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Best Samantha Mathis movies

We present our ranking of the best Samantha Mathis 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 Samantha Mathis.

TOP 17: Super Mario Bros.

Samantha Mathis as: Princess Daisy
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Release: 1993
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.


TOP 16: The New Daughter

Samantha Mathis as: Cassandra
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2009
John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.

TOP 15: Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Samantha Mathis as: Dagny Taggart
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
Release: 2012
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to the mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst ruins, a miraculous motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It’s a race against the clock to find the inventor and stop the destroyer before the motor of the World is stopped for good. A motor that would power the World. A World whose motor would be stopped. Who is John Galt?


TOP 14: Broken Arrow

Samantha Mathis as: Terry Carmichael
Genre: Action
Release: 1996
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.


TOP 13: American Pastoral

Samantha Mathis as: Penny Hamlin
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2016
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

TOP 12: Boarding School

Samantha Mathis as: Isabel
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Release: 2018
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.


TOP 11: The Punisher

Samantha Mathis as: Maria
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Release: 2004
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.


TOP 10: How to Make an American Quilt

Samantha Mathis as: Young Sophia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.

TOP 9: The Thing Called Love

Samantha Mathis as: Miranda Presley
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1993
Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.


TOP 8: FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Samantha Mathis as: Crysta (voice)
Genre: Fantasy, Animation, Family, Adventure
Release: 1992
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally unleash after chopping down a magic tree.


TOP 7: The Clovehitch Killer

Samantha Mathis as: Cindy
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2018
A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 girls ten years prior.

TOP 6: Buried

Samantha Mathis as: Linda Conroy (voice)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2010
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.


TOP 5: The American President

Samantha Mathis as: Janie Basdin
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1995
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.


TOP 4: Jack & Sarah

Samantha Mathis as: Amy
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 3: Little Women

Samantha Mathis as: Older Amy March
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1994
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.

TOP 2: Pump Up the Volume

Samantha Mathis as: Nora Diniro
Genre: Drama, Music
Release: 1990
Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ "Hard Harry". Mark's show, at once thoughtful and profane, becomes an underground hit with students at his high school, inspiring the wrath of his principal and the Federal Communications Commission [FCC].


TOP 1: American Psycho

Samantha Mathis as: Courtney Rawlinson
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2000
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.


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