"Michael Winterbottom" Filmography
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The Killer Inside Me
2010, USA, Sweden, UK, Canada
- Actors: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman, Brent Briscoe, Matthew Maher, Liam Aiken, Jay R. Ferguson, Blake Lindsley, Zach Josse, Noah Crawford, Blake Brigham, Caitlin Turner, Michael Gibbons, Rosa Pasquarella, Arletta Knight Fink, Jed Fox, Donna E. Jones, Russell Stewart, Jon Bielich, Phillip Borghee, Brett Bower, Heather Cates, Lori Lynne Cross, Jeffrey Feingold, Sean Johnston
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in an Oklahoma oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?
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The Trip
2010, UK
- Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Margo Stilley, Rebecca Johnson, Dolya Gavanski, Kerry Shale, Paul Popplewell
- Genre: Comedy
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
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Genova
2008, UK
- Actors: Andrea Acquarone, Stefano Barabino, Livio Basou, Monica Bennati, Riccardo Cauda, Dante Ciari, Federico Cigarini, Gherardo Crucitti, Olivia Cumming, Hope Davis, Lucio Dellagiacoma, Giulio Enante, Colin Firth, Sune Frontani, Alessandro Giuggioli, Demetri Goritsas, Kyle Griffin, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland, Laura Iadeluca, Catherine Keener, Angelica Moretti, Carlo Moretti, Kieran O'Brien, Abree Peterson, Kyle Peterson, Lauren Peterson, Matteo Repetto, Margherita Romeo, Gabriella Santinelli
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
How do children respond to tragedy? On an icy road near Chicago, Marianne dies in a crash, leaving Joe and their daughters, Kelly, about 16, and Mary, about 9. That summer, a friend from Joe's graduate student days, 20 years before, arranges a teaching job for him in Genoa. When they arrive in June, Joe starts teaching and the girls have the summer before school starts: Kelly quickly falls in with youths her age; their club and beach life leads to sexual awakening. Mary, burdened by guilt for her mother's death, is solitary. The girls take piano lessons, Mary draws, and she also sees and talks to her mother. Joe asks them, "Are you okay?", but is that enough?
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A Mighty Heart
2006, USA, UK
- Actors: Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Arif Khan, Tipu Taheer, Amit Dhawan, Saira Nasir Khan, Aliya Khan, Sarah Mone, Bushra Parwani, Zafar Karachiwala, Danish Iqubal, Ali Tejani, Azfar Ali, Ahmed A. Jamal, Denis O'Hare, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Alyy Khan, Irrfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah Murad Aliani, Imran Paracha, Imran Patel, Jean-Jacques Scaerou
- Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
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A Cock and Bull Story
2005, UK
- Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Conal Murphy, Joe Williams, Paul Kynman, Mark Tandy, Mary Healey, Dylan Moran, Jack Shepherd, David Walliams, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Wong, Naomie Harris, Claire Keelan, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Hadfield, Elizabeth Berrington, Mark Williams, Jenny Ogilvie, Tony Wilson, Justine Mitchell, Kieran O'Brien, Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona
- Genre: Comedy
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.
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9 Songs
2003, UK
- Actors: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, The Dandy Warhols, Elbow, Franz Ferdinand, Bobby Gillespie, Bob Hardy, Dafydd Ieuan, Alex Kapranos, Mani, Nick McCarthy, Michael Nyman, Guto Pryce, Gruff Rhys, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Robert Young, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Don Blum, Marcie Bolen, Guy Garvey, Peter Hayes, Nick Jago, Richard Jupp, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, Carrie Smith, Jason Stollsteimer, Super Furry Animals
- Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall--London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
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Code 46
2003, UK
- Actors: Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa, Nabil Elouahabi, Samantha Morton, Sarah Backhouse, Jonathan Ibbotson, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Om Puri, Emil Marwa, Nina Fog, Bruno Lastra, Christopher Simpson, Lien Nguyin, David Fahm, Jeanne Balibar, Mick Jones, Taro Sherabayani, Nina Sosanya, Shelley King, Tuyet Le, Benedict Wong, Nina Wadia, Essie Davis, Teo-Wa Vuong, Jennifer Lim, Archie Panjabi, Paul Barnes, Louis Lin, Nabil Massad, Kerry Shale
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his visa: 24 hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.
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24 Hour Party People
2001, UK
- Actors: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Martin Hancock, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine, John Simm, Ralf Little, Dave Gorman, Andy Serkis, Danny Cunningham, Paul Popplewell, Ron Cook, Raymond Waring, Peter Kay, Mark E. Smith, Naomi Radcliffe, Sean Harris, Tim Horrocks, Rob Brydon, Howard Devoto, Collette Cooper, Tracy Cunliffe, Enzo Cilenti, Duncan Whitworth, Michael Mitchell Jr., Claire Lever, Neil Bell
- Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
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The Claim
2000, UK, France, Canada
- Actors: Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley, Shirley Henderson, Julian Richings, Sean McGinley, Randy Birch, Tom McCamus, Frank Zotter, Artur Ciastkowski, Barry Ward, Karolina Muller, David Lereaney, Valerie Planche, Grant Linneberg, Jimmy Herman, Marie Brassard, Phillipa Peak, Kate Hennig, Fernando Davalos, Marc Hollogne, Ron Anderson, Marty Antonini, Lydia Lau, Royal Sproule, Tim Koetting, Billy Morton, Duncan Fraser
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scout the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
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Jude
1996, UK
- Actors: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths, June Whitfield, Ross Colvin Turnbull, James Daley, Berwick Kaler, Sean McKenzie, Richard Albrecht, Caitlin Bossley, Emma Turner, Lorraine Hilton, James Nesbitt, Mark Lambert, Paul Bown, Amanda Ryan, Vernon Dobtcheff, David Tennant, Darren Tighe, Paul Copley, Ken Jones, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Raymond Ross, Freda Dowie, Dexter Fletcher, Moray Hunter, Adrian Bower, Kerry Shale, Billie Dee Roberts
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage and she is married to an abusive nobleman. Living out of wedlock, the two are rejected by the townspeople leaving them to struggle in abject poverty.
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Butterfly Kiss
1995, UK
- Actors: Amanda Plummer, Kathy Jamieson, Saskia Reeves, Des McAleer, Lisa Riley, Freda Dowie, Paula Tilbrook, Fine Time Fontayne, Elizabeth McGrath, Joanne Cook, Shirley Vaughan, Paul Bown, Emily Aston, Ricky Tomlinson, Katy Murphy, Adele Lawson, Jeffrey Longmore, Suzy Yannis, Julie Walker, Kelly
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
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Available languages:
- English English.
Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam is very impressed by Eunice's fierceness and willfulness and follows her on the search for Judith. Shocked by Eunice's cruelty she tries to make her a better person, but she looses ground herself.