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Best Richard E. Grant movies

Today we present the best Richard E. Grant 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 Richard E. Grant:

TOP 25: Bright Young Things

Genre: Comedy
Release: 2003
In the 1930s, a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, their friends seem to self-destruct, one-by-one, in an endless search for newer and faster sensations. Finally, when world events out of their control come crashing around them, they are forced to reassess their lives and what they value most.


TOP 24: L.A. Story

Richard E. Grant as: Roland Mackey
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 1991
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

TOP 23: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Richard E. Grant as: Allegiant General Pryde
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Release: 2019
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.


TOP 22: Their Finest

Richard E. Grant as: Roger Swain
Genre: Romance, War, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2017
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.


TOP 21: Jack & Sarah

Richard E. Grant as: Jack
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.

TOP 20: The Little Vampire

Richard E. Grant as: Frederick Sackville-Bagg
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 2000
Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony's access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they've always wanted.


TOP 19: Penelope

Richard E. Grant as: Franklin Wilhern
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
Release: 2006
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.


TOP 18: Twelfth Night

Richard E. Grant as: Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1996
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

TOP 17: The Hitman's Bodyguard

Richard E. Grant as: Seifert
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Action
Release: 2017
The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.


TOP 16: Foster

Richard E. Grant as: Mr. Potts
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Release: 2011
Some years after their son is killed in an accident, a married couple decide to adopt a child. One day a 7-year-old boy, Eli, unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep claiming to be from the adoption agency. Eli wears a suit every day and is very well-spoken for a child. He helps the adults to process their loss, which had stifled both their marriage and their toy business, and lets them embrace life again.


TOP 15: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Richard E. Grant as: Jack Hock
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy
Release: 2018
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

TOP 14: Gosford Park

Richard E. Grant as: George
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2001
In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.


TOP 13: The Age of Innocence

Richard E. Grant as: Lawrence "Larry" Lefferts
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1993
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.


TOP 12: Mountains of the Moon

Richard E. Grant as: Larry Oliphant
Genre: Adventure
Release: 1990
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.


TOP 11: A Christmas Carol

Richard E. Grant as: Bob Cratchit
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Release: 1999
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840s London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

TOP 10: The Player

Richard E. Grant as: Tom Oakley
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1992
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?


TOP 9: Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Richard E. Grant as: Seifert
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Release: 2021
The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid. As Bryce is driven over the edge by his two most dangerous protectees, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman.


TOP 8: Withnail & I

Richard E. Grant as: Withnail
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1987
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.


TOP 7: Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Richard E. Grant as: The Doctor
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Release: 1999
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.


TOP 6: Bram Stoker's Dracula

Richard E. Grant as: Dr. Jack Seward
Genre: Romance, Horror
Release: 1992
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker, the reincarnation of Dracula's long-dead wife Elisabeta, obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.

TOP 5: Corpse Bride

Richard E. Grant as: Barkis Bittern (voice)
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Animation
Release: 2005
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.


TOP 4: The Skywalker Legacy

Richard E. Grant as: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2020
The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.


TOP 3: Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Richard E. Grant as: Dr. Walter Simeon
Genre: TV Movie, Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama, Family
Release: 2012
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...


TOP 2: Logan

Richard E. Grant as: Dr. Rice
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Release: 2017
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.


TOP 1: About Time

Richard E. Grant as: Lawyer in Play
Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Release: 2013
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

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