Joe Wright

Directing

Joe Wright

Born 1972-08-25 · London, England, UK

Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director. He directed the period drama adaptations Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Cyrano (2021), the action thriller Hanna (2011), the Peter Pan origin story Pan (2015), and Darkest Hour (2017). He also directed the historical drama television series Mussolini: Son of the Century (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Wright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Pride & Prejudice poster
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A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

Pride & Prejudice

2005

Atonement poster
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A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Atonement

2007

Darkest Hour poster
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In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Darkest Hour

2017

Pan poster
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Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known as Peter Pan.

Pan

2015

The Woman in the Window poster
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An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

The Woman in the Window

2021

Hanna poster
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Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

Hanna

2011

Anna Karenina poster
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In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

2012

The Soloist poster
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A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

The Soloist

2009

Cyrano poster
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A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.

Cyrano

2021

Widow Clicquot poster
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After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.

Widow Clicquot

2024

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Set in a fractured and ravaged world following a climate-change disaster. A young husband and father are recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.

Juice

In the Garden of Beasts poster
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A mild-mannered Chicago professor becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany just before the Nazis began to assert an iron grip across Europe.

In the Garden of Beasts

Crocodile Snap poster
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A woman's bid to escape her violent husband is seen through the eyes of her younger daughter. Sadie understands Mum better after an accident on Brighton beach shows her that all actions have consequences and that fear of the unknown can be greater than fear of the known.

Crocodile Snap

1997

Princess & Peppernose poster
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A short film by Joe Wright comes a very special love story, and his most personal project yet. Inspired by his love of puppeteering and his dedication to the craft of filmmaking, this is a beautifully twisted tale of love against all odds.

Princess & Peppernose

2021

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10.0

An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.

The End

1998

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9.0

Renegade TV was a regular feature on late night Channel 4 in the UK in the late 1990's. This special was made in conjunction with Dazed Magazine and featured a Mondo style compilation of news clips and stories from around the world.

Renegade TV Gets Dazed

1998

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A cutting-edge tech company's latest AI model begins manipulating global markets and stoking international conflict. A principled board member and an out of his depth software engineer must race to convince their profit-obsessed colleagues to shut down their creation before it triggers a globally catastrophic event.

Alignment

Brood poster
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Over the course of a single year, a woman heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the freezing nights of a harsh winter to a sweltering summer with its own surprise tornado, she battles predators, terrible luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she once imagined.

Brood