Known For
Complete Filmography

The Children Act
2018
Writer
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite hi...

Postcards from the 48%
2018
This is a film made by the some of the 48% who voted Remain. The film is of the 48% and for the 48%. It is their story, feelings and reasons for remai...

The Child in Time
2018
Novel
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarke...

On Chesil Beach
2018
Novel, Screenplay, Executive Producer
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and f...

Atonement
2007
Novel, Executive Producer
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

Enduring Love
2004
Novel, Associate Producer
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a...

Solid Geometry
2002
Writer
A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfather's diaries, and starts pursuing the mystical geo...

First Love, Last Rites
1998
Short Story
Passion and infatuation ignite as two lovers flounder through their "first time" in this alarmingly sexy film set in the Louisiana bayou. Joey and Sis...

The Good Son
1993
Screenplay
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic be...

The Innocent
1993
Novel, Screenplay
A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s be...

The Cement Garden
1993
Novel
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to ...

The Comfort of Strangers
1990
Novel
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

Butterflies
1988
Screenstory
The impassive gaze of a taciturn adolescent loner named Andi, sole witness to the drowning of a young girl in an overgrown, abandoned local canal.

Soursweet
1988
Writer
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen w...

Last Day of Summer
1984
Writer, Story
A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

The Ploughman's Lunch
1983
Writer
As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying...

The Imitation Game
1980
Writer
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the...

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration
1976
Writer
David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when D...