Kate Beckinsale has been in the industry for quite some time now, right? But she was known only as an action film star for so long. Why is that? We can observe that, following “Underworld,” most of her appearances have been in action movies. As a result, she hasn’t had much of an opportunity to showcase her acting range.
However, she has worked in various genres, including comedy, romance, and drama. She is undoubtedly talented, and her seductive sensuality is hard to resist. So, in light of this, I would like to highlight some of her finest movies. Here are the top 10 movies of Kate Beckinsale’s career.
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Underworld
Year: 2003
Runtime: 2 hrs. 1 min
Director: Len Wiseman
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
IMDB rate: 7.0
Star cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly
Underworld 2003 is the second film in the “underworld series.” It is an action-horror movie about the history of two eternal species. The story focuses on Selene (a Death Dealer vampire). She has one life mission, and that is to defeat the Lycan species to extinction.
The story’s plot is that Selene is attracted to a human(Micheal). In an attack, Mickeal is bitten by a Lycan, but Selena can’t kill him and saves his life. Now, she has to choose between his life mission and whether she wants Micheal.
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Contraband
Year: 2012
Runtime: 1 hr. 49 min
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
IMDB rate: 6.4
Star cast: Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi
If you are a fan of action-thriller movies, Contraband won’t disappoint you. The story is about drug dealing and smuggling, so fans can expect a lot of drama and action. It involves a would-be dealer, just trying to save his family, who gets his hands dirty in the process.
The story starts with the lead role’s brother-in-law involved in an illegal drug export. But when he gets caught by the US custom team, his boss just wants him to pay back to make up for the loss. Our hero gets involved when he intervenes to save his brother-in-law.
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Serendipity
Year: 2001
Runtime: 1 hr. 30 mins
Director: Peter Chelsom
Genre: Comedy, Romance
IMDB rate: 6.8
Star cast: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven
Serendipity is about discovering something joyous and unexpected in life. It is like contentment that is not to look for, but when it arrives, it feels touching to the core. It’s a story of two people who met by chance and got along well.
However, they parted ways believing in their destiny and thought they would find each other if they were meant to be.
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Love and Friendship
Year: 2016
Runtime: 1 hr. 30 mins
Director: Whit Stillman
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
IMDB rate: 6.4
Star cast: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel
“Love and Friendship” is not about what you predict by the name. There is neither love nor friendship in the movie. Instead, it’s a comedy film based on Jane Austin’s novel, which brings the audience to the privileged world. The story revolves around a widow and her daughter.
After her husband’s death, she just wants to secure a respectable and suitably wealthy husband for her daughter and herself. So the lady visits her brother-in-law and decides to stay for a while to settle the rumors of her affair. In the meantime, she’s searching for suitable matches, but two handsome men make it difficult for her to do so.
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Snow Angels
Year: 2007
Runtime: 1 hr. 47 mins
Director: David Gordon Green
Genre: Crime, Romance, Drama
IMDB rate: 6.8
Star cast: Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano
It is a drama that implicates the life of a boy in his teenage years, his babysitter, and her daughter. They all struggle in their own lives and mess up things. It’s a tale in which you are drawn into the life of the characters, flaws, and destructive tendencies involved.
If you like to watch suspense, mystery, and crime, Snow Angel is the drama that would entertain you the best. You will find elements of sports spirits, friendship, and relationships all in one package.
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The Aviator
Year: 2004
Runtime: 2 hrs. 50 mins
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Biography, Drama
IMDB rate: 7.5
Star cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
It’s a biographical film about Howard Hughes. It starts in his early adulthood and ends at the end of his life. He is an ambitious billionaire, the most maintained, successful aeronautical engineer, and filmmaker.
However, he suffers from OCD but still manages to make things happen for himself. The movie shows that he was not severely affected by OCD and managed everything fine.
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Stonehearst Asylum
Year: 2014
Runtime: 1 hr. 52 mins
Director: Brad Anderson
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
IMDB rate: 6.8
Star cast: Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Kate Beckinsale
Stoneheart Asylum would take its viewer to the horrors of inhumane experiments conducted on people. It’s a story of a graduate who takes a job in an asylum. He is shocked to see how they treat people with horrifying experiments in the name of treatment.
In the end, the plot reveals that the young doctor experimenting on people is also not mentally stable. It is not a story for weak hearts. But, if you are a fan of horror and mystery, it might entertain you.
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Total Recall
Year: 2012
Runtime: 1 hr. 58 mins
Director: Len Wiseman
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
IMDB rate: 6.2
Star cast: Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale
It is an American Sci-Fi film for people who are fond of thriller movies. The tale of construction labor who is happy with his life. He unexpectedly becomes involved in spying on Mars and cannot distinguish between his life experience and memory implantation.
If you want to discover what happens next, watch the movie and satisfy your curiosity!
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Nothing But The Truth
Year: 2008
Runtime: 1 hr. 48 mins
Director: Rod Lurie
Genre: Drama, Crime
IMDB rate: 7.2
Star cast: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga
It is a film inspired by the real-life experiences of a reporter. “Nothing But the Truth” explores the challenges journalists encounter when dealing with sources.
Judith Miller, a New York Times journalist, has to spend 85 days behind bars. All just for declining to identify her sources in the Valerie Plame scandal provided the movie’s unmistakable inspiration.
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Everybody’s Fine
Year: 2009
Runtime: 1 hr. 39 mins
Director: Kirk Jones
Genre: Drama, Adventure
IMDB rate: 7.1
Star cast: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell
The movie EVERYBODY’S FINE, an adaptation of an Italian film, is emotional but also downbeat and predictable.
Frank Goode discovers following his wife’s death that she was the person who connected him to his four kids. So he embarks on a quest to develop a relationship with them.
