Embeth Davidtz
Actor
Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Embeth Davidtz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Old (2021)
A group of people find a dead body on a beach and slowly realize there is something unnatural happening there.
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Gael García Bernal | Alex Wolff | Thomasin McKenzie | Eliza Scanlen | Aaron Pierre
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
As: Mary Parker
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, ...
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Marc Webb
Stars: Emma Stone | Andrew Garfield | Jamie Foxx | Campbell Scott | Dane DeHaan
Paranoia (2013)
As: Judith Bolton
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Robert Luketic
Stars: Gary Oldman | Harrison Ford | Liam Hemsworth | Amber Heard | Josh Holloway
Europa Report (2013)
As: Dr. Samantha Unger
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Sebastián Cordero
Stars: Sharlto Copley | Michael Nyqvist | Daniel Wu | Christian Camargo | Каролина Видра
Miracle Rising: South Africa (2013)
As: Herself
MIRACLE RISING: SOUTH AFRICA is the epic legacy of South Africa's political transformation that culminated in the first free and fair elections in April 1994. Recounted through the personal accounts of key figures, both local and international, the documentary examines how South Africa avoided a civil war and moved towards, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu coined the phrase, "a rainbow nation." From the evil ...
Directed by: Brett Lotriet Best
Stars: Bono | Christiane Amanpour | Richard Branson | Neil Barnard | Yvonne Chaka Chaka
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
As: Mary Parker
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to ...
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Marc Webb
Stars: Emma Stone | Rhys Ifans | Andrew Garfield | Campbell Scott | Denis Leary
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
As: Annika Blomkvist Giannini
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they ...
Runtime: 158 min.
Directed by: David Fincher
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård | Rooney Mara | Christopher Plummer | Daniel Craig | Goran Visnjic
3 Backyards (2010)
As: The Actress
The story of three people from the same suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Eric Mendelsohn
Stars: Elias Koteas | Kathryn Erbe | Edie Falco | Embeth Davidtz | Rachel Resheff
Winged Creatures (2008)
As: Lydia Jaspersen
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Rowan Woods
Stars: Forest Whitaker | Josh Hutcherson | Guy Pearce | Dakota Fanning | Kate Beckinsale
Fracture (2007)
As: Jennifer Crawford
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Stars: Rosamund Pike | David Strathairn | Anthony Hopkins | Embeth Davidtz | Ryan Gosling
Junebug (2005)
As: Madeleine
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, but she befriends George's wide-eyed and pregnant sister-in-law, Ashley, who is nearing her due date. Through the family, Madeleine gains greater insight into ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Phil Morrison
Stars: Celia Weston | Amy Adams | Alessandro Nivola | Embeth Davidtz | Ben McKenzie
The Emperor's Club (2002)
As: Elizabeth
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Stars: Kevin Kline | Edward Herrmann | Rob Morrow | Emile Hirsch | Embeth Davidtz
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
As: Kalina Oretzia
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Steve Beck
Stars: Matthew Lillard | Tony Shalhoub | Matthew Harrison | Shannon Elizabeth | Embeth Davidtz
The Hole (2001)
As: Dr. Philippa Horwood
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Nick Hamm
Stars: Keira Knightley | Daniel Brocklebank | Thora Birch | Desmond Harrington | Laurence Fox
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
As: Natasha
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent
Bicentennial Man (1999)
As: Little Miss
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Stars: Oliver Platt | Sam Neill | Robin Williams | Embeth Davidtz | Kiersten Warren
Mansfield Park (1999)
As: Mary Crawford
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns "their" ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Patricia Rozema
Stars: Frances O'Connor | Lindsay Duncan | Harold Pinter | Sheila Gish | James Purefoy
Last Rites (1999)
As: Dr. Lauren Riggs
A man is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striking a transformer at the moment of execution, he survives. As soon as he's well, however, they plan to electrocute him again, but now he has become a changed man and the female criminal psychiatrist attributes it to the electrocution wiping out certain brain cells.
Directed by: Kevin Dowling
Stars: Randy Quaid | Jack Coleman | Tracey Ellis | Embeth Davidtz
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
As: Mallory Doss
Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is at a party celebrating his courtroom victory defending a cop killer when a member of the catering staff, Mallory Doss, discovers her car has been stolen. Having had a few drinks, Magruder offers to give her a lift home, a decision that turns into a one night stand. Rick soon learns that her nut-case father, Dixon, seems to have begun threatening her again. Rick puts the ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Tom Berenger | Kenneth Branagh | Robert Downey Jr. | Daryl Hannah | Embeth Davidtz
Fallen (1998)
As: Gretta Milano
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Stars: Denzel Washington | Donald Sutherland | James Gandolfini | John Goodman | Embeth Davidtz
The Garden of Redemption (1997)
As: Adriana
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Thomas Michael Donnelly
Stars: Dan Hedaya | Anthony LaPaglia | Jorge Sanz | Peter Firth | Embeth Davidtz
Matilda (1996)
As: Miss Jennifer "Jenny" Honey
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Danny DeVito
Stars: Danny DeVito | Mara Wilson | Pam Ferris | Embeth Davidtz | Rhea Perlman
Feast of July (1995)
As: Bella Ford
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Christopher Menaul
Stars: Ben Chaplin | Gemma Jones | Tom Bell | James Purefoy | Embeth Davidtz
Murder in the First (1995)
As: Mary McCasslin
Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in complete darkness, only to emerge a madman and soon to be a murderer. The story follows a rookie lawyer attempting to prove that Alcatraz was to blame.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Marc Rocco
Stars: Gary Oldman | William H. Macy | Kevin Bacon | Christian Slater | Embeth Davidtz
Schindler's List (1993)
As: Helen Hirsch
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Runtime: 195 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Ben Kingsley | Liam Neeson | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall
Deadly Matrimony (1992)
As: Dianne Masters
Runtime: 182 min.
Directed by: John Korty
Stars: Xander Berkeley | Treat Williams | Brian Dennehy | Embeth Davidtz | Lisa Eilbacher
Army of Darkness (1992)
As: Sheila
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Bruce Campbell | Ian Abercrombie | Richard Grove | Embeth Davidtz | Marcus Gilbert
Till Death Us Do Part (1992)
As: Katherine Palliko
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Yves Simoneau | Vincent Bugliosi
Stars: Treat Williams | Rebecca Jenkins | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Arliss Howard | Dean Norris
Sweet Murder (1990)
A girl is having trouble making the rent, so she advertises for a female roommate. A seemingly sweet and shy girl named Laurie moves in, and proves to be an insane killer!
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Percival Rubens
Stars: Michael McCabe | John Hussey | Rex Garner | Embeth Davidtz | Ben Kruger
Mutator (1989)
As: Jennifer
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: John R. Bowey
Stars: Brion James | Brian O'Shaughnessy | Embeth Davidtz | Carolyn Ann Clark | Milton Raphael Murill