Keith Allen Filmography

The Good Night

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Simon Pegg, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Written and directed by Jake Paltrow, the romantic comedy The Good Night stars Martin Freeman as a onetime pop superstar who has swallowed his pride and now makes a living as a jingle writer. Although he has a steady relationship with a longtime girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow), he has become bored Read More

Robin Hood: Series 01

Actors: Jonas Armstrong, Lucy Griffiths, Keith Allen, Richard Armitage, Harry Lloyd

Bodies [TV Series]

Actors: Max Beesley, Patrick Baladi, Neve McIntosh, Keith Allen, Susan Lynch

De-Lovely

Actors: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Alan Corduner

Synopsis: The public and private lives of famed songwriter Cole Porter are both explored in this musical drama, in which the aging Porter (played by Kevin Kline) looks back on his life while watching a rehearsal of a stage musical based on his story. As Porter compares notes on the play with director Gabe (Jonathan Pryce Read More

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old CIA operative Cody Banks (played by Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz) is back in action in this comedy adventure, which sends the youthful secret agent to Old Blighty. Banks returns to Kamp Woody, the CIA training center disguised as a summer camp, where he's given a new Read More

24 Hour Party People

Actors: Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Danny Cunningham, Sean Harris, John Simm, Lennie James

Synopsis: This digital-video biopic uses the life of journalist, record mogul and club owner Tony Wilson to frame the story of the Manchester, England, music scene from the heyday of punk through the late-'80s "Madchester" era. As the founder of staunchly independent Factory Records, Wilson (Steve Coogan) Read More

My Wife Is An Actress

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp, Noemie Lvovsky, Laurent Bateau, Ludivine Sagnier, Keith Allen, Lionel Abelanski

Synopsis: Actor Yvan Attal follows up on his 1997 directorial debut of I've Got a Woman with this wry romantic comedy about a regular guy dealing with his wife's fame and career. Yvan (Attal) is a youngish sports writer who, through some improbable luck, finds himself happily married to the beautiful Read More

Bear's Kiss

Actors: Rebecca Liljeberg, Joachim Krol, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Keith Allen, Maurizio Donadoni

Synopsis: Director Sergei Bodrov takes a break from his usual socio-political dramas in Bear's Kiss, a surreal fairy tale following Lola (Rebecca Liljeberg), the 14-year-old daughter of long-time circus employees, and her love affair with a shape-shifting bear who calls himself Misha (Sergei Bodrov Jr.). Read More

The Others

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Elaine Cassidy, Alakina Mann, Eric Sykes

Synopsis: Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar's first English-language production is a creepy period ghost story that continues in the vein of his earlier art house hit Open Your Eyes (1997). Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a devoutly religious mother of two ailing children who has moved with her family to a Read More

Mike Bassett: England Manager

Actors: Ricky Tomlinson, Amanda Redman, Philip Jackson, Bradley Walsh, Phill Jupitus

Synopsis: The great British obsession with football (soccer to Americans) receives a thorough skewering in this mock documentary look at perhaps the most hapless coach in the history of professional sport. The manager of England's national football unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack, and suddenly the Read More

Rancid Aluminum

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Tara Fitzgerald, Sadie Frost, Steven Berkoff

Synopsis: Joseph Fiennes and Rhys Ifans star in this wacky British comedy-thriller. Hard luck case Pete (Ifans), who is unable to impregnate his hot-to-trot wife Sarah (Sadie Frost), learns that his father's business, which he recently inherited, is saddled with a huge tax debt. At his wits' end, he Read More

Mauvaise Passe

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Francis Barber

Synopsis: Writer-director Michel Blanc, whose previous works include the acclaimed Marche a l'ombre (1984) and Dead Tired (1994), creates this gritty drama about a middle-aged impoverished French writer in London who becomes a gigolo. The film opens with Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) getting worked over by an Read More

The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this two-part British miniseries chronicled the sorry career of Victorian-era doctor -- and unrepentant murderer -- William Palmer. Eager to become "the most famous surgeon in England," Palmer (played with appropriate arrogant detachment by Keith Allen) stopped at nothing to Read More

Preaching to the Perverted

Actors: Guinevere Turner, Christien Anholt, Tom Bell, Julie Graham, Julian Wadham

Synopsis: A young man learns that love hurts (or at least it does if you're doing it right) in this saucy comedy from England. Henry Harding (Tom Bell) is a member of British Parliament and a self-styled moral crusader who is deeply disturbed by reports that Tanya Cheex (Guinevere Turner), a dominatrix from Read More

Trainspotting

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life Read More

Loch Ness

Actors: Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, Kirsty Graham, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: A scientist finds himself walking a fine line between reason and fantasy in this family-oriented drama. Dr. Jonathan Dempsey (Ted Danson) is an American scientist who has devoted his career to searching out the truth behind contemporary legends and psudeo-scientific phenomena like Bigfoot, which Read More

Blue Juice

Actors: Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Ewan McGregor, Peter Gunn

Synopsis: Hey all you gremmies! Let's wax up our boards, load up the woodie and hit the beach for a big day of surfing in ... Cornwall, England? Blue Juice takes a look at a small but hardy group of British surfing enthusiasts who have learned to make the best of the flat waves and low tides of their Read More

Captives

Actors: Tim Roth, Julia Ormond, Keith Allen, Siobhan Redmond, Peter Capaldi

Synopsis: This dramatic love-story takes place in a British prison. Rachel, a young dentist, decides to take a part time job at a nearby prison after she and her husband are separated. There, she meets Phillip, whose ten-year incarceration for killing his girl-friend is almost up. Rachel and Phillip fall in Read More

Beyond Bedlam

Actors: Craig Fairbrass, Elizabeth Hurley, Keith Allen, Anita Dobson, Craig Kelly

Synopsis: Beyond Bedlam is an ambitious British horror shocker, incorporating elements familiar from Nightmare On Elm Street and the work of such authors as Thomas Harris and Clive Barker. Terry Hamilton (Craig Fairbrass) is a detective haunted by the maniac he captured seven years ago, known as the Bone Read More

Shallow Grave

Actors: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Keith Allen, Ken Stott

Synopsis: The feature film debut of Scottish director Danny Boyle was a dark, hip, Generation X comedy about a trio of Edinburgh roommates whose narcissistic greed fuels murder and betrayal. Boisterous journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor), flirtatious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox), and meek accountant David (Christopher Eccleston Read More

Second Best

Actors: William Hurt, Chris Cleary Miles, Keith Allen, Prunella Scales, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Actor William Hurt delivers one of his most acclaimed performances in this drama from Oscar-winning cinematographer-turned-director Chris Menges. Hurt stars as Graham Holt, a repressed Welsh postmaster who lives a reclusive bachelor's existence with his suicidal father (Alfred Lynch), who is in Read More

Martin Chuzzlewit

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit was given one of its few TV presentations in this six-part British adaptation, which originally aired on BBC2 from November 7 to December 12, 1994. The youngest son of a mercenary London family, Martin Chuzzlewit was sent to America to learn the Read More

The Young Americans

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Viggo Mortensen, Iain Glen, Geoffrey McGivern, John Wood, Dave Duffy, Keith Allen, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: Harvey Keitel plays John Harris, an American drug enforcement officer who is asked by London police to help them in cracking an organized drug ring. The syndicate is run by a ruthless young American who turns disaffected young Britons into hardened criminals. The gang has gunned down a well-known Read More

Rebecca's Daughters

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys, Joely Richardson, Keith Allen, Simon Dormandy

Synopsis: Set in Wales a few hundred years ago, Rebecca's Daughters stars Paul Rhys as an aristocratic member of the ruling class. Rhys is not happy with the way that the members of his social order, particularly dissipated nobleman Peter O'Toole, are taxing the Welsh peasants into nonexistence. Thus, he Read More

Carry on Columbus

Actors: Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle

Synopsis: In this last gasp of the "Carry On" series, minus most of the "Carry On" players, Jim Dale plays Spanish map-maker Christopher Columbus, who has a plan to navigate a new route to India, bypassing the Sultan of Turkey (Rik Mayall) and his sky-high tributes. He convinces King Ferdinand of Spain (Leslie Phillips Read More

Kafka

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he Read More

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

Actors: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Patsy Kensit, Keith Allen, Liz Fraser

Synopsis: Director Bernard Rose and screenwriter David Yallop were inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as The Cleft Chin Murder Case, after a London cabbie was found murdered. It was a sensation in England, where American soldier Karl Hulten and British showgirl Read More

Dream Trap

Synopsis: When a sorority is going to be banished from campus, it is up to a young college man to save the sorority and find the girl of his dreams. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Small Time

Actors: Richard Barboza, Carolyn Kinebrew, Scott Ferguson, Keith Allen

Synopsis: Filmed in black and white on a very low budget, this grim Manhattan-set documentary takes an unflinching look at the realities of inner-city life as it tells the story of how Vince Williams came to become a prison inmate. His story is told via flashback and from those who witnessed his small Read More

Jackson Pace: The Great Years [TV Series]

Actors: Keith Allen, Daniel Peacock, Josie Lawrence, Hugh Paddick, Cory Pulman

Synopsis: A genial spoof of the Indiana Jones film series, the weekly British children's program Jackson Pace: The Great Years focused on a teenaged explorer-adventurer. Keith Allen starred as Jackson Pace, whose exploits took him all over the world and brought him in contact with a colorful array of Read More

Scandal

Actors: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips

Synopsis: In 1963, the conservative British government was shaken to its foundations by the Profumo Scandal. The central character in this disastrous affair was John Profumo, Britain's minister of war, who had become sexually involved with call-girl Christine Keeler, whose "sponsor" was high-priced Read More

Loose Connections

Actors: Stephen Rea, Lindsay Duncan, Jan Niklas, Carole Harrison, Gary Olsen

Synopsis: Two strangers with almost no common ground are stuck travelling across Europe together in this British comedy. Sally (Lindsay Duncan) is an ardent feminist from London who, with the help of two of her closest friends, builds her own car. Sally and her comrades are to attend a conference on women's Read More

The Supergrass

Actors: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Keith Allen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy that wobbles along on a shaky plot -- the first full-length feature of a Brit TV show -- Dennis (Adrian Edmondson) is on vacation with his mother when he invents a tall tale of his involvement with a drug cartel in order to impress a woman he likes. Sure enough, his story Read More

Comrades

Actors: Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Jeremy Flynn

Synopsis: Set in the 1830s, this historical drama stars Robin Soans as George Loveless, a Methodist minister whose flock is a group of working families in Tolpuddle, a small town in the British Southwest. Most of the workers in the community are under the thumb of Frampton (Robert Stephens), a ruthless land Read More

Crystal Gazing