Marc Evans

Directing

Marc Evans

Born

1963-01-01 (63)

Place of birth

Cardiff, Wales, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

29 titles

Marc Evans (born 1960) is a Welsh director of film and television, whose credits include the films House of America, Resurrection Man and My Little Eye. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marc Evans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Mr. Burton poster
6.9

In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent for drama catches the attention of his teacher, Philip Burton.

Mr. Burton

2025

Beautiful Mistake poster
10.0

This documentary film follows a group of Welsh musicians interacting and playing in the studio. Combining shots of the city with the music of John Cale as performed by Welsh stars such as Catatonia, Big Leaves and Manic Street Preachers.

Beautiful Mistake

2000

Snow Cake poster
7.1

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Snow Cake

2006

House of America poster
5.7

"House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.

House of America

1997

Fires of the Moon poster
NR

During a late-night train ride, memories resurface for a writer, bringing him face-to-face with the painful past surrounding his mother's admission to a mental hospital years ago.

Fires of the Moon

2025

Thicker Than Water poster
5.0

Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident, Debbie starts to act increasingly like Jo. Mysterious circumstances lead Jo's widower Sam to suspect that the accident wasn't an accident at all.

Thicker Than Water

1993

Film credits

Behind the camera

Mr. Burton poster
6.9

In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between the pressures of his struggling family, a devastating war and his own ambitions. However, a new opportunity arises when Richard’s natural talent for drama catches the attention of his teacher, Philip Burton.

Mr. Burton

2025

Beautiful Mistake poster
10.0

This documentary film follows a group of Welsh musicians interacting and playing in the studio. Combining shots of the city with the music of John Cale as performed by Welsh stars such as Catatonia, Big Leaves and Manic Street Preachers.

Beautiful Mistake

2000

Snow Cake poster
7.1

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Snow Cake

2006

House of America poster
5.7

"House of America" is a 1997 film directed by Marc Evans. The film, set in a depressed Welsh mining town, centres on a dysfunctional family unit of brothers Boyo and Sid, their sister Gwenny and their controlling mother. The film tackles issues such as Welsh identity, its need for indigenous heroes and the nation's perceived inferiority complex.

House of America

1997

Fires of the Moon poster
NR

During a late-night train ride, memories resurface for a writer, bringing him face-to-face with the painful past surrounding his mother's admission to a mental hospital years ago.

Fires of the Moon

2025

Thicker Than Water poster
5.0

Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident, Debbie starts to act increasingly like Jo. Mysterious circumstances lead Jo's widower Sam to suspect that the accident wasn't an accident at all.

Thicker Than Water

1993

Grav poster
9.0

Drama to mark the life of a late icon on his 70th birthday.

Grav

2021

Trauma poster
5.2

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

Trauma

2004

My Little Eye poster
5.4

Five young people apply to live in an isolated house together for six months whilst their every move is filmed by numerous cameras.

My Little Eye

2002

Hunky Dory poster
6.0

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Hunky Dory

2011

Resurrection Man poster
6.2

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.

Resurrection Man

1998

Effi o Blaenau poster
NR

Hard-partying young woman Effi lives in rural Wales, whose life largely revolves around drinking vodka with her friends and eating instant noodles to cure her subsequent hangovers – until her life suddenly changes dramatically.

Effi o Blaenau

2026

Effi o Blaenau poster
NR

Hard-partying young woman Effi lives in rural Wales, whose life largely revolves around drinking vodka with her friends and eating instant noodles to cure her subsequent hangovers – until her life suddenly changes dramatically.

Effi o Blaenau

2026

No artwork available
NR

A coming-of-age story about belonging and betrayal, set on a remote Welsh island in 1938 against the backdrop of a world on the edge of change.

Whale Fall

—

In Prison My Whole Life poster
NR

William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

In Prison My Whole Life

2008

In Prison My Whole Life poster
NR

William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

In Prison My Whole Life

2008

No artwork available
NR

The lives and careers of Ryan and Ronnie, two of Wales most famous entertainers of the 1970s.

Ryan and Ronnie

2009

Patagonia poster
5.6

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.

Patagonia

2010

Patagonia poster
5.6

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.

Patagonia

2010

Doors Open poster
5.3

Heist thriller and adaptation of Ian Rankin's book, which sees a bored millionaire plan to swap the contents of a gallery's warehouse with near-perfect forgeries.

Doors Open

2012

Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor poster
7.0

Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect.

Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor

1994

Jack to a King: The Swansea Story poster
6.6

Jack to a King is a passionate portrait of the rise of Swansea City Football Club from near oblivion to the world stage of the Premier League. It is the story of a city and the people who made the club what it is today. An independent feature from film makers, Mal Pope and Edward Thomas, YJB Films’, Jack to a King is about more than just a football club, it is about a city that survives against all odds – through the Blitz, industrial decline and recession. It tells a universal story of how football plays into the lives of ordinary people. It touches on the Welsh attitude to defeat and victory and the relationship between sport and money. The story is told through the characters involved, capturing the rhythm of their lives and presenting a portrait of where they live. Through it all, there is one dream, one ambition which unites everyone – The Premier League.

Jack to a King: The Swansea Story

2014

A Dream of Sicily poster
NR

A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews with director Francesco Rosi and painter Peppino Ducato, set to music by the legendary Ennio Morricone.

A Dream of Sicily

2000

A Dream of Sicily poster
NR

A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews with director Francesco Rosi and painter Peppino Ducato, set to music by the legendary Ennio Morricone.

A Dream of Sicily

2000

No artwork available
9.0

A search for the poetic soul of Wales - a feature documentary which explores poetic responses, historical & contemporary, to the issues of social & cultural survival; and celebrates this enduring 2500 year poetic experience.

Still: Here/Now

2003

Bliss poster
9.0

Dr. Sam Bliss, a medical research scientist based at Cambridge University, investigates bizarre and unexplained deaths, with the help of his assistant, Dr. Melanie Kilpatrick.

Bliss

1995

The Prince and the Bomber poster
NR

Fifty years on from the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales, this documentary explores the tumultuous period leading up to the investiture and the rise of Welsh nationalism.

The Prince and the Bomber

2019

No artwork available
NR

A Welsh farmworker discovers rock 'n' roll in the 1960s.

Johnny Be Good

1984