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
Murder by Phone
1981 · Movie · 79 min. · Canada
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Richard Chamberlain · John Houseman · Sara Botsford · Robin Gammell
4.7
70 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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