Michael Winterbottom

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-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Paddy Considine

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 girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan

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 years until they were released without charge.

Dir. Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom · With Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui

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

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Marta Barrio

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

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rosie Fellner

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 Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes

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 where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei

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.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan

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 trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Kate Winslet, Christopher Eccleston, Liam Cunningham

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-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh

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

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Imogen Poots

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

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher

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 owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Nabil Elouahabi

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 as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Colin Firth, Perla Haney-Jardine, Hope Davis

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 slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba

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 at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Courtney Taylor-Taylor

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

Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne