Joe Wright

Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. He directed the period drama adaptations Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and Darkest Hour (2017). He also directed the historical drama television series Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Wright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Poison Ivy

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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Vote Count26

M - Il Figlio del secolo | Il dietro le quinte

Release Date2025-01-07

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Vote Count3

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

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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Episode Count1

Vote Count19

HBO First Look

HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show is part documentary and part advertisement. It airs on HBO with no set schedule.

Release Date1992-06-12

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Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Directors on Directors

Directors on Directors

Release Date2021-03-03

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Episode Count1

Black Mirror

Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

Release Date2011-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count5899

Pride & Prejudice

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 Count8560

The Agency: Central Intelligence

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count187

Atonement

A young girl 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

JobDirector

Vote Count4563

Darkest Hour

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

JobDirector

Vote Count5394

Hummingbird

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 Count1810

Hanna

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 Count3563

Mussolini: Son of the Century

The rise of Benito Mussolini and the birth of fascism in Italy, chronicling a country’s surrender to dictatorship and the relentless ascent of a man who rose from his ashes time and again.

Release Date2025-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count152

Pan

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 Count2806

Swallow

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

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count813

Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's 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 Count2367

The Woman in the Window

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 Count2090

The Soloist

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 Count802

Widow Clicquot

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 Count93

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

Charles II: The Power and the Passion is a four-part television miniseries, broadcast on BBC One from 16 November to 7 December 2003. The series depicts the reign of Charles II, covering the period just before his Restoration in 1660. It focuses on his conflicts with Parliament, his relationships with his mistresses—particularly Barbara Villiers—and his efforts to restore England after the Civil War. When shown in the United States, as The Last King: The Power and the Passion of King Charles II, nearly an hour was removed for broadcast by the A&E Network. The edits often make little regard for either the full product's continuity or coherence.

Release Date2003-11-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count17

Cyrano

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

JobDirector

Vote Count321

Locke

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 Count2831

Crocodile Snap

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Brood

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.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The End

An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.

Release Date1998-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Nature Boy

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Bob & Rose

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count10

Princess & Peppernose

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

Stoner

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

Bodily Harm

Bodily Harm is a two-part British miniseries written by Tony Grounds, and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for Channel 4. Airing in June 2002, it stars Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Annette Crosbie, and George Cole. On the eve of his 44th birthday, mild-mannered suburban stockbroker Mitchel Greenfield spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his father is dying of cancer.

Release Date2002-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

In the Garden of Beasts

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Long Walk Home

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

Alignment

A cutting-edge tech company's 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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Renegade TV Gets Dazed

Renegade TV was a regular feature on late night Channel 4 in the UK in the late 1990's. This special was made in conjunction with Dazed Magazine and featured a Mondo style compilation of news clips and stories from around the world.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector