Biography
Joseph Wright (born August 25, 1972) is an English film director. His motion pictures include the literary adaptations Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and Darkest Hour (2017), a political drama following Winston Churchill during World War II nominated for Best Picture.
Known For
Complete Filmography
M - Il Figlio del secolo | Il dietro le quinte
2025
as himself

Widow Clicquot
2024
Producer
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revoluti...

Princess & Peppernose
2021
Director
A short film by Joe Wright comes a very special love story, and his most personal project yet. Inspired by his love of puppeteering and his dedication...

The Woman in the Window
2021
Director
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

Cyrano
2021
Director
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, conv...

Swallow
2020
Executive Producer
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their con...

Darkest Hour
2017
Director
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it c...

Pan
2015
Director
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits a...

Locke
2014
Executive Producer
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his c...

Hummingbird
2013
Executive Producer
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportuni...

Anna Karenina
2012
Director
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...
Long Walk Home
2012
Thanks
A dark romantic comedy about a young couple from London. A decision to walk home one night, rather than taking a taxi, brings out the very different s...

Hanna
2011
Director
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the w...

The Soloist
2009
Director
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

Atonement
2007
Director
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

Pride & Prejudice
2005
Director
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbeari...
The End
1998
Director
An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.

Crocodile Snap
1997
Director
A woman's bid to escape her violent husband is seen through the eyes of her younger daughter. Sadie understands Mum better after an accident on Bright...

Poison Ivy
1985
as Jerry Disbro
Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.

Brood
N/A
Producer
Over the course of a single year, a woman heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges tha...
Stoner
N/A
Director
A poor farmer in the early 1900s becomes a scholar and faces a series of frustrating challenges and disappointments in his chosen career path.

In the Garden of Beasts
N/A
Director
A mild-mannered Chicago professor becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany just before the Nazis began to assert an iron grip across Eur...
Alignment
N/A
Director
Follows a cutting-edge tech company whose latest AI model begins manipulating global markets and stoking international conflict, a principled board me...