Direction: Michael Anderson

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Michael Anderson. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Sea Wolf (TV)

1993 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Charles Bronson · Catherine Mary Stewart · Marc Singer · Len Cariou

Plot Writer Van Weyden has an accident with his boat and he plus one woman is saved by the boat Ghost. Everything seems to be normal, until the two find captain...

4.7

50 votes

4.7

50 votes

4.7

70 votes

The New Adventures of Pinocchio

1999 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Martin Landau · Udo Kier · Gabriel Thomson · Sarah Alexander

Plot While Pincchio's creator-'daddy' Gepetto is ill in bed, the rascal and mate visit the circus. There cross-dressing freak-show boss Lorenzini 'Madame Flambeau' ends up selling them an elixir as 'cure',...

4.6

56 votes

4.6

56 votes

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (TV)

1997 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Crenna · Ben Cross · Julie Cox · Paul Gross

Plot Mysterious monster is terrorizing the Atlantic Ocean and famous marine biologist Professor Aronnax, is summoned to investigate the disturbance. Accompanied by his daughter Sophie, the two trail the monstrous creature....

4.4

43 votes

4.4

43 votes

Doc Savage... The Man of Bronze

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Ron Ely · Darrel Zwerling · Michael Miller · William Lucking

Plot Master crimefighter and scientific genius Clark ‘Doc’ Savage Jr receives the news that his father has died from a rare disease in the South American Republic of Hidalgo. And so...

4.3

74 votes

4.3

74 votes

The Hatching

2016 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Thomas Turgoose · Andrew Lee Potts · Laura Aikman · Georgia Henshaw

Plot After the death of his father, Tim Webber returns to his childhood village in Somerset, only to find something sinister is disturbing the idyllic peace of the villagers.

2.6

21 votes

2.6

21 votes

Night Was Our Friend

1951 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Michael Gough · Elizabeth Sellars · Ronald Howard · Marie Ney

Plot Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found...

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Rugged Gold (TV)

1994 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Jill Eikenberry · Art Hindle · Ari Magder · Graham Greene

Plot In 1950s, a windowed mother falls for an Alaskan gold miner, so they move to the Alaskan wilderness and try to find gold and happiness.

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The Jeweller's Shop

1988 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Burt Lancaster · Daniel Olbrychski · Ben Cross · Andrea Occhipinti

Plot In this romantic story The Jeweller (Burt Lancaster) sells wedding rings to a young couple and teaches them some precious truths about the meaning of love and marriage. The jeweller...

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Scales of Justice (TV Series)

1990 · Series · min. · Canada

Direction David Cronenberg · Michael Anderson · Sturla Gunnarsson · Eric Till

Cast Edward Greenspan · Todd Schroeder · Justin Louis · Leslie Carlson

Plot Recreates the stories of Canada's most famous criminal cases and trials.

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Summer of the Monkeys

1998 · Movie · 101 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Michael Ontkean · Leslie Hope · Wilford Brimley · Corey Sevier

Plot Summer Of The Monkeys (set in the 1800's on the prairies of Canada) follows the story of a young boy, Jay, who dreams of getting enough money to buy his...

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Hell Is Sold Out

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Attenborough · Mai Zetterling · Herbert Lom · Hermione Baddeley

Plot A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Lom", a popular writer, long believed to be dead. The real "Lom" turns up & meets the new authoress...

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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

1957 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Todd · William Hartnell · Akim Tamiroff · Donald Houston

Plot While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire....

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Will Any Gentleman...?

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast George Cole · Veronica Hurst · Heather Thatcher · Jon Pertwee

Plot About a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London. After a mix-up at a music hall, he finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who...

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Second Time Lucky

1984 · Movie · 101 min. · New Zealand

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Diane Franklin · Roger Wilson · Jon Gadsby · Robert Helpmann

Plot There's a new wager between Heaven and Hell. Devil bets God that if God were to pick two young people to be the new Adam and Eve, they'd sin again....

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Waterfront

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Robert Newton · Kathleen Harrison · Avis Scott · Susan Shaw

Plot A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter,...

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Wild and Wonderful

1964 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Tony Curtis · Christine Kaufmann · Larry Storch · Pierre Olaf

Plot Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.

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Young Catherine (TV)

1991 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Julia Ormond · Franco Nero · Christopher Plummer · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.

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Private Angelo

1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson · Peter Ustinov

Cast Godfrey Tearle · María Denis · Peter Ustinov · Marjorie Rhodes

Plot Private Angelo has been conscripted into the Italian Army in WWII. The trouble is that Private Angelo doesn't like people shooting at him so he tries all sorts of tricks...

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Captains Courageous (TV)

1996 · Movie · 93 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Robert Urich · Kenny Vadas · Kaj-Erik Eriksen · Robert Wisden

Plot Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a cigar and the sea on his way to England for boarding school. Seasick, over the...

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