Martin Compston
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Sweet Sixteen (2002)
 
- Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Martin Compston 
- A bleak, yet curiously uplifting portrait of teenage high–spirits run awry in working class Scotland.
Anchored by a youthfully charismatic…
 
Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A (2006)
 
- Dir. Dito Montiel
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri… 
- A ‘Mean Streets’ memoir of growing up rough in the eighties, this accomplished feature debut evokes its boys–in–the–hood…
 
Red Road (2006)
 
- Dir. Andrea Arnold
Feat. Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston… 
- Absorbing, unbearably tense drama of undisclosed motivations, which follows a lonely surveillance operator and her pursuit of a man throughout the…
 
True North (2006) 
- Dir. Steve Hudson
Feat. Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis 
- Devastating thriller concerning the crew of a Scottish trawler in financial strife who smuggle Chinese immigrants in appalling conditions across the…
 
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The (2009)
 
- Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston 
- Nominally another addition to the flavorless torture genre, this ransom drama centred on the abduction of a millionaire's daughter by two…
 
SoulBoy (2010)
 
- Dir. Shimmy Marcus
Feat. Martin Compston, Felicity Jones, Alfie Allen… 
- Hip–shaking youth drama set amongst the Northern Soul scene of the 1970's in which a frustrated teenager experiences a musical awakening while…
 
Sister (2012)
 
- Dir. Ursula Meier
Feat. Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston… 
- On the slopes of a Swiss ski resort, a resourceful 12–year–old boy steals to support his troubled older sister in this fine…
 
Line of Duty (TV Series) (2012)
 
- Feat. Lennie James, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure…
 
- Outstanding new British policier deals with corruption and department politics within a special unit whose record crime figures don't quite add up.…
 
Filth (2013) 
- Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy… 
- James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
 
Great Train Robbery, The (TV Mini-Series) (2013) 
- Dir. Julian Jarrold, James Strong
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Luke Evans, Robert Glenister… 
- Excellent, authentic recreation of 1963's "Great Train Robbery", told from both sides of the law.
 
In Plain Sight (TV Mini-series) (2016) 
- Dir. John Strickland
Feat. Douglas Henshall, Martin Compston, Shauna Macdonald 
- Three–part drama series covering the crimes committed by serial killer Peter Manuel in Lanarkshire, Scotland in the 1950s, shocking local…
 
Traces (TV Series) (2019) 
- Feat. Molly Windsor, Laura Fraser, Jennifer Spence…
 
- British crime drama penned by Val McDermid (WIRE IN THE BLOOD) and Amelia Bullmore (SCOTT AND BAILEY), following three forensic scientists in Dundee,…
 
Nest, The (TV Mini-series) (2020) 
- Feat. Martin Compston, Sophie Rundle, Mirren Mack…
 
- Suspenseful Scottish 5–part TV drama starring Martin Compston (LINE OF DUTY) and Sophie Rundle (PEAKY BLINDERS, BODYGUARD) as a wealthy couple…