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Hugh Grant has 39 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 The Gentlemen.
Recurring themes

The Cutting Edge
1992
Romance · Comedy

Picture Perfect
1997
Romance · Comedy

10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Comedy · Romance

Never Been Kissed
1999
Romance · Comedy

Blast from the Past
1999
Drama · Romance

Son in Law
1993
Comedy · Drama

Milk Money
1994
Comedy · Romance

French Kiss
1995
Comedy · Romance

The Gentlemen
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Paddington 2
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Max · Included

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Paramount+ · Included

Heretic
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Max · Included

Wonka
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Max · Included

The Remains of the Day
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Hulu · Included

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.
Dir. Paul King · With Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Dir. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein · With Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.
Dir. Roger Michell · With Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Gina McKee
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Dir. Scott Beck, Bryan Woods · With Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Dir. Richard Curtis · With Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Dir. James Ivory · With James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves

At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander
Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
Dir. Paul King · With Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Dir. James Ivory · With Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.
Dir. Sharon Maguire · With Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Dir. Mike Newell · With Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas
Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
Dir. Richard Curtis, Mat Whitecross · With Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg

Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
Dir. Guy Ritchie · With Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? The documentary-style special weaves together some of the world's most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage.
Dir. Al Campbell, Alice Mathias · With Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Michael Rapaport

A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written lyrics and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days.
Dir. Marc Lawrence · With Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant, Brad Garrett

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Dir. Ken Russell · With Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg

Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.
Dir. David E. Kelley · With Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Edgar Ramírez

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.
Dir. Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz · With Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son's science teacher.
Dir. Michael Morris · With Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
Dir. Beeban Kidron · With Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant

Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to clothing. Exasperated, Lucy gives notice and picks Harvard graduate June Carter as her replacement. As Lucy's time at the firm nears an end, she grows jealous of June and has second thoughts about leaving George.
Dir. Marc Lawrence · With Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Dana Ivey
This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread — and occasional delight — that 2021 had to offer.
Dir. Jack Clough, Josh Ruben · With Hugh Grant, Joe Keery, William Jackson Harper

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
Dir. Russell T Davies, John Preston · With Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings

as Reginald Anson
Prime Video · Rent
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
Dir. Christopher Monger · With Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney

An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
Dir. Marc Lawrence · With Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, Bella Heathcote
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