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Best Miranda Otto movies

We present our ranking of the best Miranda Otto 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 Miranda Otto.

TOP 21: Downhill

Miranda Otto as: Charlotte
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2020
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.


TOP 20: I, Frankenstein

Miranda Otto as: Leonore
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2014
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.

TOP 19: Doctor Sleep

Miranda Otto as: Clara Strother
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2002
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.


TOP 18: The Silence

Miranda Otto as: Kelly Andrews
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2019
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.


TOP 17: Flight of the Phoenix

Miranda Otto as: Kelly
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2004
When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to crash their C-119 Flying Boxcar in an uncharted area of the desert.

TOP 16: Danny Deckchair

Miranda Otto as: Glenda Lake
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 2003
Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons. A mighty thunderstorm blows him clean off the map, and spits him out far away over the lush green town of Clarence. In this new town, he rockets into the world of Glenda, the town's only parking cop. While the media back home becomes obsessed with the story of his disappearance, Danny gets to reinvent himself in this new town, and in his great adventure, he discovers a true soul mate in Glenda. Fate catches up with him eventually, as Danny's true identity is revealed and Trudy--now a tabloid celebrity--comes to the idyllic town to claim Danny and drag him back to Sydney. Danny, however, is a changed man; he's discovered what it means to be happy and has found a new self-worth.


TOP 15: Zoe

Miranda Otto as: The Designer
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Romance
Release: 2018
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.


TOP 14: In Her Skin

Miranda Otto as: Mrs. Barber
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2009
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.

TOP 13: Human Nature

Miranda Otto as: Gabrielle
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2001
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.


TOP 12: War of the Worlds

Miranda Otto as: Mary-Ann
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 2005
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.


TOP 11: What Lies Beneath

Miranda Otto as: Mary Feur
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2000
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.

TOP 10: The Homesman

Miranda Otto as: Theoline Belknapp
Genre: Drama, Western
Release: 2014
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.


TOP 9: Annabelle: Creation

Miranda Otto as: Esther Mullins
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2017
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.


TOP 8: The Daughter

Miranda Otto as: Charlotte
Genre: Drama
Release: 2015
In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.


TOP 7: The Jack Bull

Miranda Otto as: Cora Redding
Genre: Western, TV Movie
Release: 1999
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat

TOP 6: Reaching for the Moon

Original Title: Flores Raras
Miranda Otto as: Elizabeth Bishop
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2013
In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.


TOP 5: The Thin Red Line

Miranda Otto as: Marty Bell
Genre: Drama, History, War
Release: 1998
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.


TOP 4: Dance Academy: The Movie

Miranda Otto as: Madeline Moncur
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.


TOP 3: In My Father's Den

Miranda Otto as: Penny Prior
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2004
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.


TOP 2: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Miranda Otto as: Éowyn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2002
Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

TOP 1: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Miranda Otto as: Éowyn
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2003
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.


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