| Character Description | Movie | Character Name |
| An English playwright who gets involved in a love affair while writing one of his biggest plays | |
| A best-selling author suffering from OCD who holds a general dislike for people | |
| A bitter, alcoholic, and blind former U.S. Army officer hoping for 'one last hoorah' before he dies | |
| An aging and all-but-retired Italian mafia boss | |
| A mute woman who only expresses herself through sign language and by playing the piano | |
| An intelligent and by-the-book LAPD detective determined to break out of his father's shadow | |
| A U.S. Army Sergeant leading a company of soldiers in WWII Japan | |
| A talented pianist afflicted by manic behavior and breakdowns | |
| A Jewish Italian who uses his imagination to keep up his family's spirits in a Nazi concentration camp | |
| A surgeon on the run after being falsely convicted of his wife's murder | |
| A mental health patient trying adapt to a normal life after coming out of a long catatonic state | |
| A hitman who doubles as a bada$$ mother-you-know-what (ensemble piece so this is who I saw as the main character) | |
| The eldest sister of a turn-of-the-20th-century English bourgeoise family | |
| A white working-class woman who meets her 30(ish) year old black daughter for the first time since she gave her up for adoption | |
| A sports agent trying to succeed with his only client and have a relationship with his secretary | |
| A queen who rises to power in a divided and bankrupt kingdom | |
| A genius janitor at MIT with a lot of mental issues stemming of an abusive childhood | |
| An out-of-work factory worker who becomes a stripper so he can pay his son's child support | |
| A child psychiatrist who helps out a kid who can see dead people | |
| A game show champion who becomes vindictive after being forced to leave the show | |
| A French girl with an American voice who develops a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome | |
| A wealthy, young, English woman who moves out into the country after her father dies and is left with only a small inheritance | |
| A tobacco company executive who becomes the whistle-blower on the tobacco business after seeing an interview on 60 Minutes | |
| A young artist sailing from England to America on a really big ship | |
| A man whose spirit tries to connect with his former lover | |