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Best Anna Chancellor movies

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TOP 22: The Best Man

Anna Chancellor as: Dana
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2005
When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's college pal James asks him to be the best man at his wedding. Prior to the nuptials, Olly is drawn to a woman whom he thinks is the bride's sister -- only she turns out to be the bride, Sarah. Can Murray, who dislikes James, help get Sarah and Olly together?


TOP 21: Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Anna Chancellor as: Jo Kenworth
Genre: Comedy, Action, Adventure, Family, Romance
Release: 2004
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.

TOP 20: Crush

Anna Chancellor as: Molly Cartwright
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2001
Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.


TOP 19: For Love or Money

Anna Chancellor as: Carol
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2019
What started off as a whirlwind romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful bride-to-be is plotting against him. In cahoots with an old school buddy, they hatch a plan to take half of Mark’s £20 million fortune and use it for their own happy ending. What they don’t realize is that Mark is one step ahead of them.


TOP 18: Come Away

Anna Chancellor as: Eleanor Morrow
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Release: 2020
Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of despair until finally they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.

TOP 17: The Last Dragonslayer

Anna Chancellor as: Stuffco president
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 2016
In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.


TOP 16: St. Trinian's

Anna Chancellor as: Miss Bagstock
Genre: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
Release: 2007
When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.


TOP 15: Breaking and Entering

Anna Chancellor as: Kate
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2006
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

TOP 14: What a Girl Wants

Anna Chancellor as: Glynnis Payne
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Family
Release: 2003
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.


TOP 13: The Man Who Knew Too Little

Anna Chancellor as: Barbara Ritchie
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Action
Release: 1997
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.


TOP 12: FairyTale: A True Story

Anna Chancellor as: Peter Pan
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Family
Release: 1997
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story

TOP 11: Benjamin

Anna Chancellor as: Tessa
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2018
A promising young filmmaker is thrown into emotional disarray over the impending release of his second feature, when he is introduced to a magnetic French musician called Noah.


TOP 10: The Happy Prince

Anna Chancellor as: Mrs. Arbuthnott
Genre: Drama
Release: 2018
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.


TOP 9: The Carer

Anna Chancellor as: Milly
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2016
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.


TOP 8: How I Live Now

Anna Chancellor as: Aunt Penn
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller, War
Release: 2013
An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.

TOP 7: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Anna Chancellor as: Questular Rontok
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Release: 2005
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."


TOP 6: Hysteria

Anna Chancellor as: Mrs. Bellamy
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2011
Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.


TOP 5: Four Weddings and a Funeral

Anna Chancellor as: Henrietta
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.


TOP 4: This Beautiful Fantastic

Anna Chancellor as: Mrs Bramble
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2016
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.


TOP 3: The Dreamers

Anna Chancellor as: Mother
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2003
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

TOP 2: Testament of Youth

Anna Chancellor as: Mrs. Leighton
Genre: History, Drama, War
Release: 2014
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.


TOP 1: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Anna Chancellor as: Lady Dant
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 2022
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.


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