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Kristin Scott Thomas Films Viewed by Kathy

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6.1

Chromophobia (2005) (2006)

Director: Martha Fiennes
Screenplay: Martha Fiennes
Music composed by: Magnus Fiennes
Starring: Damian Lewis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Chaplin, Penélope Cruz, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans and Ian Holm

Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend with disastrous results.

kathy's rating:

275

6.5

6.7

Easy Virtue (2008)

Director: Stephan Elliott
Starring: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Christian Brassington, Charlotte Riley, Jim McManus, Pip Torrens, Georgie Glen, Stephan Elliott, Sheridan Jobbins and John Warburton

Between world wars, the Whittaker's estate is sinking; only the iron will of Mrs. Whittaker staves off bankruptcy while she awaits her son John's return from the continent. To her dismay, he brings a bride: an American widow who races cars. The bride, Larita, thinks she and John will visit and then go to London, where he'll work and she'll race. But John is to the manor born and mother is nothing if not a master at plans and manipulation. Soon it's all-out war between mother and bride, with John's father, a burnt out veteran of the Great War, in the bride's corner ineffectually. Mother has a plan to join with the neighboring estate; only Larita is in her way. Can't we all get along?

kathy's rating:

1903

7.4

The English Patient (1996)

Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jürgen Prochnow, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Nino Castelnuovo and Hichem Rostom

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. During the course of several conversations, the patient reveals his past - including his involvement in a fateful love affair.

kathy's rating:

1944

6.5

7.1

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Charlotte Coleman, David Bower, Corin Redgrave and Rowan Atkinson

Lovable Englishman Charles and his group of friends seem to be unlucky in love. When Charles meets a beautiful American named Carrie at a wedding, he thinks his luck may have changed. But, after one magical night, Carrie returns to the States, ending what might have been. As Charles and Carrie's paths continue to cross - over a handful of nuptials and one funeral - he comes to believe they are meant to be together, even if their timing always seems to be off.

kathy's rating:

958

7.2

Gosford Park (2001)

Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Watson

Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.

kathy's rating:

6.9

Gulliver's Travels (1996)

Director: Charles Sturridge
Starring: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Omar Sharif, Isabelle Huppert, Geraldine Chaplin, Shashi Kapoor, Warwick Davis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alfre Woodard, Kate Maberly, Tom Sturridge, Richard Wilson and Nicholas Lyndhurst

An Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnang, the flying island Laputa and the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.

kathy's rating:

6.7

6.6

A Handful of Dust (1988)

Director: Charles Sturridge
Starring: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Pip Torrens and Stephen Fry

English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.

kathy's rating:

210

7.4

7.6

I've Loved You So Long

Director: Philippe Claudel
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot, Jean-Claude Arnaud, Catherine Hosmalin, Claire Johnston, Lise Ségur and Mouss Zouheyri

After serving 15 years in prison for killing her young son, Juliette moves in with her younger sister, Lea. Though Lea has built a comfortable family life in the years since Juliette went away, she is still affected by her sister's terrible crime. Meanwhile, world-weary Juliette attempts to get past the years of estrangement and reconnect with Lea.

kathy's rating:

6.6

6.2

Leaving (2009)

Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan, Aladin Reibel, Alexandre Vidal, Daisy Broom, Berta Esquirol as Berta, Gérard Lartigau, Philippe Laudenbach, Geneviève Casile and Michèle Ernou

Suzanne is the bourgeois wife of successful doctor, Samuel, living together with their children in the south of France. Weighed down by a thrilless lifestyle and a stale marriage, Suzanne falls for the handsome young Ivan, an immigrant ex-convict working as a gardener on their property. Their affair is passionate but Suzanne is wracked by guilt. When she confesses to her husband, his retaliation begins an ugly turn of events.

kathy's rating:

304

7.7

7.9

Microcosmos (1996)

Directors: Marie Pérennou and Claude Nuridsany
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas (narrator)

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

kathy's rating:

3931

6.6

7.2

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Henry Czerny, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emilio Estevez, Rolf Saxon and Vanessa Redgrave

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.

kathy's rating:

6.5

6.4

My Old Lady (2014)

Director: Israel Horovitz
Starring: Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dominique Pinon, Stéphane Freiss, Noémie Lvovsky and Stéphane De Groodt

Despondent New Yorker Mathias Gold ventures to Paris with plans of liquidating the apartment inherited from his late father but runs into an unexpected roadblock when he discovers that the flat is currently inhabited by his father's former lover, an elderly Englishwoman named Mathilde Girard, and her adult daughter Chloé.

Realizing he's reached an impasse after learning that Mathilde can legally collect regular payments from him until her death, Mathias convinces her to enter into a tentative lodging agreement that's complicated by Chloé's suspicion over his meetings with a predatory property developer with an eye on the apartment.

Later, tensions begin to subside as Mathias and Chloé find a common ground in sharing stories about their troubled childhoods and Mathilde reveals a secret that connects the trio in ways that once seemed impossible.

kathy's rating:

485

7.1

Nowhere Boy (2009)

Director: Sam Taylor
Starring: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, Josh Bolt and David Morrissey

Liverpool, 1955. 15-year-old John Lennon is a living with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, who have been his surrogate parents since he was five. He is especially close to his uncle, a very playful man. When George unexpectedly dies, John's strict and unemotional aunt tells the boy that now it's just the two of them. Aunt Mimi expects John to do well in school but he'd much rather be drawing or doodling. Her call to responsibility doesn't register at all with this rebellious youth who is still searching for his passion.

John is excited to he learn that his mother Julia lives nearby with her three young children and common-law husband. They are happily reunited and John begins seeing his mother regularly. Julia teaches him how to play the banjo and, when he picks up a tape of an African-American singer, Julia is the one he plays it for. In a crowded cinema, John is enthralled by the adulation given to Elvis Presley and soon he adopts the singer's hair style and swagger.

As soon as he is proficient on guitar, John starts his own band called The Quarrymen. He adds Paul McCartney to the group and is impressed with his talent and his ability to write original material.

kathy's rating:

127

7.4

7.5

Sarah's Key (2010)

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Aidan Quinn and Frédéric Pierrot

In modern-day Paris, an American journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young Jewish girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.

kathy's rating:

106

7.3

Suite Française (2014) (2014)

Director: Saul Dibb
Starring: Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ruth Wilson, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Lambert Wilson, Harriet Walter, Eileen Atkins, Tom Schilling, Clare Holman, Deborah Findlay and Margot Robbie

In Nazi-occupied France, Lucille Angellier waits for news of her husband, along with her domineering mother-in-law. When a regiment of German soldiers arrive in the town, they soon move into the villagers' homes. Lucille tries to ignore Bruno, the German commander who has been posted at her house, but she soon falls in love with him.

kathy's rating:

348

7.5

Tell No One (2006)

Director: Guillaume Canet
Starring: François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier and Kristin Scott Thomas

Pediatrician Alexandre Beck still misses his beloved wife Margot, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where Margot's corpse was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail containing a video clip showing Margot older and alive.

kathy's rating:

6.3

4.9

Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

Director: Prince
Starring: Prince, Francesca Annis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alexandra Stewart, Jerome Benton and Steven Berkoff

Two friends from Miami are in the Mediterranian are enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money but, as he gets to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers and Tricky tells all about the plan...

kathy's rating:

5.6

5.8

The Walker (2007)

Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall and Ned Beatty

Carter Page III holds a special place in Washington society: the gay son and grandson of powerful men, he has connections, manners, and he's no threat, so he's an available escort when a woman's husband would rather not accompany her to a public event. When the secret lover of one of his women friends is murdered, she asks Carter to cover for her, and his acquiescence gets him into immediate trouble with the police and an ambitious prosecutor. Carter, with the help of his lover Emek, starts his own investigation. They're warned off by someone's hired muscle. Can Carter figure out what happened or will he lose more than he realizes he has? Human behavior is a mystery.

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