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Best Clare Higgins movies

We present our ranking of the best Clare Higgins movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Clare Higgins.

TOP 15: The Convent

Clare Higgins as: Reverend Mother
Genre: History, Horror
Release: 2018
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.


TOP 14: I Give It a Year

Clare Higgins as: Elaine
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2013
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.

TOP 13: A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Clare Higgins as: Clair De Grunwald
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Release: 2012
Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.


TOP 12: B. Monkey

Clare Higgins as: Ms. Cherry
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Release: 1998
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.


TOP 11: The Libertine

Clare Higgins as: Molly Luscombe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2004
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

TOP 10: The Golden Compass

Clare Higgins as: Ma Coster
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2007
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.


TOP 9: Cassandra's Dream

Clare Higgins as: Mother
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2007
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.


TOP 8: Fatherland

Clare Higgins as: Klara
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1994
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

TOP 7: The House of Mirth

Clare Higgins as: Mrs. Bry
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2000
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.


TOP 6: Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Clare Higgins as: Julia Cotton
Genre: Horror
Release: 1988
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.


TOP 5: Toast

Clare Higgins as: Mavis
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Family
Release: 2010
An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and addiction to all things canned does not help.

TOP 4: Stage Beauty

Clare Higgins as: Mistress Revels
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2004
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.


TOP 3: Hellraiser

Clare Higgins as: Julia Cotton
Genre: Horror
Release: 1987
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover while the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.


TOP 2: Ready Player One

Clare Higgins as: Mrs. Gilmore
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2018
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.


TOP 1: Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

Clare Higgins as: Ohila
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Release: 2013
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

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