Search results for "Michael Apted"
Sting: Bring on the Night

Sting: Bring on the Night

Sting: Bring on the Night
IMDb: 7.5
97

Bring on the Night is a 1985 documentary film, that focuses on the jazz-inspired project and band led by the British musician Sting during the early stages of his solo…

Bending the Light

Bending the Light

Bending the Light
IMDb: 6.6
60

From acclaimed director Michael Apted (The Up Series, Masters of Sex, The World is Not Enough) comes a revealing look at the art of filmmaking and photography. A journey of…

Blink

Blink

Blink
IMDb: 6.2
106

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems:…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang

P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang

P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang
IMDb: 7.2
80

Based on Jack Rosenthal’s childhood memories, Michael Apted’s film, set in the summer of 1948, features 14-year-old Alan who has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that…

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered
IMDb: 7.2
104

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
63 Up

63 Up

63 Up
IMDb: 8.2
145

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during…

Genre: Documentary
56 Up

56 Up

56 Up
IMDb: 8
144

When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately evident that their social backgrounds influenced their attitudes towards life. While the upper class children…

Genre: Documentary
Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks
IMDb: 7.1
117

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Genre: Drama
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
IMDb: 6.3
113

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the…

49 Up

49 Up

49 Up
IMDb: 8.2
135

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada’s World in Action team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim “Give…

Genre: Documentary
Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
IMDb: 7.4
117

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see…

Genre: Drama
42 Up

42 Up

42 Up
IMDb: 8.2
133

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during…

Genre: Documentary
Enigma

Enigma

Enigma
IMDb: 6.4
119

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

Nell

Nell

Nell
IMDb: 6.5
112

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell – a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Thunderheart

Thunderheart

Thunderheart
IMDb: 6.8
119

An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.

Genre: Crime, Drama
35 Up

35 Up

35 Up
IMDb: 8.2
116

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during…

Genre: Documentary
Class Action

Class Action

Class Action
IMDb: 6.4
105

A Liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in…

Genre: Crime, Drama
28 Up

28 Up

28 Up
IMDb: 8.2
136

Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted’s documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they’ve found their place in the world.

Genre: Documentary
Gorky Park

Gorky Park

Gorky Park
IMDb: 6.7
128

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow’s Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Coal Miner’s Daughter

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Coal Miner’s Daughter
IMDb: 7.5
125

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Genre: Drama, Music
21 Up

21 Up

21 Up
IMDb: 8.1
100

After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes…

Genre: Documentary
The Triple Echo

The Triple Echo

The Triple Echo
IMDb: 6.4
97

After her husband is captured during WWII, homesteader Alice is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton stops by the farm and the pair…

Genre: Drama, War
Stardust

Stardust

Stardust
IMDb: 6.5
107

Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic ‘gigs and groupies’ life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of…

Genre: Drama
7 Plus Seven

7 Plus Seven

7 Plus Seven
IMDb: 8
52

After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in…

Genre: Documentary
Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist
IMDb: 7
129

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Genre: Drama, History
Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures
IMDb: 6.2
118

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Squeeze

The Squeeze

The Squeeze
IMDb: 6.4
104

An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved into a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Continental Divide

Continental Divide

Continental Divide
IMDb: 6.2
103

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Agatha

Agatha

Agatha
IMDb: 6.3
99

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Unlocked

Unlocked

Unlocked
IMDb: 6.3
98

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor…

Genre: Action, Thriller
The World Is Not Enough

The World Is Not Enough

The World Is Not Enough
IMDb: 6.4
128

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it’s all in a day’s work for Bond, who’s on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist….

Enough

Enough

Enough
IMDb: 5.8
114

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Critical Condition

Critical Condition

Critical Condition
IMDb: 5.4
100

Eddie is a con artist. When he’s framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by climbing insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for…

Genre: Comedy
Firstborn

Firstborn

Firstborn
IMDb: 6.2
103

Because he’s the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way…

Genre: Drama, Thriller