Best Helena Bonham Carter movies
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TOP 25: Mighty Aphrodite
Character: Amanda
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1995
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
TOP 24: Ocean's Eight
Character: Rose Weil
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2018
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
TOP 23: The Gruffalo's Child
Character: Mother Squirrel (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2011
A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!
TOP 22: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Character: Lady Campanula Tottington (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2005
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
TOP 21: Twelfth Night
Character: Olivia
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1996
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
TOP 20: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Character: Mrs. Bucket
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2005
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
TOP 19: The Gruffalo
Character: Mother Squirrel (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family
Release: 2009
The magical tale of a mouse who takes a walk though the woods in search of a nut.
TOP 18: A Room with a View
Character: Lucy Honeychurch
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1985
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
TOP 17: The Wings of the Dove
Character: Kate Croy
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 16: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character: Mrs. Lovett
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music
Release: 2007
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
TOP 15: Lady Jane
Character: Lady Jane Grey
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 1986
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
TOP 14: Howards End
Character: Helen Schlegel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1992
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
TOP 13: Suffragette
Character: Edith Ellyn
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2015
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
TOP 12: Les Misérables
Character: Madame Thénardier
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2012
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
TOP 11: Corpse Bride
Character: Corpse Bride (voice)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2005
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.
TOP 10: Maurice
Character: Lady at Cricket Match
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1987
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
TOP 9: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Character: Bellatrix Lestrange
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Release: 2007
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – dubbed 'Dumbledore's Army' – to defend themselves against the dark arts.
TOP 8: The King's Speech
Character: Queen Elizabeth
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2010
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
TOP 7: Night Will Fall
Character: Narrator
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2014
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what had happened. Making use of British, Soviet and American footage, the Ministry of Information’s Sidney Bernstein (later founder of Granada Television) aimed to create a documentary that would provide lasting, undeniable evidence of the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. He commissioned a wealth of British talent, including editor Stewart McAllister, writer and future cabinet minister Richard Crossman – and, as treatment advisor, his friend Alfred Hitchcock. Yet, despite initial support from the British and US Governments, the film was shelved, and only now, 70 years on, has it been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums under its original title "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey".
TOP 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Character: Bellatrix Lestrange
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2009
As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as 'Property of the Half-Blood Prince', and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
TOP 5: Big Fish
Character: Younger & Older Jenny/The Witch
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 2003
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
TOP 4: 55 Steps
Character: Eleanor Riese
Genre: Drama
Release: 2018
55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
TOP 3: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Character: Bellatrix Lestrange
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2010
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.
TOP 2: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Character: Bellatrix Lestrange
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2011
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
TOP 1: Fight Club
Character: Marla Singer
Genre: Drama
Release: 1999
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.