Midas Man (2024)
Biography | Drama | Music
On Thursday 9 November 1961, a man named Brian descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and changed the world forever.
Starring: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan, Jay Leno
Director: Joe Stephenson
Red Dragon (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Brett Ratner
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Drama
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier, Adrian Rawlins
Director: Lars von Trier
God's Creatures (2022)
Drama
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.
Starring: Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aisling Franciosi, Declan Conlon , Marion O'Dwyer, Toni O'Rourke
Director: Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Biography | Drama | Music
The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Starring: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Celia Imrie
Director: Anand Tucker
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series 2019)
Drama | History | Thriller
Chernobyl dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident — one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Emily Watson, Robert Emms, Sam Troughton
Creator: Craig Mazin
The Happy Prince (2018)
Biography | Drama
The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor.
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor, Julian Wadham, Béatrice Dalle, André Penvern
Director: Rupert Everett
King Lear (2018)
Drama
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Starring: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Andrew Scott, Christopher Eccleston, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh, Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Karl Johnson
Director: Richard Eyre
On Chesil Beach (2017)
Drama | Romance
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Billy Howle, Adrian Scarborough, Bebe Cave
Director: Dominic Cooke
A Song for Jenny (2015)
Drama
In the aftermath of the July 7th, 2005 bombings in London, a woman desperately searches for her missing daughter, who may have been caught up in the attacks.
Starring: Emily Watson
Director: Brian Percival
Monster Family / Happy Family (2017)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Horror
Despite the title, the Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, Mum and Emma plan a fun night out. However, her plan backfires when an evil witch curses them, and they're all turned into Monsters.
Starring: Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Jessica Brown Findlay, Celia Imrie, Catherine Tate
Director: Holger Tappe
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Drama
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Starring: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Gerard McSorley, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge
Director: Alan Parker
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Luis Guzmán, Robert Smigel
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
A Royal Night Out (2015)
Drama | Romance
On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
Starring: Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Bel Powley, Rupert Everett, Jack Reynor, Roger Allam
Director: Julian Jarrold
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Little Boy (2015)
Comedy | Drama | War
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible…bring his father back from World War II.
Starring: Jakob Salvati, Emily Watson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Rapaport, David Henrie, Eduardo Verástegui
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
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The Boxer (1997)
Drama | Romance | Sport
Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, boxer Danny Flynn returns to Belfast and, tired of violence, tries to lead a law-abiding life. He reconnects with Maggie, a former flame raising her son alone, and opens a community-center gym for both Catholic and Protestant youths, a decision which arouses anger among local militant IRA members.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Kenneth Cranham, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley
Director: Jim Sheridan
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Biography | Drama | Romance
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Emily Watson, Charlie Cox
Director: James Marsh
Belle (2013)
Drama
The story of the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay of the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Maria Belle. Recognized by her father, she is sent to live in the household of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, her powerful and wealthy great-uncle. As debate rages regarding the legitimacy of the slave trade in Britain, she comes of age as gentlewoman, though her place in society is precarious.
Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Tom Felton, Penelope Wilton
Director: Amma Asante
Cemetery Junction / The Men at the Pru (2010)
Comedy | Drama
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and loveable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives forever.
Starring: Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Emily Watson, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Goode
Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
