Frances O’Connor
Director, Actor
- Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
- Dir. Emma-Kate Croghan
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Alice Garner, Radha Mitchell…
- The indie success story of '96 was made by 23–year–old Croghan on a shoestring with her Melbourne film school buddies.
Love is a…
- Kiss or Kill (1997)
- Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Matt Day
- Many critics confounded our suspicions that this was going to be yet another vapid, pretentious, cheap–shot road–movie that exploits the…
- A Little Bit Of Soul (1998)
- Dir. Peter Duncan
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Frances O’Connor, David Wenham
- Little–known black comedy concerns two scientists working on a serum to reverse aging in chickens, lured into the world of two wealthy patrons…
- Mansfield Park (1999)
- Dir. Patricia Rozema
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola…
- Refashions one of Jane Austen's quirkier novels by drawing on the 19th century writer's own journals and letters, with the dir. of WHEN NIGHT IS…
- About Adam (2000)
- Dir. Gerard Stembridge
Feat. Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Frances O’Connor…
- A catchy, but inconsequential comic conceit unfolds when Adam successively seduces three Irish sisters while managing to remain sympathetic.
- Madame Bovary (2000)
- Dir. Tim Fywell
Feat. Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Frances O’Connor
- Typically lavish BBC costumer, here tackling Gustave Flaubert's classic French tragi–romance with gusto and explicit sex. Frances O'Connor…
- Windtalkers (2002)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach…
- Based on a little–known chapter of WWII – the use by the US army of Navajo Indians for their ‘unbreakable’ language to help…
- Importance of Being Earnest, The (2002)
- Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O’Connor…
- Second bite of the Oscar Wilde cherry by the director of AN IDEAL HUSBAND transcribes Wilde’s most delectable drawing–room farce with perfect…
- Timeline (2003)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Frances O’Connor…
- Time–travel actioner adapted from the novel by Michael Crichton (JURASSIC PARK) in which a group of students race through a wormhole in time to…
- Book of Love (2004)
- Dir. Alan Brown
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Simon Baker, Gregory Smith
- A moody Sundance Festival entry plots the entry of a young student into the life of a 'cultured' couple: his school history teacher and more…
- Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
- Dir. Katja von Garnier
Feat. Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Frances O’Connor…
- Fairly inventive telemovie concerning the rise of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had the aim of gaining voting and other…
- Piccadilly Jim (2004)
- Dir. John McKay
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Frances O’Connor, Brenda Blethyn…
- Adapted from P.G. Wodehouse’s comic novel, this tells the tale of an American scoundrel who flails about and fails on both sides of the Atlantic in…
- Three Dollars (2005)
- Dir. Robert Connolly
Feat. David Wenham, Frances O’Connor, Sarah Wynter
- The makers of THE BANK construct another tale of financial insecurity and moral fortitude, with David Wenham returning to play a decent Australian…
- 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…
- Hunter, The (2011)
- Dir. Daniel Nettheim
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor…
- Willem Dafoe plays a mercenary sent to hunt for an endangered Tasmanian tiger in this sparse, psychological showcase of the Australian wilderness.
- Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
- Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick…
- Flavoursome southern drama set during the Vietnam war is about two families from different countries whose cultures clash.
- Best Man Down (2012)
- Dir. Ted Koland
Feat. Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Tyler Labine…
- In this heartfelt, soul–searching dramedy, a newly married couple cancels their honeymoon plans after the groom's hard–partying best man…
- Little Red Wagon (2012)
- Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Anna Gunn, Frances O’Connor, Chandler Canterbury
- An unapologetic tearjerker from the director of RUDY, about a determined eight–year–old whose mission to help the homeless inspires a…
- Mr. Selfridge (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Jeremy Piven, Frances O’Connor, Katherine Kelly…
- Jeremy Piven transposes his larger–than–life Ari Gold persona (from ENTOURAGE) to turn–of–the–century London, where he…
- Missing, The (TV Series) (2014-2016)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Frances O’Connor, Tcheky Karyo…
- Gripping BBC drama with James Nesbitt as a man devastated by the abduction of his young son during a family vacation in France.
- Conjuring 2, The (2016)
- Dir. James Wan
Feat. Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor…
- Scary sequel to the 2013 chiller has Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson reprise their roles as paranormal investigators, this time traveling to London…
- Go! (Go Karts) (2020)
- Dir. Owen Trevor
Feat. Richard Roxburgh, Frances O’Connor, Anastasia Bampos…
- Formulaic but winsome movie from the writer of PAPER PLANES, about a charismatic young boy and his dream of winning the Australian National Go Kart…
- Emily (2022)
- Dir. Frances O’Connor
Feat. Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Adrian Dunbar…
- Actress Frances O’Connor makes her directorial debut with her own screenplay about the imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors,…