Maggie Smith

All Movies of Maggie Smith

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  The Miracle Club
  Ballyfermot, Ireland, 1960. A hard-knocks community in outer Dublin marches to its own beat, rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. There's just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballyfermot to taste freedom...
   2023

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  7.4
  Downton Abbey: A New Era
  Lord and Lady Grantham request the pleasure of moviegoers’ company at their Yorkshire country estate this Christmas. Release: May 2022.
  Character: Violet Grantham

   2022

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  6.7
  A Boy Called Christmas
  The film follows an ordinary young boy called Nikolas, who was born on Christmas Day. He sets out on an adventure into the snowy north in search of his woodcutter father, who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elv
  Character: Aunt Ruth

   2021

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  6.7
  Downton Abbey
  The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th century. The story set in 1927 sees the Royal Family, King George (Simon Jones) and Queen Mary (Geraldine Ja...
  Character: Violet Crawley

   2019

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  5.7
  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is the expansionist dream of Sonny (Dev Patel), and it's making more claims on his time than he has available, considering his imminent marriage to the love of his life, Sunaina (Tina Desai). ...
  Character: Muriel Donnelly

   2015

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  6.8
  The Lady in the Van
  A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.
  Character: Miss Shepherd

   2015

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  6.0
  My Old Lady
  New Yorker Mathias (Kevin Kline) inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.
  Character: Mathilde Girard

   2014

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  6.9
  Quartet
  Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and di...
  Character: Jean Horton

   2012

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  6.8
  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  A story set in Bangalore and centered around the workers and residents at Dunroamin, a home for the elderly.
  Character: Muriel

   2011

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  8.7
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
  The end begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to Hogwarts to find and destroy Voldemorts final horcruxes, but when Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the
  Character: Minerva McGonagall

   2011

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  5.8
  Nanny McPhee Returns
  In wartime Britain, Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she's arrived, ...
  Character: Mrs Docherty

   2010

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  8.7
  Downton Abbey (TV Series)
  TV Series (2010-Present). Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. The Crawleys have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawin...
  Character:  Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham 52 episodes, 2010-2015

   2010

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  7.7
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
  Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little ...
  Character: Minerva McGonagall

   2010

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  6.4
  From Time to Time
  A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
  Character: Mrs Oldknow

   2009

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  8.0
  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  In the sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, and in both wizard and muggle worlds Lord Voldemort and his henchmen are increasingly active. With vacancies to fill at Hogwarts, Professor Dumbledore persuades Horace Slughorn, ...
  Character: Minerva McGonagall

   2009

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  6.8
  Capturing Mary (TV)
  A young man (Danny Lee Wynter) ushers an older woman (Maggie Smith) into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever.
  Character: Mary Gilbert

   2007

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  6.3
  Becoming Jane
  The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is a feisty 20-year-old emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable--m...
  Character: Lady Gresham

   2007

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  7.2
  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  Harry has returned for his fifth year at Hogwarts after another unhappy summer with the Dursleys, only to find Dumbledore replaced by the odious Dolores Umbridge and the Ministry Of Magic adamantly refusing to accept that Voldemor...
  Character: Minerva McGonagall

   2007

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  6.1
  Keeping Mum
  The sleepy English hamlet of Little Wallop is about to receive a rude awakening, as the absent-minded Reverend Walter Goodman (Rowan Atkinson), his dissatisfied wife Gloria (Kristin Scott Thomas), and their two children, Holly and...
  Character: Grace Hawkins

   2005

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  8.3
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  When Hogwarts hosts the prestigious and dangerous Triwizard Tournament, the enchanted Goblet Of Fire inexplicably selects unqualified 14 year-old Harry (Radcliffe) as a competitor. Thus he has to face three terrifying tasks while ...
  Character: Minerva McGonagall

   2005

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  6.4
  Ladies in Lavender
  Set in 1936, Ladies in Lavender is the charming and sweetly melancholic story about two ageing spinster sisters (Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench) whose peaceable Cornwall existence is disrupted when the take a young man into the...
  Character: Janet

   2004

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  8.3
  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  Starting during the summer before Harry's third year at Hogwarts, this is the adventure that happens when he has to go on the run after an incident where he was unable to control his anger... getting on a bus, he hears about Siriu...
  Character: Profesora Minerva McGonagall

   2004

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  6.6
  My House in Umbria (TV)
  Character: Mrs. Delahunty

   2003

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  5.4
  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Le...
  Character: Caro

   2002

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  7.4
  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although...
  Character: Profesora Minerva McGonagall

   2002

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  7.4
  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  Harry Potter has learned to live with his bullying Uncle Vernon, Aunt and spoiled cousin. On his 11th birthday, Harry learns that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. Invit...
  Character: Minerva McGonagall

   2001

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  7.8
  Gosford Park
  GOSFORD PARK explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend s...
  Character: Constance - Condesa de Trentham

   2001

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  The Last September
  In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently home...
   1999

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  7.0
  All the King's Men (TV)
  Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915.
  Character: Queen Alexandra

   1999

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  7.4
  David Copperfield (TV)
  A year before he played his first Quidditch match as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe cast his spell on audiences as young David Copperfield in this stellar British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's classic novel. Vastly superio...
  Character:  Betsey Trotwood 2 episodes, 1999

   1999

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  6.1
  Tea with Mussolini
  Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman. The boy's mother has died, and he is raised by an Englishwoman in pre-WWII Fascist Italy. Living...
  Character: Lady Hester Random

   1999

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  4.9
  Curtain Call
  Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) and his girlfriend, Julia (Polly Walker), move into a brownstone haunted by an old unhappily married couple (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith). The young woman is hungry for marriage, but he doesn't wan...
  Character: Lily Marlowe

   1999

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  6.9
  Washington Square
  In NYC of 1850, 26-year-old Catherine has no social standing but is due a substantial inheritance. Impoverished Morris begins courting Catherine, but her wealthy father thinks that he may be after her for financial reasons. Cather...
  Character: Aunt Lavinia Penniman

   1997

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  6.0
  The First Wives Club
  Three former college chums -- vain Elise, brassy Brenda and wimpy Annie -- reunite after the death of a friend. Soon, the ladies discover that they've all been recently dumped by their smarmy husbands for younger, nubile women. Th...
  Character: Gunilla Garson Goldberg

   1996

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  7.3
  Richard III
  This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part indu...
   1995

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  Suddenly, Last Summer (Great Performances) (TV)
  A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly. Violet wants the op...
  Character: Violet Venable

   1993

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  7.0
  The Secret Garden
  Agnieszka Hollands adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnetts classic fairy tale, THE SECRET GARDEN is a highly entertaining family picture that is overflowing with gorgeous imagery. Ten-year-old Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is a spoile...
   1993

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  5.1
  Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
  Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students w...
  Character: Mother Superior

   1993

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  6.1
  Sister Act
  A lounge singer, specializing in the enthusiastic performance of Motown classics, has to hightail it out of Reno when she witnesses her gangster boyfriend icing an unfortunate stool pigeon. The cops want her testimony so that they...
  Character: Mother Superior

   1992

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  6.3
  Hook
  Peter Pan (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbel...
  Character: Granny Wendy

   1991

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  Talking Heads (TV Miniseries)
  Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.
  Character:  Susan 1 episode, 1988

   1987

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  6.8
  The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
  She falls in love with a broken down former NYC hotel doorman, who tells Judith vaguely that he was in the hotel business.
  Character: Judith Hearne

   1987

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  7.5
  A Room With a View
  Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), travel to Florence, they meet an unconventional Englishman, Mr. Emerson (Denholm Elliot...
  Character: Charlotte Bartlett, a Chaperon

   1985

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  Playing for Keeps
  Broadway star Fitzroy Wynn is thrilled when his wife Lily writes a new script with a brilliant lead role. While ego-centric Fitz thinks himself perfect for the role, Lily dashes his hopes when she admits she wants to find someone ...
   1984

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  6.5
  A Private Function
  Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a married working-class couple (Palin and Smith) discovers that the town s wealthy elite has been secretly fatte...
  Character: Joyce Chilvers

   1984

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  7.0
  Better Late Than Never
  Nick (Niven) is the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old Bridget (Partridge), who stands to inherit a sizeable fortune. Charley (Carney) shows up and claims that he is the genuine grandpa. Both men once slept with Bridget's grandmo...
  Character: Miss Anderson

   1983

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  The Missionary
  In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah, his fiancee, will...
   1982

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  6.5
  Evil Under the Sun
  Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discove...
  Character: Daphne Castle

   1982

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  All for Love (TV Series)
  Character:  Mrs. Silly 1 episode, 1983

   1982

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  6.7
  Clash of the Titans
  The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa, ...
  Character: Thetis

   1981

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  6.4
  Quartet
  Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a ma...
  Character: Lois Heidler

   1981

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  6.7
  Death on the Nile
  A deluxe version of Agatha Christie's favorite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her Murder on the Orient Express. Set aboard a steamship cruising down the Nile, an extremely unpopular heiress is murder...
   1978

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  6.1
  California Suite
  This stunning ensemble cast tells the story of four different guests in a hotel. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda are a divorced couple fighting over the visitation of their daughter. Maggie Smith is coming to watch the Oscars with Michae...
   1978

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  6.9
  Murder by Death
  Millionnaire Lionel Twain invites the five most brilliant private eyes to a dinner - and a murder. So, Sidney Wang from China, Dick Charleston from New York, Jessica Marbles from England, Milo Perrier from Belgium and Sam Diamond ...
  Character: Dora Charleston

   1976

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  6.9
  Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
  Character: Lila Fisher

   1973

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  7.0
  Travels with My Aunt
  At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
  Character: Aunt Augusta Bertram

   1972

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  7.3
  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs...
  Character: Jean Brodie

   1969

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  6.9
  Oh! What a Lovely War
  A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the mo...
  Character: Music Hall Star

   1969

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  6.5
  Hot Millions
  A con man becomes an expert in computers so he can embezzle money out of a large corporation and escape to Rio with his girlfriend.
  Character: Patty Terwilliger Smith

   1968

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  7.0
  The Honey Pot
   1967

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  6.4
  Young Cassidy
  Biographical drama based on the early life of playwright Sean O'Casey, depicting his rise from the 1910 Dublin slums to the celebrated openings of his early plays. Johnny Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist whose ambiti...
  Character: Nora

   1965

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  7.0
  Othello
  Desdemona defies her father to marry the Moor of Venice, the mighty warrior, Othello. But Othello's old lieutenant, Iago, doesn't like Othello, and is determined to bring about the downfall of Othello's new favorite, Cassio, and d...
  Character: Desdemona

   1965

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  7.2
  The Pumpkin Eater
  The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depr...
  Character: Philpot

   1964

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  6.0
  The V.I.P.s
  All-star vehicle captures the emotional dramas of rich and beautiful passengers waylaid in London airport.
  Character: Miss Mead

   1963

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  Go to Blazes
  After yet another smash-and-grab goes wrong, a bungling trio of small-time crooks flash an idea of using a fire engine as a getaway vehicle. But they keep being mistaken for genuine firemen and it starts to become a flaming nuisan
   1962

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  6.0
  Nowhere to Go
  Paul Gregory steals a collection of antique coins from a wealthy American visitor to London, and puts the money he receives for them into a safety deposit before his arrest. He is sentenced to ten years rather than the five which ...
  Character: Bridget Howard

   1958