Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom

1961-03-29 Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK 48 Credits

Biography

Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. 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 been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Shoshana

Shoshana

2024

Director, Producer, Writer

6.6
Directing Producing Writing

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1...

Eleven Days in May

Eleven Days in May

2022

Director, Producer, Editor

7.8
Directing Producing

Over the course of 11 days in May 2021, more than 60 children were killed in Gaza. They should never be forgotten. Narrated by Kate Winslet and with m...

Isolation

Isolation

2021

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic....

The Trip to Greece

The Trip to Greece

2020

Director

6.3
Directing

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their travelogue series with a visit to Greece.

Greed

Greed

2019

Screenplay, Director

5.7
Writing Directing

A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

The Wedding Guest

The Wedding Guest

2019

Director, Writer, Producer

5.7
Directing Writing Producing

Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to...

The Trip to Spain

The Trip to Spain

2017

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.

On the Road

On the Road

2016

Director

4.8
Directing

North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer o...

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

2015

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following ...

The Face of an Angel

The Face of an Angel

2014

Director

5.1
Directing

Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.

The Trip to Italy

The Trip to Italy

2014

Writer, Director

6.3
Writing Directing

Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

Hello Carter

Hello Carter

2013

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

Down-on-his-luck Carter has recently become homeless, single and unemployed. Desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend, he goes off on an adventure thro...

What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?

2013

as Self

6.4
Acting

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...

The Look of Love

The Look of Love

2013

Director

5.6
Directing

Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, De...

Everyday

Everyday

2012

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

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 week...

Trishna

Trishna

2011

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pu...

The Trip

The Trip

2011

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

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 girlfri...

The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me

2010

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little...

The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine

2009

Director

7.1
Directing

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror t...

Genova

Genova

2009

Director, Writer, Producer

5.6
Directing Writing Producing

A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them ...

A Mighty Heart

A Mighty Heart

2007

Director

6.4
Directing

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

Snow Cake

Snow Cake

2006

Executive Producer

7.2
Producing

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

The Road to Guantanamo

The Road to Guantanamo

2006

Producer, Director, Editor

6.9
Producing Directing Writing

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two ye...

A Cock and Bull Story

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

Director

6.2
Directing

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

Top Spot

Top Spot

2004

Executive Producer

5.0
Producing

Traumatic experiences shape the lives of a group of teenage girls living in the seaside town of Margate.

9 Songs

9 Songs

2004

Producer, Editor, Director

5.6
Producing Directing Writing

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 a...

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

2003

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...

Code 46

Code 46

2003

Director

6.2
Directing

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

Heartlands

Heartlands

2003

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atle...

In This World

In This World

2003

Director

6.3
Directing

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enay...

24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People

2002

Director

7.0
Directing

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changi...

The Claim

The Claim

2000

Director

6.0
Directing

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 ...

With or Without You

With or Without You

1999

Director

5.5
Directing

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'r...

Wonderland

Wonderland

1999

Director

6.6
Directing

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, p...

I Want You

I Want You

1998

Director

5.6
Directing

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

Resurrection Man

Resurrection Man

1998

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter...

Welcome to Sarajevo

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997

Director

6.4
Directing

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks wh...

Jude

Jude

1996

Director

6.3
Directing

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t...

Go Now

Go Now

1995

Director

6.6
Directing

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 exhibi...

Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss

1995

Director

6.5
Directing

Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly se...

Family

Family

1994

Director

8.5
Directing

This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusiv...

Love Lies Bleeding

Love Lies Bleeding

1993

Director

Directing

Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole a...

Under the Sun

Under the Sun

1992

Story, Director

Writing Directing

Kate Hardie plays a shy 19-year-old bookworm setting out on a world trip, only to be stranded at Málaga after her companion goes off with a local loth...

Forget About Me

1990

Director

Directing

Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.

Rosie the Great

Rosie the Great

1989

Director

Directing

The British Government wants to ruin the island of Longsea with a military base that they’re pushing forward with even after the Island’s council demo...

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

1988

Director

Directing

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's person...

A Farewell to Arms

N/A

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Producing Directing Writing

A volunteer ambulance driver, Frederic Henry, is wounded and falls in love with his nurse in Italy during World War One.

Gaza Year Zero

N/A

Director

Directing

A 13-year-old boy and his family try to survive in a country destroyed by war.