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Nicolas Roeg
Director 1928 - 2018

Nicolas Roeg

London, England, UK

Nicolas Jack Roeg (15 August 1928 – 23 November 2018) was an English film director and cinematographer, best known for directing Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing (1980), and The Witches (1990). Making his... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
Puffball

Puffball

Nicolas Roeg 2007 2h

Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.

The Witches

The Witches

Nicolas Roeg 1990 1h 31m 7.2

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Track 29

Track 29

Nicolas Roeg 1988 1h 26m 5.0

Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor.

Aria

Aria

Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Russell 1987 1h 37m

This omnibus directors fest brings together 10 different filmmakers making 10 different films based on operatic arias.

Castaway

Castaway

Nicolas Roeg 1986 1h 57m

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him, but once on the island, things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies.

Insignificance

Insignificance

Nicolas Roeg 1985 1h 49m

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Eureka

Eureka

Nicolas Roeg 1983 2h 10m 6.0

The best minds in the US are tucked away in a remote town where they build futuristic inventions for the government's benefit.

Bad Timing

Bad Timing

Nicolas Roeg 1980 2h 3m 7.0

Nicolas Roeg's intricate, disturbing account of a doomed love affair.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Nicolas Roeg 1976 2h 19m 6.7

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie.

Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg 1973 1h 50m 7.7

Don’t Look Now is a thriller starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as a married couple who tragically loose their daughter and thereafter are confronted with only mysterious occurrences.

Walkabout

Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg 1971 1h 35m 8.2

Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on "walkabout": a ritualistic banishment from his tribe

Performance

Performance

Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 1970 1h 46m 7.6

In underworld terms Chas Devlin (James Fox) is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner (Mick Jagger) is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide--and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

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