Martin Compston
Actor
Films to Rent
- 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.