Emma Thompson

How to Build a Girl (2019)

As: Amanda

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.

Directed by: Coky Giedroyc

Stars: Emma Thompson | Alfie Allen | Paddy Considine | Laurie Kynaston | Beanie Feldstein

Last Christmas (2019)

A holiday romance set in London.

Directed by: Paul Feig

Stars: Emma Thompson | Emilia Clarke | Henry Golding

Men in Black: International (2019)

As: Agent O

The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.

Directed by: F. Gary Gray

Stars: Emma Thompson | Liam Neeson | Chris Hemsworth | Tessa Thompson | Rebecca Ferguson

Late Night (2019)

As: Katherine Newbury

Legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Nisha Ganatra

Stars: Emma Thompson | Amy Ryan | John Lithgow | Mindy Kaling | Reid Scott

The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2019)

As: Polynesia (voice)

A physician discovers that he can talk to animals.

Directed by: Stephen Gaghan

Stars: Emma Thompson | Octavia Spencer | Antonio Banderas | Tom Holland | Robert Downey Jr.

Missing Link (2019)

As: (voice)

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Chris Butler

Stars: Zoe Saldana | Emma Thompson | Zach Galifianakis | Stephen Fry | Hugh Jackman

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

As: Prime Minister

Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man -- Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he'll need all of his skills -- what few he has -- as the man with yesterday's ...

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: David Kerr

Stars: Emma Thompson | Rowan Atkinson | Olga Kurylenko | Ben Miller | Jake Lacy

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)

As: Herself (archive footage)

Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Jordan Hill

Stars: Harvey Weinstein | Kristyn Burtt | Caroline Heldman | Ashley Pearson | Marc Malkin

The Children Act (2017)

As: Fiona Maye

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

Runtime: 105 min.

Directed by: Richard Eyre

Stars: Stanley Tucci | Ben Chaplin | Emma Thompson | Wendy Nottingham | Fionn Whitehead

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

As: Maureen Meyerowitz

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Noah Baumbach

Stars: Ben Stiller | Emma Thompson | Adam Sandler | Dustin Hoffman | Grace Van Patten

Sea Sorrow (2017)

Sea Sorrow marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director and is a very personal, dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners and children mixing past and present, documentary and drama in its reflection on the importance of human rights.

Runtime: 74 min.

Directed by: Vanessa Redgrave

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Emma Thompson | Ralph Fiennes | Alfred Dubs | Martin Sherman

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

As: Mrs. Potts

A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Bill Condon

Stars: Josh Gad | Luke Evans | Kevin Kline | Emma Watson | Dan Stevens

Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

As: Dr. Rawlings

Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must ...

Runtime: 118 min.

Directed by: Sharon Maguire

Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Patrick Dempsey | Gemma Jones | Jim Broadbent

Alone in Berlin (2016)

As: Anna Quangel

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing ...

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Vincent Pérez

Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Emma Thompson | Daniel Brühl | Katharina Schüttler | Mikael Persbrandt

Burnt (2015)

As: Dr. Rosshilde

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: John Wells

Stars: Uma Thurman | Bradley Cooper | Sienna Miller | Alicia Vikander | Lily James

Cambridge Footlights Revue (2015)

As: various

A TV version of the Cambridge Footlights Revue. Starring Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer, and Penny Dwyer.

Runtime: 50 min.

Stars: Emma Thompson | Stephen Fry | Hugh Laurie | Tony Slattery | Paul Shearer

The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)

As: Cemolina

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.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Robert Carlyle

Stars: James Cosmo | Ray Winstone | Emma Thompson | Robert Carlyle | Ashley Jensen

A Walk in the Woods (2015)

As: Catherine Bryson

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Ken Kwapis

Stars: Nick Nolte | Emma Thompson | Kristen Schaal | Robert Redford | Nick Offerman

Lennon or McCartney (2014)

As: Herself (archive footage)

550 Artists were interviewed over the last ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't answer at all. That question... Lennon or McCartney.

Runtime: 34 min.

Directed by: Matt Schichter

Stars: Aasif Mandvi | Adam Levine | Adam Lambert | James Valentine | James Valentine

Men, Women & Children (2014)

As: Narrator (voice)

Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Jason Reitman

Stars: Judy Greer | Rosemarie DeWitt | Jennifer Garner | Adam Sandler | Dean Norris

Effie Gray (2014)

As: Lady Eastlake

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

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Richard Laxton

Stars: Emma Thompson | Dakota Fanning | Tom Sturridge | Robbie Coltrane | Greg Wise

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

As: P.L. Travers

Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: John Lee Hancock

Stars: Tom Hanks | Paul Giamatti | Colin Farrell | Emma Thompson | Ruth Wilson

The Love Punch (2013)

As: Kate

Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help ...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Joel Hopkins

Stars: Emma Thompson | Pierce Brosnan | Timothy Spall | Tuppence Middleton | Celia Imrie

Beautiful Creatures (2013)

As: Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Richard LaGravenese

Stars: Alden Ehrenreich | Viola Davis | Emmy Rossum | Jeremy Irons | Alice Englert

Brave (2012)

As: Queen Elinor (voice)

Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Brenda Chapman | Mark Andrews

Stars: Emma Thompson | Julie Walters | Billy Connolly | Robbie Coltrane | Kelly Macdonald

Men in Black 3 (2012)

As: Agent O

Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K ...

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Stars: Emma Thompson | Tommy Lee Jones | Josh Brolin | Michael Stuhlbarg | Will Smith

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

As: Sybill Trelawney

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

Runtime: 130 min.

Directed by: David Yates

Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Rupert Grint | Alan Rickman | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson

The Song of Lunch (2010)

As: She

Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson star in The Song Of Lunch, a powerful and visually arresting film, made by BBC Drama Production for BBC Two, to mark National Poetry Day on 7 October. The film, a dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem, tells the story of an unnamed book editor (Alan Rickman) who, 15 years after their break-up, is meeting his former love (Emma Thompson) for a nostalgic lunch ...

Runtime: 50 min.

Directed by: Niall MacCormick

Stars: Emma Thompson | Alan Rickman | Joseph Long | Siubhan Harrison | Georgina Sutcliffe

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

As: Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing ...

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Susanna White

Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Asa Butterfield | Maggie Smith | Emma Thompson | Ralph Fiennes

An Education (2009)

As: Headmistress

Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Lone Scherfig

Stars: Rosamund Pike | Carey Mulligan | Olivia Williams | Dominic Cooper | Peter Sarsgaard

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

As: Charlotte

The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government ...

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Richard Curtis

Stars: Rhys Ifans | Emma Thompson | Tom Sturridge | Bill Nighy | Philip Seymour Hoffman

Last Chance Harvey (2008)

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.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Joel Hopkins

Stars: Kathy Baker | Emma Thompson | Eileen Atkins | Dustin Hoffman | Liane Balaban

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

As: Lady Marchmain

Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.

Runtime: 133 min.

Directed by: Julian Jarrold

Stars: Emma Thompson | Michael Gambon | Ben Whishaw | Matthew Goode | Hayley Atwell

I Am Legend (2007)

As: Dr. Alice Krippin

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Francis Lawrence

Stars: Charlie Tahan | Alice Braga | Salli Richardson-Whitfield | Will Smith | Willow Smith

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

As: Sybil Trelawney

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – dubbed 'Dumbledore's Army' – to defend themselves against the dark arts.

Runtime: 138 min.

Directed by: David Yates

Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Michael Gambon | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

As: Karen Eiffel

Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Marc Forster

Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Will Ferrell | Emma Thompson | Queen Latifah | Dustin Hoffman

Nanny McPhee (2005)

As: Nanny McPhee

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Kirk Jones

Stars: Colin Firth | Emma Thompson | Eliza Bennett | Kelly Macdonald | Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Imagining Argentina (2004)

As: Cecilia Rueda

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.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Christopher Hampton

Stars: Emma Thompson | Antonio Banderas | Rubén Blades | Maria Canals-Barrera | Leticia Dolera

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

As: Sybill Trelawney

Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for another magic-filled year. Harry comes face to face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict, Sirius Black – and turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin for help.

Runtime: 142 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Stars: Gary Oldman | David Thewlis | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson

Love Actually (2003)

As: Karen

Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.

Runtime: 135 min.

Directed by: Richard Curtis

Stars: Colin Firth | Sienna Guillory | Bill Nighy | Gregor Fisher | Rory MacGregor

Treasure Planet (2002)

As: Captain Amelia (voice)

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But, soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent on mutiny!

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Ron Clements | John Musker

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Emma Thompson | David Hyde Pierce | Michael Wincott | Brian Murray

Wit (2001)

As: Vivian Bearing

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Mike Nichols

Stars: Emma Thompson | Christopher Lloyd | Eileen Atkins | Jonathan M. Woodward | Audra McDonald

Maybe Baby (2000)

As: Druscilla

Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, a comedy about a couple trying for a baby. The only problem is that Lucy is horrified ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Ben Elton

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Adrian Lester | Joely Richardson | Hugh Laurie | Yasmin Bannerman

Judas Kiss (1998)

As: FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins

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

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Sebastián Gutiérrez

Stars: Gil Bellows | Emma Thompson | Simon Baker | Alan Rickman | Carla Gugino

Primary Colors (1998)

As: Susan Stanton

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken ...

Runtime: 143 min.

Directed by: Mike Nichols

Stars: Emma Thompson | Kathy Bates | Adrian Lester | Billy Bob Thornton | John Travolta

The Winter Guest (1997)

As: Frances

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances (Emma Thompson) has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law), travels to Frances' house to reconnect with her daughter and grandson, Alex (Gary Hollywood). Meanwhile, old women Chloe (Sandra Voe) and Lily (Sheila Reid) go to a funeral, youngsters Sam ...

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Alan Rickman

Stars: Emma Thompson | Phyllida Law | Sandra Voe | Sheila Reid | Arlene Cockburn

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

As: Elinor Dashwood

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.

Runtime: 136 min.

Directed by: Ang Lee

Stars: Kate Winslet | Emma Thompson | Tom Wilkinson | Hugh Grant | Alan Rickman

Carrington (1995)

As: Dora Carrington

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 ...

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Christopher Hampton

Stars: Emma Thompson | Rufus Sewell | Steven Waddington | Samuel West | Jonathan Pryce

Junior (1994)

As: Dr. Diana Reddin

As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Ivan Reitman

Stars: Emma Thompson | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Frank Langella | Danny DeVito | Pamela Reed

The Blue Boy (1994)

As: Marie Bonnar

Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a nearby lake long ago, and finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with his ghost.

Runtime: 64 min.

Directed by: Paul Murton

Stars: Emma Thompson | Eleanor Bron | Phyllida Law | Adrian Dunbar | David Horovitch

In the Name of the Father (1993)

As: Gareth Peirce

A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.

Runtime: 133 min.

Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Emma Thompson | John Lynch | Corin Redgrave | Daniel Day-Lewis

The Remains of the Day (1993)

As: Miss Kenton

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Runtime: 134 min.

Directed by: James Ivory

Stars: Emma Thompson | James Fox | Anthony Hopkins | Hugh Grant | Christopher Reeve

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

As: Beatrice

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.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Keanu Reeves | Michael Keaton | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Robert Sean Leonard

Peter's Friends (1992)

As: Maggie Chester

It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common now.Peter's friends are Andrew (Branagh), now a writer in Hollywood; married jingle writers Roger (Laurie) and Mary (Staunton); glamorous costume ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Imelda Staunton | Stephen Fry | Hugh Laurie

Howards End (1992)

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.

Runtime: 142 min.

Directed by: James Ivory

Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Vanessa Redgrave | Emma Thompson | Anthony Hopkins | Samuel West

Dead Again (1991)

As: Margaret Strauss / Grace

In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kenneth Branagh | Robin Williams | Lois Hall | Andy García

Impromptu (1991)

As: Duchess D'Antan

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

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: James Lapine

Stars: Julian Sands | Hugh Grant | Mandy Patinkin | Judy Davis | Bernadette Peters

Henry V (1989)

As: Katherine

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Runtime: 137 min.

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Stars: Derek Jacobi | Paul Scofield | Kenneth Branagh | Brian Blessed | James Larkin

The Tall Guy (1989)

As: Kate

An American actor in England tries to find love and work.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Mel Smith

Stars: Geraldine James | Jeff Goldblum | Emma Thompson | Rowan Atkinson | Emil Wolk

Look Back in Anger (1989)

As: Alison Porter

Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: Judi Dench

Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Gerard Horan | Siobhan Redmond | Edward Jewesbury

The Crystal Cube (1983)

As: Jackie Meld

The Crystal Cube was a mockumentary television pilot written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on 7 July 1983 on BBC2 at 22:10. The pilot was one of Fry and Laurie's first television appearances and the first show they had written themselves. However, the BBC chose not to take it to a full series, and Fry and Laurie did not get a chance to make their own programme for the BBC until ...

Runtime: 30 min.

Stars: Emma Thompson | Stephen Fry | Robbie Coltrane | Hugh Laurie