Emma Watson captured the world's attention when she appeared as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise. She fit the role of the girl wizard perfectly and dazzled audiences as they watched her grow up, from a 14-year-old child actor into a 21-year-old woman. However, she did so much more than just cast spells in Harry Potter movies.
After appearing in the fifth movie in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007, Emma Watson branched out and took more roles on TV and in films. It was at this time that she proved she was more than just a child actor in a major franchise. Here is a look at the 10 best Emma Watson movies that aren't Harry Potter related, based on IMDb scores.
10 THE CIRCLE (2017) - 5.3
Hitting in 2017, The Circle saw Emma Watson teaming up with Tom Hanks for a techno-thriller. While Hanks rarely has flops, this one seemed to fly over the radar for most fans, but still received average reviews from IMDb users, despite horrible critical reviews. Luckily, the smaller budget, also unusual for a Tom Hanks movie, helped it end up as a modest financial success.
Emma Watson is Mae, a woman who picks up a job at the world's largest social media company. She then joins an experiment that the founder encouraged that tests the boundaries of ethics and privacy.
9 THE BLING RING (2013) - 5.6
Emma Watson's first significant adult role came in the 2013 crime movie The Bling Ring. The film was based on a true story about a group of people who were robbing celebrity's homes in California. The gang was known as the Bling Ring and consisted of teenagers seeking fame and fortune. Sofia Coppola directed the film.
Emma Watson took on the role of Nicki Moore, who was based on the real-life Alexis Neiers. Nikki is one of the friends of the two teenagers who started the entire heist scheme and was there when they robbed Paris Hilton's house and began their reign. This is the movie that proved Watson was more than just Hermione Granger.
8 REGRESSION (2015) - 5.7
Released in 2015, Emma Watson took the lead role in a film by renowned Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar. Regression was a psychological thriller with Ethan Hawke starring as a police detective investigating the case of a man who admitted to abusing his teenage daughter, but has no memories of actually doing it.
Emma Watson plays the daughter, who claims that the assault was by several people in masks, making the police think it was a satanic cult, during its mass hysteria in the '90s. The movie received mostly negative reviews, yet kept an average IMDb rating.
7 THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (2008) - 6.1
In what should come as no surprise, the first movie that Emma Watson did outside of the Harry Potter franchise was an animated film. This movie allowed Watson to take on a role that didn't affect the reputation of her on-screen character of Hermione. The film was 2008's The Tale of Despereaux.
The film was a British-American film based on the 2003 novel about a young mouse named Despereaux (Matthew Broderick) who sets out to save his friend, the kidnapped Princess Pea. Emma Watson voices the princess.
6 THIS IS THE END (2013) - 6.6
The same year that Emma Watson proved she was a star on the rise in The Bling Ring, she also took on a role showing she had no problem with poking fun at herself. That movie was the Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg comedy, This is the End.
The movie tells the story of the end of the world and humorously has everyone in the film playing heightened versions of themselves. Emma Watson shows up in the film as someone at James Franco's party, only to attack the survivors and steal all their alcohol after the apocalypse starts.
5 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (2011) - 7.0
It wasn't until after Emma Watson finished with the Harry Potter franchise that she moved on to another role in a live-action film. However, Watson moved quickly as My Week with Marilyn came out in 2011, the same year as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. The film followed one week in the life of Marilyn Monroe.
Michelle Williams won the Golden Globes award for her performance as Monroe. As for Emma Watson, she portrayed Lucy, a wardrobe assistant that was dating Colin (Eddie Redmayne), the man who drove Monroe around town before falling for her, ruining his relationship with Lucy.
4 COLONIA (2015) - 7.1
In 2015, Emma Watson kept working on her new adult career and took a role in the historical thriller Colonia. The movie takes place during the 1973 Chilean military coupe. The main focus was the Colonia Dignidad cult just South of Chili during that time, led by Paul Schafer.
Emma Watson stars as a woman named Lena, who joins the cult after her husband's abduction. The reason is that the cult has Daniel in their grasps, and no one has ever escaped from them before. While Rotten Tomatoes has the film listed as rotten, IMDb users saw it in a more favorable light.
3 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017) - 7.1
In 2017, Emma Watson took on her biggest high-profile role since the end of the Harry Potter franchise. In this case, she took on the iconic role of Belle in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Bill Condon, Watson was the book-loving girl who fell in love with the Beast (Dan Stevens), helping him regain his humanity.
The movie was a massive success, the biggest financial success of Watson's career outside of the Harry Potter films., making $1.2 billion. Fans loved it, as it picked up Watson an MTV award and holds an impressive 7.1 rating on IMDb.
2 THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (2012) - 8.0
The first really big movie role that Emma Watson took on after the Harry Potter franchise ended was the 2012 coming-of-age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The film is based on the book by Stephen Chbosky, who also directed the movie. Logan Lerman is the star of the film, another child star from a fantasy franchise, as he played Percy Jackson in movies.
In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lerman plays Charlie, a teen who writes about his freshman year in high school. This experience is made harder due to his clinical depression and anxiety issues. Emma Watson is a senior named Sam who Charlie meets and develops a close friendship with.
1 LITTLE WOMEN (2019) - 8.3
Emma Watson starred in one of the best movies of 2019 and what might be the best movie of her entire career. This film was Greta Gerwig's adaptation of the classic Little Women. The film was a faithful adaptation but threw a wrench into the ending with Gerwig saying that she made the film that had the ending author Louisa May Alcott wanted to use.
Emma Watson is Meg March, while Saoirse Ronan is Jo and Florence Pugh is Amy, the sisters in the film. The film is Watson's highest rated on IMDb, and it has an immaculate 95% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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