Cast: John Benfield

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Benfield. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Prime Suspect (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 207 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Menaul

Cast Helen Mirren · Tom Bell · John Benfield · John Bowe

Synopsis TV Series (1991-2006). 7 seasons. 12 episodes. Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, as she...

7.5

373 votes

7.5

373 votes

Prime Suspect 2 (TV)

1992 · Movie · 203 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Strickland

Cast Helen Mirren · Colin Salmon · John Benfield · Jack Ellis

Synopsis Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison now deals with a racially charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged...

7.5

114 votes

7.5

114 votes

Prime Suspect (TV)

1991 · Movie · 207 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Menaul

Cast Helen Mirren · Tom Bell · John Benfield · John Bowe

Synopsis DCI Jane Tennison has been passed over time and again to lead a murder investigation, so when one of her fellow DCIs has a heart attack just before he's ready to charge their prime suspect, Jane sees her chance to...

7.4

136 votes

7.4

136 votes

Prime Suspect: The Lost Child (TV)

1995 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Madden

Cast Helen Mirren · Beatie Edney · Robert Glenister · Lesley Sharp

Synopsis Jane Tennison's promotion to Superintendent turns out to put her in charge of an investigation and search for an abducted baby. She gets more involved in it than she intended considering that she just had an abortion. However, she turns...

7.3

108 votes

7.3

108 votes

Prime Suspect 3 (TV)

1993 · Movie · 207 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Drury

Cast Helen Mirren · Peter Capaldi · Michael Shannon · Greg Saunders

Synopsis Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered...

7.3

110 votes

7.3

110 votes

Beautiful Thing

1996 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Hettie Macdonald

Cast Glen Berry · Linda Henry · Scott Neal · Tameka Empson

Synopsis This absolute winner, based on a stage play by Jonathan Harvey and adapted by him, is a kind of enchanted, urban slice-of-life tale about a gay teen, Jamie (Glen Berry), who is in love with the boy next door, Ste...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Cassandra's Dream

2007 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Ewan McGregor · Colin Farrell · Tom Wilkinson · Hayley Atwell

Synopsis Cassandra’s Dream is the story of two brothers, their problems (blind ambition and compulsive gambling), their family, their women, their romance, passion and their chasing of dreams which end in terrible tragedy. It is a movie of the same type...

6.2

19K votes

6.2

19K votes

The Sign of Four (TV)

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Ian Richardson · David Healy · Thorley Walters · Cherie Lunghi

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

6.1

46 votes

6.1

46 votes

Charlotte Gray

2001 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Gillian Armstrong

Cast Cate Blanchett · Billy Crudup · Michael Gambon · Rupert Penry-Jones

Synopsis Set in Nazi–occupied France at the height of World War II, Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot.

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

Treasure Island (TV)

1990 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Fraser Clarke Heston

Cast Charlton Heston · Christian Bale · Oliver Reed · Christopher Lee

Synopsis Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Direction Peter Hewitt

Cast Eddie Izzard · Ciarán Hinds · Alun Armstrong · John Benfield

Synopsis Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies, is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Cousin Bette

1998 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Des McAnuff

Cast Jessica Lange · Elisabeth Shue · Bob Hoskins · Hugh Laurie

Synopsis Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead...

5.5

253 votes

5.5

253 votes

Evilenko

2004 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy

Direction David Grieco

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Marton Csokas · Frances Barber · Ronald Pickup

Synopsis Who’s behind the terrifying “Monster”, one of the most ruthless criminals in history? How can one man alone rape, murder and devour more than 50 children and adolescents with no trace anywhere in the boundless territory of the country once...

5.4

135 votes

5.4

135 votes

Direction Ken Hannam

Cast John Duttine · Emma Relph · Maurice Colbourne · David Swift

Synopsis A terrible catastrophe has struck the population of Earth. Almost everyone on the planet has been rendered blind by the arrival of a bright comet lighting up the darkened skies, causing permanent eye damage. Bill Masen, who was unable to...

5.4

127 votes

5.4

127 votes

Endgame

2001 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gary Wicks

Cast Daniel Newman · Corey Johnson · Toni Barry · Mark McGann

Synopsis Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in...

5.3

26 votes

5.3

26 votes

An Angel For May

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harley Cokeliss

Cast Tom Wilkinson · Geraldine James · Hugo Speer · Anna Massey

Synopsis Set in South Yorkshire, An Angel for May, tells the tale of schoolboy Tom who is transported from the present to the time of the Second World War. Tom's time tunnel is a burnt out fireplace in the ruins of...

5.3

133 votes

5.3

133 votes

Cold Skin

2017 · Movie · 101 min. · Spain

Direction Xavier Gens

Cast David Oakes · Ray Stevenson · Aura Garrido · John Benfield

Synopsis On the edge of the Antartic Circle, in the years after World War I, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post...

5.3

3K votes

5.3

3K votes

The Coldest Game

2019 · Movie · 96 min. · Poland

Direction Lukasz Kosmicki

Cast Bill Pullman · Lotte Verbeek · James Bloor · Robert Wieckiewicz

Synopsis Playing a major chess match in Warsaw against the Russian champion, brilliant but forgotten former US champion, and alcoholic, Josh Mansky is sucked into the world of espionage and conflict between the world's superpowers. As the military crisis escalates the...

5.1

897 votes

5.1

897 votes

You're Dead

1999 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Andy Hurst

Cast John Hurt · Rhys Ifans · Claire Skinner · Barbara Flynn

Synopsis A beautiful bank robbery staged by a legendary expert and two exuberant aspiring crooks. The plan is meticulous, the results are disastrous when an unexpected and unwelcome rival gang compromises the robbery. A tip-off brings Police and SWAT teams, staging...

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