Jon Amiel

Jon Amiel is an English film director who has since the early 1980s worked in film and television in both the UK and the US.

Works

A Look Through His Lens

Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insightful examples from his work on Diva, Hope and Glory, A River Runs Through It, Dangerous Liaisons, Interview with the Vampire and many more in this cineaste's delight.

Release Date:2024-01-06

Character:Self

The Cleaning Lady
7.7

The Cleaning Lady

A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

Release Date:2022-01-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:161

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
7.6

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for profiling, finds herself hot on the killer's trail, Rhyme finds a partner for this new game of cat and mouse.

Release Date:2020-01-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:128

Carnival Row
7.7

Carnival Row

In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name.

Release Date:2019-08-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1245

Proven Innocent
7.4

Proven Innocent

Madeline Scott, a fierce and uncompromising lawyer with a hunger for justice, runs an underdog criminal defense firm. There is no one who understands the power of setting an innocent person free more than Madeline. At age 18, she was wrongfully convicted, along with her brother, in a sensational murder case. Madeline defends others as she fights to maintain her innocence and searches for the real killer in her own case.

Release Date:2019-02-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:87

Seven Seconds
7.2

Seven Seconds

Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.

Release Date:2018-02-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:127

Wisdom of the Crowd
6.8

Wisdom of the Crowd

A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.

Release Date:2017-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:46

American Gods
7.1

American Gods

An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.

Release Date:2017-04-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1623

Ice
6.5

Ice

A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.

Release Date:2016-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:22

Outsiders
6.5

Outsiders

A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, "Outsiders" tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.

Release Date:2016-01-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:130

Marco Polo
7.3

Marco Polo

An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a trusted companion to the Khan in his violent quest to become the Emperor of the World.

Release Date:2014-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:510

5.2

Deliverance Creek

At the end of the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe, a widowed mother of three, faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt local bank pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be lawful or to survive.

Release Date:2014-09-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:11

Halt and Catch Fire
7.9

Halt and Catch Fire

During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

Release Date:2014-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:487

Hemlock Grove
7.1

Hemlock Grove

One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.

Release Date:2013-04-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:507

Once Upon a Time
7.4

Once Upon a Time

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.

Release Date:2011-10-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2277

The Borgias
7.5

The Borgias

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.

Release Date:2011-04-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:465

The Walking Dead
8.1

The Walking Dead

Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

Release Date:2010-10-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:16769

6.4

Creation

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he struggles to finish his legendary book "On the Origin of the Species," which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.

Release Date:2009-09-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:229

The Tudors
7.8

The Tudors

The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

Release Date:2007-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:740

The Wedding Bells
7.0

The Wedding Bells

The Wedding Bells is an American television comedy-drama that ran on Fox from March 7 to April 6, 2007. The series was greenlighted after the network became interested in a series centered on wedding planners. The network approached David E. Kelley to create the show, and he essentially remade a rejected pilot he created for ABC in 2004 entitled DeMarco Affairs which starred Selma Blair, Lindsay Sloane and Sabrina Lloyd as three sisters who inherit a wedding planner service. Though the show had a moderately strong premiere, it faded in the ratings and was cancelled after seven episodes had been produced and five episodes were aired.

Release Date:2007-03-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.

Release Date:2007-02-03

Character:Self

Reunion
6.7

Reunion

Reunion is an American television series that aired on FOX in late 2005. The series was intended to chronicle 20 years in the lives of a group of six high school friends from Bedford, New York, with each episode following one year in the lives of the six, beginning with their high school graduation year 1986. Each episode also featured scenes in the present where Detective Marjorino is investigating the brutal murder of one of the group during the night of their 20-year class reunion in 2006. The identity of the murder victim was not revealed until the fifth episode, "1990". Due to low ratings, the series was canceled after only nine episodes, and the identity of the killer remained unrevealed in the aired episodes.

Release Date:2005-09-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:6

Eyes
7.1

Eyes

Eyes is an ABC television series starring Tim Daly as Harlan Judd. Eyes follows the firm of Judd Risk Management which uses marginally legal means to investigate individuals and crimes where law enforcement would fall short. With the help of high-tech gadgets, Harlan Judd and his employees recover money for victims as well as investigate individuals for clients but still manage to keep plenty of secrets from one another. In May 2005, having rescheduled the sixth episode twice, ABC announced that they would not be airing the remaining episodes until June at the earliest. They later announced that it would not be picked up for a second season and that the remaining episodes would remain unaired. New Zealand television station TV2 picked up this show and aired the complete series, all twelve episodes, in the second half of 2005. These episodes appeared online via BitTorrent soon after. The show was also partially aired on Singapore television station Mediacorp Channel 5, with the pilot episode and episodes #106 to #112 being skipped. Episode #111 was an exception, and was aired as the fifth episode. The show was also aired in full on France cable television station Canal Jimmy in 2006. In the beginning of 2008 the show was aired in full on Polish television station TVN 7. The series was shown on the Nine Network in Australia in 2007.

Release Date:2005-03-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

5.8

The Core

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

Release Date:2003-03-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1910

6.2

Entrapment

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.

Release Date:1999-04-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2035

5.4

Simply Irresistible

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

Release Date:1999-02-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:235

6.4

The Man Who Knew Too Little

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.

Release Date:1997-11-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:499

6.5

Copycat

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Release Date:1995-10-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:975

6.4

Sommersby

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.

Release Date:1993-02-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:388

5.3

Tune in Tomorrow...

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about their fictional selves over the radio, but about what they are going to do next.

Release Date:1990-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

6.7

Queen of Hearts

Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.

Release Date:1989-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

The Storyteller
8.1

The Storyteller

The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

Release Date:1988-05-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:218

The Singing Detective
7.7

The Singing Detective

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Release Date:1986-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:38

The Silent Twins

Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commit a violent crime. After 14 years in Broadmoor Psychiatric Institution, freedom visits them in a mysterious way.

Release Date:1986-01-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

5.0

The Last Evensong

'The old order changeth, giving way to new....' But not if Brigadier Pryce Jones and Miss Marshall have anything to do with it.

Release Date:1985-01-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

6.0

Busted

A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.

Release Date:1983-01-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

The Angel Makers

During World War I, a group of women who are left behind in an English farming community become romantically involved with several German prisoners of war.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Gates of Gold

Play by Maurice Leitch set in Country Antrim. Two evangelists are touring the area, stirring up religious fervour in the quiet Presbyterian backwaters. The year is 1959.

Release Date:1983-03-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Lunch

Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different

Release Date:1982-04-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

A Sudden Wrench

Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.

Release Date:1982-03-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Preview

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

Release Date:1982-01-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Beyond the Pale

"The British Brothers leave Hackney at 4:30 today and will march with bands and banners through the Jewish quarters of Whitechapel and Bethnal Green." The story of Jewish immigrants in London's East End in the early 20th century.

Release Date:1981-01-06

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Play for Today
6.1

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Release Date:1970-10-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:8

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