Best Christopher Plummer movies
Today we present the best Christopher Plummer movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Christopher Plummer:
TOP 25: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Christopher Plummer as: Professor Coreman
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy
Release: 2014
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
TOP 24: 9
Christopher Plummer as: 1 (voice)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2009
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.
TOP 23: Battle of Britain
Christopher Plummer as: Squadron Leader Colin Harvey
Genre: History, War
Release: 1969
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
TOP 22: The Return of the Pink Panther
Christopher Plummer as: Sir Charles Litton
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1975
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
TOP 21: Nicholas Nickleby
Christopher Plummer as: Ralph Nickleby
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Release: 2002
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
TOP 20: The Exception
Christopher Plummer as: Kaiser Wilhelm II
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
TOP 19: Beginners
Christopher Plummer as: Hal Fields
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2011
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
TOP 18: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Christopher Plummer as: General Chang
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 1991
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
TOP 17: Dolores Claiborne
Christopher Plummer as: John Mackey
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1995
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
TOP 16: The Silent Partner
Christopher Plummer as: Reikle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1978
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters…
TOP 15: Waterloo
Christopher Plummer as: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Release: 1970
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
TOP 14: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Christopher Plummer as: Henrik Vanger
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama
Release: 2011
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
TOP 13: Remember
Christopher Plummer as: Zev Gutman
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2015
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
TOP 12: Somewhere in Time
Christopher Plummer as: William Fawcett Robinson
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 1980
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
TOP 11: The Insider
Christopher Plummer as: Mike Wallace
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1999
Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
TOP 10: Inside Man
Christopher Plummer as: Arthur Case
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2006
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
TOP 9: The Man Who Would Be King
Christopher Plummer as: Rudyard Kipling
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Release: 1975
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
TOP 8: Malcolm X
Christopher Plummer as: Chaplain Gill
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 1992
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
TOP 7: Twelve Monkeys
Christopher Plummer as: Dr. Goines
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
Release: 1995
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
TOP 6: The Last Full Measure
Christopher Plummer as: Frank Pitsenbarger
Genre: Drama, War
Release: 2020
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
TOP 5: The Sound of Music
Christopher Plummer as: Captain Georg von Trapp
Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Release: 1965
A tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
TOP 4: Knives Out
Christopher Plummer as: Harlan Thrombey
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Drama, Crime
Release: 2019
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
TOP 3: A Beautiful Mind
Christopher Plummer as: Dr. Rosen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2001
John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
TOP 2: Up
Christopher Plummer as: Charles F. Muntz (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2009
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
TOP 1: The Man Who Planted Trees
Original Title: L'homme qui plantait des arbres
Christopher Plummer as: Narrator (voice: English version)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Release: 1987
This animated short film tells the story of a shepherd who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by singlehandedly cultivating a forest over a thirty year period.