Florence Pugh is one of the most celebrated actresses in Hollywood and has graced the screen with multiple movies and shows, which have also won her awards and even an Oscar. However, Pugh is now stepping into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the upcoming Thunderbolts film, making the fanbase curious about her previous feats of acting. So, we have put together a list of 1o best Florence Pugh movies and TV shows that you should check out.
10. The Falling (2014)
- Release Date: 24 April 2015
- Cast: Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake, Anna Burnett, Monica Dolan, Elizabeth Marsh, Morfydd Clark
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 5.3/78%
- Director: Carol Morley
The Falling takes us back to the late ’60s and brings a strict girls’ boarding school into the picture. In this movie, we see Abbie (Florence Pugh) and Lydia (Maisie Williams) as the lead characters and best friends. However, the school is struck by a mysterious fainting pandemic, and the school administration refuses to consider it a threat.
Lydia takes it into her own hands to get to the root of this, along with Abbie, but nothing could have prepared her for what she found out. This movie brings Pugh in a supporting role, but she leaves a lasting impression and puts forth quite a memorable performance.
9. Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
- Release Date: 30 September 2022
- Cast: Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Dita Von Teese, Gemma Chan, Sydney Chandler, Timothy Simons
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.3/38%
- Director: Olivia Wilde
Don’t Worry Darling is a psychological thriller and brings us Pugh as Alice, a woman married to her husband Jack, and they both live in the utopian company town of Victory. Everything looks to be fine: the wives have a comfortable life, the husbands work at a top-secret project, but something feels fishy to Alice. She goes out looking for answers, and as things start to unfold, she finds herself trapped in what one can call a nightmare.
8. Oppenheimer (2023)
- Release Date: 21 July 2023
- Cast: Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Emily Blunt, Emma Dumont, Jack Quaid, Robert Downey Jr.
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/93%
- Director: Christopher Nolan
We all know what a tremendous success Oppenheimer turned out to be, winning numerous awards. In this movie, Pugh appears as Jean Tatlock, the love interest of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Even though this movie was massively successful, it has been rated rather low in this list, considering that Pugh’s on-screen time was low.
7. Black Widow (2021)
- Release Date: 9 July 2021
- Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Olga Kurylenko, Ray Winstone
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6/79%
- Director: Cate Shortland
Black Widow was the movie that introduced Florence Pugh into the MCU, even though the central focus of this movie was on Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson. Pugh did a phenomenal job as Yelena. While Black Widow was not that well-received for its subpar plot and quality, the one good thing about this movie was the introduction of The Red Guardian and Yelena, who now appear in the Thunderbolts movie.
6. A Good Person (2023)
- Release Date: 31 March 2023
- Cast- Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Chinaza Uche, Molly Shannon, Alex Wolff, Nichelle Hines, Sydney Morton, Jessie Mueller
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.1/57%
- Director: Zach Braff
This movie brings us Florence Pugh as Allison, who has everything sorted out for herself, but things took a turn in the wrong direction when her fiancé passed away in an accident. She found herself in severe depression and hooked on an opioid addiction.
Some time later, she starts to develop a friendly relationship with her late fiance’s father, who helps her get on her feet on the ground and helps her figure out what defines a good person.
5. Fighting With My Family (2019)
- Release Date: 14 February 2019
- Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Florence Pugh, Stephen Merchant, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, Nick Frost, Lena Headey
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7/93%
- Director: Stephen Merchant
Fighting With My Family is one of Pugh’s more overlooked movies. It stars Florence Pugh as Saraya “Paige” Bevis, a wrestler from a family who dreams of entering the WWE. Along with Saraya, her brother, Zak “Zodiac Knight” Bevis, is also trying to make his way into WWE, but after he fails, it all lands on Paige to fulfill her and her brother’s dream.
This movie is a recreation of a documentary with the same name, released in 2012, and also featured Dwayne Johnson.
4. The Wonder (2022)
- Release Date: 2 September 2022
- Cast: Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, Elaine Cassidy, Niamh Algar, Ciarán Hinds, Ruth Bradley, David Wilmot
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6/85%
- Director: Sebastián Lelio
Based on a novel of the same name written by Emma Donoghue, The Wonder takes us to 1860s Ireland, where a young girl has stopped eating altogether, but even after that, she is fine with no problems whatsoever. A nurse, Lib Wright, played by Pugh, is brought into the small town where the girl lives to observe and find out how this eight-year-old girl is still alive after apparently not eating anything for months.
3. Midsommar (2019)
- Release Date: 3 July 2019
- Cast: Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor, Isabelle Grill, Björn Andrésen, William Jackson Harper, Archie Madekwe
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.1/83%
- Director: Ari Aster
Midsommar is often regarded as one of Florence Pugh’s best performances. In this film, she plays Dani, a grad student whose world has come apart with a tragedy within her family. Moreover, her relationship with her boyfriend is also on shaky terms, and nothing seems to be working out in her favour.
This is when her boyfriend asks Dani to join her on a trip to Sweden to witness a midsummer festival. Even though things start good, they go south really fast and take a dark turn.
2. Lady Macbeth (2017)
- Release Date: 28 April 2017
- Cast: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, Anton Palmer, Fleur Houdijk, Cliff Burnett, Christopher Fairbank
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.8/89%
- Director: William Oldroyd
Lady Macbeth is another one of Pugh’s best movies. She did this movie pretty early on in her career, which even turned out to be successful. In this movie, Pugh appears as Katherine, who has been sold into marriage in the year 1865 to an old and cruel industrialist.
It goes without saying that she is highly discontent and trapped in this relationship, which leads Katherine to start an affair with a young man on the estate, but her pursuit of freedom did not seem to lead to a happy ending.
1. Little Women (2019)
- Release Date: 25 December 2019
- Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Eliza Scanlen, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts
- IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.8/95%
- Director: Greta Gerwig
Little Women is easily the most critically acclaimed movie starring Florence Pugh. This film is based on a novel by Greta Gerwig with the same name, and Pugh appears in it as Amy. Her character sees the most growth and covers the maximum developmental ground from age 12 to adulthood, and then marriage.
Amy is also one of the most hated characters in literature since the book was first published. Pugh’s adaptation of Amy was so good that it won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
