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Shane Meadows
Director 53 years old

Shane Meadows

Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, UK

Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English director, screenwriter and actor, known for his work in independent film, most notably the cult film This Is England (2006) and its three television sequels (2010–2015). Meadows' other films include Small Time (1996), Twenty... Read full bio →

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Somers Town

Somers Town

Shane Meadows 2008 1h 11m 4.0

Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.

This Is England

This Is England

Shane Meadows 2006 1h 42m 8.0

Based on incidents from his own childhood, writer-director Shane Meadows's THIS IS ENGLAND is a stunning, brutal look at 1983 Britain, during the conservative Margaret Thatcher regime and the controversial Falklands War.

Dead Man's Shoes

Dead Man's Shoes

Shane Meadows 2004 1h 30m 7.2

Paddy Considine (who co-wrote the screenplay with Meadows) plays Richard, a taciturn army veteran newly returned to his hometown and on a mission to make a group of low-level criminals pay for abusing his mildly retarded younger brother, Anthony (Kebbel).

A Room for Romeo Brass

A Room for Romeo Brass

Shane Meadows 1999 1h 30m

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.

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