Direction: Charles Sturridge

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


Brideshead Revisited (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Series · 659 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge · Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Jeremy Irons · Anthony Andrews · Diana Quick · Laurence Olivier

Plot TV Series (October 1981 - December 1981). Jeremy Irons stars as the impressionable Oxford youth bedazzled by Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews), youngest of the wealthy ill-fated Marchmain family. Irons quickly...

7.9

2K votes

7.9

2K votes

The Storyteller (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Henson · Steve Barron · Jon Amiel · Peter Smith

Cast John Hurt · Brian Henson · Frederick Warder · David Greenaway

Plot TV Series (1987-1988). 9 Episodes. A variety of European folk tales are retold in nine new stories. A woman bears a hedgehog-child who grows up to live alone in a...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Dates (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bryan Elsley · John Maybury · Charles Sturridge · Sarah Walker

Cast Will Mellor · Oona Chaplin · Sheridan Smith · Neil Maskell

Plot TV Series (2013). 9 Episodes. From the creator of Skins, a witty, sexy and emotional drama series about the complicated and hilarious ways that strangers interact on dates in their...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Longitude (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Movie · 250 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Michael Gambon · Jeremy Irons · Bill Nighy · Brian Cox

Plot In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West...

6.8

28 votes

6.8

28 votes

Strike: Career of Evil (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Tom Burke · Tamsin Topolski · Natasha O'Keeffe · Holliday Grainger

Plot TV Miniseries (2018). 2 Episodes. At the office, Robin receives a package and is horrified to discover it contains a woman's severed leg. Strike draws up a list of suspects...

Max

6.6

344 votes

6.6

344 votes

Strike (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Keillor · Kieron Hawkes · Charles Sturridge

Cast Tom Burke · Holliday Grainger · Kerr Logan · Killian Scott

Plot War veteran turned private detective Cormoran Strike solves brutal murders with the help of his trusted assistant Robin Ellacott.

Max

6.5

340 votes

6.5

340 votes

Shackleton (TV Miniseries)

2002 · Series · 200 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Paul Humpoletz · John Grillo · Phoebe Nicholls

Plot The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed...

6.4

248 votes

6.4

248 votes

The Scapegoat

2012 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Andrew Scott · Jodhi May · Eileen Atkins · Matthew Rhys

Plot Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.

6.4

114 votes

6.4

114 votes

Sanditon (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Oliver Blackburn · Lisa Clarke · Charles Sturridge

Cast Alexandra Roach · Crystal Clarke · Charlotte Spencer · Kate Ashfield

Plot TV Mini-series (2019). 8 Episodes. About Charlotte Heywood, a spirited and impulsive woman who moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a...

6.4

341 votes

6.4

341 votes

Marcella (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hans Rosenfeldt · Nicola Larder · Charles Martin · Jonathan Teplitzky

Cast Anna Friel · Nicholas Pinnock · Ray Panthaki · Sinead Cusack

Plot TV Series (2016-Present Day). Ex detective Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Churchill's Secret (TV)

2016 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Michael Gambon · Lindsay Duncan · Romola Garai · Daisy Lewis

Plot British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world.

6.1

21 votes

6.1

21 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

Plot 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...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

A Handful of Dust

1987 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast James Wilby · Kristin Scott Thomas · Anjelica Huston · Rupert Graves

Plot We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his...

6.0

123 votes

6.0

123 votes

MotherFatherSon (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Rob Smith · James Kent · Charles Sturridge

Cast Richard Gere · Elena Anaya · Ciarán Hinds · Billy Howle

Plot A psycho-thriller set within systems of power in politics, media, and the police.

6.0

106 votes

6.0

106 votes

Fairytale: A True Story

1997 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Florence Hoath · Peter O'Toole · Harvey Keitel · Elizabeth Earl

Plot When her father is declared missing in action during World War I, Elsie Wrigth (Florence Hoath) goes to live in England with her cousin Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) for whom...

5.8

390 votes

5.8

390 votes

Where Angels Fear to Tread

1991 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Judy Davis · Rupert Graves · Giovanni Guidelli

Plot An adaptation of E.M. Forster's debut novel. A woman who has recently lost her husband visits Italy where she soon marries again.

5.6

181 votes

5.6

181 votes

Aria

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman

Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley

Plot Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),...

5.6

132 votes

5.6

132 votes

Gulliver's Travels (TV)

1996 · Movie · 187 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Ted Danson · Mary Steenburgen · James Fox · Ned Beatty

Plot All star adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satirical tale about a normal man who, after returning home following eight years of absence, relates fantastical tales about how he was thought to...

5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

Lassie

2005 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Peter O'Toole · Samantha Morton · Peter Dinklage · John Lynch

Plot A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home....

4.8

833 votes

4.8

833 votes

Astonish Me (S)

2011 · Movie · 7 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Will Jacklin · Anthony Gopaul · Christian McKay · Bill Nighy

Plot When a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of...

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