Michael Apted
          Director  
	
	Filmography (All Films)
				 
	  
	        
7 Up / 14 Up (Seven Plus Seven) (1964-1970)
 
- Dir. Paul Almond, Michael Apted
 
- The first two parts of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of…
 
Up Series Boxset (7-49UP) (1964-2005)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- All 49 years of Michael Apted's extraordinary documentary series chronicling the evolving lives of ordinary Brits. 
 
Follyfoot (TV Series) (1971) 
- Dir. Stephen Frears, Michael Apted, Vic Hughes
Feat. Gillian Blake, Desmond Llewelyn 
- Young Dora (Gillian Blake), discarded in the country by her globe–trotting parents, takes to caring for the neglected horses of Follyfoot Farm,…
 
Stardust (1974)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman… 
- Musical biopic of fictional 60s British popsters The Stray Cats (the name later adopted by 80s rockabillies) and their invasion of America. 70s pop…
 
21 Up (1977)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- The third part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of different…
 
Agatha (1979) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton… 
- Speculating over the 11 days in 1926 when detective–writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) went missing, this gently–toned drama sees…
 
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones 
- Biopic of country legend Loretta Lynn.
 
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang (1982) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. John Albasiny, Abigail Cruttenden 
- A cricket–obsessed 14–year–old courts the girl of his dreams, only for painful shyness and the terror of playing opposite her in…
 
Gorky Park (1983)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy… 
- William Hurt plays a brooding Russian detective investigating horrific murders in Moscow. Meaty, convincing thriller.
 
28 Up (1985)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- The fourth part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of…
 
Gorillas in the Mist (1988) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris 
- Impressive biopic of American primatologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver), who ventured to the volitile African jungle to study the…
 
Class Action (1990) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 
- A lawyer becomes forced to prosecute a case in which his estranged daughter will act for the defence. Courtroom ethics are violated in style by Gene…
 
35 Up (1992)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- The fifth part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of different…
 
Incident at Oglala (1992) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- A compelling case is made for the innocence of a native American accused of murdering two FBI agents in 1976, though it's sense of social injustice…
 
Thunderheart (1992) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham (Actor) Greene… 
- Part–Sioux FBI agent Val Kilmer is awakened to his heritage when assigned to investigate a murder on a reservation. An absorbing account of a…
 
Nell (1994) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Liam Neeson, Jodie Foster 
- Small–town doctor Liam Neeson discovers a young woman untouched by twentieth century developments who has even developed her own language.…
 
Blink (1994) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar 
- A blind woman (Madeleine Stowe) becomes a sole yet unreliable murder witness after successful eye surgery gives her troubling side–effects.…
 
Extreme Measures (1996) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker… 
- Hugh Grant sniffs out conspiracy in the corridors of medicine. The potential intrigue of scientific ethics is undone by the melodramatic hyperbole…
 
World Is Not Enough, The (1999) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle, Sophie Marceau… 
- Pierce Brosnan is back for a third time in the most cartoonish entry in many a season, with in–jokes, sexual allusions and fire–power…
 
42 Up (1999)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- The sixth part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britishers of different…
 
Enigma (2001)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Jeremy Northam… 
- Superior period–thriller, loosely set around the dedicated cryptanalysts of Bletchley Park who led the race to crack the Nazi’s Enigma code…
 
Enough (2002) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis… 
- As a battered housewife fighting back, Jennifer Lopez gives a reasonably appealing performance in a story that adds dashes of violence to the core…
 
49 Up (2005)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- The seventh part of the extraordinary television documentary series that documents the attitudes, personalities and lives of 14 Britons of different…
 
Amazing Grace (2006)
 
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Albert Finney… 
- Stirring dramatisation of the true story of 18th–century abolitionist William Wilberforce and his revolt against Britain’s slave…
 
56 Up (2012) 
- Dir. Michael Apted
 
- The eighth part of the extraordinary television documentary series that has documented the attitudes, personalities and lives of a group of Britons…