Diarmuid Lawrence

Diarmuid Lawrence
Total Credits at Criticker: 11 (Director)
Titles you haven't rated - Director (11)
Messiah
Messiah (2001) - TV Mini-Series
A serial killer with an interesting modus operandi begins operating in London, with DCI Red Metcalfe put on the case.
Emma
Emma (1996) - TV Movie
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften... (imdb)
The Echo
The Echo (1998) - TV Movie
Mike Deacon, a tough, lone-wolf reporter discovers that things are not quite what they seem when a tramp is found dead in the garage of a beautiful woman. He enlists the help of an elderly lawyer friend, a naïve photographer and a streetwise teenager during the investigation. (imdb)
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit (2008) - TV Mini-Series
Since her birth, Amy Dorrit has lived in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt, where she cares for her father William, who is held in great esteem by the other inmates. To help financially assist her family, she works as a seamstress for Mrs. Clennam, a semi-invalid who is confined to her crumbling home with her servants, the sinister Jeremiah Flintwinch and his bumbling wife Affery. (wikipedia)
Carla
Carla (2003) - TV Movie
The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences. (imdb)
The Lady Vanishes
While traveling by train, a young socialite is befriended by a charming yet enigmatic older woman; however, when the woman disappears, the other passengers deny she ever existed. (imdb)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
An exploration of Charles Dicken's unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Gerald Middleton, a distinguished, retired historian is coming to terms with his life's folly. As a student, Middleton witnessed the unearthing of the Melpham idol, a pagan fertility figure that electrified modern medieval scholarship by turning up in the grave of a 7th-century bishop. He also began an affair with Dollie, the fiancée of his best friend, the man who had privately confessed to planting the idol as a hoax. (amazon.com)
South Riding
South Riding (2011) - TV Mini-Series
Sarah Burton returns to a small, working-class town in Yorkshire, as headmistress of a local, failing girls' school, full of idealism and opinions. Britain's unforgiving class system is in strict effect as Sarah tilts against windmills to try to give all of South Riding's young women a chance at education and realizing their dreams. (amazon.com)
Mapp & Lucia
Mapp & Lucia (2014) - TV Mini-Series
The social rivalry between two women in the 1930s when Lucia rents Mapp's house for the summer.
Peter & Wendy: Based on the Novel Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
This version establishes a dramatic connection with Great Ormond Street, the world famous children's hospital that has become irrevocably associated with Peter Pan. The story will be retold through the imagination of a young girl named Lucy who is about to receive hospital treatment for a serious heart condition. This is Lucy's version of Peter Pan, the startling fantasy of a brave, imaginative and utterly modern young girl who fears her illness might mean that she may never grow up. (imdb)