Joe Wright

Joe Wright

1972-08-25 London, England, UK 23 Credits

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.

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M - Il Figlio del secolo | Il dietro le quinte

2025

as himself

7.2
Acting
Widow Clicquot

Widow Clicquot

2024

Producer

6.7
Producing

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

Princess & Peppernose

2021

Director

Directing

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

The Woman in the Window

2021

Director

6.0
Directing

An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

Cyrano

Cyrano

2021

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Swallow

2020

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour

2017

Director

7.4
Directing

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

Pan

2015

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Locke

2014

Executive Producer

6.9
Producing

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

Hummingbird

2013

Executive Producer

6.2
Producing

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

Anna Karenina

2012

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Hanna

2011

Director

6.6
Directing

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

The Soloist

2009

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Atonement

Atonement

2007

Director

7.6
Directing

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

Pride & Prejudice

2005

Director

8.1
Directing

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

Directing

An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.

Crocodile Snap

Crocodile Snap

1997

Director

Directing

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

Poison Ivy

1985

as Jerry Disbro

6.1
Acting

Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.

Brood

Brood

N/A

Producer

Producing

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

Directing

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

In the Garden of Beasts

N/A

Director

Directing

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

Directing

Follows a cutting-edge tech company whose latest AI model begins manipulating global markets and stoking international conflict, a principled board me...