Jon Amiel

The Core (2003)

Cast: Hilary Swank Jon Amiel   

Tags: Sci-Fi Action Sci-Fi Disaster Film Action Science Fiction 

Length: 136min

An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of...

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Entrapment (1999)

Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones Sean Connery   

Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Caper 

Length: 113min

After a long career playing good guys, Sean Connery gets to have some fun playing a crook for a change in the romantic crime thriller Entrapment -- and he even gets to break the law with the lovely Catherine Zeta-Jones. When a priceless Rembrandt...

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The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

Cast: Alfred Molina Bill Murray   

Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy Comedy of Errors 

Length: 94min

Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a...

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Copycat (1995)

Cast: Sigourney Weaver Holly Hunter   

Tags: Police Detective Film Thriller Mystery Psychological Thriller 

Length: 120min

A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the...

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Sommersby (1993)

Cast: Jodie Foster James Earl Jones   

Tags: Romance Drama Psychological Drama Romantic Drama 

Length: 114min

This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War. Richard Gere stars as Jack...

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Tune in Tomorrow (1990)

Cast: Keanu Reeves Barbara Hershey Peter Falk Hope Lange Peter Gallagher Buck Henry   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 

Length: 90min

Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, -Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara...

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Queen of Hearts (1989)

Tags: Family Drama Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama 

Length: 112min

The Queen of Hearts is an essentially Italian story given full and proper treatment by a virtually all-British crew. Anita Zagaria plays a lovely Italian lass, consigned to an arranged marriage with a wealthy Sicilian man. She balks at the altar and...

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The Singing Detective (1986)

Cast: Michael Gambon   

Tags: Musical Detective Film Psychological Drama Musical Drama Drama 

Length: 415min

With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel -Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred...

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The Silent Twins (1985)

Tags: Drama Docudrama 

Length: 85min

The psychotic behavior of a set of twins, Jennifer (Shirley Parker) and June Gibbons (Sharon Parker) is the focus of this disturbing true story. While still quite young, the twins vow never to speak to anyone except each other -- though their own...

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