All 8 Best Sophie Rundle Movies Ranked (Best to Worst)

Aisling Walsh’s sleek 2015 staging of J.B. Priestley’s classic play transforms drawing-room socialist critique into a sharp, ghostly procedural. The narrative dissects upper-class complacency during a fateful evening in 1912, as David Thewlis's enigmatic inspector interrogates a bourgeois family over a young working woman's demise. The adaptation's triumph relies entirely on contextualizing the offstage tragedy, giving voice and flesh to Eva Smith. Rundle provides the production's emotional core, playing Eva (and alter ego Daisy Renton) with heartbreaking vulnerability, steely dignity, and unbearable desperation. Her expressive gaze turns an abstract moral symbol into an unforgettable portrait of institutional cruelty, marking arguably her finest dramatic hour on screen.

Adapted from Emma Healey’s acclaimed mystery, this sensitive television film pivots on the harrowing fracture of memory, framed through Maud’s spiraling dementia as she searches for her vanished friend. Director Aisling Walsh threads dual timelines with agonizing precision, counterpointing Maud’s elderly bewilderment against unresolved trauma from the 1940s. The film transcends standard mystery tropes by investigating how grief lingers long after cognitive clarity fades. Rundle plays the vanished sister, Sukey, in atmospheric post-war flashbacks. Infusing the role with radiant warmth and hidden anxiety, she ensures Sukey’s absence feels heavy and visceral rather than purely conceptual, anchoring the tragedy that fuels Glenda Jackson's towering central performance.

Tom Harper expands Steven Knight’s Birmingham crime saga onto an epic canvas, throwing Tommy Shelby into the escalating shadows of pre-World War II European fascism. The production values gleam with industrial menace, pairing brutal historical tension with sharp political maneuvering as generational reckoning threatens the Shelby syndicate. The film balances widescreen spectacle against the intimate tragedy of familial estrangement. Stepping back into the resolute shoes of Ada Thorne, Rundle delivers unmatched gravitas, acting as the ideological counterweight to Tommy's relentless cynicism. Her sharp delivery and commanding posture elevate Ada from pragmatic matriarch to the moral compass of the entire franchise, demonstrating her effortless command of big-screen drama.

Jennifer Sheridan’s claustrophobic winter chiller operates at the desolate intersection of rural folk horror and intimate domestic tragedy. Huddled inside an isolated cabin, a young couple negotiates a severe, parasitic affliction requiring fresh blood, trading comfort for perilous survival protocols. Sheridan refuses jump scares, instead constructing mounting dread through sound design and tactile woodland isolation. Playing the afflicted titular protagonist, Rundle crafts a physically punishing, emotionally raw performance. She modulates between quiet spousal tenderness and feral, monstrous agony with astounding restraint. It is a genuine indie tour de force, proving she can command an entire narrative canvas as a haunted, conflicted genre lead.

Mike Newell’s handsome Dickensian adaptation delivers mud-spattered atmospheric dread alongside high Victorian melodrama, tracing Pip’s journey from Kent blacksmith forge to decadent London society. John Mathieson’s cinematography bathes the gothic rot of Satis House in decaying autumnal hues, while a powerhouse supporting cast fleshes out the story’s moral hypocrisies. Although conventional in pacing, the film captures the tragic ironies of social elevation. In a brief but brightly rendered appearance as Clara Barley, Rundle injects genuine kindness and domestic warmth into Pip’s turbulent orbit. Her brief screen time highlights her natural affinity for period cadence, providing a gentle pocket of sincerity in a world dominated by bitterness and manipulation.

George Clooney’s ambitious sci-fi drama juxtaposes arctic isolation with deep-space existential survival, tracking an ailing astronomer desperate to warn a returning spacecraft about Earth’s post-apocalyptic fate. Alexandre Desplat’s mournful score and Martin Ruhe’s chilly visuals deliver sweeping atmospheric power, though the narrative rhythm often stumbles between glacial solitude and high-stakes orbital disasters. Within the fractured memory sequences, Rundle appears as Jean Sullivan during key emotional flashbacks. While her screen time is severely constrained by the script's fragmented design, she brings quiet poignancy and luminous grace to the memories that haunt Clooney’s protagonist, lending emotional stakes to a film that occasionally loses its human heartbeat amid pristine visual effects.

Michael Winterbottom tackles modern media voyeurism and the sensationalized true-crime frenzy surrounding an Italian murder trial in this fragmented, introspective meta-drama. Rather than delivering a conventional courtroom thriller, the script examines the moral exhaustion of a documentarian spiraling into artistic inertia and cocaine addiction. While conceptually daring, the narrative feels diffuse and emotionally alienated from its source material. Appearing briefly as Sophie, Rundle navigates the periphery of the cynical media pack. She conducts her minor role with poise and professional realism, but the movie gives her precious little narrative runway to build any sustained emotional resonance or showcase her deeper dramatic versatility.

Peter Manners-Sutton’s eccentric 2007 debut embraces low-budget grindhouse excess, fusing comic book aesthetics with twisted English countryside gothic horror. Shot almost entirely against rudimentary green-screen backgrounds, the oddball narrative follows an ominous landlord and his bizarre clan terrorizing interlopers who wander into Grockleton. The film relishes in groggy splatter gags and camp theatricality, but the abrasive pacing and dizzying visuals make for a chaotic viewing ordeal. Appearing as Heather in one of her earliest screen credits, Rundle works hard against amateurish staging and jarring stylistic choices. While only of historical interest to completists charting her career origins, it stands as a rough curiosity before her breakthrough.