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Best Elizabeth Hurley movies

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TOP 17: Dangerous Ground

Elizabeth Hurley as: Karen
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 1997
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.


TOP 16: Father Christmas Is Back

Elizabeth Hurley as: Joanna Christmas
Genre: Comedy, Family
Release: 2021
Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts to get through the holiday despite comedic misunderstandings, while also uncovering the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.

TOP 15: Serving Sara

Elizabeth Hurley as: Sara Moore
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2002
When Sara is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texan husband, she makes an offer to her process server, Joe, that sets them off on a wild trip across the country.


TOP 14: Double Whammy

Elizabeth Hurley as: Ann Beamer
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2001
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his building is stabbed by hoodlums hired by his own rebellious daughter. To top it off, a sexually aggressive chiropractor may just be Ray's undoing.


TOP 13: Aria

Elizabeth Hurley as: Marietta
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Release: 1987
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

TOP 12: Rowing with the Wind

Original Title: Remando al viento
Elizabeth Hurley as: Claire Clairmont
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Release: 1988
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, Claire has Byron's baby then is estranged from him and barred from her daughter. Byron and Percy continue their friendship, the one self-centered and decadent, the other wildly idealistic. The Shelleys take up residence near Pisa.


TOP 11: My Favorite Martian

Elizabeth Hurley as: Brace Channing
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Science Fiction
Release: 1999
News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.


TOP 10: The Weight of Water

Elizabeth Hurley as: Adaline Gunne
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2000
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.

TOP 9: Permanent Midnight

Elizabeth Hurley as: Sandra
Genre: Drama
Release: 1998
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.


TOP 8: Edtv

Elizabeth Hurley as: Jill
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1999
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.


TOP 7: Passenger 57

Elizabeth Hurley as: Sabrina Ritchie
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release: 1992
An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand for this sort of thing.

TOP 6: Bedazzled

Elizabeth Hurley as: The Devil
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
Release: 2000
Elliot Richards, a socially awkward IT worker, is given seven wishes to get the girl of his dreams when he meets a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include being a 7 foot basketball star, a wealthy, powerful man, and a sensitive caring guy. But, as could be expected, the Devil puts her own little twist on each of his fantasies.


TOP 5: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Elizabeth Hurley as: Vanessa Kensington
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction
Release: 1999
When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.


TOP 4: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Elizabeth Hurley as: Vanessa Kensington
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Crime
Release: 1997
As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.


TOP 3: Valentino: The Last Emperor

Elizabeth Hurley as: Self
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2008
Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an era in global fashion. However, at the heart of the film is a love story - the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. Capturing intimate moments in the lives of two of Italy's richest and most famous men, the film lifts the curtain on the final act of a nearly 50-year reign at the top of the glamorous and fiercely competitive world of fashion. (Storyville)

TOP 2: Samson and Delilah

Elizabeth Hurley as: Delilah
Genre: Adventure, Drama, TV Movie
Release: 1996
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.


TOP 1: Sharpe's Enemy

Elizabeth Hurley as: Lady Farthingdale
Genre: War, History, Action, Adventure, TV Movie
Release: 1994
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.


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