Cinematography: Owen McPolin

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


Vikings (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 44 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Hirst · Ken Girotti · Ciaran Donnelly · Jeff Woolnough

Cast Travis Fimmel · Katheryn Winnick · Gustaf Skarsgård · Alexander Ludwig

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2020). 6 Seasons. 89 Episodes. Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King...

7.5

32K votes

7.5

32K votes

Little Dorrit (TV Series)

2008 · Series · 500 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adam Smith · Dearbhla Walsh · Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Claire Foy · Matthew Macfadyen · Tom Courtenay · Alun Armstrong

Synopsis An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'Little Dorrit'. It tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again.

7.5

605 votes

7.5

605 votes

Direction David Drury

Cast Shaun Evans · Tom Hardy · Charlotte Riley · Kierston Wareing

Synopsis He's got family, he's got power, but he's got issues.

7.3

132 votes

7.3

132 votes

Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 52 min. · United States

Direction John Logan · James Hawes · Damon Thomas · Brian Kirk

Cast Eva Green · Josh Hartnett · Timothy Dalton · Harry Treadaway

Synopsis Penny Dreadful (TV Series) (2014) is a Gothic horror drama set in Victorian London, weaving together classic literary characters and original narratives. The story follows enigmatic explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, medium Vanessa Ives, and sharpshooter Ethan Chandler as they confront...

7.0

11K votes

7.0

11K votes

Secret State (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ed Fraiman

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Charles Dance · Gina McKee · Jamie Sives

Synopsis In the run up to a general election, a devastating industrial accident on Teesside, UK, leaves 19 people dead and raises questions about the safety procedures of a US petrochemical company, PetroFex. The British Prime Minister claims to have secured...

7.0

602 votes

7.0

602 votes

Direction Richard Clark

Cast Matt Smith · Karen Gillan · Arthur Darvill · Daniel Mays

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 5 Episodes. "Night and the Doctor" is the umbrella title for a series of mini-episodes of Doctor Who. In Bad Night and Good Night, Amy discovers the Doctor goes on adventures while she and Rory are asleep....

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6.8

230 votes

6.8

230 votes

The Silence (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dearbhla Walsh

Cast Gina McKee · Hugh Bonneville · Genevieve Barr · Douglas Henshall

Synopsis Drama about a deaf girl who witnesses the audacious murder of a policewoman, and is reluctantly propelled further into a loud and frightening world.

6.5

21 votes

6.5

21 votes

Shadow and Bone (TV Series)

2021 · Series · 52 min. · United States

Direction Eric Heisserer · Mairzee Almas · Lee Toland Krieger

Cast Freddy Carter · Jessie Mei Li · Archie Renaux · Amita Suman

Synopsis TV Series (2021-Present Day). The series "brings together the stories and characters of both Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows, two overlapping series that take place in Bardugo’s Grishaverse. In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Mr. Selfridge (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andrew Davies · Anthony Byrne · Michael Keillor · Jon Jones

Cast Jeremy Piven · Tom Goodman-Hill · Amanda Abbington · Frances O'Connor

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2016). 4 Seasons. 40 Episodes. Centers on the story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store. Mr Selfridge. This is the story of 'Mile a Minute Harry', a man with a mission to...

6.2

358 votes

6.2

358 votes

Into the Badlands (TV Series)

2015 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Gough · Miles Millar · David Dobkin · Guy Ferland

Cast Daniel Wu · Emily Beecham · Sarah Bolger · Orla Brady

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2019). 3 Seasons. 32 Episodes. A mighty warrior and a young boy search for enlightenment in a ruthless territory controlled by feudal barons.

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Foundation (TV Series)

2021 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Josh Friedman · David S. Goyer · Rupert Sanders · Alex Graves

Cast Lou Llobell · Jared Harris · Lee Pace · Leah Ferguson

Synopsis A mathematical genius and heretic named Hari Seldon predicts the fall of civilization. 1,000 years later, a mysterious entity begins to over-run the galaxy.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Deadly Class (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 54 min. · United States

Direction Miles Orion Feldsott · Rick Remender · Lee Toland Krieger · Adam Kane

Cast Benedict Wong · Benjamin Wadsworth · Lana Condor · María Gabriela de Faría

Synopsis TV Series (2018). 10 Episodes. Set in a dark, comic book world against the backdrop of late '80s counterculture, "Deadly Class" follows a homeless teen recruited into a storied elite private school where the world's top crime families send their...

6.2

606 votes

6.2

606 votes

Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David S. Goyer · Peter Hoar · M.J. Bassett · Jamie Payne

Cast Tom Riley · Laura Haddock · Elliot Cowan · Ian Pirie

Synopsis TV Series (2013-2015). 3 Seasons. 28 Episodes. Written by David S. Goyer, the series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

Breakfast Wine (S)

2013 · Movie · 12 min. · Ireland

Direction Ian Fitzgibbon

Cast Ruth Bradley · Dylan Moran · David Pearse · Pat Shortt

Synopsis In Ireland they say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town. But what if you've only got two?

5.7

27 votes

5.7

27 votes

Me and Mrs Jones (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nick Hurran

Cast Sarah Alexander · Neil Morrissey · Nathaniel Parker · Robert Sheehan

Synopsis Gemma Jones is the mother of twin daughters Charlotte and Jess and adult son Alfie. The show follows Gemma's life as she navigates relationships with Tom, the father of one her daughters' playmates, and Billy, a friend of Alfie's.

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Barber

2023 · Movie · 90 min. · Ireland

Direction Fintan Connolly

Cast Aidan Gillen · Ailbhe Cowley · Gary Lydon · Steve Wall

Synopsis Val Barber, a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow to find her missing granddaughter.

5.1

27 votes

5.1

27 votes

False Witness (TV Miniseries)

2008 · Series · 180 min. · Australia

Direction Peter Andrikidis

Cast Dougray Scott · Claire Forlani · Richard Roxburgh · Jeremy Lindsay Taylor

Synopsis The Diplomat is an intricate and fast-paced action thriller that charts a dangerous and duplicitous game played between the secret services and a terrorist cell intent on killing hundreds of thousands of innocents with a nuclear bomb. As international tensions...

4.7

69 votes

4.7

69 votes

Direction Jon East · Julian Holmes · Marek Losey · Stephen Woolfenden

Cast Kieran Bew · Gísli Örn Garðarsson · Joanne Whalley · William Hurt

Synopsis TV Series (2016). 13 Episodes. Based on the complex protagonist of a classic poem written between the eighth and tenth century, Beowulf takes place in a mythological place, The Shieldlands, and challenges the notions of good and evil, heroes and...

4.3

79 votes

4.3

79 votes

Eden

2008 · Movie · 84 min. · Ireland

Direction Declan Recks

Cast Aidan Kelly · Eileen Walsh · Padraic Delaney · Enda Oates

Synopsis Breda and Billy Farrell are a seemingly happy, normal couple approaching their tenth anniversary. In private, however, their marriage shows signs of strain. As Billy begins to obsess over a younger woman, Breda desperately searches for a way to preserve...

Not rated

Not rated

Song (S)

2014 · Movie · 18 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jamie Sives

Cast Aidan Gillen · Darrell D'Silva

Synopsis A husband and the lover of his wife go into the woods to dig up a grave for the one that doesn't get chosen by the wife, as she is going to text both, saying who she chooses over the...

Not rated

Not rated