Naomi Watts
Actor
Brides of Christ (TV Series) (1991)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Brenda Fricker, Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe
- Set in Catholic convent in 1960s Australia among a group of nuns and students, this series caused mild controversy on release, depicting the church…
Tank Girl (1995)
- Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T…
- Lori Petty is well cast as the rumbuncious heroine of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's subversive comic strip. Purists may cry foul but though its…
Sleepwalker Project, The (TV Series) (Sleepwalkers) (1997)
- Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Naomi Watts
- With a premise that's a cut above the usual sci–fi series imagination, this has a team of researchers at the Morpheus Institute use special…
Strange Planet (1998)
- Dir. Emma-Kate Croghan
Feat. Claudia Karvan, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Watts
- Three girl–friends and three guy–friends collide by chance for New Years Eve in a remote beach–house, mixing–n–matching…
Wyvern Mystery, The (TV Mini-Series) (2000)
- Dir. Alex Pillai
Feat. Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi
- Naomi Watts plays the adopted daughter of a prickly Squire (Derek Jacobi) with more than just fatherhood on his mind. Pseudo–haunted house…
Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux
- Dir. David Lynch returns to the defiantly enigmatic mode of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Lost Highway’ with an absurdist Tinseltown satire that probably…
Shaft, The (Down) (2001)
- Dir. Dick Maas
Feat. Naomi Watts, James Marshall, Ron Perlman…
- Wildly tongue–in–cheek remake of the dir.'s own THE LIFT, here with a New York City elevator going on a murderous rampage in its…
Ring, The (2002)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox
- Fitfully creepy American remake of the influential Japanese horror film that surprisingly manages to replicate the foreboding (and uniquely Japanese)…
Plots with a View (Undertaking Betty) (2002)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts…
- Lunatic Welsh farce in which an unhappy Brenda Blethyn contrives with a besotted funeral director (Molina) to fake her own death so as to escape a…
Ned Kelly (2003)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush…
- Australia's most famous bushranger is portrayed with outright sympathy and a large measure of romantic invention in this messy, but not entirely…
Le Divorce (2003)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron…
- Neither romantic escapism nor French farce American–style, this comedy from ‘prestige’ partnership Merchant–Ivory can’t find shape…
21 Grams (2003)
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro…
- For his English–language debut, the celebrated Mexican director of AMORES PERROS weighs in with an unconventional, soul–baring drama that…
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
- Dir. David O. Russell
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, Lily Tomlin…
- The meaning of life and capitalism in the post–millenial age are ambitiously tackled in this "existential comedy" from the dir. of FLIRTING…
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
- Dir. John Curran
Feat. Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern…
- Toughly gritty and unfairly–overlooked drama about two marriages knotted together in dual adultery, career–crises, and personal cynicism,…
Ellie Parker (2004)
- Dir. Scott Coffey
Feat. Naomi Watts, Scott Coffey, Chevy Chase
- Curiously fascinating Hollywood DV drama in which Naomi Watts plays a aspiring actress in Los Angeles, born out of 2001 short film made before Watts…
Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)
- Dir. Niels Mueller
Feat. Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts…
- The ghost of 'Travis Bickle' (TAXI DRIVER) pervades this accomplished diatribe on the contentious era of Richard Nixon's administration – a…
Ring 2, The (2005)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Naomi Watts, Sissy Spacek, Gary Cole…
- The RING remake cycle moves onto the next installment in dir. Nakata's fable of the lethal videotape, with Watts again returning to this time destroy…
King Kong (2005)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black…
- Peter Jackson's colossal remake lavishes one of the cinema's greatest legends in 21st century technology and ratchets up the emotional stakes to…
Stay (2005)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling…
- A New York psychiatrist (McGregor) is drawn into a strange, hallucinatory world when he tries to prevent a disturbed, seemingly prescient young…
Painted Veil, The (2006)
- Dir. John Curran
Feat. Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Toby Jones…
- Haunting tragi–romance unveils the lives of a young English couple whose relocation to Shanghai and history of infidelity force them to…
Eastern Promises (2007)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel…
- A muscular, satisfying thriller set in the underworld of the Russian mafia in London, this reteams the director and star of A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE,…
Funny Games (2007)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt…
- This contentious ‘self–remake’ finds perennial agitator Michael Haneke revisiting his subversive home invasion classic, emigrating the…
International, The (2009)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl…
- Sleek cosmopolitan thriller finds Owen and Watts, as disheveled Interpol agent and bland district attorney respectively, exposing a sinister arms…
Mother and Child (2009)
- Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Feat. Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington…
- Thoughtfully handled ensemble drama focuses on the maternal and filial ties that bind, centered around three women; an unhappy therapist, the…
Fair Game (2010)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Tom McCarthy…
- A smart, ground level conspiracy thriller based on the true story of an undercover CIA operative (Watts) whose identity was suspiciously leaked after…
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin…
- Not so much a serious Woody Allen film as a funny one without any jokes. An ensemble of fine actors stumble through a series of scenes with only a…
Dream House (2011)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz…
- Less haunted house movie than emotionally fraught character drama, this somewhat trashy if competently delivered thriller centres on a family man…
J. Edgar (2011)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Judi Dench…
- Heavyweight biopic from dir. Clint Eastwood, with Leonardo DiCaprio stepping into the shoes of controversial FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, whose…
Impossible, The (2012)
- Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
Feat. Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland…
- A searing drama of human resilience, this up–close–and–personal disaster pic tells the true story of a vacationing family in…
Movie 43 (2013)
- Feat. Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Common …
- Hollywood's enthusiasm for large ensemble comedies continues with this star–studded monstrosity, framed around a struggling director (Quaid)…