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Elizabeth McGovern has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Once Upon a Time in America.
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Downton Abbey
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 9%Peacock · Included

Ordinary People
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%MGM+ · Included

Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Netflix · Included

Downton Abbey
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Netflix · Included

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Netflix · Included

The Wings of the Dove
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Dir. Julian Fellowes · With Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Tatiana Maslany

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Jim Carter

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.
Dir. Michael Engler · With Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Dir. Björn Runge · With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
Dir. Simon Curtis · With Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra · With Liam Neeson, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
Dir. Iain Softley · With Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Elliott

When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.
Dir. Jan Egleson · With Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.
Dir. John Hughes · With Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman

Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Dir. Gregor Jordan · With Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Dir. Volker Schlöndorff · With Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
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