Directing

Giles Foster

Born

1948-06-01 (78)

Place of birth

Bath, Somerset, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Coming Home poster
5.4

Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

Coming Home

1998

Consuming Passions poster
8.3

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.

Consuming Passions

1988

Dutch Girls poster
4.1

In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.

Dutch Girls

1985

Seawrack poster
NR

On the shoreline of Lancashire's Lune Estuary, an old tramp is befriended by a young lad who volunteers with the St John's Ambulance.

Seawrack

1978

The Obelisk poster
NR

A seaside resort in 1938. For Hilda, it seems as if romance almost died when she married school teacher Ernest. Only the movies can keep this spark alive. As she follows her pompous husband up the cliff walk to visit the obelisk, she wonders how he will react to the two sailors who want to join them.The boisterous Tiny is rather coarse, but his friend Stan has lovely manners and such very blue eyes....

The Obelisk

1977

Northanger Abbey poster
6.3

A young girl, whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions, goes to stay with the wealthy Tilney family. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined not by true love but by wealth and social status.

Northanger Abbey

1987

Behind the camera

Coming Home poster
5.4

Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

Coming Home

1998

Consuming Passions poster
8.3

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.

Consuming Passions

1988

Dutch Girls poster
4.1

In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.

Dutch Girls

1985

Seawrack poster
NR

On the shoreline of Lancashire's Lune Estuary, an old tramp is befriended by a young lad who volunteers with the St John's Ambulance.

Seawrack

1978

The Obelisk poster
NR

A seaside resort in 1938. For Hilda, it seems as if romance almost died when she married school teacher Ernest. Only the movies can keep this spark alive. As she follows her pompous husband up the cliff walk to visit the obelisk, she wonders how he will react to the two sailors who want to join them.The boisterous Tiny is rather coarse, but his friend Stan has lovely manners and such very blue eyes....

The Obelisk

1977

Northanger Abbey poster
6.3

A young girl, whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions, goes to stay with the wealthy Tilney family. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined not by true love but by wealth and social status.

Northanger Abbey

1987

Silas Marner poster
5.9

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Silas Marner

1985

Silas Marner poster
5.9

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Silas Marner

1985

Adam Bede poster
7.2

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

Adam Bede

1992

Unknown Heart poster
3.8

A fatal accident changes the destiny of two families when Elizabeth Lancaster's wish comes true and she receives the heart transplant she desperately needs. The operation leaves her physically healthy but emotionally estranged from her husband and children. When the husband of the woman whose heart now beats in Elizabeth?s body, pays her a visit the two fall in love. Having betrayed her husband, Elizabeth must decide which of the two men she wants to be with.

Unknown Heart

2014

Talking Heads poster
5.0

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Talking Heads

1988

The Prince and the Pauper poster
6.4

An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring to see what the other's life is like, the boys impulsively switch identities... little knowing what disaster lies ahead at this fault of thought. And soon Thomas becomes a pawn in the hands of Edward's malicious and greedy uncle, who would have the kingdom for himself.

The Prince and the Pauper

2000

No artwork available
NR

An elderly widow women named Hazel lives in a farmhouse full of antiques. When a conman named Merv Pottinger arrives he persuades her into selling him a picture at a low price.

Tales of the Unexpected: A Picture of a Place

1980

Cries from a Watchtower poster
NR

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

Cries from a Watchtower

1979

Tree of Hands poster
8.0

A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.

Tree of Hands

1989

Starting Over poster
4.5

An aristocratic woman is forced to cope with the end of her marriage and the death of her brother. Left to the run the failing family estate, the woman is intrigued by her new lodger, a charming professor.

Starting Over

2007

All Day on the Sands poster
7.0

Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.

All Day on the Sands

1979

Bertie and Elizabeth poster
6.7

The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.

Bertie and Elizabeth

2002

Chance of a Lifetime poster
10.0

Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army.

Chance of a Lifetime

1980

Monster Maker poster
6.7

A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of the creatures, The Ultra-Gorgon, takes him under his wing. Literally.

Monster Maker

1989

Summer Solstice poster
NR

Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

Summer Solstice

2005

Hotel du Lac poster
4.3

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.

Hotel du Lac

1986

The Aerodrome poster
7.0

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.

The Aerodrome

1983

Say Something Happened poster
NR

An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but ends up learning just as much about herself.

Say Something Happened

1982

No artwork available
8.5

The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

The Lilac Bus

1990

A Woman of No Importance. poster
10.0

Award-winning one-woman drama starring Patricia Routledge. What do Miss Schofield and the gang find to talk about at their table in the canteen? Yesterday they were discussing the rash Pauline Lucas's mother keeps getting on her elbows. Miss Schofield puts her social success down to that fact that she doesn't talk about herself, and she laughs of course, she always laughs.

A Woman of No Importance.

1982

Last Summer's Child poster
NR

Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Events make him grow up rather fast.

Last Summer's Child

1981