Direction: David Yates

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


State of Play (TV Miniseries)

2003 · Series · 350 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast David Morrissey · John Simm · Kelly MacDonald · Amelia Bullmore

Plot Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her...

7.6

640 votes

7.6

640 votes

The Way We Live Now (TV Miniseries)

2001 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast David Suchet · Matthew Macfadyen · Shirley Henderson · Cillian Murphy

Plot TV miniseries. 4 episodes. At the center of the story is Augustus Melmotte, a European-born city financier, whose origins are as mysterious as his business dealings. Trollope describes him as...

7.0

76 votes

7.0

76 votes

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

2011 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson · Rupert Grint · Alan Rickman

Plot The end begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to Hogwarts to find and destroy Voldemorts final horcruxes, but when Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle...

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7.0

65K votes

7.0

65K votes

The Girl in the Café (TV)

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Bill Nighy · Kelly MacDonald · Meneka Das · Anton Lesser

Plot Commissioned as part of a range of programmes the BBC is making to celebrate Africa in 2005, the 90-minute film stars Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald and follows the story...

6.7

339 votes

6.7

339 votes

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

2010 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson · Rupert Grint · Alan Rickman

Plot Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of...

Max

6.6

65K votes

6.6

65K votes

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009 · Movie · 153 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson · Rupert Grint · Michael Gambon

Plot In the sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, and in both wizard and muggle worlds Lord Voldemort and his henchmen are increasingly active. With vacancies to fill at Hogwarts,...

Max

6.4

55K votes

6.4

55K votes

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2007 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson · Rupert Grint · Imelda Staunton

Plot Harry has returned for his fifth year at Hogwarts after another unhappy summer with the Dursleys, only to find Dumbledore replaced by the odious Dolores Umbridge and the Ministry Of...

Max

6.4

71K votes

6.4

71K votes

Tyrant (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gideon Raff · Howard Gordon · Gwyneth Horder-Payton · David Yates

Cast Adam Rayner · Moran Atias · Jennifer Finnigan · Anne Winters

Plot Barry Al-Fayeed has been living in the United States for twenty years, during which time he got married to Molly Olson, and had two children (Sammy and Emma), with both...

6.2

751 votes

6.2

751 votes

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016 · Movie · 133 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Eddie Redmayne · Dan Fogler · Katherine Waterston · Alison Sudol

Plot Seventy years before Harry Potter reads writer Newt Scamander's (Eddie Redmayne) book in school, the author enjoys adventures in New York's secret community of witches and wizards. The spinoff film...

Max

6.2

33K votes

6.2

33K votes

Pain Hustlers

2023 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction David Yates

Cast Emily Blunt · Chris Evans · Catherine O'Hara · Andy García

Plot Liza Drake is a single mother, recently unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Pete Brenner, a pharmaceutical sales rep, and starts on a financial...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

2018 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Eddie Redmayne · Jude Law · Katherine Waterston · Johnny Depp

Plot In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware...

Max

5.7

17K votes

5.7

17K votes

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3

2022 · Movie · 142 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Jude Law · Eddie Redmayne · Ezra Miller

Plot The third installment of the 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' series which follows the adventures of Newt Scamander.

Max

5.4

10K votes

5.4

10K votes

The Legend of Tarzan

2016 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction David Yates

Cast Alexander Skarsgård · Margot Robbie · Christoph Waltz · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot Years after he's reassimilated into society, John Clayton III, known as the famous "ape man" Tarzan, is asked by Queen Victoria to investigate the goings-on in the Congo. Tarzan teams...

5.2

12K votes

5.2

12K votes

Sex Traffic (TV Miniseries)

2004 · Movie · 189 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Wendy Crewson · John Simm · Anamaria Marinca · Maria Popistasu

Plot Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the...

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The Young Visiters (TV)

2003 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Jim Broadbent · Hugh Laurie · Lyndsey Marshall · Bill Nighy

Plot Alfred Salteena is a slightly bumbling gentleman who meets a young lady on a train and invites her to his home in London. She comes to see society and meet...

Not rated

Not rated

The Tichborne Claimant

1998 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Robert Pugh · John Kani · Stephen Fry · John Gielgud

Plot Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite...

Not rated

Not rated

Rank (S)

2002 · Movie · 15 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Yates

Cast Brian Dunn · Christopher Gorman · Ian Jarvie · William McLachlan

Plot A street gang cross Glasgow to witness the arrival of a group of Somali refugees. A closely observed portrait of racism, friendship and adolescents.

Not rated

Not rated