Miranda Otto
Actor
Films to Rent
- Initiation (1987)
- Dir. Michael Pearce
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Rodney Harvey, Anna-Maria Winchester…
- Oddball coming of age tale with a young American venturing to the outback to reunite with his estranged father – a drug trafficker.
- Sex Is a Four Letter Word (1994)
- Dir. Murray Fahey
Feat. Joy Smithers, Mark Lee, Miranda Otto
- A love columnist holds a dinner party for six young Ozzies, ostensibly to source material for her spicy novel. Low budget comedy–drama.
- Love Serenade (1996)
- Dir. Shirley Barrett
Feat. George Shetsov, Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith
- Two sisters fall for a middle–aged, schmoozing radio–jock in this perfectly measured Australian comedy set in a tinpot outback town.…
- True Love and Chaos (1997)
- Dir. Stavros Andonis Efthymiou
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Miranda Otto
- A half–baked script straight out of the same Melbourne film school that produced LOVE & OTHER CATASTROPHES leaves an Aussie brat–pack…
- Well, The (1997)
- Dir. Samantha Lang
Feat. Miranda Otto, Pamela Rabe
- Evocative Gothic psychodrama, firmly in the Jane Campion mould, effectively explores the dark side of female relationships in ominous blue–grey…
- Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
- Dir. Chris Kennedy
Feat. Miranda Otto, Matt Day, Richard Roxburgh…
- A quietly inspired drama, set around the journey of an Australian lad (Day) towards Country Music fame in Nashville, who becomes waylaid by a curious…
- Dead Letter Office (1998)
- Dir. John Ruane
Feat. Miranda Otto
- Miranda Otto impresses as a perky lonely–heart who's lifelong search for her missing father resumes when she gets a job at the postal Dead…
- In the Winter Dark (1998)
- Dir. James Bogle
Feat. Miranda Otto, Brenda Blethyn, Ray Barrett…
- The spooky qualities of the Australian Outback enhance this tale from Tim Winton's novel, which has an unknown marauder attacking stock in a remote…
- Kin (1999)
- Dir. Elanie Proctor
Feat. Miranda Otto, Isaiah Washington, Chris Chameleon
- A game–keeper of elephants in the Namibian desert, Miranda Otto hovers between passions for brother Chris Chameleon and American newcomer…
- Human Nature (2001)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans, Patricia Arquette…
- An odd yet amusing burlesque from the makers of BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, presenting a wildly contrived scenario as an excuse to examine the comedy of…
- The Way We Live Now (2001)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Shirley Henderson…
- The rise and fall of a Jewish financer is laid bare by the masterful pen of Anthony Trollope. David Suchet broadly, if unlikeably encompasses the…
- Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (2002)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen…
- Peter Jackson’s mammoth adaptation of J R R Tolkien’s fantasy classic continues in grand fashion, with increased visual panache and…
- Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Extended Edition) (2002)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen…
- Peter Jackson’s mammoth adaptation of J R R Tolkien’s fantasy classic continues in grand fashion, with increased visual panache and dramatic…
- Hypnotic (Doctor Sleep) (2002)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson…
- The smouldering Visnjic (THE DEEP END) plays a hypnotherapist who has the gift of receiving startling visualisations from the minds of his…
- Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen…
- Peter Jackson's adaptation of J R R Tolkien's fantasy trilogy of 'Middle Earth' reaches its spectacular climax, drawing the story–threads…
- Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Extended Edition) (2003)
- Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen…
- The final installment in Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy classic. This version includes an extra 45 minutes of footage.
- In My Father's Den (2004)
- Dir. Brad McGann
Feat. Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto…
- Achieving a new high watermark in production terms at least, this vivid New Zealand melodrama harnesses the complexities of Maurice Gee's…
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
- Dir. Jason Moore
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto…
- Workmanlike remake of the 1965 Aldrich near–classic, in which a plainload of oilworkers crashland in the desert (here the Gobi), leaving them…
- Healer, The (Julie Walking Home) (2004)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Miranda Otto, William Fichtner, Lothaire Bluteau
- A crisis of family and faith challenges this distilled drama of a woman’s pilgrimage to Poland in search of a mysterious healer failing modern…
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto…
- Dynamic and intense re–imagining of H.G. Wells sci–fi staple (for its first half at least), in which hostile aliens invade Earth in…
- Starter Wife, The (Mini-Series) (2007)
- Dir. Jon Avnet
Feat. Debra Messing, Miranda Otto, Judy Davis…
- Attractive, summery affair concerns a pampered Hollywood trophy wife (Messing) who must get back on the horse after her marriage comes abruptly to an…
- Cashmere Mafia (TV Series) (2008)
- Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor…
- Short–lived drama series centred on four career hungry New York friends who turn to each other in times of personal and professional crisis.…
- Blessed (2009)
- Dir. Ana Kokkinos
Feat. Miranda Otto, Frances O’Connor, Deborra-Lee Furness
- Four vivid stories of mothers and their children are interwoven in this confronting drama set in Melbourne's outer suburbs, blessed by the acting…
- South Solitary (2010)
- Dir. Shirley Barrett
Feat. Miranda Otto, Marton Csokas, Barry Otto
- The dir. of Australian gem LOVE SERENADE returns with this windswept drama about an unmarried woman's (Miranda Otto) stay at a remote lighthouse.
- Turning, The (2013)
- Dir. Jonathan auf der Heide, Tony Ayres, Jub Clerc
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving…
- Tim Winton's epic collection of short stories is adapted into 17 distinct yet interlocking narratives about the turning points in a spectrum of…
- Reaching for the Moon (2013)
- Dir. Bruno Barreto
Feat. Gloria Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf…
- A chronicle of the tragic love affair between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
- I, Frankenstein (2013)
- Dir. Stuart Beattie
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto…
- Chaotic and at times incoherent action fantasy following Frankenstein's creature Adam in the centuries old war to prevent evil demons from taking…
- Homesman, The (2014)
- Dir. Tommy Lee Jones
Feat. Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer…
- Tommy Lee Jones helms this pleasurably off–beat western in which three women living on the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer…
- Daughter, The (2015)
- Dir. Simon Stone
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider…
- Australian melodrama based on Henrik Ibsen's play "The Wild Duck", in which a prodigal son's return home to a small logging town reveals a dark…
- Annabelle: Creation (2017)
- Dir. David F. Sandberg
Feat. Stephanie Sigman, Jason Bateman, Lulu Wilson…
- A "return to form" for THE CONJURING franchise (after the egregious ANNABELLE), this prequel featuring the eponymous possessed doll tormenting a nun…