Directing

Beeban Kidron

Born May 2, 1961 · North London, England, UK (age 65)

Beeban Kidron is an English film director known for her much-lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and for directing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. In 2008, with Lindsey Mackie, she founded the charity Filmclub, which has since grown to be one of the largest and most influential after-school clubs in the UK, attracting over 160,000 chil…

Known For

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar · 1995

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason · 2004

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

MovieComedyRomance

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul · 2017

Victoria & Abdul

MovieDramaHistory

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

Vroom

MovieRomanceDrama

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

Used People

Used People · 1992

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea · 1998

Swept from the Sea

MovieDramaRomance

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.

'Itch

MovieDramaTV Movie

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

Antonia and Jane

Antonia and Jane · 1990

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?

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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar · 1995

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason · 2004

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

MovieComedyRomance

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

Director

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul · 2017

Victoria & Abdul

MovieDramaHistory

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

Producer

Vroom

MovieRomanceDrama

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

Director

Used People

Used People · 1992

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Director

Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea · 1998

Swept from the Sea

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Director

'Itch

MovieDramaTV Movie

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

Director

Antonia and Jane

Antonia and Jane · 1990

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?

Director

Cinderella

Cinderella · 2000

MovieFantasyDrama

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.

Director

Great Moments in Aviation

Great Moments in Aviation · 1994

Great Moments in Aviation

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Director

Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns

Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns · 1993

Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns

MovieDocumentaryCrime

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.

Director

InRealLife

InRealLife · 2013

MovieDocumentary

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.

Director

Antony Gormley: Making Space

Antony Gormley: Making Space · 2007

Antony Gormley: Making Space

MovieDocumentary

Intimate documentary following acclaimed sculptor Antony Gormley as he creates new work for a major exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery. Made by filmmaker and close friend Beeban Kidron, the film reveals how Gormley produces his art, exploring the forces that compel him to devise ever more monumental and ambitious work,

Director

Carry Greenham Home

Carry Greenham Home · 1983

Carry Greenham Home

MovieDocumentary

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

Director

Storyville

Storyville · 1997

SeriesDocumentary

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.

Director

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Director

ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay · 1986

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Director

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit · 1990

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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

Director

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.

Director