Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom

Date of Birth: 29 Mar 1961

Country: UK

Biography: Michael Winterbottom (born 29 March 1961) is an English film director. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People—have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 35 (Director), 11 (Writer)

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    The Claim
    A raw, romantic tale of stark beauty and primal authenticity about how dreams collided with greed in the making of California.
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    Code 46
    A love story set in an eerily possible near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints.
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    In This World
    This film follows the hazardous journey of two Afghan boys as they travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London. (Sundance Film Series)
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    Wonderland
    There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him... (imdb)
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    24 Hour Party People
    Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), 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... (imdb)
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    9 Songs
    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 (familiar to anyone who's ever been in love) unfold in counterpoint to the nine live-concert songs of the story's title. (Tartan Films)
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    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    A zesty celebration of storytelling and the life that spills out of it, this film tells two stories: that of an 18th Century Englishman Tristram Shandy (Coogan), and that of the hapless 21st Century filmmakers who are adapting the notoriously unfilmable work "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," with "Steve Coogan" (COogan) in the title role. (Picturehouse)
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    Jude
    A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves in this adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. (imdb)
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    Welcome to Sarajevo
    Journalist Floyd from US, Michael Henderson from UK and their teams meet the beginning of Bosnian war in Sarajevo... (imdb)
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    I Want You
    A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover. (imdb)
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    The Road to Guantanamo
    Part documentary, part dramatization, this film is the terrifying first-hand account of three British citizens who were held for two years without charges in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Roadside Attractions)
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    A Mighty Heart
    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? (imdb)
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    Go Now
    Go Now (1995) - TV Movie
    Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on. (imdb)
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    Butterfly Kiss
    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... (imdb)
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    Genova
    A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality (imdb)
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    With or Without You
    Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now? (imdb)
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    The Shock Doctrine
    An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. (imdb)
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    Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood
    Documentary mini-series about the rise and fall of the European silent film industry. (imdb)
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    The Killer Inside Me
    A deputy sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.
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    The Trip
    Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue to play themselves as they previously played in the Golden Tulip-winner A Cock and Bull Story in The Trip, the feature film edited out from the six-episode British comedy series. In this gourmet road movie, Coogan is assigned by the food section of a newspaper as guest critic, and as such, he travels the English countryside with his sad-faced, neurotic friend Brydon. Most of their hilarious dialogues are improvised. (IKSV)
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    Trishna
    The story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner. (imdb)
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    Everyday
    This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time. (imdb)
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    The Look of Love
    The true story of British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond. A modern day King Midas story, Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain at the cost of losing those closest to him. (sundance.org)
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    The Trip To Italy
    Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri. (imdb)
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    The Face of an Angel
    Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect. (imdb)
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    The Emperor\
    A look at the growing disparity between different economic classes. (imdb)
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    The Trip
    The Trip (2010) - TV Series
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    Family
    Family (1994) - TV Mini-Series
    Four-part drama about a working class Dublin family with an abusive, drunken father. Each episode is seen through the eyes of a different member of the family.
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    On the Road
    An intimate look at life on the road for the band Wolf Alice as they tour Great Britain. (imdb)
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    The Trip to Spain
    Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a 6 part episodic road trip through Spain. Sampling the restaurants, eateries and sights along the way.
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    The Wedding Guest
    A story centered on a mysterious British Muslim man (Dev Patel) on his journey across Pakistan and India. (imdb)
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    Greed
    A satire on wealth, centered around a billionaire's 60th birthday on the Greek island Mykonos. (Wikipedia)
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    The Trip to Greece
    Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus. (imdb)
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    This England
    This England (2022) - TV Mini-Series
    Drama following the events surrounding Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government in the face of the first wave of COVID-19.
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    Shoshana
    A political thriller that unfolds during the British Mandate in 1930s Tel Aviv, following two British police officers, Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton, in their hunt for poet and Zionist activist Avraham Stern, who is plotting to evict British authorities.
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