Rupert Wainwright

Directing

Rupert Wainwright

Born 1961-11-30 · Cotswolds, Regno Unito

Rupert Wainwright is an English film and television director, writer, and actor. Wainwright was born in Cotswolds, UK and started his film career in the 1980s as an actor. While in his twenties, gained some notoriety for a short film called Open Window.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Blank Check poster
6.0

Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston Waters is fed up with his family — especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with his car and compensates the boy with a blank check. Preston makes the check out for $1 million and goes on a spending spree he'll never forget.

Blank Check

1994

Stigmata poster
6.3

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.

Stigmata

1999

The Fog poster
4.6

Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.

The Fog

2005

Echoes poster
NR

A friendly man discovers that he was a sadistic murderer in a previous life.

Echoes

2009

Dillinger poster
5.6

Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, the pressure mounts on the FBI – even from the White House – for his capture.

Dillinger

1991

The Sadness of Sex poster
4.4

Comprised of fifteen vignettes of varying lengths, The Sadness of Sex is about love, but more specifically about the phases of courtship that lead to the inevitable break-up.

The Sadness of Sex

1998

No artwork available
8.0

It pits the hero against floods, fire, a gun-wielding neighbour and a spectacular fall all because a banging window in a nearby flat keeps him awake at night.

Open Window

1989

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie poster
8.0

MC Hammer returns to his hometown and, with the help of some funky tunes, defeats a druglord who is using kids to traffic his stuff.

Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: The Movie

1990