
Directing
Michael Tuchner
Born — Died
1934-01-01 — 2017-01-17
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
5.9A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.
Fear Is the Key
1972
5.7Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
7.5A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
Not My Kid
1985
4.4Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
Good King Wenceslas
1994
6.1In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Villain
1971
5.9Tula Jetters is a stubborn widow living her older years in a huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con artists, Hank Ford and his daughter Cali, who are eying up Tula as their next victim.
A Place Called Home
2004
Behind the camera
5.9A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.
Fear Is the Key
1972
5.7Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
7.5A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.
Not My Kid
1985
4.4Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
Good King Wenceslas
1994
6.1In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Villain
1971
5.9Tula Jetters is a stubborn widow living her older years in a huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con artists, Hank Ford and his daughter Cali, who are eying up Tula as their next victim.
A Place Called Home
2004
5.5Patty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young German soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret place in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him, she ends up harboring him from his captors and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking by helping him, but in his company, she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
Summer of My German Soldier
1978
5.8An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
Trenchcoat
1983
8.0A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected.
The Summer My Father Grew Up
1991
6.4A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to nurture it.
Back to the Secret Garden
2000
6.2A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
With Murder in Mind
1992
4.2A woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.
Mistress
1987
7.2Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the cowed patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
Amos
1985
6.4Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a building site. However, he has been witnessed getting rid of the doll and when his wife disappears on the night after the party, the police and Inspector Flint have strong suspicions on Mr Wilt.
Wilt
1989
5.3Based on the actual events of the 1991 brush fires that swept across Northern California, which left countless people without homes. A rookie fire chief, who just started his new job, must deal with the raging fires.
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland
1993
4.8A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975
5.6The story of murder among a trio of teenagers after a boy breaks up with a girl and she runs into the arms of his vulnerable best friend.
Desperate for Love
1989
9.0Three disillusioned wives who are contemplating divorce compare notes on their stormy marriages.
When Will I Be Loved?
1990
5.4Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.
The Rainbow Warrior
1997
6.0This entry in the long-running romance of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart picks up following the death of their beloved friend Max when the Harts go to Montreal for the reading of his will. While there, they learn of a clock Max has left for them with his niece, Marie, which is stolen before they can receive it. Meanwhile, Marie’s partner in their antique shop, Vivienne, meets with Ronnie, her secret lover and the husband of the Harts’ friend Lady Camilla Ashley, and is subsequently killed. The clock seems to be at the center of a mystery which includes kidnapping and murder, and the Harts will have to unravel it if they want to get their gift from Max back.
Hart to Hart: Two Harts in 3/4 Time
1995
6.8Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the details slowly come into focus, a killer watches and waits.
Awake to Danger
1995
NRAspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
1978
8.0An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds
1993
5.8In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.
30 Years to Life
1998
Two employees of a reclusive millionaire, Micki the secretary and Max the chauffeur, decide to attend a society function to which their employer has been invited. In the course of the evening, Max and Micki establish new identities in the world of high society and, while rubbing shoulders with the elite, they uncover a scam that tests their sleuthing skills as much as their social skills.
We're Puttin' on the Ritz
1986
6.3With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
The Likely Lads
1976
NRPubs, pigeons, weight-lifting – that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
Keep an Eye on Albert
1975
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at music in Britain including soul, folk, pop, rock opera and brass bands.
Music!
1968
6.7Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of her parents.
Haywire
1980
8.0A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
Internal Affairs
1988
5.3Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of combat hockey to maintain his skills as a national hero, and Cristina Raines is a socially conscious doctor who wants nothing to do with their prideful father, Bert Remsen, to the distress of their loving mother, Priscilla Pointer.
Generation
1985
6.0Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force them to withdraw all their money from the bank. But the nightmare just begins as they take the Plunks and their baby with them as hostages.
Captive
1991
7.2Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead.
Adam
1983
8.0An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
The Hunting of Lionel Crane
1970
7.0High school dropout Jimmy McCusick goes to prison for robbery. After suffering a gang-rape and then drawing the attention of a hardened life-term convict, he is put in protective confinement. Upon being paroled he finds himself unable to hold onto either his girlfriend or his job. Parole officer Andy Driscoll must find a way to keep Jimmy from sliding back into crime.
Parole
1982
NRBlackpool usually means sun and sand, and a ride on the big dipper; but Ricky and Michelle are working. Dave is hard at work too - getting in on their act.
Summer Season
1976
8.0A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
Sling Your Hook
1969
6.3A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
Trapped in Silence
1986
NRA hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the rival factions to win it.
Easy Go
1974
7.2On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Bar Mitzvah Boy
1976
