14 Movies Starring Amy Adams

On the Road

On the Road

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

France, USA, UK, Brazil, Canada, Argentina

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (30483 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Salles

Cast:

Writer:

Jack Kerouac (based on the novel by)

Jose Rivera (screenplay)

Harold Manning (french adaptation)

Fullplot:

Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.

Enchanted

Enchanted

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (131490 Reviews)

Director:

Kevin Lima

Fullplot:

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-12-21

Languages:

English, Dari, Russian, Urdu, Hebrew, Arabic

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (84075 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Nichols

Cast:

Writer:

Aaron Sorkin (screenplay)

George Crile (book)

Fullplot:

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

On the Road

On the Road

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

France, USA, UK, Brazil, Canada, Argentina

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (30623 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Salles

Cast:

Writer:

Jack Kerouac (based on the novel by)

Jose Rivera (screenplay)

Harold Manning (french adaptation)

Fullplot:

Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the American southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives.

Man of Steel

Man of Steel

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-06-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada, UK

Runtime:

143 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (480925 Reviews)

Director:

Zack Snyder

Cast:

Writer:

David S. Goyer (screenplay)

David S. Goyer (story)

Christopher Nolan (story)

Jerry Siegel (Superman created by)

Joe Shuster (Superman created by)

Fullplot:

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-04-17

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (59007 Reviews)

Director:

Christine Jeffs

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?

Doubt

Doubt

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (93488 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

John Patrick Shanley (screenplay)

John Patrick Shanley (play)

Fullplot:

It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences.

The Fighter

The Fighter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (251687 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Scott Silver (screenplay)

Paul Tamasy (screenplay)

Eric Johnson (screenplay)

Paul Tamasy (story)

Eric Johnson (story)

Keith Dorrington (story)

Fullplot:

The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-03-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (20765 Reviews)

Director:

Bharat Nalluri

Cast:

Writer:

David Magee (screenplay)

Simon Beaufoy (screenplay)

Winifred Watson (novel)

Fullplot:

War threatens London as Miss Pettigrew, a destitute governess, filches a client's card from her agency and presents herself at the door. A singer named Delysia Lafosse wants a social secretary as she seeks a West End role by sleeping with a feckless producer in the bed of Nick, a smarmy nightclub owner with whom she also dallies. She ignores Michael, her piano player, who loves her and has tickets for New York on the Queen Mary. Miss Pettigrew's job is to make sure Delysia gets the part. Over 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew is also called upon to help an ambitious and unfaithful fashion editor patch things up with her older fiancè, a lingerie designer. Has Miss Pettigrew found her calling?

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-05-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (116946 Reviews)

Director:

Shawn Levy

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Ben Garant

Thomas Lennon

Robert Ben Garant (characters)

Thomas Lennon (characters)

Fullplot:

Ben Stiller returns as night watchman Larry Daily, now a successful business man, who gets back to the museum just in time to find that he needs to get his friends out of trouble. This new installment takes us to the Smithsonian, and introduces us to new characters, such as Amelia Earhart, General Custer, and many more!

Big Eyes

Big Eyes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-12-25

Languages:

English, French, Italian

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(38801 Reviews)

Director:

Tim Burton

Cast:

Writer:

Scott Alexander

Larry Karaszewski

Fullplot:

In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children with big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings.

Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-08-07

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(73103 Reviews)

Director:

Nora Ephron

Cast:

Writer:

Nora Ephron (screenplay)

Julie Powell (book)

Julia Child (book)

Alex Prud'homme (book)

Fullplot:

Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.

The Muppets

The Muppets

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-11-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (71634 Reviews)

Director:

James Bobin

Cast:

Writer:

Jason Segel

Nicholas Stoller

Jim Henson (based on)

Fullplot:

When 3 Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet Theater for oil, Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years so that they can put on one last show and save the Muppet Theater. Kermit the Frog now lives in his own mansion depressed in Hollywood, 'The Great Gonzo' is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, Fozzie Bear performs with a tribute band called The Moopets, Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger management rehab center in Santa Barbara.

American Hustle

American Hustle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-12-20

Languages:

English, Arabic

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

138 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (320492 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Eric Warren Singer

David O. Russell

Fullplot:

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

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