Emma Thompson films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 47 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Sense and Sensibility and Henry V.

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Starring Emma Thompson

Cruella
2021 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking...
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In the Name of the Father
1993 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's...
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The Sheep Detectives
2026 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
George Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realize they must become the detectives...
Years and Years
2019 · TV
7.8/10 · TMDB
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
The rebellion begins! Lord Voldemort has returned, but the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth – including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defence Against...
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Treasure Planet
2002 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But, soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent...
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Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
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Saving Mr. Banks
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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The Remains of the Day
1993 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties...
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Stranger Than Fiction
2006 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
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The Boat That Rocked
2009 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a...
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Last Christmas
2019 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
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Henry V
1989 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
I Am Legend
2007 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years...
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
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Love Actually
2003 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
'Love Actually' follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
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Howards End
1992 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative...
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Missing Link
2019 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from...
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Brave
2012 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and...
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Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice --...
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
2022 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Nancy Stokes doesn’t know good sex. Whatever it may be, Nancy, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had it, but she is determined to finally do something about that. She even has a plan: It involves an anonymous hotel...
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An Education
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile...
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Dolittle
2020 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals...
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2022 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with...
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Down Cemetery Road
2025 · TV
6.7/10 · TMDB
When a child goes missing in the aftermath of a house explosion, a concerned neighbor teams up with a private investigator to find them. As secrets unravel and a military conspiracy emerges, all hell is unleashed on South Oxford's sleepy...
Nanny McPhee
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the...
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Men in Black 3
2012 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet...
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Burnt
2015 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and...
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Late Night
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women...
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Men, Women & Children
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
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Dead Again
1991 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate...
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The Children Act
2018 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
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Dead of Winter
2025 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back...
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled...
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Primary Colors
1998 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the...
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Last Chance Harvey
2008 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an...
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What's Love Got to Do with It?
2023 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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Men in Black: International
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
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Beautiful Creatures
2013 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship...
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A Walk in the Woods
2015 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
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Effie Gray
2014 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
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How to Build a Girl
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton...
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Junior
1994 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
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