Ann Kendrick is one of the stars of the new generation Hollywood world. She has appeared in some of the biggest and most acclaimed films since the turn of this decade. Having started her acting career in 1998 before making her film debut almost a decade later, she has been one of our most beloved actors of late. Here are the Anna Kendrick movies you need to see.
Greatest Anna Kendrick Movies to watch
1. In the air (2009)
Ryan works for a human resources consulting firm and his job specification is to fly over the United States and help employers fire employees for whom they don’t have the guts to fire him. He has a particular philosophy that man should lead a burdenless life and a life without attachments.
He would meet a lady (Alex-Vera Farmiga) on his regular trips and develop a relationship with her. His company ties up a young woman Natalie played by Ann Kendrick with him. These two would make him question his philosophy of a life without ties.
2. Scott Pilgrim Against the World (2010)
It’s one of Anna Kendrick’s movies; the result is a musician named Scott (Michael Cera) who has a strong relationship with his girlfriend, Knives. However, he lets her down as her dream turns to reality, Ramona. He does everything in his power to get Ramona and she eventually agrees to go out with him on the condition that he fight all of Ramona’s elders. Anna Kendrick stars as Stacey Pilgrim, the titular character’s brother.
3. 50/50 (2011)
The film follows the life of 27-year-old Adam, who has just been diagnosed with cancer and reads on the internet that his type of cancer gives him a one in two chance of surviving.
The film shows how his girlfriend begins to distance herself from him; how his best friend Kyle sticks with him through this ordeal in an unconventional yet loving way, and how he meets and falls in love with Kathrine, an amateur therapist played by Kendrick. The movie is basically about how life can change after being diagnosed with cancer and the opportunities for a new life.
4. Not Perfect (2012)
Beca Mitchell played by Kendrick is a freshman at Barden University hoping to become a music producer. She is trained by the Barden Bellas and tells them she can sing until she is discovered by one of them while singing in the bathroom.
After much persuasion, she decides to join. Becca along with a new lineup of female singers will transform the all-female band Barden Bellas from their old-school style of music and reign into a new school melody that will ultimately earn them the coveted National Acapella Championship.
5. What to Expect When You Expect It (2012)
Another thriller and one from Anna Kendrick Movies; it follows the lives of five couples in different stages of marriages and relationships and how they deal with bringing a baby into the family, whether adopted or in progress. of birth, or even a miscarriage. Ann Kendrick plays Rosie Brennan who unexpectedly becomes pregnant and miscarries the baby.
6. Drinking Buddies (2013)
The film follows two friends, Luke (JakeJohnson) and Kate (Olivia Wilde) work at a distillery where they gamble and drink all day. The two decide to have two dates with their loved ones. Luke comes with Jill (Anna Kendrick) while Kate comes with Chris (Ron Livingston).
The four had fun together and Chris asks the other couple to join him and Kate at his parents’ cottage for the weekend. Luke and Kate spend their day at home together and end up getting skinny while Jill and Chris go on a hike in the forest and share a kiss. Relationships would break up and friends would leave, each trying to find the meaning of love and finding a way to love their spouse.
7. Into the Woods (2014)
Into the Woods is a mix of stories and characters from Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack, and The Bean Stalk and Little Red Riding Hood.
The plots have been collapsed so that each of the stories run parallel until they encounter the central plot of a couple made childless by a witch who asked them to get the materials that made the story of those special people, like Cinderella’s glass slipper, Little Red’s cowl, Jack’s magic beans, and Rapunzel’s long hair. Ann Kendrick plays the character of Cinderella.
8. The Last Five Years (2014)
The Last Five Years explores the last half-decade of couple Jamie Wallerstein (Jeremy Jordan) and Cathy Hiatt (Anna Kendrick). The film is set as they individually report on their love life together, which Cathy recounts from the end to the first day they met, while Wallerstein singles him out from start to finish. This film is a musical film since the couple tells the story with music and songs.
9. Perfect Location II (2015)
It is the second film in the Pitch Perfectfranchise and follows on from the first film. After the embarrassment that occurred in front of the President of the United States, who ripped Fat Amy’s pants, the Bellas are disqualified and suspended from the CICA. They decide to make a deal with the organizers to be reinstated in case they win the Accapella World Championship.
The film follows the trials and intimidation they endured before becoming triumphant. Ann Kendrick plays Beca Mitchell, lead voice of the Bellas.
10. Trolls (2016)
Trolls is an animated movie that shows the life of trolls as always happy creatures until they are captured by Bergens who are always sad creatures who eat these trolls to get some form of happiness. After the trolls escape to an underground chamber, they live a happy day-to-day life, though they are often warned by a not-so-happy troll, Branch, about how their party can bring back the troll-eating monsters. .
Branch’s warning comes true and many trolls are kidnapped by a Bergen. Now Poppy (along with Anna Kendrick) with Branch’s help must save them from the city of Bergen.
11. The Accountant (2016)
Christain Wolfe (Ben Affleck) is a forensic accountant with altruism. After being contacted by ‘The Blackburns’, one of his siblings, to perform an internal forensic audit, Chris discovers that there is a discrepancy in the company’s money. The company’s CFO is found dead and is presumed to have killed himself, so he will not be disgraced for embezzling the company’s money.
Chris who likes to finish every job he starts is in total turmoil when he is fired. After that, an assassin nearly took down Chris, who may have known too much about the company. Chris must now get to the bottom of it and find out what’s really wrong avoiding the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in the process. Anna Kendrick stars as Dana Cummings, one of The Blackburns’ employees – the firm’s in-house accountant.
12. Get a Job (2016)
Finding a Job follows the lives of four young college graduates as they deal with the process of finding jobs in the modern American world. It also shows how a middle-aged citizen after two decades of work has to go through the rigorous process of finding a new job, and in the end, it all ends well with new jobs, new businesses. Kendrick plays 22-year-old college graduate Jullian Stewart.
13. Mike and Dave need wedding dates (2016)
Advertisement by Mike (Adam DeVine) and Dave (Zac Efron) about ladies needing to follow women at their sister’s wedding is going viral on Craigslist. They need girls to follow them as dates because their family thinks it would empower them in marriage and keep them from frolicking at family events.
Between Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and Alice (AnnaKendrick) who needs the money offered because they had just been fired for showing up drunk. The brothers choose the ladies for the Hawaiian wedding and all of them start showing their true characters, nearly ruining the wedding ceremony and in the end, they saved the day.
14. Table 19 (2017)
This one from the Anna Kendrick movies, it shows how 6 people who had been put on such a bad table at a wedding had discussed why they were coming to the party. The party goes from being wacky for them to having them go on an adventure to steal a cake from another wedding to replace the one they mistakenly destroyed and leading them to become close family friends. Ann Kendrick plays Eloise McGarry, the groom’s brother’s ex-girlfriend.
15. A Simple Favor (2018)
A simple favor goes wrong as Stephanie Smothers(Anna Kendrick) is asked by the mother of her son’s friend Emily (Blake Lively) to help her son Nicky babysit for a few days, as she gets rid of certain professional difficulties.
The two-day favor turns sour as Stephanie was dragged and framed for Emily’s sudden disappearance that she knows nothing about. A series of stories about Emily continue to emerge as the story progresses, but no one knows if she is dead or decides to go into hiding.