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  • Hilary And Jackie
  • Hilary And Jackie review by from London, England
    Rated - 4 stars Virtuoso Performance .. 9 May 2005
    ...Emily Watson gives an truely superb performance as cellist Jacqueline du Pr?, in a biopic that centres on Jacqueline's relationship with her sister Hilary (Rachel Griffiths...  
  • Angela's Ashes
  • Angela's Ashes review by TrevorBevan from Gloucestershire
    Rated - 3 stars Sad and a bit too close to reality 28 April 2004
    ... Century in Northern Ireland. Sensitive performances from Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson. I would not recommend this film for a quiet night in… it’s too tragic but if y...  
  • The Luzhin Defence
  • The Luzhin Defence review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars Not your average romantic film 3 February 2004
    ...t approachable for some. John Turturro gives and excellent performance, with Emily Watson almost matching him move for move. Anyway, it's worth adding to your list, e...  

Emily Watson - filmography


  • Cold Souls (2009)
    Starring: Paul Giamatti,  Emily Watson,  Dina Korzun
    Director: Sophie Barthes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes "Cold Souls," a metaphysical tragicomedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, and between reality and fantasy, the film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 5 members
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  • Fireflies in the Garden on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Ryan Reynolds,  Willem Dafoe
    Director: Dennis Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this haunting family drama of recrimination and reconciliation, Lisa Waechter is at the center of the story playing a beleaguered family matriarch who has subordinated her needs and desires to those of her family, particularly her cold, demanding husband. Lisa's sudden death brings her entire ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 463 members
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  • Synecdoche, New York on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dianne Wiest,  Philip Seymour Hoffman,  Emily Watson
    Director: Charlie Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Obsession and identity are recurring themes in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's work, and he draws on them again in his directorial debut, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. Kaufman's film focuses on the wiles of Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a regional theatre director who has won a MacArthur grant to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 837 members
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  • Proposition, The - BLU-RAY Version (2006)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Ray Winstone,  Danny Huston
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 479 members
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  • Wah-Wah on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Emily Watson,  Julie Walters
    Director: Richard E. Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A 14-year-old British boy returns to his home in colonial Swaziland to find that his father has remarried a free-spirited American woman that he has known for six weeks. A semi-autobiographical coming of age story by actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), WAH-WAH is set in the late 1960s in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 7,446 members
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  • Crusade - A March Through Time on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Joe Flynn,  Emily Watson,  Stephanie Leonidas
    Director: Ben Sombogaart
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This science-fiction adventure follows young Dolf Vega (Joe Flynn), who uses his researcher mother's (Emily Watson) time travel machine to 're-do' his football game--until he's mistakenly transported to the year 1212, joining a landmark children's crusade.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 83 members
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  • The Proposition on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Budge,  Emily Watson
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 9,655 members
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  • Bright Young Things on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore,  Peter O'Toole,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Stephen,  Fry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,976 members
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  • Equilibrium on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Emily Watson,  Angus Macfadyen
    Director: Kurt Wimmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a futuristic society where the government requires the people to stay tranquil and submissive by taking a psychological drug, people no longer have emotions. Because of this, there are no more wars. But when one of the enforcement agents realizes that maybe peaceful oblivion is not the answer, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 22,020 members
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  • Red Dragon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 18,719 members
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  • Red Dragon - BLU-RAY Version (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Edward Norton,  Ralph Fiennes
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this is the story of FBI agent Will Graham who is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 168 members
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  • Gosford Park on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Michael Gambon,  Stephen Fry,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 14,507 members
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  • Angela's Ashes on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Emily Watson,  Joe Breen
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    ANGELA'S ASHES is the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt (played at various ages by Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge), whose personal memoir became a worldwide phenomenon. When eldest son Frank's baby sister dies and father Malachy (Robert Carlyle) can find no work, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,961 members
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  • Metroland
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Lee Ross,  Emily Watson
    Director: Philip Saville
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Two best friends vow never to become trapped in suburbia's metroland. Escaping by the end of the 1960s, one young man decides to go globetrotting whilst the other moves to France.... Years later they meet again.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 323 members
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  • Wah-Wah to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Emily Watson,  Julie Walters
    Director: Richard E. Grant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 95 minutes
    WAH-WAH is a semi-autobiographical 'coming of age at the end of an Age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 10 members
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Emily Watson facts

5 most recent films

Cold Souls - 4.5 stars
Fireflies in the Garden - 3.0 stars
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - 3.0 stars
Synecdoche, New York - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Synecdoche, New York - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Miss Potter - 3.5 stars
Equilibrium - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Angela's Ashes - 3.5 stars
Red Dragon - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cold Souls - 4.5 stars
Separate Lies - 2.5 stars
Crusade - A March Through Time - 2.5 stars
Boo, Zino And The Snurks - 2.5 stars
Metroland - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Philip Seymour Hoffman - 7 times - show films
Adam Sandler - 4 times - show films
Luis Guzman - 4 times - show films
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - 4 times - show films
Richard E. Grant - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Paul Thomas Anderson - 4 times - show films
Brett Ratner - 3 times - show films
Charlie Kaufman - 3 times - show films
Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Mike Johnson - 3 times - show films