Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Birthday:Apr 15, 1959
Place of birth:Paddington, London, England, UK

Filmography

2002
Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet

Science Fiction Adventure Animation Family Fantasy
7.2

20021h 36min

United States

Director: John Musker

When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

2001
Wit

Wit

Drama TV Movie Tragic Drama True-Story TV Movie
8.0

20011h 39min

United States

Director: Mike Nichols

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

1998
Primary Colors

Primary Colors

Drama Comedy
6.7

19982h 23min

France, Germany

Director: Mike Nichols

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.

1995
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Drama Romance Historical Drama Passionate Romance
7.7

19952h 16min

United States, United Kingdom

Director: Ang Lee

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

1993
In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

Drama
8.1

19932h 13min

Ireland

Director: Jim Sheridan

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.


The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

Drama Romance
7.8

19932h 14min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: James Ivory

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.


Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Drama Comedy Romance
7.3

19931h 51min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Kenneth Branagh

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

1992
Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends

Comedy Drama
7.0

19921h 41min

United Kingdom

Director: Kenneth Branagh

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.


Howards End

Howards End

Drama Romance
7.4

19922h 22min

United Kingdom, Japan

Director: James Ivory

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

1991
Dead Again

Dead Again

Mystery Drama Crime Thriller
6.8

19911h 47min

United States

Director: Kenneth Branagh

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.