Anthony Minghella - All His Movies Ranked

Short Biography:

Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.

He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Best Picture for The Reader (2008), as a producer.

Here is a rundown of his movies, with the score based on the average from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes (public votes only) and Letterboxd, from lowest ranked to highest:

Number of Qualifying Films:

Career Average Rating:

7.36

Total Career Box Office:

Total Combined Budgets:

Total Career Profit or [Loss]:

Average Career Return on Every $1 Spent:

6 – Mr. Wonderful (1993)

IMDb:

5.8

RT Users:

4.2

Letterboxd:

5.52

5.17

Comedy, Romance

Top Billed Cast:

Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt, Vincent D’Onofrio

SYNOPSIS:

Gus (Matt Dillon) is a New Yorker with an entrepreneurial spirit. He’d like to quit his job and and open a bowling alley, but financial obligations from his ex-marriage are standing in his way. Gus owes alimony to Leonora (Annabella Sciorra), but if she remarries, he’ll be flush with cash. So he embarks on a scheme to find her a husband. Leonora is in a relationship with Tom (William Hurt), but like Gus, she’s a romantic — and soon Gus and Leonora find they may still have a spark left.

5 – Breaking and Entering (2006)

IMDb:

6.5

RT Users:

5.2

Letterboxd:

5.92

5.87

Drama, Romance

Top Billed Cast:

Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga, Robin Wright, Martin Freeman

SYNOPSIS:

Will (Jude Law), a landscape architect in London, is in the middle of a life crisis. His relationship with Liv (Robin Wright Penn), a depressive Scandinavian, is going nowhere. A burglary at his office leads him to Amira (Juliette Binoche), a Bosnian refugee whose husband died in Sarajevo. Will is drawn to the vulnerable woman and initiates an affair.

4 – Cold Mountain (2003)

IMDb:

7.2

RT Users:

7.7

Letterboxd:

6.62

7.17

Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Top Billed Cast:

Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland

SYNOPSIS:

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Anthony Minghella directs an all-star cast about a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman (Jude Law) deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada (Nicole Kidman), who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby (Renée Zellweger), a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

3 – The English Patient (1996)

IMDb:

7.4

RT Users:

8.3

Letterboxd:

6.96

7.55

Drama, Romance, War

Top Billed Cast:

Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth

SYNOPSIS:

Anthony Minghella’s sweeping epic set in the expanses of the Sahara for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man.

2 – The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

IMDb:

7.4

RT Users:

8.0

Letterboxd:

7.52

7.64

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Top Billed Cast:

Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman

SYNOPSIS:

To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s; that’s la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves- and Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) leads. When Dickie’s father asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie and his beautiful expatriate girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), never suspect the dangerous extremes to which Ripley will go to make their lifestyle his own.

1 – Truly Madly Deeply (1990)

IMDb:

7.2

RT Users:

8.8

Letterboxd:

7.26

7.75

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, TV Movie

Top Billed Cast:

Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson, Christopher Rozycki

SYNOPSIS:

A woman struggles to cope with the death of her lover, only to find that his ghost magically appears and moves back into her flat. When she falls in love with another man, she faces a choice between holding onto the past and facing the future.

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