The best Anna Paquin’s drama movies

Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

24/07/1982 (41 años)
Anna Hélène Paquin (born 24 July 1982) is a New Zealand-Canadian actress. She was born in Manitoba and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, before moving to Los Angeles during her youth. She completed a year at Columbia University, before leaving to focus on her acting career. As a child, she played the role of Flora McGrath in Jane Campion's romantic drama film The Piano (1993), despite having had little acting experience. For her performance, she garnered critical acclaim and received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history. Paquin was a successful child actress, receiving multiple Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in Fly Away Home (1996), The Member of the Wedding (1997), and A Walk on the Moon (1999), and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for appearing in Cameron Crowe's comedy-drama film Almost Famous (2000). She played mutant superheroine Rogue in multiple films of the X-Men franchise (2000–2014) and was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance in the first installment. Her other film credits include Jane Eyre (1996), Amistad (1997), 25th Hour (2002), Trick 'r Treat (2007), Margaret (2011), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and The Irishman (2019).
Available on:

The Irishman

The Irishman
7.8/10
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

Almost Famous

Almost Famous
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/2000
  • Character: Polexia Aphrodisia
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.

Finding Forrester

Finding Forrester
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/12/2000
  • Character: Claire Spence
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Buffalo Soldiers

Buffalo Soldiers
6.7/10
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

American Underdog

American Underdog
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/2021
  • Character: Brenda Warner
The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.

Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/05/2019
  • Character: Jean Markham
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

The Piano

The Piano
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/05/1993
  • Character: Flora McGrath
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

25th Hour

25th Hour
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/12/2002
  • Character: Mary D'Annuzio
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.

The Squid and the Whale

The Squid and the Whale
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/10/2005
  • Character: Lili
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home
6.9/10
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest is torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South...

Margaret

Margaret
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/09/2011
  • Character: Lisa Cohen
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1996
  • Character: Young Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/04/2009
  • Character: Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

A Walk on the Moon

A Walk on the Moon
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/01/1999
  • Character: Alison Kantrowitz
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.

The Parting Glass

The Parting Glass
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/2018
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.

The Romantics

The Romantics
5/10
Seven close friends reunite for the wedding of two of their friends. Problems arise because the bride and the maid of honor have had a long rivalry over the groom.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
7.1/10
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

Straight A's

Straight A's
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/01/2013
  • Character: Katherine
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.

Amistad

Amistad
7.3/10
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

Blue State

Blue State
5.9/10
A disgruntled Democrat follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.

Related actors