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
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 Date2007-02-03
Charactersd Self
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 Date2024-01-06
Charactersd Self
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 Date2010-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count17012
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 Date2011-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2337
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 Date1970-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
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 Date2022-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count183
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 Date2014-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count503
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 Date2007-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count761
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 Date2017-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1657
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 Date2019-08-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1281
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 Date2013-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count518
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 Date2011-04-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count480
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 Date2014-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count535
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 Date2016-01-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count133
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 Date2020-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count131
Ice
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
Release Date2016-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count22
The Storyteller
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
Release Date1988-05-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count223
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 Date2017-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count47
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 Date2018-02-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count135
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 Date2019-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count88
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 Date2003-03-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1982
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 Date2005-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
The Singing Detective
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
Release Date1986-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count39
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 Date2007-03-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Entrapment
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
Release Date1999-04-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2073
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 Date1995-10-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1025
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 Date2005-09-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count6
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 Date1997-11-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count514
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 Date1993-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count394
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 Date2009-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Vote Count234
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 Date1999-02-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count240
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 Date1990-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count25
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 Date2014-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
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 Date1986-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The StoryTeller
Jim Henson brings to life The StoryTeller and The StoryTeller: Greek Myths in this collection of European tales.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 Date1989-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
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 Date1981-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
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 Date1983-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date1983-03-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Sudden Wrench
Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.
Release Date1982-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Preview
Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.
Release Date1982-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1985-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Lunch
Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different
Release Date1982-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector