Best Jennifer Saunders movies
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TOP 16: Entente Cordiale
Original Title: L'Entente cordiale
Jennifer Saunders as: Gwendoline McFarlane
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2006
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...
TOP 15: Spice World
Jennifer Saunders as: Fashionable Woman
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Music
Release: 1997
Zany adventure that follows The Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) - manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, and filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a documentary on "the real Spice Girls").
TOP 14: Absolutely Fabulous
Original Title: Absolument fabuleux
Jennifer Saunders as: Elle-même
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2001
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
TOP 13: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Jennifer Saunders as: Edina Monsoon
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2016
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
TOP 12: Isn't It Romantic
Jennifer Saunders as: Natalie's Mother
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 2019
For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.
TOP 11: Minions
Jennifer Saunders as: Reine Elizabeth II (voice)
Genre: Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 2015
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.
TOP 10: The Boy in the Dress
Jennifer Saunders as: Miss Windsor
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Release: 2014
Based on David Walliams' best-selling children's book, with an all-star cast including Jennifer Saunders, James Buckley, David Walliams and Kate Moss, The Boy in the Dress is a celebration of creativity, difference, football and fashion. Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and brother, but frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Life has never really been the same since his mum left. However, transformation can happen in the most unexpected places. Aided by Lisa, the coolest girl in the school, Dennis creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - but can a boy wear a dress, and what will the headmaster, his dad and his friends on the football team think if they find out?
TOP 9: Muppet Treasure Island
Jennifer Saunders as: Mrs. Bluveridge
Genre: Action, Comedy, Music, Family, Adventure, Romance
Release: 1996
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
TOP 8: Death on the Nile
Jennifer Saunders as: Marie Van Schuyler
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2022
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot boards a glamorous river steamer with enough champagne to fill the Nile. But his Egyptian vacation turns into a thrilling search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
TOP 7: Stick Man
Jennifer Saunders as: Narrator (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family
Release: 2015
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?
TOP 6: Patrick
Jennifer Saunders as: Maureen
Genre: Family, Comedy
Release: 2018
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
TOP 5: Sing
Jennifer Saunders as: Nana (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
Release: 2016
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
TOP 4: Shrek 2
Jennifer Saunders as: Fairy Godmother (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Release: 2004
Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The fairy godmother discovers that Shrek has married Fiona instead of her Son Prince Charming and sets about destroying their marriage.
TOP 3: In the Bleak Midwinter
Jennifer Saunders as: Nancy
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1995
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
TOP 2: Coraline
Jennifer Saunders as: April Spink (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2009
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.
TOP 1: Sing 2
Jennifer Saunders as: Nana (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
Release: 2021
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and his singers must sneak into the Crystal Entertainment offices, run by the ruthless wolf mogul Jimmy Crystal, where the gang pitches the ridiculous idea of casting the lion rock legend Clay Calloway in their show. Buster must embark on a quest to find the now-isolated Clay and persuade him to return to the stage.