Joan Plowright
Actor · 52 credits · 34 in highly-rated films
Best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Frequent collaborators: Laurence Olivier, Robert Lang
Movies (52 total, ranked by score)
31Brimstone & Treacle
1982 · ★ 5.9 (32 votes)
Mystery, Drama, Horror
32Stalin
1992 · ★ 5.1 (36 votes)
Drama, History, War
33Surviving Picasso
1996 · ★ 5.8 (107 votes)
Drama, Romance
34A Place for Annie
1994 · ★ 6.1 (22 votes)
Drama, TV Movie
35Bailey's Mistake
2001 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)
Fantasy, Drama, Family
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Daphne Laureola
1978 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)
Drama
37Scrooge and Marley
2001
Fantasy
38Hotel Sorrento
1995 · ★ 6.9 (8 votes)
Drama
39Tom's Midnight Garden
1999 · ★ 5.9 (20 votes)
Family, Mystery, Adventure
40Revolution
1985 · ★ 5.4 (130 votes)
Adventure, Drama, History
41Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955
Drama
42Uncle Vanya
1963 · ★ 4.0 (1 votes)
Drama
43The Diary of Anne Frank
1980 · ★ 5.7 (13 votes)
Drama, TV Movie
44On Promised Land
1994
Drama, TV Movie
45Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
1998 · ★ 6.2 (5 votes)
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
46A Pin for the Butterfly
1995 · ★ 5.6 (5 votes)
Drama
47The Importance of Being Earnest
1988 · ★ 4.7 (6 votes)
Comedy, Drama
48Global Heresy
2002 · ★ 4.9 (26 votes)
Comedy, Drama
49Three Sisters
1970 · ★ 4.3 (12 votes)
Drama
50A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995 · ★ 5.2 (16 votes)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
51Knife Edge
2009 · ★ 4.5 (36 votes)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
52Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
2018
Documentary
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.