In 2001's "Enigma", Winslet played a young woman who finds herself falling for a brilliant young World War II code breaker, played by Dougray Scott.
Leta 2000 je Kate Winslet zaigrala v zgodovinskem filmu "Quills" z Geoffreyjem Rushom in Joaquinom Phoenixom, filmu, ki ga je navdihnilo življenje in delo Markiza de Sadea.