Joan Plowright
- Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
2018 Herself
- Knife Edge
2009 Marjorie Blake
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
- Goose on the Loose
2006 Beatrice Fairfield
- Curious George
2006 Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
- Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
2005 Mrs. Palfrey
- George and the Dragon
2004 Mother Superior
- Bringing Down the House
2003 Mrs. Virginia Arness
- I Am David
2003 Sophie
- Global Heresy
2002 Lady Foxley
- Callas Forever
2002 Sarah Keller
- Scrooge and Marley
2001 Narrator
- Bailey's Mistake
2001 Aunt Angie
- Dinosaur
2000 Baylene (voice)
- Back to the Secret Garden
2000 Martha Sowerby
- Frankie & Hazel
2000 Phoebe Harkness
- Tea with Mussolini
1999 Mary Wallace
- Tom's Midnight Garden
1999 Mrs Bartholomew
- Dance with Me
1998 Bea Johnson
- Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
1998 Jeanne Vertefeuille
- 101 Dalmatians
1996 Nanny
- Jane Eyre
1996 Mrs. Fairfax
- Mr. Wrong
1996 Mrs. Crawford
- Surviving Picasso
1996 Françoise's Grandmother
- A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995 Mrs. Linzer
- Hotel Sorrento
1995 Marge Morrisey
- A Pin for the Butterfly
1995 Grandma
- The Scarlet Letter
1995 Harriet Hibbons
- Widows' Peak
1994 Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
- A Place for Annie
1994 Dorothy
- The Return of the Native
1994 Frau Yeobright
- On Promised Land
1994 Mrs. Appletree
- Dennis the Menace
1993 Martha Wilson
- Last Action Hero
1993 Teacher
- The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993 Mrs. Monro
- Stalin
1992 Olga
- Enchanted April
1991 Mrs Fisher
- The House of Bernarda Alba
1991 Poncia
- I Love You to Death
1990 Nadja
- Avalon
1990 Eva Krichinsky
- And a Nightingale Sang
1989 Mam
- Drowning by Numbers
1988 Cissie Colpitts
- The Dressmaker
1988 Nellie
- The Importance of Being Earnest
1988 Lady Bracknell
- The Birthday Party
1987 Meg Bowles
- Revolution
1985 Mrs. McConnahay
- Britannia Hospital
1982 Phyllis Grimshaw
- Brimstone & Treacle
1982 Norma Bates
- A Dedicated Man
1982 Edith
- The Diary of Anne Frank
1980 Edith Frank-Holländer
- Daphne Laureola
1978 Lady Pitts
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978 Rosa
- Equus
1977 Dora Strang
- The Merchant of Venice
1973 Portia
- Twelfth Night
1970 Viola
- Three Sisters
1970 Masha
- Uncle Vanya
1963 Sonya
- The Entertainer
1960 Jean Rice
- Time Without Pity
1957 Agnes Cole
- Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955 A Young Actress /Pip
