Stephen Poliakoff

Total Credits at Criticker: 12 (Director), 17 (Writer)
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After some years of tension, Richard (Clive Owen) begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves)... (imdb)
Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of unending progress in science and civilization. Then he begins to discover the dark side of the institute, which foreshadows the dark side of the 20th century. (imdb)
Gideon's Daughter (2005) - TV Movie
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son. (imdb)
The Tribe (1998) - TV Movie
A man, instructed by his employers to evict a mysterious cult from an abandoned building, finds solace from his otherwise hum-drum life in the tribe's alluring, self-contained world of lust and intrigue.
The Lost Prince (2003) - TV Movie
The true story of the British royal prince locked away because of having epilepsy. (imdb)
On the eve of World War Two, the adopted daughter of a traditional British family discovers some secret recordings that could change government policy. Then her friends begin to die in mysterious circumstances.
Joe's Palace (2007) - TV Movie
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns. (imdb)
Shooting the Past (1999) - TV Movie
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him. (imdb)
Capturing Mary (2007) - TV Movie
A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever. (imdb)
Friends and Crocodiles (2005) - TV Movie
"Friends and Crocodiles" traces the changing relationship of maverick entrepreneur Paul Reynolds and his assistant Lizzie Thomas over a period of 20 years from the beginnings of the Thatcher era to the bursting of the dot.com bubble. (imdb)
Bloody Kids (1979) - TV Movie
Two listless 11-year-old young boys, the cold, manipulative Leo (Thomas) and his weaker, more impressionable friend Mike (Clark). Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police helmet from the accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Sharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the truth be out? Will the meaning of the hidden film footage spliced into innocuous Government Information Films be discovered? And what is so important about these misplaced medical records? Hidden City is a film set in a London made hidden by the layers of history and secrets. (imdb)
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
Summer of Rockets (2019) - TV Mini-Series
Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain. (imdb)
Close to the Enemy (2016) - TV Mini-Series
A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft. (imdb)