Philip Barantini

Philip Barantini (born 13 July 1980) is a British director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Known for his intense one-shot works, he directed the film Boiling Point (2021), its follow-up series (2023) and the miniseries Adolescence (2025), all starring Stephen Graham. As an actor, his notable roles include appearances in Dream Team, Band of Brothers, and The Responder. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Barantini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Dream Team

On and off pitch battles of of the fictional Harchester United Football Club.

Release Date1997-10-07

Charactersd Billy O'Neil

Episode Count165

Vote Count4

Chernobyl

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

Release Date2019-05-06

Charactersd Bezpalov

Episode Count2

Vote Count6960

Band of Brothers

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

Release Date2001-09-09

Charactersd Wayne 'Skinny' Sisk

Episode Count9

Vote Count3798

Mrs Brown's Boys

Mrs. Brown's Boys is a British-Irish award winning sitcom created by and starring writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll. The show is based on O'Carroll's stage plays about the character Agnes Browne, which were developed from books and straight-to-DVD films. The sitcom continues the stories of Agnes, now with the shortened surname "Brown", and her family who are played by real life close friends and family of O'Carroll's. After being slated by critics, the show has become a ratings success in both Ireland, where it is set, and the United Kingdom, where it is recorded. On 29 December 2012 the show began its third series. Mrs Brown's Boys is a co-production among BBC Scotland, BocPix and RTÉ.

Release Date2011-01-01

Charactersd IT Man

Episode Count1

Vote Count91

Time

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

Release Date2021-06-06

Charactersd Floyd Walker

Episode Count2

Vote Count217

The American Embassy

The American Embassy is an American drama series that aired on Fox from March to April 2002. The series was created by James D. Parriott, and executive produced by Danny DeVito.

Release Date2002-03-11

Charactersd Jason

Episode Count1

The Responder

Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?

Release Date2022-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Steve

Episode Count1

Vote Count107

Ned Kelly

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.

Release Date2003-03-22

Charactersd Steve Hart

Vote Count370

A Violent Man

Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black gang member becomes his unlikely new cell mate and a daughter he has never met, finally requests to meet her estranged father, face to face.

Release Date2022-02-04

Charactersd John Morgan

Vote Count21

The Escapist

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.

Release Date2002-04-12

Charactersd Joey

Vote Count25

Hard Boiled Sweets

Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...

Release Date2012-03-09

Charactersd Dean

Vote Count18

Nightshooters

A film crew led by stuntman Donnie come to witness a Gangland hit, and have to fight for their lives to survive the night.

Release Date2018-07-27

DepartmentProduction

JobSupervising Producer

Charactersd Chad

Vote Count6

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

Release Date2003-09-12

Charactersd Alex

Vote Count20

World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen

To celebrate the centenary of WW1, a TV Documentary team travels to the Somme to put together a ratings smash about new mysteries relating to the famous battle. However, what they unearth is far from a new story of those that died 100 years ago – but an army of the undead and a brand new war.

Release Date2015-05-04

Charactersd Liam

Vote Count11

Cryptic

Eight guys from a crime organization in London are sent to guard a coffin.

Release Date2014-12-31

Charactersd John Jonas

Vote Count10

Young, High and Dead

When five friends head to the woods for a weekend of drug fueled madness their night soon descends into chaos when they pitch up next to the grave of a local missing child.

Release Date2013-10-31

Charactersd John

Vote Count5

The Making of Boiling Point

Director Philip Barantini talks through how the short became a feature-length film, alongside details on the production.

Release Date2021-11-21

Charactersd Self

Adolescence

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

Release Date2025-03-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count1020

Boiling Point

Eight months after her mentor Andy Jones suffered a heart attack, Head Chef Carly is battling to forge a name for new London restaurant Point North alongside her old kitchen crew. With the pressure to draw in new, hungry customers and the financial squeeze to keep the business profitable, the team must find a way to manage their complicated personal lives whilst creating quality food day in, day out.

Release Date2023-10-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Vote Count43

Malpractice

Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her medical supervisor, Dr Leo Harris, Edith’s grieving father Sir Anthony Owusu, demands an enquiry into Lucinda’s actions on the fateful night.

Release Date2023-04-23

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count5

Vote Count24

Boiling Point

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.

Release Date2021-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count622

Accused

After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target, a young man must survive the night as the online witch-hunt arrives at his front door.

Release Date2023-10-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count63

Enola Holmes 3

Adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide in a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Villain

After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, and he ends up using his life savings to calling in favours with mobster friends to try and help.

Release Date2020-02-28

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count38

Boiling Point

During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant's flash façade.

Release Date2019-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

The Alchemist

Santiago, a young man who yearns to travel, goes in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Bostonian

Mild-mannered rare book proprietor Nathaniel Dodson meets a woman claiming to be his sister, and is rumored to be in possession of a rare and extremely valuable first edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tamerlane and Other Poems.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Last Drop

A functioning alcoholic faces an ultimatum: to go sober or lose everything – including his life.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Seconds Out

A poignant short film exploring the relationship between masculinity and the reluctance to speak out. Seconds Out is the story of Carl, a boxer, who seeks to beat depression by acknowledging and coming to terms with it.

Release Date2019-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector