as Lear

Emily Watson as Regan

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Brideshead Revisited

2008

6.6

♡ 10

62%

52%

parent child relationship

Drama

england

new love

Romance

sibling relationship

venice, italy

Julian Jarrold Director

Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder

Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte

Tom Wlaschiha as Kurt

Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain

Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

7.3

♡ 31

90%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Emma Thompson as Beatrice

Keanu Reeves as Don John

Denzel Washington as Don Pedro

Kate Beckinsale as Hero

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

Peter's Friends

1992

7.0

♡ 13

65%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Kenneth Branagh as Andrew Benson

Emma Thompson as Maggie Chester

Hugh Laurie as Roger Charleston

Sylvester Stallone as Self

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

Impromptu

1991

6.8

♡ 8

74%

James Lapine Director

John Savident as Buloz

Emma Thompson as Duchess D'Antan

Julian Sands as Franz Liszt

Hugh Grant as Frederic Chopin

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Howards End

1992

♡ 27

94%

81%

James Ivory Director

Jemma Redgrave as Evie Wilcox

Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel

Anthony Hopkins as Henry Wilcox

Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Barney Thomson

2015

6.3

♡ 21

62%

53%

accidental killing

Robert Carlyle Director

Robert Carlyle as Barney

Emma Thompson as Cemolina

Ray Winstone as Holdall

Eileen McCallum as Mrs. Gaffney

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

An Audience with Adele

2021

8.4

♡ 14

Documentary

Music

Liz Clare Director

Emma Thompson as Self

Idris Elba as Self

Samuel L. Jackson as Self - Audience Member

Emma Watson as Self - Audience Member

Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Palladium, where she performs her chart-topping single Easy On Me, as well as tracks from her new album, 30.

How to Build a Girl

2019

6.0

♡ 14

79%

Coky Giedroyc Director

Emma Thompson as Amanda Watson

Alfie Allen as John Kite

Gemma Arterton as Maria von Trapp

Bobby Schofield as Pricey

The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.

Last Chance Harvey

2008

parent child relationship

6.6

♡ 4

71%

Romance

wedding

work

Joel Hopkins Director

Wendy Mae Brown as Aggie

Nadia Cameron-Blakey as Attractive Woman

Dustin Hoffman as Harvey Shine

Emma Thompson as Kate Walker

In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.

Carrington

1995

6.8

♡ 6

58%

74%

Biography

conscientious objector

Christopher Hampton Director

Emma Thompson as Dora Carrington

Samuel West as Gerald Brenan

Jonathan Pryce as Lytton Strachey

Rufus Sewell as Mark Gertler

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.

Imagining Argentina

2003

6.1

♡ 3

31%

71%

1970s

buenos aires, argentina

Christopher Hampton Director

Antonio Banderas as Carlos Rueda

Emma Thompson as Cecilia Rueda

Anton Lesser as General Guzmán

Luis Antonio Ramos as Policeman 2

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

Dolittle

2020

5.6

♡ 317

15%

76%

Adventure

based on children's book

Stephen Gaghan Director

Ralph Fiennes as Barry

Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. John Dolittle

Tom Holland as Jip

Emma Thompson as Poly

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

2022

older woman younger man relationship

7.2

♡ 46

94%

Sophie Hyde Director

Isabella Laughland as Becky

Les Mabaleka as Delivery Person

Daryl McCormack as Leo Grande

Emma Thompson as Nancy Stokes

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

In the Name of the Father

1993

8.1

♡ 121

94%

95%

parent child relationship

prison

rebellion

Jim Sheridan Director

Emma Thompson as Gareth Peirce

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone

Peter Howitt as Remand Prison Officer

Paul Warriner as Soldier

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

The Song of Lunch

2010

7.3

♡ 7

Drama

Romance

Niall MacCormick Director

Alan Rickman as He

Joseph Long as Massimo

David Tennant as Self - Host

Emma Thompson as She

A dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem that tells the story of an unnamed book editor who, fifteen years after their break-up, is meeting his former love for a nostalgic lunch at Zanzotti's, the Soho restaurant they used to frequent.

Beautiful Creatures

2013

6.1

♡ 106

47%

54%