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Best Katherine Waterston movies

We present our ranking of the best Katherine Waterston 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 Katherine Waterston.

TOP 21: The Babysitters

Katherine Waterston as: Shirley Lyner
Genre: Drama
Release: 2007
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.


TOP 20: The Factory

Katherine Waterston as: Lauren
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2011
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.

TOP 19: Night Moves

Katherine Waterston as: Anne
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2014
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.


TOP 18: Alien: Covenant

Katherine Waterston as: Daniels Branson
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2017
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world—which has a sole inhabitant: the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.


TOP 17: Queen of Earth

Katherine Waterston as: Virginia Lowell
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2015
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

TOP 16: Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper

Katherine Waterston as: Daniels Branson
Genre: Science Fiction
Release: 2017
A prologue short to Alien: Covenant, it takes place aboard the Covenant, a Weyland colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement. Before the crew is set to enter hypersleep, the 14 crew members (all couples) and their android, Walter, enjoy a final meal together.


TOP 15: Good Dick

Katherine Waterston as: Katherine
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2008
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.


TOP 14: Taking Woodstock

Katherine Waterston as: Penny
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Release: 2009
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

TOP 13: Sleeping with Other People

Katherine Waterston as: Emma
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2015
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.


TOP 12: Amundsen

Katherine Waterston as: Bess Magids
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2019
Based on the true story of polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, this movie covers his life and the dangerous way to the pole.


TOP 11: Inherent Vice

Katherine Waterston as: Shasta Fay Hepworth
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Release: 2014
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

TOP 10: Enter Nowhere

Katherine Waterston as: Samantha
Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2011
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.


TOP 9: Michael Clayton

Katherine Waterston as: Third Year
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2007
A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.


TOP 8: Logan Lucky

Katherine Waterston as: Sylvia Harrison
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2017
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.


TOP 7: The Current War

Katherine Waterston as: Marguerite Westinghouse
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2017
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people

TOP 6: Steve Jobs

Katherine Waterston as: Chrisann Brennan
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2015
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.


TOP 5: Robot & Frank

Katherine Waterston as: Shopgirl
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama, Crime
Release: 2012
A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.


TOP 4: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Katherine Waterston as: Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2018
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.


TOP 3: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

Katherine Waterston as: Charlie
Genre: Drama
Release: 2014
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.


TOP 2: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Katherine Waterston as: Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2016
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.

TOP 1: mid90s

Katherine Waterston as: Dabney
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2018
Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.


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