Michael Apted

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Dir. Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson · With Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Elisabeth Shue

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch

Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the government.

Dir. Michael Apted · With William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...

Dir. Michael Apted · With Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Michael Douglas

This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes

Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Dir. Michael Apted · With John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

Dir. Michael Apted · With Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker