Emily Watson
Actor
Breaking the Waves (1996)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge…
- Significant art–house hit about obsessive faith and self–sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young…
Mill On the Floss (1997)
- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Emily Watson, Bernard Hill
- The incandescent Emily Watson justifies this Masterpiece Theatre version of George Eliot's Victorian novel (considerably simplified), bringing some…
Boxer, The (1998)
- Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson
- Former IRA man Daniel Day–Lewis is released from 14 years behind bars to set up a non–sectarian community boxing club while private wars…
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
- Dir. Anand Tucker
Feat. Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths
- Musical biopic buoyed by a quite fascinating subject – prodigious English Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre – adapted from the controversial…
Angela's Ashes (1999)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Emily Watson, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens…
- Lovingly–detailed adaptation of Frank McCourt's best–selling memoir of the worst kind of childhood – the deprived Irish Catholic…
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
- Dir. Tim Robbins
Feat. John Cusack, Bill Murray, John Turturro…
- Caught between government paranoia and unionist principles in depression–era New York, a theatre troupe voice their dissent by attempting to…
Trixie (2000)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Emily Watson, Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney…
- Uneven attempt at a film–noir spoof by cult dir. Rudolph (who did it better in LOVE AT LARGE) with Emily Watson as a low–wattage…
Luzhin Defence, The (2000)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. John Turturro, Emily Watson
- Combining the intricacies of the chessboard with manoeuvres of the heart, this Nabakov adaptation opens its game at a chess tournament in 1920s…
Gosford Park (2001)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith…
- A handsome recital of Agatha Christie–style whodunnit and ‘upstairs–downstairs’ class–drama set in the confines of an English…
Red Dragon (2002)
- Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes…
- Betraying the odds after the lackluster “Hannibal”, this accomplished ‘prequel’ based on Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name more than…
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
Equilibrium (2003)
- Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson
- Modest, but intelligent sci–fi thriller, where a policeman misses his daily dose of emotion–lowering drug Prozium and realises the…
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (2004)
- Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson…
- An entertaining, if disturbing summary of the turbulent life of British comedian Peter Sellers, with Geoffrey Rush starring as the man who famously…
Back to Gaya (Boo, Zino and the Snurks) (2004)
- Dir. Lenard Fritz Krawinke, Holger Tappe
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Emily Watson
- The first completely CGI feature to emerge from Germany follows the postmodern tone of SHREK, with a gaggle of cartoon characters from a fantasy TV…
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) (2005)
- Dir. Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
- An animated tour–de–force from dir. Burton which fuses spindley puppetry and subtle CGI for its mythic tale of a sallow young bridegroom…
Proposition, The (2005)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston…
- Grimly intense and atmospheric 'Australian Western' – scripted by singer Nick Cave – is set the outback of the 1880s, where lawman Ray…
Separate Lies (2005)
- Dir. Julian Fellowes
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett
- Tense tragedy of manners stars Tom Wilkinson as a complacent lawyer whose young wife (Watson) confesses to being tangled–up in a fatal…
Wah-Wah (2005)
- Dir. Richard E. Grant
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson…
- A caustic memoir of colonial growing pains from actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), chronicling his own adolescence in Swaziland during the…
Miss Potter (2006)
- Dir. Chris Noonan
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson
- Charming biopic tells the tale of Beatrix Potter – specifically the story of the woman behind the drawings – and her fixation from a…
Crusade: A March Through Time (Kruistocht in spijkerbroek) (2006)
- Dir. Ben Sombogaart
Feat. Stephanie Leonidas, Joe Flynn, Emily Watson…
- From the popular Dutch children’s book, this biblical fantasy follows a young boy who accidentally travels through time back to the 13th Century,…
Water Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007)
- Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson…
- NZ–filmed magical adventure inspired by the legend of Loch Ness in which a small boy secretly adopts a baby mythical creature that grows to…
Fireflies In The Garden (2008)
- Dir. Dennis Lee
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson…
- A heavyweight cast helm this drama centered on a family who finally uncover their deep–seated grievances after a tragic accident.
Despite…
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- Dir. Charlie Kaufman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener…
- Screenwriting extraordinaire Charlie Kaufman turns his hand to directing for the first time with another amusing existential conundrum, here enjoying…
Cold Souls (2009)
- Dir. Sophie Barthes
Feat. Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, Lauren Ambrose…
- A existentialist tragi–comedy in which Paul Giamatti plays himself, a New York actor in crisis, who literally has his soul extracted, only to…
Within the Whirlwind (2009)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart…
- The memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian academic sentenced to ten years labor in a Siberian Gulag, are brought to life in this harrowing account…
Cemetery Junction (2010)
- Dir. Ricky Gervais
Feat. Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan…
- Ricky Gervais directs this 70s coming of age tale of three young and rebellious insurance salesman set against the less–than–glamorous…
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
- Dir. Jim Loach
Feat. Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham…
- Dir. Jim Loach (son of Ken) tackles the scandalous post–war history of Britain's deportation of lower class children to the colonies –…
War Horse (2011)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson…
- Steven Spielberg revives the magic of Old Hollywood with this rousing saga of a plucky farm stallion who goes on to inspire soldiers and citizens…
Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-series) (2011)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Emily Watson, Dominic West
- Utterly riveting, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning mini–series that details the crucial part played by a trainee social worker in uncovering the…
Book Thief, The (2013)
- Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Sophie Nelisse, Heike Makatsch, Geoffrey Rush…
- Earnest wartime drama about a foster child who begins stealing books and sharing them with a Jewish refugee hiding in her basement in Nazi Germany.