Beeban Kidron

Scala!!!

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.

Release Date:2024-01-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

Scala Interviews

An hour of interviews about the iconic British cinema.

Release Date:2024-01-05

Character:Self

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.

Release Date:2022-09-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

Victoria & Abdul

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Release Date:2017-09-13

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1154

InRealLife

InRealLife takes us on a journey from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, to find out what exactly the internet is doing to our children.

Release Date:2013-09-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator (uncredited) (voice)

Vote Count:9

Sex, Death and the Gods

An intimate journey into the twilight world of the devadasi, Hindus who are married to god in childhood and at puberty sold for sex. The girls of Karnataka, southern India who are forced to live in this ancient tradition despite it having been declared illegal for more than 60 years.

Release Date:2011-01-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time Mark spends with a gorgeous co-worker Rebecca and, despite a vacation meant to smooth things over, ends their relationship. On assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver - claiming to be a reformed man - they have a short dalliance, and she is arrested at the airport and temporarily jailed on the false accusation of drug smuggling before Mark, seemingly indifferent, comes to the rescue.

Release Date:2004-11-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2832

Murder

Julie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.

Release Date:2002-05-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

Murder

Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. The police arrest Chris' friend Ryan McGuinness, after they learn Chris may have spent the night with Ryan's girlfriend but Chris also had a testy relationship with his brother-in-law. The Good Samaritan who found Chris bloodied and beaten on the sidewalk agrees to participate in a reconstruction of the crime. In the end, a simple slip of the tongue reveals the identity of the killer and then the motive for the murder.

Release Date:2002-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Cinderella

Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father is won over by a selfish woman named Claudette, Cinderella must keep her new step-mother from murdering the only family she has left. Add in an anti-social mermaid literally living in a cave, a bored prince with an ear for rock n' roll, and the glamour of the 1950's and one'll find that this story can't grow old.

Release Date:2000-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:23

Swept from the Sea

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

Release Date:1998-01-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:67

Storyville

Showcasing the best in international documentaries, Storyville has developed an enviable reputation since its inception more than a decade ago. Screening over 340 films, from some 70 different countries, the strand has garnered a staggering array of awards: five Oscars, 15 Griersons, three Peabodys and two International Emmys. In true, unique, Storyville style, the new series promises to deliver the strand's usual eclectic mix of compelling stories from across the globe.

Release Date:1997-11-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez — one of the losers that evening — the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joined wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.

Release Date:1995-09-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:674

Great Moments in Aviation

The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin), retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.

Release Date:1994-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns

British filmmaker Beeban Kidron ventures onto the mean streets of the South Bronx and other New York locales to examine the lives of those involved in the city's thriving sex industry.

Release Date:1993-12-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:6

Used People

At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl.

Release Date:1992-12-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:30

'Itch

A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

Release Date:1991-02-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

Release Date:1990-01-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:22

Antonia and Jane

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?

Release Date:1990-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Vroom

Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet.

Release Date:1988-11-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Carry Greenham Home

Activists take action to disrupt activities at an air force base after cruise missiles are stored at the facility.

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Your Greenham

Your Greenham, produced and Directed by Beeban Kidron, is a documentary to commemorate and preserve the history of the Greenham protest.

Department:Directing

Job:Director