Perry Benson Filmography

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Somers Town

Actors: Thomas Turgoose, Kate Dickie, Piotr Jagiello, Ireneusz Czop, Perry Benson

Synopsis: Dead Man's Shoes and This is England director Shane Meadows takes the helm for this monochromatic childhood drama concerning two young friend living in London, and their efforts not to turn out like their aimless fathers. Tomo has just turned sixteen, and as a result he's no longer under parental Read More

2008
Mum and Dad

Actors: Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard, Toby Alexander

Synopsis: Stranded at work and with no hope of getting home, airport cleaning woman Lena accepts an invitation to spend the night with her perky colleague Birdie, only to find that her unusually close-knit family has some sinister secrets. Writer/director Steven Shiel makes his feature directorial debut Read More

2008
This Is England

Actors: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure

Synopsis: British filmmaker Shane Meadows looks back at his own youth in this semi-autobiographical comedy drama that examines skinhead culture in the U.K. It's the summer of 1983, and Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is a 12-year-old boy edging into adolescence without a father, his dad having lost his life the Read More

7/27/07
Last Resort

Actors: Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine

Synopsis: Last Resort opens as Tanya (Dina Korzun), a young Russian traveling to England with her son Artiom (Artiom Strelnikov), is questioned at a British airport's passport control. Tanya tells the official she is visiting England on a vacation, but then switches her story and says that her English Read More

2/23/01
Mr. In-Between

Synopsis: Noted for shooting such films as Exotica, Affliction and X-Men, cinematographer Paul Sarossy makes his directorial debut with this existential crime thriller about a killer struggling to reclaim his soul. Jon is a quiet, nice, and seemingly conventional character who no one would suspect is a Read More

2001
Love, Honour And Obey

Actors: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee

Synopsis: Following up on the critical drubbing of the Final Cut, the same cast and crew, TV comedians Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis, along with Britpack hipsters Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Rhys Ifans, and Sadie Frost, come together to make this crime comedy about guns, karaoke, and fart jokes. The film Read More

2000
Final Cut

Actors: Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Holly Davidson, John Beckett

Synopsis: A man forces his friends to take a long, hard look at themselves in this unconventional British drama. Shortly after the death of Jude (Jude Law), his partner Sadie (Sadie Frost) invites a number of their friends to a wake at her apartment, where they gather to watch footage from a video Read More

1998
You Rang, M'Lord [TV Series]

Actors: Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles

Synopsis: The British sitcom You Rang, M'Lord was a wicked lampoon of the popular drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. The pilot episode, telecast December 29, 1988, endeavored to explain the curious relationship between the upper-crust Meldrum family and their rather disreputable servants. It seemed that Read More

1990
Sid and Nancy

Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop

Synopsis: Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to Read More

10/17/86
Much Ado About Nothing

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi

1984
Black Adder: The Black Seal

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: The inaugural season of the British satirical comedy series The Black Adder ended on July 20, 1983, with the episode titled "The Black Seal." Having exhausted all efforts to usurp the throne of England, Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) resorts to drastic measures -- which, characteristically, are Read More

1983
Black Adder: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray

Synopsis: The Black Death has not only decimated half of England, but has also forced King Richard IV (Brian Blessed) into his sick bed. Hoping to curry favor with the populace and become King himself, the duplicitous Edmund declares that the plague is the result of witchcraft, thus he hires the infamous Read More

1983
Scum

Actors: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, John Judd, Phil Daniels, John Blundell

Synopsis: Scum refers to the label slapped upon reform-school inmate Ray Winstone. Such reformatories are called "borstals" by the British. When he isn't being beaten up by the other boys, Ray is being beaten down by The System. He rebels against this treatment and "wins" by becoming more vicious than any Read More

1979
Birth of the Beatles

Actors: Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, Ray Ashcroft, Ryan Michael

Synopsis: British director Richard Marquand graduated from BBC documentaries to dramatized features with 1979's Birth of the Beatles. This chronicle of the Fab Four begins when the group consisted of five musicians: John Lennon (Stephen MacKenna), Paul McCartney (Rod Culbertson), George Harrison (John Altman Read More

1979
The Class of Miss MacMichael

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing

Synopsis: Miss MacMichael (Glenda Jackson) is a dedicated teacher. She needs to be, because her students are delinquents who are barely one step away from prison. She has a boyfriend, Martin (Michael Murphy) who would love to take her away from the chaos and heartbreak of the classroom by marrying her, but Read More

1978
What's Next?

Actors: Larry White

Synopsis: In this children's drama, a London boy is struck upon the head. When he regains consciousness, he discovers that he can foretell crimes before they are committed. With this gift he is able to lead the police to arrest a notorious criminal mastermind who is also a prominent, well-respected Read More

1975