Cinematography: Ian Wilson

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ian Wilson. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Crying Game

1992 · Movie · 113 min. · Ireland

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Stephen Rea · Forest Whitaker · Jaye Davidson · Miranda Richardson

Plot The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard...

7.2

8K votes

7.2

8K votes

Copenhagen (TV)

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

6.4

61 votes

6.4

61 votes

6.4

88 votes

Savior

1998 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Predrag Antonijevic

Cast Dennis Quaid · Nastassja Kinski · Natasa Ninkovic · Stellan Skarsgard

Plot Joshua is a former U.S. military official who fled to the Foreign Legion when his wife Maria was killed by Muslim fundamentalists in Paris, and now he's a mercenary, fighting...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

A Way of Life

2004 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Amma Asante

Cast Stephanie James · Brenda Blethyn · Gary Sheppeard · Nathan Jones

Plot In the real world there are no happy endings. Leigh-Anne (newcomer Stephanie James) is tough and purposeful - necessary qualities for a girl who became a single mother while still...

6.2

102 votes

6.2

102 votes

And Soon the Darkness

1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Fuest

Cast Pamela Franklin · Michele Dotrice · Sandor Elès · John Nettleton

Plot Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) are two young nurses from London, taking a cycling holiday in rural France. Stopping for a rest, Cathy decides she wants to sunbathe...

6.1

449 votes

6.1

449 votes

Wish You Were Here

1987 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Leland

Cast Emily Lloyd · Clare Clifford · Barbara Durkin · Geoffrey Hutchings

Plot Lynda is a sexy teenage girl growing up after the the Second World War in a bleak and dismal English seaside town. She spends most of the film getting sacked...

6.0

149 votes

6.0

149 votes

Erik the Viking

1989 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast Tim Robbins · Mickey Rooney · John Cleese · Terry Jones

Plot Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Edward II

1991 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

6.0

324 votes

6.0

324 votes

Emma

1996 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas McGrath

Cast Gwyneth Paltrow · Toni Collette · Alan Cumming · Jeremy Northam

Plot Based on the Jane Austen novel, "Emma" tells the story of a young woman in England who plays her town's matchmaker. When attempting to match up her friend with the...

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast John Mills · Simon MacCorkindale · Barbara Kellerman · Margaret Tyzack

Plot The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name. Like the earlier Quatermass projects of the 1950s and 1960s, the guiding force...

6.0

31 votes

6.0

31 votes

Backbeat

1994 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Iain Softley

Cast Stephen Dorff · Ian Hart · Sheryl Lee · Gary Bakewell

Plot Backbeat chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (Ian Hart), and also...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

A Christmas Carol (TV)

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Patrick Stewart · Richard E. Grant · Joel Grey · Ian McNeice

Plot Adaptation of Charles Dickens' story "A Christmas Carol." A crotchety, old misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, experiences an epiphany on Christmas Eve when he revisits his wretched past and is permitted to...

5.7

312 votes

5.7

312 votes

Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter

1973 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens

Cast Horst Janson · John Carson · Shane Briant · Caroline Munro

Plot Hard-faced Horst Janson is the brooding Kronos, a rangy, sword-wielding soldier who hunts the vampire scourge with his jovial hunchbacked partner, Grost (John Cater), and his earthy peasant girl lover,...

5.6

458 votes

5.6

458 votes

The New Avengers (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ray Austin · Sidney Hayers · Robert Fuest · James Hill

Cast Patrick MacNee · Gareth Hunt · Joanna Lumley · Maurice Marsac

Plot John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.

5.5

144 votes

5.5

144 votes

The Big Man

1990 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Leland

Cast Liam Neeson · Joanne Whalley · Billy Connolly · Hugh Grant

Plot An unemployed Glaswegian miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle fighting to support his family. He finds himself in a nightmare world of drugs and crooks but prepares to turn...

5.2

201 votes

5.2

201 votes

Below

2002 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction David Twohy

Cast Bruce Greenwood · David Crow · Matthew Davis · Dexter Fletcher

Plot In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew,...

5.2

532 votes

5.2

532 votes

Back to the Secret Garden

2001 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

5.0

93 votes

5.0

93 votes

Dream Demon

1988 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harley Cokeliss

Cast Jemma Redgrave · Kathleen Wilhoite · Timothy Spall · Jimmy Nail

Plot A young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders.

5.0

51 votes

5.0

51 votes

Fright

1971 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Collinson

Cast Susan George · Honor Blackman · Ian Bannen · John Gregson

Plot Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy...

4.9

143 votes

4.9

143 votes