Naomi Watts
Actor
Films to Rent
- 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)…