 Code 46 2004  R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa, Jeanne Balibar, Emil Marwa, Nina Fog, Bruno Lastra, Christopher Simpson, David Fahm, Taro Sherabayani, Nabil Elouhabi
In a future world, a story of doomed love unravels between an insurance investigator (Tim Robbins) who can read people's minds and a clerk (Samantha Morton) involved in the sale of forged passports.
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees 1999  R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Eric Styles
Cast: Samantha Morton, Lee Ross, Rupert Graves, Miriam Margolyes, Frank Finlay, Nicholas Woodeson, Lauren Richardson, Felix Billson, Holly Aird, Vernon Dobtcheff
Eva (Samantha Morton) is about to marry Harry (Lee Ross) and settle into the secure life as a farmer's wife. But when her distant cousin, Joseph Lee (Rupert Graves) arrives for the wedding, Joseph appears to be everything Harry is not. Eve envisions a life of passion with Joseph Lees that she knows will never be experienced with Harry. Which path will Eva take? Will she pursue the dream of Joseph or settle for the conventional Harry?
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age 2007 PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish, Jordi Molla, John Shrapnel, Aimee King, Elise McCave, Penelope McGhie, Eddie Redmayne, Stuart McLoughlin, Adrian Scarborough
In this sequel to "Elizabeth" (1998), Cate Blanchett again takes the title role, and Geoffrey Rush returns as Elizabeth's closest advisor, Sir Francis Waisingham. Elizabeth has now been Queen of England for 27 years and, amidst the changing political and religious moods in 16th-century Europe, is struggling to maintain her position while Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla) plots to restore Catholicism to Protestant England. Meanwhile, the story emphasizes the personal side of Elizabeth including her flirtation with Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) as well as the political intrigue between Elizabeth and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton). The film received an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Actress (Blanchett).
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Emma 1996 TV, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Diarmid Lawrence
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond, James Hazeldine, Dominic Rowan, Samantha Morton, Prunella Scales, Sylvia Barter, Olivia Williams, Guy Henry, Dido Miles, Raymond Coulthard, Lucy Robinson, Peter Howell
This made-for-TV retelling of Jane Austen's comedy of manners stars Kate Beckinsale, who does a good job in her role of Emma. Set in the early 1800s, it is the story of the clever Emma who routinely gets into the affairs of others–especially matchmaking–and stays so busy fixing up others that she just might fail to realize that she is falling in love herself.
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 Enduring Love 2004 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, Alexandra Aitken, Susan Lynch, Bill Nighy, Lee Sheward, Bill Weston, Helen McCrory, Rosie Michell, Corin Redgrave, Amanda Root
Several strangers watch a hot-air balloon crash and try to save a young boy passenger. In the process, one of the men helping in the rescue is killed. Two of the rescuers–Joe (Daniel Craig) and Jed (Rhys Ifans)–are left with feelings of guilt that rapidly accelerate when Jed begins trailing Joe in an attempt to better understand the meaning behind the accident.
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 In America 2003  PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Neal Jones, Randall Carlton, Ciaran Cronin, Djimon Hounsou, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Nye Heron, Jason Salkey, Rene Millan
An Irish family–Johnny (Paddy Considine) and Sarah (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters, 11-year-old Christy (Sarah Bolger) and seven-year-old Ariel (Emma Bolger)–tries to pull itself together after losing a young son to cancer. This story is told through Christy as they come to America with hopes for a better life and then struggle to survive on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Samantha Morton was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and Djimon Hounsou was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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 Jesus' Son 1999  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alison Maclean
Cast: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Jack Black, Will Patton, Greg Germann, Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Torben Brooks, Antoinette LaVecchia, Ben Shenkman, Mark Webber, John Ventimiglia, Michael Shannon, Alan Davidson
Based on Denis Johnson's short stories, dark humor and a strong cast contribute to this story about FH (Billy Crudup), a 1970s' junkie who shoots up to attain his dreams. FH's heroin addiction leads to many problems that intensify when he falls in love with Michelle (Samantha Morton) who is also addicted. Michelle becomes pregnant, has an abortion, and leaves for Mexico. Determined to track her down, FH sets off on a trek to Mexico. Along the way, FH meets Mira (Holly Hunter) and becomes involved in an auto accident. This tragedy leads him into rehab where he finds redemption. Presented as a series of episodes in an addict's life, the film tends to romanticize the drug culture.
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Lassie 2005 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Adventure
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Steve Pemberton, Jonathan Mason, Hester Odgers, Jemma Redgrave, Peter Dinklage, Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Kelly Macdonald, John Standing, Robert Hardy
After the financially troubled Carracloughs–Joe (Jonathan Mason), Sarah (Samantha Morton), and son Sam (John Lynch)–sell their pet dog, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole) on the eve of World War II, the Duke takes Lassie to his castle in Northern Scotland. With help from the Duke's niece Cilla (Hester Odgers), Lassie breaks free and takes off on an incredible 500-mile journey to reach the Carraclough family in Yorkshire in time for Christmas.
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The Libertine 2004 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Cast: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Johnny Vegas, Tom Hollander, Tom Burke, Rupert Friend, Jack Davenport, Trudi Jackson, Stanley Townsend, Francesca Annis
The second Earl of Rochester, playwright John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), lived life to the fullest in 17th-century England–until his scandalous ways led him to an early grave–with critical acclaim arriving only posthumously.
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The Messenger 2009 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Oren Moverman
Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker, Steve Buscemi, Yaya DaCosta, Lisa Joyce, Peter Francis James, Portia, Paul Diomede, Jahmir Duran-Abreau, Gaius Charles, Brendan Saxton III, Brian Adam DeJesus
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) returns home from the war in Iraq and begins work with the Casualty Notification Office. Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) serves as his mentor, and the two men form a bond. Will's job is to notify military families that their loved ones will never be coming home. This requires emotional detachment, but when Will delivers news to Olivia Pitterson (Samantha Morton) that her husband has died, he is drawn to her and is faced with the ethical dilemma of becoming involved with a vulnerable woman.
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 Minority Report 2002  PG-13, 145 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Kathryn Morris, Tim Blake Nelson, Peter Stormare, Lois Smith, Steve Harris, Mike Binder, Neal McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jessica Capshaw, Richard Coca
Based on one of Philip K. Dick's great short stories, the plot adopts the premise that investigators can find and arrest killers before they commit murders. In a twist of fate, Detective John Adderton (Tom Cruise), who heads up the department in charge of predicting murders, is identified as a future killer. Now, he must uncover the circumstances to clear his name.
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Morvern Callar 2002 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire, Ruby Milton, Dolly Wells, Jim Wilson, Dan Cadan, Carolyn Calder, Raife Patrick Burchell, Steven Cardwell
Supermarket cashier Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) finds the suicide corpse of her boyfriend, disposes of his body, signs her name on his novel and submits it to a publisher, empties his bank account, and leaves Scotland to vacation in Spain with her best friend Lanna (Kathleen McDermott).
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Pandaemonium 2000 PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julien Temple
Cast: Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof, Emma Fielding, Andy Serkis, Samuel West, Michael N. Harbour, William Scott-Masson, Clive Merrison
Great Britain's new poet laureate is about to be announced in 1816, and William Wordsworth (John Hannah) is the favorite. As the crowds gather, his old friend/partner Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) comes out of seclusion to join in the congratulations. Now a hopeless opium addict, Coleridge reflects on their early years when they left society to live on a communal farm. While Wordsworth was despondent with writer's block, Coleridge created his masterpiece, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," with the help of a little opium. As time progressed, jealousies, drugs, and argumentative relationships followed. While not historically accurate, Julien Temple's flair for innovativeness makes for an enjoyable film.
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Sweet and Lowdown 1999 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson, Anthony LaPaglia, Gretchen Mol, Woody Allen, John Waters, James Urbaniak, Vincent Guastaferro
Based on the true story of an obscure jazz musician, Emmett Ray (Sean Penn), who disappeared after the breakup of his marriage to Hattie (Samantha Morton), Woody Allen offers a profile of Ray's life in the form of a mockumentary. Academy Award nominations included Actor (Penn) and Supporting Actress (Morton).
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Synecdoche, New York 2008 R, 124 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Josh Pais, Peter Friedman, Tom Noonan, Sadie Goldstein, Daniel London, Rosemary Murphy, Amy Wright
Caden (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Adele's (Catherine Keener) marriage is falling apart, and Adele takes their daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) on a trip to visit her friend Maria (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Caden suffers from a series of ailments that are shutting down his autonomic function. He sees therapist Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), but that gets him nowhere. Caden gathers an ensemble cast in a New York City warehouse and directs them to live out their lives in a small mockup of the outside city. Time passes, Caden and Adele are divorced, and Olive is growing up in Europe. Caden has divorced his second wife Claire (Michelle Williams) and buries himself deeper into his masterpiece that increasingly blurs the line between the play and reality. Just when he appears to pushing everything to the limit, an actress (Dianne Wiest) enters Caden's world and just may be the answer to what he needs.
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This Is the Sea 1998 R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mary McGuckian
Cast: Samantha Morton, Ross McDade, Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Lynch, Dearbhla Molloy, Ian McElhinney, Marc O'Shea, Des McAleer, Mary McGuckian
In this straight-to-tape drama set in 1994, a Protestant farm girl, Hazel Stokes (Samantha Morton), falls in love with Catholic Malachy McAliskey amidst the unsettled Northern Ireland cease fire that has forced Northern Island's religious battle to go underground.
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Under the Skin 1997 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carine Adler
Cast: Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham, Christine Tremarco, Stuart Townsend, Matthew Delamere, Mark Womack, Clare Francis, Joe Tucker, Daniel O'Meara
Iris (Samantha Morton) fights her grief over her mother's death through an obsession with erotic fantasies and a frenzy of drinking and casual sex–while wearing her mother's wig and lingerie.
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| 1. Code 46 (2004)
2. Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
3. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
4. Emma (1996)
5. Enduring Love (2004)
6. In America (2003)
7. Jesus' Son (1999)
8. Lassie (2005)
9. The Libertine (2004)
10. The Messenger (2009)
11. Minority Report (2002)
12. Morvern Callar (2002)
13. Pandaemonium (2000)
14. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
15. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
16. This Is the Sea (1998)
17. Under the Skin (1997)
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