Direction: Robert Knights

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


Waking the Dead (TV Series)

2000 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Barbara Machin · Andy Hay · Edward Bennett · David Thacker

Cast Trevor Eve · Sue Johnston · Wil Johnson · Tara Fitzgerald

Plot One of the BBC's most popular dramas, Waking the Dead regularly draws audiences of over 8 million in the UK. It's twice been nominated for an International Emmy and in...

5.6

151 votes

5.6

151 votes

The Dawning

1988 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Rebecca Pidgeon · Anthony Hopkins · Hugh Grant · Jean Simmons

Plot The film opens with Angus Barrie (Anthony Hopkins), a Irish Republican Army member, walking through hills, and coming to rest on a beach, where there is a little hut. Meanwhile,...

5.4

37 votes

5.4

37 votes

Dead of Night (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

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Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Donald McWhinnie · Roger Bamford · Julian Amyes · Robert Tronson

Cast Leo McKern · Jonathan Coy · Julian Curry · Marion Mathie

Plot (1978-1992). 7 seasons. Horace Rumpole is an "Old Bailey Hack," one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. Rumpole refused to handle...

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Double Vision (TV)

1992 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Kim Cattrall · Gale Hansen · Macha Méril · Naveen Andrews

Plot The telepathy between identical twins: conventional Caroline lives with her dad and is engaged; Lisa is hard-drinking, devil-may-care, living in London as a high-class call girl. Caroline has horrid dreams...

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Zafarrancho en Cambridge (TV Miniseries)

1987 · Series · 200 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast David Jason · Ian Richardson · Paul Rogers · John Woodnutt

Plot For the first time in five hundred years, the master of Porterhouse fails to name his successor on his deathbed before dying. He succumbs to a Porterhouse Blue - a...

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All for Love (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

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The History Man (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Movie · 206 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Antony Sher · Geraldine James · Isla Blair · Laura Davenport

Plot TV Mini-Series (1981). 4 episodes.

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The Glittering Prizes (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1976 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Waris Hussein · Robert Knights

Cast Tom Conti · Barbara Kellerman · Mark Wing-Davey · Clive Merrison

Plot TV Mini-Series (1976). 6 episodes. Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.

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And a Nightingale Sang

1989 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Joan Plowright · Phyllis Logan · Tom Watt · John Woodvine

Plot A touching and richly comic account of one Geordie family's war. While Mam worries about the church being bombed, Grandpa mourns his dead whippet and Dad turns communist, while their...

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Tender Is the Night (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Movie · 360 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Peter Strauss · Mary Steenburgen · John Heard · Sean Young

Plot Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at...

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The Ebony Tower (TV)

1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Laurence Olivier · Roger Rees · Greta Scacchi · Toyah Willcox

Plot A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and...

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