Joseph Wright (born August 25, 1972) is an English film director. His motion pictures include the literary adaptations Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and Darkest Hour (2017), a political drama following Winston Churchill during World War II nominated for Best Picture.
Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.
Release Date1985-02-10
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Release Date2025-01-07
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Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.
Release Date2015-08-02
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PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of directors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.
Release Date2021-03-03
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Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Release Date2011-12-04
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Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
Release Date2024-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count10
Vote Count147
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Release Date2005-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8360
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Release Date2007-02-27
DepartmentDirecting
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Vote Count4439
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Release Date2017-11-22
DepartmentDirecting
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Vote Count5258
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Release Date2013-05-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1765
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.
Release Date2015-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2767
Based on the Strega Prize-winning novel of the same name by Antonio Scurati, the series chronicles the birth of fascism in Italy and Benito Mussolini's rise to power.
Release Date2025-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
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Episode Count8
Vote Count127
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
Release Date2011-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3477
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Release Date2012-09-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2326
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
Release Date2014-04-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2768
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Release Date2021-05-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2032
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Release Date2021-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
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Vote Count307
Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in association with the A&E Network in the United States depicting the reign of Charles II.
Release Date2003-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
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Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Release Date2020-01-15
DepartmentProduction
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Vote Count788
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Release Date2009-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count786
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.
Release Date2024-07-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count74
A poor farmer in the early 1900s becomes a scholar and faces a series of frustrating challenges and disappointments in his chosen career path.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Bob Gossage is a thirtysomething teacher who has been gay all his life. Now, however, he quite unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with a woman, Rose Cooper. Various confusions and misunderstandings ensue, with Rose's heartbroken ex-boyfriend Andy, Bob's jealous colleague Holly, and his gay-rights campaigning mother Monica all getting caught up in the mix.
Release Date2001-09-10
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Episode Count3
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A sensitive young man who relishes time in nature is at odds with the rough urban culture in which he lives.
Release Date2000-02-14
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JobDirector
Episode Count4
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Mitchel, a mild-mannered suburban stockbroker spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his dad is dying of cancer, all on the eve of his 44th birthday.
Release Date2002-10-14
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Episode Count2
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An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.
Release Date1998-01-02
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A mild-mannered Chicago professor becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany just before the Nazis began to assert an iron grip across Europe.
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A woman's bid to escape her violent husband is seen through the eyes of her younger daughter. Sadie understands Mum better after an accident on Brighton beach shows her that all actions have consequences and that fear of the unknown can be greater than fear of the known.
Release Date1997-01-02
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A short film by Joe Wright comes a very special love story, and his most personal project yet. Inspired by his love of puppeteering and his dedication to the craft of filmmaking, this is a beautifully twisted tale of love against all odds.
Release Date2021-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Over the course of a single year, a woman heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the freezing nights of a harsh winter to a sweltering summer with its own surprise tornado, she battles predators, terrible luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she once imagined.
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A dark romantic comedy about a young couple from London. A decision to walk home one night, rather than taking a taxi, brings out the very different secrets that they have been keeping from one another.
Release Date2012-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Follows a cutting-edge tech company whose latest AI model begins manipulating global markets and stoking international conflict, a principled board member and an out of his depth software engineer must race to convince their profit-obsessed colleagues to shut down their creation before it triggers a globally catastrophic event.
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