Joe Penhall is an English Australian playwright and screenwriter from London, best known for his award-winning stage play Blue/Orange, the award-winning West End musical Sunny Afternoon and creating the Netflix original series Mindhunter.
In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit song. Amidst a gathering storm of bitter complaints and recriminations Cat and Bernard inflict a devastating toll on each other.
Release Date:2020-04-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.
Release Date:2018-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:424
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Release Date:2017-10-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2547
Sky Arts’ adaptation of Joe Penhall’s 2012 Royal Court play Birthday sees Mangan reprise the role of Ed who endures a caesarian birth with his high-flying wife by his side.
Release Date:2015-06-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Release Date:2009-11-25
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3895
The story begins when a wave of violence hits London following the discovery of the bizarrely mutilated body of a man in the Thames. First appearances suggest a witchcraft killing. But the dark reality is more complicated – and even more frightening. Assigned to the case is young, hopeful DS Dan Twentyman and his senior partner DI Moses Jones, seconded from Scotland Yard due to cultural links with the local community.
Release Date:2009-02-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:3
In a psychiatric hospital, a junior doctor is treating a young black man diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The patient is having a final interview with the doctor, who has invited his mentor to sit in on the session. He is concerned that the diagnosis is inaccurate and would like the patient hospitalised for longer. The senior doctor, however, disagrees.
Release Date:2005-02-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
An undertaker forms an awkward bond with the daughter of a man he has to bury.
Release Date:2005-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
Release Date:2004-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:123
Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
Release Date:2000-08-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:30
A scientist couple's relationship is threatened by the woman's obsession with a lab experiment.
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.
Release Date:2004-07-07
Department:Writing
Job:Adaptation
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:9