Early 2000s moviegoers may remember Amanda Seyfried as she appeared in the blockbusters Mamma Mia! and Mean Girls, but Seyfried has also appeared in more recent hit movies. If you want a taste of her filmography, stream these six best Amanda Seyfried movies today.
6. Mamma Mia! (2008)
Our first Amanda Seyfried movie is Mamma Mia! one of the most prominent romcoms and a home for several ABBA songs. Sophie is about to married when she discovers that three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without her mother knowing and begins to unravel the mystery of who her paternal figure truly is.
–IMDb score: 6.5
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5. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Set five years after the original, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again tells the story of Donna’s young life. Viewers get to discover each of Sophie’s possible dads alongside Donna, and as the two reflect on the past, Sophie discovers that she is more like her mother than she ever realized. Fans of the original Mamma Mia! will want to check this film out.
–IMDb score: 6.6
4. Mank (2020)
Pivoting away from fun romcoms is Mank, one of Amanda Seyfried’s more recent films. The movie is set in 1940 and in black in white, focusing on the film studio RKO as they hire 24-year-old Orson Welles. Given full control of his movies, Welles gets help from washed-up writer Herman J. Mankiewicz to write the screenplay for “Citizen Kane.”
–IMDb score: 6.8
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3. First Reformed (2017)
Thriller anyone? Amanda Seyfried stars alongside Ethan Hawke in First Reformed, where a pastor quickly finds himself in trouble. The pastor (Hawke) is the head of a small church in New York when he gets a call from a pregnant parishioner (Seyfried) begging for help for her radical husband. When the pastor gets involved though, he starts to lose control of his life.
–IMDb score: 7.1
2. Mean Girls (2004)
One of the most quintessential teenage movies, Mean Girls features Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith or one of the plastics. Cady Heron is new at school and falls for the ex-boyfriend of Queen Bee Regina George. When she unintentionally joins the plastics as well, Cady must try and navigate the choppy waters of high school life and school politics without losing herself in the process.
–IMDb score: 7.1
1. Les Misérables (2012)
Our last Amanda Seyfried movie is Les Misérables, a film adaptation of the best-selling book by the same name. The movie is set in 19th-century France where viewers meet Jean Valjean, a recent parolee who breaks his parole to create a new life. When he decides to care for a factory worker’s daughter, both of their lives will change forever.
–IMDb score: 7.5
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