Mike Newell
Known for Directing
Born
March 28, 1942 (age 84)
Birthplace
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Filmography
58 films, 38 shows
Known for Directing
Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. After the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, Newell became the third most commercially successful British director in recent years, behind Christopher Nolan and David Yates, as confirmed by the UK Film Council in their 2010 Statistical Yearbook. Newell won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 1994 for Four Weddings and a Funeral and the BAFTA Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing for his career prior to 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Newell (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
March 28, 1942 (age 84)
Birthplace
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Filmography
58 films, 38 shows

The Spirit of 1926
2022 · 8m
country: Unknown
In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019 · 14m
country: United Kingdom
You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after the events of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Tom, David, Matthew, Bernard, Lydia and Father Gerald are back in church. But whose wedding is it - and will there be any more familiar faces?

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · 2h 4m
country: United Kingdom
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

Great Expectations
2012 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010 · 1h 56m
country: United States
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Love in the Time of Cholera
2007 · 2h 19m
country: United States
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · 2h 37m
country: United Kingdom
When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools. Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's friends help him prepare for the Triwizard Tournament.

Mona Lisa Smile
2003 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000 · 1h 33m
country: United States
First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about. In Florence, when Indy's mother is equally smitten with Giacomo Puccini, composer of Romantic operas La Boheme and Tosca, Indy must guide his parent safely back to her spouse.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil
1999 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the first world war. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in a mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.

Pushing Tin
1999 · 2h 4m
country: Germany
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

Donnie Brasco
1997 · 2h 7m
country: United States
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Into the West
1992 · 1h 37m
country: Ireland
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Enchanted April
1991 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

Common Ground
1990 · 3h 5m
country: Canada
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.

Soursweet
1988 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

Amazing Grace and Chuck
1987 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the fingertips of the military. Knowing that the world could end with the push of a button, he protests against nuclear war by walking out on his Little League team during a game. Chuck's stunt ends up in the local paper, and as the story snowballs, basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith decides to boycott sports, too.

The Good Father
1985 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.

Dance with a Stranger
1985 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.

Birth of a Nation
1983 · 1h 19m
country: United Kingdom
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

Blood Feud
1983 · 3h 30m
country: Unknown
Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.

Bad Blood
1982 · 1h 45m
country: New Zealand
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
Little Girls Don't
Little Girls Don't
1981
country: Unknown
Little Girls Don't" is the tale of two girls, Sheryl and Abbey who have been inseparable friends since childhood despite coming from very different backgrounds. Then Billy arrives on the scene. He is a bad boy who likes to steal cars, but with the encouragement of girlfriend Abbey this soon turns into something much more serious, with tragic consequences for everyone involved.

The Awakening
1980 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

Destiny
1978 · 1h 50m
country: Unknown
A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election, and later discovers that it's financed by the corporation that has dispossessed him of his business.

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
country: Unknown
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negative be accepted, ensuring his pension prospects?

The Mayor's Charity
1977 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.

The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

Buffet
1976 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a businessman for the occasional drink? His wife and mistress for a start.

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration
1976 · 30m
country: United Kingdom
David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when David's parents come to dinner and he reads an extract from a story he has written...
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
1976 · 52m
country: United Kingdom
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
The Boundary
The Boundary
1975
country: Unknown
A lexicographer's room gets trashed and notes scattered just as he was in the process of compiling a dictionary.

Brassneck
1975 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property speculation of the 1960s and the disillusionment with the Labour government in the early 1970s. Like most of the early work of the writers, David Hare and Howard Brenton, committed radical (if not revolutionary) socialists throughout the 1970s, it is a satirical attack on capitalist greed and corruption, full of savage, and often disturbing, humour.

Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
1975 · 1h 3m
country: United Kingdom
Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

The Gift of Friendship
1974 · 1h
country: United Kingdom
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.

The Childhood Friend
1974 · 1h 10m
country: Unknown
On holiday, with his family, nothing to do and his wife ill, Sasha (Alexander) is only too pleased to meet again the girl he loved at 17.
Ms or Jill and Jack
Ms or Jill and Jack
1974
country: Unknown
Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.
Just Your Luck
Just Your Luck
1972 · 1h 4m
country: United Kingdom
When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seemingly different families opens into a witty and audacious tale, which caused uproar after its first broadcast in 1972. An early triumph for Peter McDougall, when it was proclaimed the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Not Counting the Savages
Not Counting the Savages
1972
country: Unknown
Directed by Mike Newell.
Big Soft Nelly Mrs. Mouse
Big Soft Nelly Mrs. Mouse
1971
country: United Kingdom
Early film from Mike Newell
The Visitors
The Visitors
1968
country: Unknown
good Samaritan who gives a stranded family a lift off the road, finds his life gets complicated when they move in on him.
None of That
None of That
1967
country: United Kingdom
Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.
Comedy Workshop: Love and Maud Carver
Comedy Workshop: Love and Maud Carver
1964
country: Unknown
Maud has two men in her life - George and Errol. In an effort to decide which boyfriend to keep, she visits a clairvoyant who tells her that her ideal partner may, in fact, be a third person she has yet to meet. Recorded in a single studio, with minimalist sets.