Direction: Jon Amiel

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jon Amiel. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley

Synopsis Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, drifting into a surreal 1945 fantasy of...

7.7

152 votes

7.7

152 votes

The Storyteller (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Henson · Steve Barron · Jon Amiel · Peter Smith

Cast John Hurt · Brian Henson · Frederick Warder · David Greenaway

Synopsis TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a castle until he does a king a favor and gets...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Halt and Catch Fire (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Christopher Cantwell · Christopher C. Rogers · Karyn Kusama · Juan José Campanella

Cast Lee Pace · Scoot McNairy · Mackenzie Davis · Kerry Bishé

Synopsis TV Series (2014-2017). 4 Seasons. 40 Episodes. Set in the early 1980s, series dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

The Tudors (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 55 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Hirst · Ciaran Donnelly · Jeremy Podeswa · Dearbhla Walsh

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Henry Cavill · James Frain · Natalie Dormer

Synopsis TV Series (2007-2010). 4 Seasons. 38 Episodes. 16th Century. King Henry VIII, the young and ambitious monarch of England, prepares for war with France but is dissuaded by the diplomatic manipulation of his powerful Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey, who proposes...

7.2

9K votes

7.2

9K votes

Seven Seconds (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 55 min. · United States

Direction Veena Sud · Jon Amiel · Daniel Attias · Jonathan Demme

Cast Regina King · Clare-Hope Ashitey · Nadia Alexander · Raúl Castillo

Synopsis TV Series (2018). 10 Episodes. Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Borgias (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 55 min. · Ireland

Direction Neil Jordan · Kari Skogland · John Maybury · Jon Amiel

Cast Jeremy Irons · François Arnaud · Holliday Grainger · Pete Sullivan

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2013). 3 Seasons. 29 Episodes. The Borgias is a forthcoming historical fiction television series created by Neil Jordan. The series is based on the Spanish Borgia dynasty, and stars Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia and François Arnaud, David...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Direction René Echevarria · Travis Beacham · Jon Amiel · Anna Foerster

Cast Orlando Bloom · Cara Delevingne · Indira Varma · Waj Ali

Synopsis 8 episodes. The series is a fantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian city in which mythical creatures, fleeing their war-torn homeland, have gathered. Tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population. Bloom will play Rycroft Philostrate, a police inspector...

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Marco Polo (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction John Fusco · David Petrarca · Alik Sakharov · Joachim Rønning

Cast Lorenzo Richelmy · Chin Han · Darwin Shaw · Benedict Wong

Synopsis In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, "Marco Polo" is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in 13th century China.

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Adam Horowitz · Edward Kitsis · Ralph Hemecker · Dean White

Cast Ginnifer Goodwin · Jennifer Morrison · Lana Parrilla · Josh Dallas

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2018). 7 Seasons. 156 Episodes. And they all lived happily ever after – or so everyone was led to believe. Emma Swan knows how to take care of herself. She's a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who's been on...

6.4

12K votes

6.4

12K votes

Copycat

1995 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Sigourney Weaver · Holly Hunter · Dermot Mulroney · William McNamara

Synopsis Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is an expert on serial killers but after a near death experience with a psychotic she lives a life of fear in her apartment, never leaving. Her only link is a friend and assistant, Andy. Then...

6.1

12K votes

6.1

12K votes

Creation

2009 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Paul Bettany · Jennifer Connelly · Toby Jones · Jeremy Northam

Synopsis Part ghost story, part psychological thriller, part love story, "Creation" is the story of Charles Darwin and the single most explosive idea in history. Darwin’s great, still controversial, book "The Origin of Species" depicts nature as a battleground. In "Creation"...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Outsiders (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Peter Mattei · Jon Amiel · Michael Trim · Adam Bernstein

Cast David Morse · Ryan Hurst · Phyllis Somerville · Danielle Brickman

Synopsis TV Series (2016-2017). 2 Seasons. 26 Episodes. A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, "Outsiders" tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since...

6.0

176 votes

6.0

176 votes

Queen of Hearts

1989 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Vittorio Duse · Joseph Long · Anita Zagaria · Eileen Way

Synopsis Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a café in an Italian neighborhood. One day their father loses the café, the home and his wedding...

5.8

38 votes

5.8

38 votes

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Bill Murray · Peter Gallagher · Joanne Whalley · Alfred Molina

Synopsis Murray is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assasinate international leaders at a banquet.

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Aquarius (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction John McNamara · Jonas Pate · Michael Zinberg · Jon Amiel

Cast David Duchovny · Chance Kelly · Grey Damon · Gethin Anthony

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2016). 2 Seasons. 26 Episodes. When the teenage daughter of a respected lawyer goes missing, LA Police Sergeant Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny) starts asking around. He soon discovers that the hippie kids he's questioning don't take kindly to...

5.8

589 votes

5.8

589 votes

Spinning Out (TV Series)

2020 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Samantha Stratton · Matthew Hastings · Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum · Jon Amiel

Cast Kaya Scodelario · January Jones · Willow Shields · Evan Roderick

Synopsis TV Series (2020). 10 Episodes. After a fall nearly ends her career, an up-and-coming, single skater Kat Baker seizes an opportunity to continue as a pair skater with a talented bad-boy partner, she risks exposing a fiercely kept secret that...

5.8

470 votes

5.8

470 votes

Entrapment

1999 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Sean Connery · Catherine Zeta-Jones · Will Patton · Maury Chaykin

Synopsis Robert (Mac) MacDougal has an untarnished reputation as the world's greatest art thief. So when a priceless Rembrandt is stolen in New York, the evidence points to Mac. Insurance investigator Virginia (Gin) Baker persuades her boss, whose company will lose...

5.6

26K votes

5.6

26K votes

Direction Jon Amiel · Elodie Keene · Patrick R. Norris · Lone Scherfig

Cast JoAnna Garcia Swisher · Yvonne Strahovski · Dominique McElligott · Odette Yustman

Synopsis TV Series (2015). 10 Episodes. Based on Lily Koppel's best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.

5.6

53 votes

5.6

53 votes

Sommersby

1992 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Richard Gere · Jodie Foster · Bill Pullman · James Earl Jones

Synopsis Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a...

5.5

6K votes

5.5

6K votes

Hemlock Grove (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Brian McGreevy · Lee Shipman · David Straiton · Deran Sarafian

Cast Landon Liboiron · Eliana Jones · Emilia McCarthy · Aaron Douglas

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2015). 3 Seasons. 33 Episodes. A werewolf struggles both as a monster and as a human. The series is set in the town of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. The town is a mixture of extreme wealth and poverty, as...

5.5

845 votes

5.5

845 votes