Film | Rôle | Année |
|---|
| Roméo + Juliette | Nurse | 1996 |
| The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Narrator (voice) | 2007 |
| James et la Pêche géante | Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice) | 1996 |
| Je t'aime à te tuer | Joey's Mother | 1990 |
| Moi, Peter Sellers | Peg Sellers | 2004 |
| Mulan | The Matchmaker (voice) | 1998 |
| The Last Artifact | Narrator (UK version) | 2020 |
| Le Temps de l'innocence | Mrs. Catherine Mingott | 1993 |
| Fenêtre sur Pacifique | Realtor | 1990 |
| L'Amour six pieds sous terre | Thelma & Selma | 2002 |
| Scotch & Wry | | 1986 |
| Comme chiens et chats | Sophie the Castle Maid | 2001 |
| Souris City | Rita's Grandma (voice) | 2006 |
| Babe, le cochon dans la ville | Fly (voice) | 1998 |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Mrs. Beetle | 1995 |
| Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort - 2ème partie | Pomona Sprout | 2011 |
| La Fin des temps | Mabel | 1999 |
| Babe, le cochon devenu berger | Fly (voice) | 1995 |
| Happy Feet | Mrs. Astrakhan (voice) | 2006 |
| Ludwig van B. | Nanette Streicherová | 1994 |
| Le Royaume de Ga'Hoole : La légende des gardiens | Mrs. Plithiver (voice) | 2010 |
| Alone | Caseworker | 2002 |
| The Dukes | Aunt Vee | 2007 |
| The Good Father | Jane Powell | 1985 |
| Little Dorrit | Flora Finching | 1987 |
| La Malédiction de la vallée des rois | Dr. Kadira | 1980 |
| BIM Stars | Landlady | 1980 |
| Sunshine | Rose Sonnenschein | 1999 |
| La Belle et l'Ordinateur | Ticket Girl | 1984 |
| Magnolia | Faye Barringer (uncredited) | 1999 |
| Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Signora Caldoni | 1999 |
| Scrubbers | Jones | 1982 |
| Joyeux Noël, Mog ! | Aunt One (voice) | 2023 |
| Staline | Krupskaya | 1992 |
| The First Snow of Winter | Sean McDuck (voice) | 1998 |
| Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Queen Victoria | 1988 |
| Different for Girls | Pamela | 1996 |
| Dead Again | Mrs. Tupper (uncredited) | 1991 |
| Un mariage inoubliable | Patricia | 2012 |
| Blackadder: A Cunning Story | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023 |
| My Happy Ending | Judy | 2023 |
| La vache qui a failli rater Noël | Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice) | 2012 |
| Les chemins de la liberté | (voice) | 1997 |
| Body Contact | Tony's Mother | 1987 |
| Naughty Girls | Voice | 1975 |
| imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs | Self | 2022 |
| The Ha-Ha | Kathie | 1969 |
| Liberation | Narrator | 1994 |
| Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book | Self | 2016 |
| Sir Billi | Baroness Chantal McToff (voice) | 2012 |
| The Seventeenth Kind | Mrs. Mark | 2014 |
| The Lifeswappers | Miriam/Miss Babberton | 1976 |
| The Itch of the Golden Nit | Mummy Socks (voice) | 2011 |
| Unexplained Laughter | Laughter (voice) | 1989 |
| As You Like It | Audrey | 1992 |
| Wallis & Edward | Aunt Bessie | 2005 |
| Un anglais à New York | Mrs. Kowalski | 2008 |
| Ed and His Dead Mother | Mabel Chilton | 1993 |
| L'Idiot du monde et le bateau volant | Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter | 1990 |
| A Nice Girl Like Me | Pensione | 1969 |
| Balto : Chien-loup, héros des neiges | Grandma Rosy | 1995 |
| Les dames de Cornouailles | Dorcas | 2004 |
| Adorable Julia | Dolly de Vries | 2004 |
| Modigliani | Gertrude Stein | 2004 |
| Stand up, Virgin Soldiers | Elephant Ethel | 1977 |
| Orpheus Descending | Vee Talbot | 1990 |
| Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets | Pomona Sprout | 2002 |
| La Petite Boutique des horreurs | Dental Nurse | 1986 |
| Confessions from a Holiday Camp | Blackbird (voice) (uncredited) | 1977 |
| Reds | Woman with Notebook (uncredited) | 1981 |
| Maman, j'ai raté ma vie | Anita | 2012 |
| Les Débiles de l'espace | Doctor Wallace | 1985 |
| La Femme du boucher | Gina | 1991 |
| Demonella | Mother | 1993 |
| The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self | 2022 |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner | | 1975 |
| House! | Auntie Beth | 2000 |
| La Grande aventure de Maya l'abeille | Queen (voice) | 2014 |
| La légende de Longwood | Lady Thyrza | 2014 |
| When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self | 2011 |
| David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count | Self | 2022 |
| Outlier | Odamee Marshall | 2014 |
| We Are Most Amused | Self | 2008 |
| Miriam's Dickensian Christmas | Self | 2022 |
| Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Self | 2022 |
| Yentl | Sarah | 1983 |
| On a Paving Stone Mounted | | 1978 |
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Mrs. Rajzman | 1989 |
| The Fool | Mrs. Bowring | 1990 |
| The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved | Narrator (voice) | 2024 |
| The Battle of Billy's Pond | Tour Guide | 1976 |
| Doctor Who : Spécial 60e anniversaire | The Meep (voice) (archive footage) | 2023 |
| Honeysuckle | Patricia | 2014 |
| On the Game | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1974 |
| Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti | Narrator (voice) | 1983 |
| Charles Dickens : L'homme qui inventa Noël | Mrs. Fisk | 2017 |
| Echoes That Remain | Narrator (voice) | 1991 |
| Spirit-ED | Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup | 2015 |
| A Closed Book | Mrs. Kilbride | 2012 |
| Harry Potter, aux origines de la magie | Herself | 2017 |
| Le Petit Vampire | Wulftrud (voice) | 2017 |
| Cro Man | Queen Oofeefa (voice) | 2018 |
| Old Flames | Nellie | 1990 |
| Le voleur et le cordonnier | Maiden from Mombassa (voice) | 1993 |
| Postcards from the 48% | | 2018 |
| Miss Fisher et le Tombeau des larmes | Prudence Stanley | 2020 |
| H Is for Happiness | Miss Bamford | 2021 |
| What the Pythons Did Next... | Narrator | 2007 |
| The Thin End of the Wedge | Veronica | 1977 |
| Wings | Audrey | 2020 |
| The IMAX Nutcracker | Sugar Plum | 1997 |
| In Search of Peace | Ester Cailingold (voice) | 2001 |
| Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | | 2021 |
| Pored tebe | Granny Vera | 2023 |
| Not Afraid, Not Afraid | | 2001 |
| Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | Self | 2008 |
| Esprit libre | Maria | 2004 |
| Holy Days | Sister Luke | 2026 |
| The Importance of Being Miriam | | 2015 |
| Angels in the Asylum | | |
| Mother | Maria Aponte | 2015 |
| Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | 2024 |
| Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness | | 2025 |
| A Friend of Dorothy | Dorothy | 2025 |
| The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration | Self | 2022 |
| The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors | Miss N. Shortt | 1986 |
| The Phoenix and the Carpet | Cook | 2004 |
| Peter and the Wolf | Narrator | 2017 |
| Crystal Gazing | Newsreader | 1982 |
| Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema | Narrator | 2007 |
| Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me | Self | 2026 |
| À la recherche du passé | Mrs. Goldman | 1998 |
| They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew | Self | 2026 |
