The Best Michael Winterbottom Movies Ranked And Where to Watch them

If you're looking for the best Michael Winterbottom movies of all time then here is a definitive list. We rank every movie directed by Michael Winterbottom based on their popularity score from IMDB from best to worst. Click on the ‘see more’ button to find out where to watch them in Australia covering all streaming services. In March 2024 there are 22 films in this list.

List of the Best Movies Directed by Michael Winterbottom In Order of Popularity

  1. The Look of Love
  2. 24 Hour Party People
  3. In This World
  4. Go Now
  5. The Emperor's New Clothes
  6. The Trip
  7. A Cock and Bull Story
  8. The Trip to Italy
  9. The Trip to Spain
  10. A Mighty Heart
  11. The Trip to Greece
  12. The Claim
  13. With or Without You
  14. The Killer Inside Me
  15. Code 46
  16. Trishna
  17. Genova
  18. The Wedding Guest
  19. 9 Songs
  20. The Face of an Angel
  21. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
  22. I Want You

Stream the top 22 Movies directed by Michael Winterbottom

1. The Look of Love

Rated: Not Rated

8.5/10

Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.

2. 24 Hour Party People

Rated: R

7.3/10

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

3. In This World

Rated: R

7.3/10

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.

4. Go Now

Rated: R

7.2/10

Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.

5. The Emperor's New Clothes

Rated: M

7/10

An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following his 2014 book Revolution, where he railed against “corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility, and economic inequality".

6. The Trip

Rated: Not Rated

7.0/10

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

7. A Cock and Bull Story

Rated: R

6.7/10

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

8. The Trip to Italy

Rated: Not Rated

6.7/10

Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

9. The Trip to Spain

Rated: Unrated

6.6/10

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.

10. A Mighty Heart

Rated: R

6.6/10

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

11. The Trip to Greece

Rated: Not Rated

6.5/10

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their travelogue series with a visit to Greece.

12. The Claim

Rated: R

6.3/10

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.

13. With or Without You

Rated:

6.1/10

Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?

14. The Killer Inside Me

Rated: R

6.1/10

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

15. Code 46

Rated: R

6.1/10

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

16. Trishna

Rated: R

6.0/10

When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?

17. Genova

Rated: R

6.0/10

A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.

18. The Wedding Guest

Rated: R

5.8/10

Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.

19. 9 Songs

Rated: Not Rated

4.7/10

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

20. The Face of an Angel

Rated: Not Rated

4.6/10

Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.

21. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Rated: R

/10

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

22. I Want You

Rated: R

/10

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.