Stephen Frears
Directing • AGE 85
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English director and producer. He has directed numerous acclaimed films since the early 1980s, including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Dangerous Liais...
Filmography
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Self (archive footage)
2025
Brian and Maggie
Director
2025
Brian and Maggie
Director
2025
Brian and Maggie
Director
2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
2024
The Regime
Executive Producer
2024
The Rise of the Comic Strip
Self
2023
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
Self
2022
The Lost King
Director
2022
Reel Britannia
Self
2022
Short Cuts: Dangerous Liaisons
Original Film Writer
2021
Back to Barrytown
Self
2021
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
2020
Quiz
Executive Producer
2020
The Loudest Voice
Director
2019
Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Self
2019
State of the Union
Executive Producer
2019
Who Killed British Cinema?
Self
2018
Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters
2018
A Very English Scandal
Director
2018
She's French
2018
Victoria & Abdul
Director
2017
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
Writer
2016
The Program
Director
2015
Reflecting on My Beautiful Laundrette: A Conversation between Stephen Frears and Colin MacCabe
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
Night Will Fall
Executive Producer
2014
Philomena
Director
2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Director
2013
30 Years of Comic Strip
2012
Lay the Favorite
Director
2012
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
Self
2011
Tamara Drewe
Director
2010
Heavy Rain
Himself
2010
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self
2009
Jean Charles
Executive Producer
2009
Great Directors
Self
2009
Chéri
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2009
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Self
2007
The Queen
Director
2006
Great British Menu
Self - Guest Judge
2006
Le court des grands
Director
2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Director
2005
Eletrodoméstica
Thanks
2005
Michael Powell
2005
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
Cast & Crew: If....
Self - Interviewee
2004
The Route V50
Director
2004
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Self
2003
The Deal
Director
2003
Forever Ealing
Self
2002
Dirty Pretty Things
Director
2002
All About Desire: The Passionate Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Narrator
2001
Liam
Director
2001
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
2000
Fail Safe
Director
2000
High Fidelity
Director
2000
The Hi-Lo Country
Director
1998
Beyond Fear
Executive Producer
1997
The Van
Director
1996
Mary Reilly
Director
1996
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
1993
The Snapper
Director
1993
Hero
Director
1992
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
The Grifters
Director
1990
Dangerous Liaisons
Director
1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Director
1988
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Director
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
Director
1987
Song of Experience
Director
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Director of Photography
1986
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Self
1985
My Beautiful Laundrette
Director
1985
Screen Two
Director
1985
December Flower
Director
1984
The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
Director
1984
The Hit
Director
1984
Saigon: Year of the Cat
Director
1983
Walter and June
Director
1983
Walter
Director
1982
The Comic Strip Presents...
Director
1982
Going Gently
Director
1981
Bloody Kids
Director
1980
Long Distance Information
Director
1979
One Fine Day
Director
1979
Afternoon Off
Director
1979
Doris and Doreen
Producer
1978
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Director
1978
Long Shot
Biscuit Man
1978
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Director
1978
Black Christmas
Director
1977
Able's Will
Director
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
Director
1977
Last Summer
Producer
1977
Play Things
Director
1976
Early Struggles
Director
1976
Three Men in a Boat
Director
1975
Sunset Across the Bay
Director
1975
Match of the Day
Director
1974
Playhouse
Director
1974
A Day Out
Director
1972
Gumshoe
Director
1971
Follyfoot
Director
1971
Play for Today
Director
1970
Parkin's Patch
Director
1969
The Burning
Director
1968
Omnibus
1967
ITV Playhouse
Director
1967
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Assistant Director
1966
Wilder & Me
Director