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Maggie Smith has 31 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Don't Think Twice
2016
Comedy · Drama
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included
Downton Abbey
2010 · Series · Actor
Top 9%Peacock · Included
Becoming Jane
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%BritBox · Included
Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
A Boy Called Christmas
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Netflix · Included
Evil Under the Sun
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Prime Video · Included
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
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
Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.
Dir. Julian Jarrold · With Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Dir. Agnieszka Holland · With Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott
An ordinary young boy called Nikolas sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and a loyal pet mouse, Nikolas soon meets his destiny in this magical and endearing story that proves nothing is impossible…
Dir. Gil Kenan · With Henry Lawfull, Michiel Huisman, Stephen Merchant
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Sylvia Miles
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Dir. Desmond Davis · With Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith
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
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Dir. Niall Johnson · With Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Dir. John Madden · With Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Dir. James Ivory · With Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Dir. Nicholas Hytner · With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
Dir. Richard Loncraine · With Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · With Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates
When lively lounge singer Deloris sees her mobster beau commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, she proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident sisters.
Dir. Emile Ardolino · With Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant, Nanny uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.
Dir. Susanna White · With Emma Thompson, Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods
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.
Dir. Julian Fellowes · With Maggie Smith, Dominic West, Timothy Spall
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
Dir. Callie Khouri · With Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Dir. Charles Dance · With Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
Dir. Dustin Hoffman · With Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Dir. Israel Horovitz · With Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Dir. John Madden · With Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Richard Gere
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Dir. Bill Duke · With Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Lauryn Hill
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