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Best Miranda Richardson movies

Today we present the best Miranda Richardson 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 Miranda Richardson:

TOP 25: Fatherland

Miranda Richardson as: Charlie Maguire
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1994
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.


TOP 24: The Apostle

Miranda Richardson as: Toosie
Genre: Drama
Release: 1997
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.

TOP 23: Muppets Most Wanted

Miranda Richardson as: Berliner at Window
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Release: 2014
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.


TOP 22: The Evening Star

Miranda Richardson as: Patsy Carpenter
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Family
Release: 1996
Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.


TOP 21: Kansas City

Miranda Richardson as: Carolyn Stilton
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Release: 1996
Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.

TOP 20: Spider

Miranda Richardson as: Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2002
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.


TOP 19: Chicken Run

Miranda Richardson as: Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2000
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Ginger the chicken along with the help of Rocky the American rooster decide to rebel and lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy and their farm of doom.


TOP 18: Damage

Miranda Richardson as: Ingrid Fleming
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1992
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

TOP 17: Made in Dagenham

Miranda Richardson as: Barbara Castle
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2010
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.


TOP 16: Paris, Je T'Aime

Original Title: Paris, je t'aime
Miranda Richardson as: La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2006
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.


TOP 15: Enchanted April

Miranda Richardson as: Rose Arbuthnot
Genre: Romance, Drama
Release: 1991
Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.

TOP 14: The Crying Game

Miranda Richardson as: Jude
Genre: Romance, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1992
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.


TOP 13: Stronger

Miranda Richardson as: Patty Bauman
Genre: Drama
Release: 2017
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.


TOP 12: Sleepy Hollow

Miranda Richardson as: Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 1999
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.


TOP 11: Blackadder: Back & Forth

Miranda Richardson as: Queenie
Genre: Comedy, History, Science Fiction
Release: 1999
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.

TOP 10: The Phantom of the Opera

Miranda Richardson as: Madame Giry
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Release: 2004
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love


TOP 9: Belle

Miranda Richardson as: Lady Ashford
Genre: Drama
Release: 2013
BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar's son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England


TOP 8: The Young Victoria

Miranda Richardson as: Duchess of Kent
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 2009
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.


TOP 7: The Hours

Miranda Richardson as: Vanessa Bell
Genre: Drama
Release: 2002
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.


TOP 6: Testament of Youth

Miranda Richardson as: Miss Lorimer
Genre: History, Drama, War
Release: 2014
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

TOP 5: Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Miranda Richardson as: Queen Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
Genre: Comedy, History, TV Movie
Release: 1988
Pleasant Ebenezer Blackadder is turned into a cruel and witty miser after seeing visions of his ancestors and descendants.


TOP 4: Empire of the Sun

Miranda Richardson as: Mrs. Victor
Genre: Drama, History, War
Release: 1987
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.


TOP 3: An Inspector Calls

Miranda Richardson as: Sybil Birling
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
Release: 2015
Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.


TOP 2: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Miranda Richardson as: Rita Skeeter
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 1: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Miranda Richardson as: Rita Skeeter
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2005
Harry starts his fourth year at Hogwarts, competes in the treacherous Triwizard Tournament and faces the evil Lord Voldemort. Ron and Hermione help Harry manage the pressure – but Voldemort lurks, awaiting his chance to destroy Harry and all that he stands for.

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