Directing

Robert Bierman

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Robert Bierman is an English film and television director. He is best known for the 1988 cult film Vampire's Kiss starring Nicolas Cage and María Conchita Alonso. Bierman was originally the scheduled director of The Fly (1986), but due to personal tragedy was unable to commit to the project. In television, he has directed episodes of Waking the Dead, Holby City, The Bill, and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. He has three children from his first marriage and three more children from his second marriage to Saskia Wickham.

Known for

Vampire's Kiss poster
6.0

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.

Vampire's Kiss

1989

Keep the Aspidistra Flying poster
6.0

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997

Apology poster
5.1

For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert inviting them to spill their guts, leave messages on her answering machine. When one caller confesses to a murder, Lily begins to suspect that the mystery man may be intending a little "performance" of his own: her death.

Apology

1986

Murder in Mind poster
4.0

A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.

Murder in Mind

1994

The Moonstone poster
7.6

A cursed Hindu diamond, stolen by a British officer in 1799 and bequeathed to his niece, vanishes.

The Moonstone

1996

Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly poster
8.0

Feature length documentary on the making of David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Fear of the Flesh: The Making of The Fly

2005

Film credits

Behind the camera

Vampire's Kiss poster
6.0

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.

Vampire's Kiss

1989

Keep the Aspidistra Flying poster
6.0

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997

Apology poster
5.1

For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert inviting them to spill their guts, leave messages on her answering machine. When one caller confesses to a murder, Lily begins to suspect that the mystery man may be intending a little "performance" of his own: her death.

Apology

1986

Murder in Mind poster
4.0

A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.

Murder in Mind

1994

The Moonstone poster
7.6

A cursed Hindu diamond, stolen by a British officer in 1799 and bequeathed to his niece, vanishes.

The Moonstone

1996

The Rocking Horse Winner poster
9.0

In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks a joke about "filthy lucker", he becomes obsessed with finding luck, so that his family will have the money they need. His luck at the race track begins to improve, but the cost may be higher than anyone knows. Nominated for a BAFTA award in 1983.

The Rocking Horse Winner

1982

Frankenstein's Baby poster
NR

Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's first pregnant man

Frankenstein's Baby

1990

The Dumb Waiter poster
6.2

A woman on her way home notices a car following her.

The Dumb Waiter

1979

No artwork available
NR

An American doctor in England for a conference with his spendthrift wife visits an old friend who stole the love of his life from him.

A Curious Suicide

1990