16 best movies with Keira Knightley

Pretty ingenue, a girl from a neighboring apartment, elegant lady, a daredevil - the list of types that can translate English actress Keira Knightley, quite big.

Kira's ascent as an actress helped a fun fact - its resemblance to Natalie Portman, who played Queen Padmé Amidala in the movie "Star Wars. Episode I: The Phantom Menace ".

Keira Knightley was invited to the role of Saba, double Amidala. In the make-up girls were not distinguished from each other, and the audience were convinced that both the role played by Portman. We notice the difference except that professionals and very attentive fans of the movie.

1. Pit

The Hole

• United Kingdom, 2001.
• Thriller, drama, horror.
• Duration: 102 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,2

Secret party of four students of a private school ended badly: the boys were locked in an old underground bunker. Police psychologist tries to find out what happened. To do this she has to listen to the story of the only girl who was able to get out of the pit.

Keira Knightley has played the school beauty Frankie, who was in the bunker with a trap with the other guys. Her mates on the court became Thora Birch - an interesting actress with a small but strong filmography ( "American Beauty," "Ghost World").

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2. Real love

Love Actually

• United Kingdom, United States, 2003.
• Tragicomedy.
• Duration: 135 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

nine stories about love, The effect of each of which takes place shortly before Christmas. Keira Knightley appears in one of the stories in the role of a girl named Juliet. The heroine recently married and does not know that the best friend of her husband might feel for her forbidden feelings.

The film's director Richard Curtis once said that he wanted to make a movie, that would include all of his ideas. After each shoot it separately, it would not be enough of a lifetime. And this experiment it is he failed. Placer different actors of all stripes, multiplied by the variety of fascinating subjects - and in total we get a great movie.

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3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the "Black Pearl"

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

• United States, 2003.
• Action, adventure, fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 143 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Journeyman Will Turner teams up with eccentric and charming pirate named Jack Sparrow to save his beloved Elizabeth Swann from a gang of ghost pirates.

After this film, Keira Knightley's career quickly took off. The role of the governor pretty daughter instantly became famous actress, who at the time of the release of "Pirates" was only 18 years old.

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4. King Arthur

King Arthur

• United States, 2004.
• Historical thriller.
• Duration: 126 minutes or 141 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

In the plot of the film original way interwoven myths of King Arthur and the real historical events that took place in the province of Britain after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Keira Knightley plays the wife of the protagonist Guinevere. The film offers an unusual perspective on the character. In the view of the director Antoine Fuqua place medieval ladies took Amazon, armed with a bow and wearing a skin.

The same applies to all the other heroes of the epic of Arthur: Merlin was the commander, and in general the whole story turned into a historical thriller.

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5. Pride and Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice

• France, UK, USA, 2005.
• Drama.
• Duration: 129 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Unmarried girl from the English province of Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich and arrogant Mr. Darcy. Despite arisen between them mutual sympathy, the heroine of the rejection of his snobbery. Darcy is in no hurry to fall in love with a woman of low social status.

During the filming of the role of Elizabeth Bennet Keira she wore a wig, which hides short hair. The fact is that at this time the actress is preparing to shoot the film "Domino", where she played a bounty hunter.

For his role in "Pride and Prejudice"Keira Knightley was nominated for" Oscar ".

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6. Jacket

The Jacket

• United States, 2005.
• Thriller.
• Duration: 102 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

Amnesiac war veteran accused of killing a police officer and sent to a psychiatric hospital for the insane criminals. There's a former military doctor becomes the object of an experiment that tries on his new patient a unique product.

In this film, Keira Knightley plays a waitress Jackie Price, mysteriously linked with the past of the protagonist. Partner of the actress for the site became Adrien Brody, known mature intellectual game.

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7. Redemption

Atonement

• Britain, France, 2007.
• Romance, war film.
• Duration: 123 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Thirteen year old Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the lives of several people when accuses her lover of her older sister Cecilia to a crime he did not commit.

Keira Knightley is again withdrawn from director Joe Wright: their first joint work was a picture of "Pride and Prejudice." The actress plays Cecilia Tallis, although originally auditioned for the role of the younger sister, Briony.

The fact is that by this time Cyrus has become a hostage of the archetype inexperienced young girl. Therefore, the actress wanted to play more mature character, so as not to get stuck in one image.

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8. duchess

The Duchess

• Britain, France, Italy, USA, 2008.
• Biopic, drama, historical film.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,9.

The film tells the life story of a charismatic Duchess Georgiana Cavendish. Being young, she married the Duke of Devonshire. But the marriage does not have love. Tired of the indifference of her husband, Georgiana lives for themselves. Gradually, she is interested in politics, becoming an icon of the fashion of his time, and even a one falls in love.

Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, who played the villain is not one, to embody the image of the Duchess and Duke of Devonshire. Before Kira had the task of convincingly portray the desperation women, deprived of the opportunity to freely dispose of their own lives. Needless to say that the actress coped admirably.

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9. Do not let me go

Never Let Me Go

• United Kingdom, United States, 2010.
• Dystopia, drama.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Three friends - Ruth, Kathy and Tommy - spend his childhood in a closed boarding school. This place seems ideal, but in reality things are not so good. Upon reaching adulthood, the guys realize that all this time were in isolation for a reason.

One of the most significant of his career, the roles played by Keira Knightley in the film adaptation of the novel Nobel Prize for Literature Prize Kazuo Ishiguro. The film received many positive reviews, and Kira was awarded "Saturn" Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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10. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

• United States, 2012.
• Drama, Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction.
• Duration: 108 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,7.

After three weeks, the asteroid will destroy all life on Earth. All the inhabitants of the planet are shocked by this news, but Dodge Petersen quietly goes to work and sell insurance.

But the situation changes when he receives a letter from his old school love. The protagonist decides in whatever was to find her, to hold together the end of the world, and goes on the road with his neighbor Penny.

At this time, a pair of British actress was one of the most famous American comedians Steve Carell. And Cyrus plays a somewhat eccentric but dear friend of the protagonist Penny Lockhart.

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11. A dangerous method

A Dangerous Method

• United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, 2011.
• Biographical drama.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

biopic David Cronenberg talks about the relationship of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and his pupil Carl Jung, in love with his patient.

Not all critics rated the game Keira Knightley. Someone found her too beautiful for the role of Sabina Spielrein. Others, however, noted that the game Kira makes the film more energetic. Whatever it was, in 2012, the actress was nominated for "Saturn" for Best Actress.

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12. Anna Karenina

anna Karenina

• United Kingdom, 2012.
• Melodrama.
• Duration: 129 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

film adaptation Leo Tolstoy's novel He tells the story of forbidden love of a married woman of Anna Karenina to the young officer Count Vronsky.

"Anna Karenina" - the third joint work directed by Joe Wright and Keira Knightley. The English adaptation of Russian classics actress embodies the image of Anna Karenina by Alexei role played by Jude Law, and Vronsky - Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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13. For once in your life

Begin again

• United States, 2013.
• The musical tragicomedy.
• Duration: 104 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,4.

Music producer Dan Mulligan goes into the booze after he lost his job. One day he meets a young singer in a bar Gretta. Dan immediately realizes that her songs can be a commercial success - you need just the right arrangement.

For the role of James Gretta actress she took guitar lessons from her husband James Righton, the soloist of the group Klaxons.

Since the film is also associated reputational small scandal. The film's director John Carney criticized the game Kira, callingFilm-makers defend Keira Knightley after criticism by Begin Again director supermodel actress without musical abilities. However, he later apologized for those words.

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14. baby

Laggies

• United States, 2014.
• Melodrama.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

The film tells about the vicissitudes of the crisis 30 years. Megan will soon round date, all her friends have got families and work. The heroine gets very late marriage proposal and decides to hide from the problems in the building of its new 16-year-old girlfriend. But that's a lonely girl's father not too keen on this idea.

Not a stupid romantic comedy with a stellar composition - Keira Knightley in the role of overage "Girls" Megan, Chloe Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell. Despite good reviews from critics, the film has received awards and a little grossed. However, you can look it up for the sake of the pleasant company of Kira and indie rock soundtrack.

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15. The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game

• United States, 2014.
• Historical drama.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The plot focuses on the life of Alan Turing, the legendary British cryptographer and mathematician. Together with his colleagues mathematical genius beats on the problem of deciphering messages used by the Nazis machine "Enigma".

Keira Knightley plays Turing's colleague named Joan Clarke, with whom mathematics has close but complicated friendship.

«The Imitation Game"Earned the highest critical acclaim and press. Keira Knightley is also not deprived of the award-winning actress has received the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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16. Colette

Colette

• USA, Great Britain, Hungary, 2018.
• Biopic, Drama.
• Duration: 111 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,8.

Biographical drama about the life of French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The husband of the heroine, mediocre author, Gives her novels their own. Writer has to challenge the social constraints of the time, in order to defend their right to creative freedom.

"Colette" - is not the first film about a woman whose talent is exploited husbands ( "Wife", "He and She", "Big Eyes"). Therefore, its plot is very predictable. Nevertheless Keira Knightley coped with a daring role in the language of the icon of French literature.

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