| Year | Film | Character | Watched? |
| 1977 | Julia | Anne Marie | |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Linda | |
| 1979 | Manhattan | Jill | |
| 1979 | The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Karen Traynor | |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Joanna Kramer | X |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman | Sarah/Anna | X |
| 1982 | Still of the Night | Brooke Reynolds | |
| 1982 | Sophie’s Choice | Sophie Zawistowski | X |
| 1983 | Silkwood | Karen Silkwood | |
| 1984 | Falling in Love | Molly Gilmore | X |
| 1985 | Plenty | Susan Traherne | |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Karen Blixen | |
| 1986 | Heartburn | Rachel Samstat | |
| 1987 | Ironweed | Helen Archer | |
| 1988 | A Cry in the Dark | Lindy Chamberlain | X |
| 1989 | She-Devil | Mary Fisher | X |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Suzanne Vale | |
| 1991 | Defending Your Life | Julia | |
| 1992 | Death Becomes Her | Madeline Ashton | X |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Clara del Valle Trueba | |
| 1994 | The River Wild | Gail Hartman | |
| 1995 | The Bridges of Madison County | Francesca Johnson | X |
| 1996 | Before and After | Dr. Carolyn Ryan | |
| 1996 | Marvin’s Room | Lee | X |
| 1998 | Dancing at Lughnasa | Kate ‘Kit’ Mundy | |
| 1998 | One True Thing | Kate Gulden | |
| 1999 | Music of the Heart | Roberta Guaspari | X |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Susan Orlean | X |
| 2002 | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan | X |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Eleanor Shaw | |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events | Josephine Anwhistle | |
| 2005 | Prime | Lisa Metzger | X |
| 2006 | A Prairie Home Companion | Yolanda Johnson | X |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | Miranda Priestly | X |
| 2007 | Dark Matter | Joanna Silver | |
| 2007 | Evening | Lila Wittenborn Ross | X |
| 2007 | Rendition | Corrine Whitman | |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Janine Roth | |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Donna Sheridan | X |
| 2008 | Doubt | Sister Aloysius Beauvier | X |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Julia Child | |
| 2009 | It’s Complicated | Jane Adler | X |
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher | |
| 2012 | Hope Springs | Kay Soames | X |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Violet Weston | |
| 2014 | The Giver | Chief Elder | X |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | The Witch | X |
Animated films, narrator roles and cameos are not included
