The best Elisabeth Shue’s drama movies

Elisabeth Shue

Elisabeth Shue

06/10/1963 (60 años)
Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress, best known for her starring roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), and Piranha 3D (2010). She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She starred as Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2012 to 2015. More recently she had supporting roles in Battle of the Sexes (2017) and Death Wish (2018). She was also a series regular in the first season of the Amazon series The Boys (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisabeth Shue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Greyhound

Greyhound
7/10
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid
7.3/10
After some violent confrontations with his new classmates, Daniel LaRusso learns karate from Japanese handyman Mr. Miyagi, in order to defend himself.

Death Wish

Death Wish
6.3/10
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

The Karate Kid Part II

The Karate Kid Part II
6.1/10
After discovering that his father is at death's door, Mr. Miyagi sets out to Japan, to see him with Daniel. Upon arriving, Miyagi must confront an old rival. Meanwhile, Daniel encounters a new love, and some new enemies.

Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/05/2004
  • Character: Mrs. McCormick
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Hope Springs

Hope Springs
6.3/10
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas
7.5/10
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

City of Angels

City of Angels
6.7/10
When guardian angel Seth - who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles - becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

Cocktail

Cocktail
5.9/10
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes
6.7/10
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/12/1997
  • Character: Fay Sexton
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

The Trigger Effect

The Trigger Effect
5.7/10
A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

The Marrying Man

The Marrying Man
5.7/10
Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson that soon leads to her bedroom. When the couple are discovered by Vicki's beau, infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel, he makes a surprising pronouncement -- they'd better marry, or Charley is a dead man.

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
6.6/10
Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/10/2012
  • Character: Christy Moriarity
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Twenty Bucks

Twenty Bucks
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1993
  • Character: Emily Adams
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 10/09/2005
  • Character: Lily
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.

Molly

Molly
5.7/10
Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the charge of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck allows her to undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.

Palmetto

Palmetto
6.1/10
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

The Underneath

The Underneath
6.1/10
Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas to his mother who's starting a new life, to his brother whose driven by old jealousies, and to Rachel—the woman he married and then betrayed with his passion for gambling. Now she's together with Tommy, so Michael devises a plan to get Rachel out from under Tommy's control.

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