Best Hugh Grant movies

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Best Hugh Grant movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Hugh Grant movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don't know about Hugh Grant.

TOP 25:
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Hugh Grant as: Reginald Anson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ian Hart movies?

TOP 24:
Two Weeks Notice
Two Weeks Notice
Hugh Grant as: George Wade
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2002
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy's time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Mark Feuerstein movies?


TOP 23:
Impromptu
Impromptu
Hugh Grant as: Frederic Chopin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 1991
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Julian Sands movies?

TOP 22:
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Hugh Grant as: Daniel Cleaver
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2004
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Celia Imrie movies?

TOP 21:
Music and Lyrics
Music and Lyrics
Hugh Grant as: Alex Fletcher
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 2007
A washed up singer is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an aspiring teen sensation. Though he's never written a decent lyric in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman with a flair for words.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Campbell Scott movies?


TOP 20:
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
Hugh Grant as: Pirate Captain (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2012
The luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain is a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate of the Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist, but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jeremy Piven movies?

TOP 19:
Restoration
Restoration
Hugh Grant as: Elias Finn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Meg Ryan movies?

TOP 18:
Small Time Crooks
Small Time Crooks
Hugh Grant as: David
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2000
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Isaac Mizrahi movies?


TOP 17:
About a Boy
About a Boy
Hugh Grant as: Will
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2002
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life, which leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Natalia Tena movies?

TOP 16:
Florence Foster Jenkins
Florence Foster Jenkins
Hugh Grant as: St. Clair Bayfield
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2016
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Maggie Steed movies?

TOP 15:

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary
Hugh Grant as: Daniel Cleaver
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Release: 2001
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Gemma Jones movies?


TOP 14:

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Hugh Grant as: Charles
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1994
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Anna Chancellor movies?

TOP 13:

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas
Hugh Grant as: Rev. Giles Horrox / Hotel Heavy / Lloyd Hooks / Denholme Cavendish / Seer Rhee / Kona Chief
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 2012
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Alistair Petrie movies?

TOP 12:

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon
Hugh Grant as: Nigel
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Release: 1992
An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is mesmerized by the man's wife, who has perfected that trick of looking a man boldly in the eye until, by looking away, he concedes sexual supremacy.

TOP 11:

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Hugh Grant as: Waverly
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 2015
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.


TOP 10:

Love Actually

Love Actually
Hugh Grant as: The Prime Minister
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2003
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.

TOP 9:

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Terms and Conditions May Apply
Hugh Grant as: Himself - Actor (archive footage)
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2013
Have you ever read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies connected to every website you visit, phone call you make, or app you use? Of course you haven’t. But those agreements allow corporations to do things with your personal information you could never even imagine. This film explores the intent hidden within these ridiculous agreements, and reveals what corporations and governments are legally taking from you and the outrageous consequences that result from clicking “I accept.”

TOP 8:

Notting Hill

Notting Hill
Hugh Grant as: William Thacker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1999
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.

TOP 7:

Red Nose Day Actually

Red Nose Day Actually
Hugh Grant as: The Prime Minister
Genre: Comedy, Romance, TV Movie
Release: 2017
Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

TOP 6:

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Hugh Grant as: The Doctor
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Release: 1999
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.


TOP 5:

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility
Hugh Grant as: Edward Ferrars
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.

TOP 4:

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
Hugh Grant as: Reginald Cardinal
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1993
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 with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

TOP 3:

Paddington 2

Paddington 2
Hugh Grant as: Phoenix Buchanan
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Release: 2017
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

TOP 2:

Maurice

Maurice
Hugh Grant as: Clive Durham
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1987
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

TOP 1:

The Gentlemen

The Gentlemen
Hugh Grant as: Fletcher
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2020
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.



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