D'entre a suya filmografía, se puet destacar as suyas direccions en bellas cintas como Golden Gate (1994, con Matt Dillon, Joan Chen y Bruno Kirby), Shakespeare in Love (1998, con Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck y Judi Dench), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001, con Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey y Irene Papas), Killshot (2008, con Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Thomas Jane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt y Rosario Dawson), u The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012, con Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie y Dev Patel).