Mike Barker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mike Barker (born November 29, 1965) is a British film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Barker (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

6.5

Luckiest Girl Alive

A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

Release Date:2022-09-30

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:844

The Sandman
7.9

The Sandman

After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.

Release Date:2022-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2114

Hit & Run
6.9

Hit & Run

A happily married man's life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife's killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.

Release Date:2021-08-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:89

The Handmaid's Tale
8.2

The Handmaid's Tale

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

Release Date:2017-04-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:2800

Outlander
8.2

Outlander

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Release Date:2014-08-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2632

Fargo
8.3

Fargo

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Release Date:2014-04-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2794

The Smoke
7.3

The Smoke

An experienced fire fighter is badly injured and spends almost a year recovering at home. Now he returns to work, but is he as emotionally and physically sound as he thinks he is?

Release Date:2014-02-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:12

Moby Dick
5.7

Moby Dick

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Release Date:2011-05-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:39

6.0

Sea Wolf

A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.

Release Date:2009-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

Sea Wolf
4.8

Sea Wolf

Captain Wolf Larsen, the notorious Sea Wolf who rules the crew of his ship, the Ghost, with an iron fist. While on the high seas he takes on a castaway, the literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden. But instead of dropping him off at the next harbour, Larsen forces him to work in his crew as a ship boy. The young dandy has to fight for his very own survival in this new, rough world on board. But his most dangerous challenge is the captain himself, who involves him in an evil game.

Release Date:2009-11-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:7

6.4

Butterfly on a Wheel

A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

Release Date:2007-07-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:525

American Dad!
7.0

American Dad!

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

Release Date:2005-02-06

Character:Terry Bates (voice)

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2165

6.3

A Good Woman

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."

Release Date:2004-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:167

5.7

To Kill a King

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

Release Date:2003-05-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:64

5.9

Lorna Doone

The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...

Release Date:2001-03-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:20

Lorna Doone
8.0

Lorna Doone

Passionate love story set in 17th century rural England, charting the young John Ridd's search for revenge after his father's murder, and the chance encounter with beautiful Lorna Doone that changes the course of his life.

Release Date:2000-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

5.7

Best Laid Plans

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.

Release Date:1999-04-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:125

5.0

The James Gang

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

Release Date:1997-11-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
7.4

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara FitzGerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham.

Release Date:1996-11-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:30

Silent Witness
7.6

Silent Witness

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

Release Date:1996-02-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:94

The Last American Freak Show

Follow the final tour of impressario Ward Hall, the 'Ziegfield of the Cornfield', who has been bringing the strange and bizarre to middle America for the last 50 years.

Release Date:1994-12-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Black Match

Black Match

A psychosexual neo-noir thriller set in modern-day Los Angeles.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

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