Shane Meadows Filmography

Born:: December 26, 1972 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, UK
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Filmmaker Shane Meadows' debut feature was Twentyfourseven (1998). Raised in Nottingham England, he dropped out of school as a teenager. After some odd jobs and a shot at studying acting and photography, Meadows volunteered at an art center and learned the craft of video-making. He taught himself...Read More

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Somers Town

Crew: Director

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
This is England

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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 which 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
Dead Man's Shoes

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Stuart Wolfenden, Neil Bell

Synopsis: Richard (Paddy Considine of In America) returns to the rural region of Derbyshire, where he grew up, after seven years in the military. His mentally challenged brother, Anthony (newcomer Toby Kebbell), tags along. Something awful has happened to Anthony, and Richard means to set things right. Read More

5/12/06
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson, Finn Atkins

Synopsis: Shane Meadows directed this film, which is the third and final chapter in his Nottingham Trilogy which also includes 1999's A Room for Romeo Brass and 1997's Twentyfourseven. Starring The Full Monty's Robert Carlyle, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a twist on the traditional Western film Read More

8/29/03
A Room For Romeo Brass

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine, Frank Harper, Julia Ford

Synopsis: A group of outsiders and misfits find each other -- with mixed results -- in this comic drama. Romeo (Andrew Shim) and Gavin (Ben Marshall) are neighbors in a working-class neighborhood in Nottingham. Romeo is a short, stocky, but tough black kid who's about 13; he lives with his no-nonsense Read More

1999
Twentyfourseven

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, James Hooton, Darren O. Campbell, Justin Brady

Synopsis: In this debut feature film from young British writer-director Shane Meadows, an unemployed ex-boxer, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), borrows money from a gangster to set up a boxing club in his small, gritty English city. Darcy narrates the story from his diary notes. Boxing saved him from a wasted Read More

4/15/98
Smalltime

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Crime pays, but not very well for a handful of burglars in this drama with comic overtones. Jumbo (Shane Meadows) heads up a gang of very-small-time thieves in an economically crippled British town near Nottingham. Jumbo and his mates Malc (Mat Hand), Willy (Jimmy Hynd), and Bets (Leon Lammond) Read More

1996