The best Vanessa Redgrave’s drama movies

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

30/01/1937 (87 años)
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Deep Impact

Deep Impact
6.2/10
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/03/1999
  • Character: Dr. Wick
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 14/11/2014
  • Character: Jean du Pont
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

Atonement

Atonement
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/09/2007
  • Character: Briony Tallis (Age 77)
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
7.2/10
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Georgetown

Georgetown
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/04/2019
  • Character: Elsa Brecht
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

The Butler

The Butler
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/2013
  • Character: Annabeth Westfall
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Howards End

Howards End
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/03/1992
  • Character: Ruth Wilcox
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.

The Pledge

The Pledge
6.8/10
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/03/2017
  • Character: Old Roseanne McNulty
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/12/1966
  • Character: Anne Boleyn
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.

Finding You

Finding You
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/05/2021
  • Character: Cathleen Sweeney
Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous reawakening, and she emboldens him to take charge of his future, until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.

The Devils

The Devils
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/07/1971
  • Character: Sister Jeanne
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

Anonymous

Anonymous
6.8/10
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet
6.5/10
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Coriolanus

Coriolanus
6.1/10
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with certain colleagues. When a riot results in his expulsion from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius. Together, the pair vow to destroy the great city.

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1993
  • Character: Nivea del Valle
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

If These Walls Could Talk 2

If These Walls Could Talk 2
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/03/2000
  • Character: Edith Tree
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.

The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale
6.7/10
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.

Blow-Up

Blow-Up
7.4/10
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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