David Drury (Director)
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Works
Big in Japan
Big in Japan is a comedic rock-and-roll road movie about struggling Seattle rock band, Tennis Pro, who decide to sell their tour-van and head to Tokyo for one last shot at acceptance
Release Date2014-03-11
Charactersd David
Vote Count5
Prime Suspect
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
Release Date1991-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count92
Hostile Waters
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Release Date1997-10-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count34
The Secret Agent
1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
Release Date1992-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Blue Murder
Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
Release Date2003-05-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count13
Defence of the Realm
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Release Date1986-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count39
Ashes to Ashes
Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
Release Date2008-02-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count110
Marian, Again
School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.
Release Date2005-09-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
The Crooked Man
Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence captured on his camera is used by his unscrupulous boss, Hamilton, to blackmail the very people they are supposed to be protecting. The tables are turned when Fielding and Hamilton themselves become the subject of scrutiny and are plunged into a world of Subterfuge, Intrigue, blackmail and murder.
Release Date2003-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Come Rain Come Shine
A high-living property developer whose world unravels under a mountain of debt, forcing him to move in with his parents.
Release Date2010-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Messiah
Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.
Release Date2001-05-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count24
Children of the North
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
Release Date1991-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Paradise
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
Release Date2012-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count82
Roads in February
Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the place of origin and that village of old people forgotten by Modernity where the heat is overwhelming and the days seem to last forever. Cultural shock, humor, tenderness and sadness give shape to this bitter-sweet film.
Release Date2019-02-21
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count8
Love Lies Bleeding
Self-made millionaire Mark Terry has no idea that his world is about to turn upside down when an old school friend appears with a grudge against him.
Release Date2006-02-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Take
Freddie Jackson is released from prison in 1984 having served a four-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife Jackie, who has been waiting for him on the outside in the mistaken belief that that he wants to go straight, soon finds herself disappointed: Freddie is in fact raring to get back into the game and has set his sights on becoming top dog in the East End underworld.
Release Date2009-06-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count82
The Cry
Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
Release Date2002-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Security Men
A group of night security guards working at the fictional Whittington shopping centre in Greater Manchester must create an elaborate scheme to hide a robbery that has taken place on their watch.
Release Date2013-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Trust
When her husband is accused of murder, solicitor Anne Travers defends him -- but as the evidence mounts, she begins to question their "perfect" life.
Release Date2000-08-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Runway One
An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.
Release Date1995-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Bad Company
A dramatization of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Carl Bridgewater and the subsequent trial and imprisonment of four men.
Release Date1993-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has a unique narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past.
Release Date2007-03-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
Intrigue
A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.
Release Date1988-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
The Swap
British Tv Movie Thriller
Release Date2002-02-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Tokyo Idols
This exploration of Japan's fascination with girl bands and their music follows an aspiring pop singer and her fans, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hypermodern societies.
Release Date2017-07-28
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count48
Our Girl
On the evening of her 18th birthday, Molly Dawes finds herself drunk and is sick in the doorway of an army recruitment office. She looks into the window of the office and sees a life-sized photograph of an army girl, everything that Molly isn't but wants to be - respected. The following morning, Molly finds herself back in the recruitment office and is eventually persuaded to complete an aptitude test. No-one thinks she can stick it out, including herself. But slowly and surely, Molly is maturing and learning to believe in herself. She digs in and finds a strength that she never thought she had.
Release Date2013-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count35
The Brief
Henry Farmer is a clever minded criminal practice attorney whose every day is a juggling act between surviving his messy personal life and pleading cases only he can win. Whether he's trying to keep an innocent person from going to jail or save himself from financial ruin, Henry's life is a symphony of chaos. His long list of problems includes a mountain of gambling debts, an affair with an important politician's wife, a distant son, and a sharp-tongued father who's also a judge.
Release Date2004-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Rhodes
Martin Shaw stars as Cecil Rhodes, the man whose controversial career included the creation of de Beers, the addition of nearly one million square miles to the Britain's African Empire, and had given his name to a country (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) larger than most of Europe. Martin Shaw's son plays the younger Rhodes and other cast members include Neil Pearson, Frances Barber and Ken Stott.
Release Date1996-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Midnight Man
Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already driven his wife and daughter away and he's desperate for a real story. When he uncovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last?
Release Date2008-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
Split Decisions
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Release Date1988-06-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count24
The Cry
Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
Release Date2002-04-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Forever Young
A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what he seems to be--it turns out that many years before, the priest had betrayed his friend, and now his friend has come back for revenge.
Release Date1983-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Wintopia
IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world. In 2013, he died after a short illness. His daughter Mira was left behind with a whole lot of questions, and a box full of videotapes that Wintonick shot for his Utopia project. She resolved to investigate what sort of film he envisaged, and to complete it for him.
Release Date2019-11-23
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Vote Count1
Tough Love
DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.
Release Date2000-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector