Top 10 Emma Thompson Movies

If you're looking for movies or TV shows starring Emma Thompson, you just click on the right video. Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss out on discovering great movies and TV shows again. Number 1. The Love Punch 2013. Retirement at last. Middle-aged and divorced company owner Richard Jones, is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund, including his own, has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Emma Thompson, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind the fraud. Number 2. Saving Mr. Banks 2013. For 20 years, Walt Disney, Tom Hanks, tried to acquire the rights to Mary Poppins from Australian writer P.L. Travers, Emma Thompson, who consistently refused to sell them so Disney could make one of his silly cartoons. However, the financial crisis forced her to negotiate. So Travers traveled to the United States and began working with the team chosen by Walt Disney to bring Mary Poppins to the screen. Meticulous and reluctant, she began to encounter all sorts of problems. Since the contract gave her the right to cancel the transfer of the rights if she disagreed with the adaptation, Disney and his team had to accept her whims to finally get the film off the ground. Number 3. Effie Grey 2014. Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, this movie tells the story of euphemia, Effie Grey, Dakota Fanning. At 19, she married the prominent art historian and critic, John Ruskin, Greg Wise. But Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated, Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, Tom Sturridge, and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Emma Thompson. After five years trapped in a loveless marriage, Effie will defy the rules of Victorian society. Number 4. Alone in Berlin 2016. Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime's victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel's son has been killed at the front. This working-class couple had long believed in the Fuhrer and followed him willingly. But now they realize that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness. Stop the war machine. Kill Hitler. Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon on to them, and even their neighbors pose a threat. Number 5. The Children Act 2017. 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. Fiona May, Emma Thompson, is a prominent high court judge who presides over ethically complex family law cases. Her heavy workload takes a personal toll on Fiona. Amidst her precarious relationship with a professor, Stanley Tucci, she must decide on the case of Adam, Fionn Whitehead, a boy diagnosed with leukemia who refuses a life-saving blood transfusion due to religious beliefs. Number 6. King Lear 2018. This contemporary version of King Lear boasts an impressive ensemble cast led by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Set in the fictional present, King Lear sets Hopkins as the eponymous ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England. Thompson stars as his eldest daughter with Emily Watson as the middle daughter Reagan, and Florence Pugh as the youngest Cordelia. The 80-year-old King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters according to their affection for him. With that fateful decision, family and state collapse into chaos and warfare. Number 7. Late Night 2019. In Late Night, Reinventing Comedy, a popular American television show, is anchored by Katherine Newberry, Emma Thompson, a strong-willed woman who doesn't usually treat her employees well. When she's accused of failing to contribute to women's rights by working exclusively with male writers, she hires Molly, Mindy Kaling, with whom she initially doesn't have a good relationship. However, when the show suffers a drop in ratings, Molly's innovative thinking may prove indispensable in saving Katherine's career. Number 8. Cruella 2021. 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 able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella's flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness Von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable, and revenge-bent Cruella. Number 9. Good Luck to You, Leo Grandi 2022. Nancy Stokes is a recently retired teacher. Despite having had a fulfilling life, there's one thing she's never had. Nancy has never had worthy of being called good. In fact, Nancy doesn't even know if what she did was actually. But that's water under the bridge. Nancy is determined to have at least once a night of pleasurable, and she has it all figured out in her head. She'll call a young worker and reserve a nice room in a hotel. She even knows the young man's name, Leo Grandi. Although she seems like just another client and a few more hours of work, Leo is certain that this is what intrigued him most and that Nancy is also a different person. Number 10. Dead of Winter 2025. Barb, Emma Thompson, travels to the remote wilderness of Minnesota to fulfill her deceased husband's final wish. His ashes are to be scattered at the lake where their story began. Cut off from the outside world and without any way to call for help, she witnesses a crime. A young woman is kidnapped and held captive in an abandoned cabin. Without support, Barb has no choice but to take action herself. Her attempt to free the victim develops into a dangerous fight for survival against the brutal kidnapper couple as well as against the life-threatening cold of the lonely landscape.