Directing

Jim O'Brien

Born — Died

1947-02-15 — 2012-02-13

Place of birth

Dundee, Scotland, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

They Call Me Bruce? poster
5.0

While working as a cook for the Cosa Nostra, an Asian immigrant who everyone calls Bruce because of his resemblance to Bruce Lee, is duped into making deliveries of "Chinese Flour"- cocaine - all across the U.S.

They Call Me Bruce?

1982

The Dressmaker poster
4.6

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

The Dressmaker

1988

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure poster
5.8

While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeological dig in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings. After solving the mystery, with help from Lawrence of Arabia, Indy is kidnapped by slave traders and taken across the Sahara to the slave market at Marrakech, where all his newly-honed wits are needed to escape.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

2000

Beyond Reason poster
8.0

Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.

Beyond Reason

1995

Foreign Affairs poster
7.0

Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disillusioned aging American and aging English actress meats a young lively American.

Foreign Affairs

1993

No artwork available
NR

16mm. Col. (transfer from tape) Produced and Directed by Jim O' Brien Jim O’Brien’s film Black Future meets a group of unemployed young West Indians in Bradford who create a science-fiction drama (a film-within-a-film), about a Britain ‘as it will be in 1983, with two million unemployed and the country divided into welfare zones.’ In association with Albert Hunt, Roger Simcox, and Yusuf Ahmad of Media in Education Unit, Bradford College Funded by Gulbenkian, The Community Arts Department, Bradford College, YTV Arts Awards, The Commission for Racial Equality, Yorkshire Arts Association. Music by Aswad

Black Future

1977

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Dressmaker poster
4.6

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

The Dressmaker

1988

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure poster
5.8

While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeological dig in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings. After solving the mystery, with help from Lawrence of Arabia, Indy is kidnapped by slave traders and taken across the Sahara to the slave market at Marrakech, where all his newly-honed wits are needed to escape.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure

2000

Beyond Reason poster
8.0

Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.

Beyond Reason

1995

Foreign Affairs poster
7.0

Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disillusioned aging American and aging English actress meats a young lively American.

Foreign Affairs

1993

No artwork available
NR

16mm. Col. (transfer from tape) Produced and Directed by Jim O' Brien Jim O’Brien’s film Black Future meets a group of unemployed young West Indians in Bradford who create a science-fiction drama (a film-within-a-film), about a Britain ‘as it will be in 1983, with two million unemployed and the country divided into welfare zones.’ In association with Albert Hunt, Roger Simcox, and Yusuf Ahmad of Media in Education Unit, Bradford College Funded by Gulbenkian, The Community Arts Department, Bradford College, YTV Arts Awards, The Commission for Racial Equality, Yorkshire Arts Association. Music by Aswad

Black Future

1977

No artwork available
NR

16mm. Col. (transfer from tape) Produced and Directed by Jim O' Brien Jim O’Brien’s film Black Future meets a group of unemployed young West Indians in Bradford who create a science-fiction drama (a film-within-a-film), about a Britain ‘as it will be in 1983, with two million unemployed and the country divided into welfare zones.’ In association with Albert Hunt, Roger Simcox, and Yusuf Ahmad of Media in Education Unit, Bradford College Funded by Gulbenkian, The Community Arts Department, Bradford College, YTV Arts Awards, The Commission for Racial Equality, Yorkshire Arts Association. Music by Aswad

Black Future

1977

Jake's End poster
NR

'Motors can stall, shooters can jam. But Jake's end of it'll be all right.' Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain-and a bank to rob.

Jake's End

1982

Another Day poster
NR

The London of bed-sits, rundown housing, a world of the eccentric and the lonely. Since her husband walked out Eileen battles on her own to make a life for her children. She needs someone-but some people don't think George is the right man.

Another Day

1978

No artwork available
NR

A film from the novel by Jennifer Johnston introducing Joe is an 11-year-old boy growing up on the Bogside of Derry, Northern Ireland. A chance meeting with a girl on his way home from school promises to open up his life in an unexpected and exciting way.

Shadows on Our Skin

1980