---
name: "Saul Dibb"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/saul-dibb"
fi1m_id: "saul-dibb"
imdb_id: "nm1314116"
tmdb_id: 73460
wikidata_id: "Q7427291"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 August 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T19:55:51.027981+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Saul Dibb

## Identity

Saul Dibb

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/saul-dibb
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** saul-dibb
- **IMDb ID:** nm1314116
- **TMDB ID:** 73460
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7427291
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Dibb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7427291, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1314116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73460

Director. Born 1 August 1968 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 August 1968, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (1), 2020s 76 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, History 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $43m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Dibb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7427291, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1314116/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73460

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*The Sixth Commandment*](https://film.one/tv/the-sixth-commandment.md) (80)
- **AMC+:** [*This City Is Ours*](https://film.one/tv/this-city-is-ours.md) (73)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Duchess*](https://film.one/film/the-duchess.md) (66)

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## Fi1m on Saul Dibb

> Saul Dibb makes crime and period drama convincing through close attention to relationships. We value that care, though the believable people of *This City Is Ours* have some routine plotting to carry.

In *This City Is Ours* (2025), Michael and Diana’s relationship holds our attention when another gangland betrayal does not. We cared about them because there seemed to be a life worth following beyond the business of crime. James Nelson-Joyce gives the series its strongest reason to stay, and Saul Dibb, directing alongside Eshref Reybrouck, makes room for the family relationships. This is where we rate Dibb: he makes the people matter even when the plotting has become familiar.

He began in documentaries in the late 1990s, before making his feature debut with the character-focused urban drama *Bullet Boy* (2004). Television’s *The Line of Beauty* (2006) and the period feature *The Duchess* (2008) widened the settings in which he worked. *Journey's End* (2017) took his concern for immediacy into the trenches of the First World War. The later factual dramas *The Salisbury Poisonings* (2020) and *The Sixth Commandment* (2023) kept the focus on people affected by real events. Across those changes, his preference has remained for believable behaviour rather than conspicuous stylisation.

Dibb favours natural light and real locations, a practical choice that suits his interest in performances that feel immediate. In *This City Is Ours*, cinematographer Joel Devlin gives the criminals’ affluence an appeal that the drama is right not to apologise for. Enjoying the money is part of why these people stay in the business, and the images help us understand that attachment. It also helps the family scenes: there seems to be a life being lived when nobody is making a threat. The setting gives the actors something more useful than a suitably menacing backdrop.

Our reservation about *This City Is Ours* is straightforward: the gangland manoeuvring becomes routine. Dibb and Reybrouck keep the people credible, but the family scenes are doing much of the work of holding our attention. We would welcome stories that give Dibb’s care with character something less predictable to work with. Try this series for Nelson-Joyce and the relationships; patience with the criminal business remains a condition.

## Biography

Saul Dibb is a British film and television director and screenwriter. Born in London in 1968, he is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. His father is the documentary maker Mike Dibb.

Dibb's feature films include *Bullet Boy* (2004), for which he received a nomination for the Douglas Hickox Award; *The Duchess* (2008), which he co-wrote; *Suite Française* (2014); and *Journey's End* (2017). His television work includes directing *The Line of Beauty* (2006), *NW* (2016), *Dublin Murders* (2019), *The Salisbury Poisonings* (2020), *The Sixth Commandment* (2023) and *This City Is Ours* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *This City Is Ours* (2025), Fi1m 73, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-city-is-ours.md)
- *The Sixth Commandment* (2023), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sixth-commandment.md)
- *The Duchess* (2008), Fi1m 66, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-duchess.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *This City Is Ours* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-city-is-ours.md)
- *The Sixth Commandment* (2023), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sixth-commandment.md)
- *The Salisbury Poisonings* (2020), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Dublin Murders* (2019), series, Director
- *Journey's End* (2017), Director
- *NW* (2016), Director
- *Suite Française* (2015), Director, Writer
- *The Duchess* (2008), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-duchess.md)
- *The Line of Beauty* (2006), series, Director, Creator
- *Bullet Boy* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Tottenham Ayatollah* (1997), Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2009: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Duchess*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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