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Michael Winner
Director 1935 - 2013

Michael Winner

London, England, UK

Michael Robert Winner was a British film director, producer and food critic. He is perhaps best known for directing several movies starring Charles Bronson, including three of the five Death Wish films.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

21 titles
A Chorus of Disapproval

A Chorus of Disapproval

Michael Winner 1989 1h 35m

Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far outweighs those onstage.

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death

Michael Winner 1988 1h 42m 6.0

Emily Boynton, stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3

Michael Winner 1985 1h 30m 5.5

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady

Michael Winner 1983 1h 38m

A noblewoman grows restless with her privileged life and secretly takes to robbing travelers. She partners with a dashing highwayman, but her dangerous double life threatens to expose her true identity.

Death Wish II

Death Wish II

Michael Winner 1982 1h 32m 5.9

Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.

Firepower

Firepower

Michael Winner 1979 1h 44m 6.0

A merc is hired by the F.B.I. to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

Michael Winner 1978 1h 40m 6.8

The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel

Michael Winner 1977 1h 32m 6.5

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

Death Wish

Death Wish

Michael Winner 1974 1h 33m 6.8

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.

The Stone Killer

The Stone Killer

Michael Winner 1973 1h 35m 6.0

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

Scorpio

Scorpio

Michael Winner 1973 1h 54m 6.0

Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey.

The Mechanic

The Mechanic

Michael Winner 1972 1h 39m 6.0

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice.

Chato's Land

Chato's Land

Michael Winner 1972 1h 40m 6.8

A posse pursues Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) a mestizo indian after he killed a US marshal in self-defense. As they get deeper into Indian territory, just who is hunting who.

The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers

Michael Winner 1971 1h 36m 7.0

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Lawman

Lawman

Michael Winner 1971 1h 39m 7.0

A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

Hannibal Brooks

Hannibal Brooks

Michael Winner 1969 1h 42m 6.0

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Michael Winner 1967 1h 39m

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

You Must Be Joking!

You Must Be Joking!

Michael Winner 1965 1h 35m

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items

The System

The System

Michael Winner 1964 1h 33m 5.0

In a seaside town, local men pursue summer tourists for casual flings. Their leader, a photographer named Tinker, unexpectedly falls for a wealthy model, realizing the dynamic of exploitation may be reversed.

West 11

West 11

Michael Winner 1963 1h 33m 6.5

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.

Play It Cool

Play It Cool

Michael Winner 1962 1h 22m 6.0

Stars Billy Fury (Britain's answer to Elvis Presley) and features cameos from some other stars from the sixties, with Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro and Shane Fenton (better known as Alvin Stardust).

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