Screenplay: Steve McQueen

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Steve McQueen. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Hunger

2008 · Movie · 92 min. · Ireland

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Michael Fassbender · Liam Cunningham · Liam McMahon · Lalor Roddy

Plot Raymond Lohan wearily follows his normal routine: an ordinary man doing the job of a prison officer in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1981. Working within one of the...

7.2

10K votes

7.2

10K votes

Small Axe (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 55 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Shaun Parkes · Letitia Wright · John Boyega · Sheyi Cole

Plot Small Axe is a collection of five original films by Steve McQueen set from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s that tell personal stories from London's West Black community,...

7.1

643 votes

7.1

643 votes

Shame

2011 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Michael Fassbender · Carey Mulligan · James Badge Dale · Nicole Beharie

Plot In New York City, Brandon's (Michael Fassbender) carefully cultivated private life -- which allows him to indulge his sexual addiction -- is disrupted when his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) arrives...

6.7

39K votes

6.7

39K votes

Widows

2018 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Viola Davis · Michelle Rodriguez · Elizabeth Debicki · Colin Farrell

Plot When a crew of crooks are killed during a robbery, their widowed spouses pick up where they left off. This is the story of four women with nothing in common...

6.1

9K votes

6.1

9K votes

Blitz

2024 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Saoirse Ronan · Elliott Heffernan · Paul Weller · Benjamin Clémentine

Plot Rita, the mother of George, a 9-year-old boy, sends him to safety in the English countryside in World War II London. George, defiant and determined to return home to Rita...

5.8

785 votes

5.8

785 votes

Bear (S)

1993 · Movie · 10 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Plot In 1994 Steve McQueen presented "Bear" (1993) at the Royal College of Art in London; it won him the Turner Prize that year. "Bear" is McQueen’s first film and shows...

4.8

25 votes

4.8

25 votes

Deadpan (S)

1997 · Movie · 4 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Steve McQueen

Plot "Deadpan" is described in the catalog for the exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 1999–2000 as follows: "Steven McQueen restages the “selfconcious exhibitionism” of early...

4.7

35 votes

4.7

35 votes

Static (S)

2009 · Movie · 7 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Plot For seven minutes we hear the deafening racket of an invisible helicopter circling the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York harbour. Sometimes the camera moves in very...

3.1

28 votes

3.1

28 votes

Just Above My Head (S)

1996 · Movie · 9 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Cast Steve McQueen

Plot Just Above my Head (1996) takes its title from the work of the same name by the American writer James Baldwin. The film shows the artist’s head walking beneath an...

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Exodus (S)

1997 · Movie · 1 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve McQueen

Plot Exodus is a shortfilm which takes the title of a record by Bob Marley as its starting point. It shows two elegantly dressed, cosmopolitan men carrying two palm trees through...

Not rated

Not rated