Best Elizabeth McGovern movies
We present our ranking of the best Elizabeth McGovern 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 Elizabeth McGovern.
TOP 22: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Elizabeth McGovern as: Mrs. Thatcham
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...
TOP 21: The Handmaid's Tale
Elizabeth McGovern as: Moira
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 1990
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
TOP 20: She's Having a Baby
Elizabeth McGovern as: Kristy Briggs
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1988
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
TOP 19: Clash of the Titans
Elizabeth McGovern as: Marmara
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2010
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.
TOP 18: Unexpected
Elizabeth McGovern as: Carolyn
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2015
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
TOP 17: Angels Crest
Elizabeth McGovern as: Jane
Genre: Drama
Release: 2011
The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan, one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.
TOP 16: The Commuter
Elizabeth McGovern as: Karen MacCauley
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 2018
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
TOP 15: Johnny Handsome
Elizabeth McGovern as: Donna McCarty
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1989
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
TOP 14: The Bedroom Window
Elizabeth McGovern as: Denise
Genre: Thriller
Release: 1987
Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry instead steps forward, trying to help nab the criminal. However, he never saw the suspect and, when his lies are uncovered, the police begin to suspect his motives.
TOP 13: Buffalo Soldiers
Elizabeth McGovern as: Mrs. Berman
Genre: Drama, Comedy, War, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2002
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
TOP 12: Racing with the Moon
Elizabeth McGovern as: Caddie Winger
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1984
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
TOP 11: The House of Mirth
Elizabeth McGovern as: Mrs. Carry Fisher
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2000
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
TOP 10: A Shock to the System
Elizabeth McGovern as: Stella Anderson
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1990
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
TOP 9: The Wings of the Dove
Elizabeth McGovern as: Susan Stringham
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1997
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
TOP 8: King of the Hill
Elizabeth McGovern as: Lydia
Genre: Drama
Release: 1993
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
TOP 7: Downton Abbey
Elizabeth McGovern as: Cora Crawley
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2019
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
TOP 6: Kick-Ass
Elizabeth McGovern as: Mrs. Lizewski
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 2010
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
TOP 5: Ragtime
Elizabeth McGovern as: Evelyn Nesbit
Genre: Drama
Release: 1981
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
TOP 4: The Wife
Elizabeth McGovern as: Elaine Mozell
Genre: Drama
Release: 2018
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
TOP 3: Woman in Gold
Elizabeth McGovern as: Judge Florence-Marie Cooper
Genre: Drama
Release: 2015
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
TOP 2: Ordinary People
Elizabeth McGovern as: Jeannine Pratt
Genre: Drama
Release: 1980
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
TOP 1: Once Upon a Time in America
Elizabeth McGovern as: Deborah Gelly
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1984
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.