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Best Melanie Lynskey movies

Today we present the best Melanie Lynskey movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Melanie Lynskey:

TOP 25: Happy Christmas

Melanie Lynskey as: Kelly
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2014
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.


TOP 24: Goodbye to All That

Melanie Lynskey as: Annie
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2014
Otto Wall is just a little unlucky in life, and unbeknownst to him, in love. When his wife suddenly asks for a divorce, he bounces between a search for answers, desperate attempts to stay connected to his daughter, and his fateful reentry into the dating pool.

TOP 23: They Came Together

Melanie Lynskey as: Brenda
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2014
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.


TOP 22: The Intervention

Melanie Lynskey as: Annie
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2016
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.


TOP 21: Hello I Must Be Going

Melanie Lynskey as: Amy Minsky
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.

TOP 20: Touchback

Melanie Lynskey as: Macy
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2011
A former high-school football star loses his shot at a college scholarship due to a devastating gridiron injury, but gets a second chance at living his dream.


TOP 19: Leaves of Grass

Melanie Lynskey as: Colleen
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2009
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.


TOP 18: Coyote Ugly

Melanie Lynskey as: Gloria
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 2000
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.

TOP 17: The Informant!

Melanie Lynskey as: Ginger Whitacre
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2009
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.


TOP 16: Sweet Home Alabama

Melanie Lynskey as: Lurlynn
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2002
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.


TOP 15: I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Melanie Lynskey as: Ruth Kimke
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2017
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

TOP 14: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Melanie Lynskey as: Karen Amalfi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Romance
Release: 2012
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.


TOP 13: 1 Mile To You

Melanie Lynskey as: Coach Rowan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2017
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.


TOP 12: Little Boxes

Melanie Lynskey as: Gina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2017
It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.


TOP 11: Detroit Rock City

Melanie Lynskey as: Beth Bumsteen
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1999
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!

TOP 10: Flags of Our Fathers

Melanie Lynskey as: Pauline Harnois Gagnon
Genre: War, Drama, History
Release: 2006
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.


TOP 9: Away We Go

Melanie Lynskey as: Munch Garnett
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt's parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.


TOP 8: Up in the Air

Melanie Lynskey as: Julie Bingham
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.


TOP 7: But I'm a Cheerleader

Melanie Lynskey as: Hilary Vandermueller
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2000
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.


TOP 6: The Frighteners

Melanie Lynskey as: Deputy
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Release: 1996
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

TOP 5: Win Win

Melanie Lynskey as: Cindy Timmons
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 2011
When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother retrieves him.


TOP 4: Shattered Glass

Melanie Lynskey as: Amy Brand
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2003
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.


TOP 3: Heavenly Creatures

Melanie Lynskey as: Pauline Parker Rieper
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Release: 1994
Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.


TOP 2: EverAfter

Melanie Lynskey as: Jacqueline De Ghent
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1998
A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s UTOPIA. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical beauty, she has more than enough charm to capture the heart of a prince ... after beaning him with an apple.


TOP 1: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Melanie Lynskey as: Aunt Helen
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love…

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