Biography
Bernard Rose is an English filmmaker and screenwriter. Considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking, he is best known for directing the horror films Paperhouse (1988) and Candyman (1992), the historical romances Immortal Beloved (1994) and Anna Karenina (1997), and the independent drama Ivans xtc (2000), for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and the John Cassavetes Award. He has also been nominated for the Grand Prix des Amériques and the Venice Horizons Pri...
Known For
Complete Filmography

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
as Self
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of hor...

The Bride of Candyman
2021
Characters
Horror short.

Traveling Light
2021
Director, Writer, Producer
On May 30th, 2020, Uber and delivery driver Caddy searches for his missing son who has been living on the Los Angeles streets during the early days of...

Candyman
2021
Original Film Writer
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
Danse Profane
2019
as Himself
A short film by Bernard Rose celebrating the music of Claude DeBussy and the Egyptian Theatre in the style of Busby Berkeley. Premiered at Beyond Fest...
Danse Profane
2019
Director
A short film by Bernard Rose celebrating the music of Claude DeBussy and the Egyptian Theatre in the style of Busby Berkeley. Premiered at Beyond Fest...

Samurai Marathon
2019
Director, Screenplay
When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his...

The Hurdy Gurdy Man
2018
Editor, Director, Writer
Faced with an early death sentence and struggling to pay the bills, Franz Schubert is inspired to write one of his most famous songs as he is haunted ...

Frankenstein
2015
Writer, Director
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggressio...

Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
2015
as Self
The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look N...

El violinista del diablo
2013
Director, Writer

Sx_Tape
2013
Director, Director of Photography, Editor
From the director of CANDYMAN and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes a found-footage nightmare of lust, possession, and destruction. Jill's an...

The Devil's Violinist
2013
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

Boxing Day
2012
Director, Screenplay, Editor
A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his prob...

2 Jacks
2012
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?

Mr. Nice
2010
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...

The Kreutzer Sonata
2008
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.

Derek
2008
Director
Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker...

The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist?
2006
as Himself
BBC look at whether or not Snuff films really exist. Snuff as defined by the FBI and the film is a film that shows some one being killed which was pro...

Snuff-Movie
2005
Director, Writer
Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes ...

Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos
2004
as Self
Retrospective documentary featuring director Bernard Rose, writer Clive Barker, producer Alan Poul and stars Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen and Kasi Lemmo...

Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Hard On
2000
Director
A collection of every music video by British new wave band Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Ivansxtc
2000
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs...

Anna Karenina
1997
Director, Screenplay
Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 1...

Immortal Beloved
1994
as Elector Max Friedrich
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in...

Immortal Beloved
1994
Director, Writer
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in...

Inside Out 4
1992
as Stanley (segment "Motivation")
Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Natalie Would"; "Modivation"; "Put Asunder"; "Save The Wetlands"; "The Thief"; "Jilted Lover"; "Three On ...

Inside Out 4
1992
Director, Writer
Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Natalie Would"; "Modivation"; "Put Asunder"; "Save The Wetlands"; "The Thief"; "Jilted Lover"; "Three On ...

Army of Darkness
1992
as Fake Shemp
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty ...

Candyman
1992
as Archie Walsh
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Candyman
1992
Art Direction, Director, Screenplay
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Inside Out 3
1992
Director, Writer
Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Dogs Playing Poker"; "The Branding"; "The Portal"; "The Perfect Woman"; "Within Ten Minutes"; "Tango"; "T...

Inside Out 2
1992
Original Music Composer
Softcore anthology film containing stories: "Mis-apprehended"; "I've Got A Crush On You"; "The Freak"; "There's This Travelling Salesman, See"; "Doubl...

Wedding Anniversary
1991
Director
A husband decides to give an original gift to his wife.

Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
1990
Director
Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
1990
Director
During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns de...

Paperhouse
1988
Director
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in he...

Body Contact
1987
Director
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her v...

Smart Money
1986
Director
Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man wh...

Looking at Alice
1977
Director, Editor, Writer
A lonely young man obsesses over the flirty young model who lives in the building opposite, but fails to realise that she is dealing with anxieties of...

The Wreckers
1976
Director
A short film by Bernard Rose.

A Bomb with No Name On It
1975
Director
An early short film by Bernard Rose.

Lear Rex
N/A
Director, Writer
An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.