Emily Watson

Emily Watson


Filmography

2025
Hamnet

Hamnet

Drama Romance History
8.1

20252h 6min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Chloé Zhao

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.


The Legend of Ochi

The Legend of Ochi

Family Fantasy Adventure Quest Fantasy Animal Companion Family
5.8

20251h 35min

United States, Finland

Director: Isaiah Saxon

In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.

2024
Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

Drama History Historical Drama Social History
6.7

20241h 39min

Belgium, Ireland

Director: Tim Mielants

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

2022
God's Creatures

God's Creatures

Drama
6.0

20221h 41min

Ireland, United Kingdom

Director: Saela Davis

In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.

2018
On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach

Drama Romance Relationship Drama Bittersweet Romance
6.3

20181h 50min

United Kingdom

Director: Dominic Cooke

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

2015
Everest

Everest

Adventure Drama History Survival Adventure Historical Drama
7.1

20152h 1min

Iceland, United Kingdom

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.


A Royal Night Out

A Royal Night Out

Comedy Drama Romance Historical Drama Romantic Comedy
6.5

20151h 37min

Belgium, Sweden

Director: Julian Jarrold

The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.


Little Boy

Little Boy

Comedy Drama War Family Drama World War II
7.3

20151h 46min

United States, Mexico

Director: Alejandro Monteverde

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.


Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth

History Drama War Biographical History Tragic Drama
7.2

20152h 9min

Denmark, United Kingdom

Director: James Kent

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

2014
The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything

Drama Romance Relationship Drama Passionate Romance
7.7

20142h 3min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: James Marsh

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.