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David Hayman has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
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Taboo
2017 · Series · Actor
Top 16%Peacock · Included

Finding Your Feet
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

My Name Is Joe
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Fisherman's Friends
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Prime Video · Included

Hope and Glory
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Eye of the Needle
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Prime Video · Included

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
Dir. Mark Herman · With Asa Butterfield, Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Dir. Steven Knight, Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy · With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce

When her life is turned upside down upon discovering her husband's affair, Sandra Abbott seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. She begins to find her feet again after letting Bif drag her along to a community dance class.
Dir. Richard Loncraine · With Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Dir. Ken Loach · With Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay

Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Dir. Chris Foggin · With Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton
Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
Dir. Marc Munden · With Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham, Ian Hart

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
Dir. John Boorman · With Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles

January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Dir. Alex Cox · With Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman

Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
Dir. Richard Marquand · With Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Dir. Gurinder Chadha · With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · With Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Colin Farrell

Ten years after he was last seen, a vicious mob enforcer returns home to find his son and methodically track down the gang that double-crossed him. His quest for revenge soon leads to a savage showdown between his wife and her mob boss father.
Dir. Paul Andrew Williams · With Neil Maskell, David Hayman, Tamzin Outhwaite

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Dir. Bille August · With Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris

A seemingly ordinary British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
Dir. Ed Sinclair · With Olivia Colman, David Thewlis, Dipo Ola

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Dir. Justin Kurzel · With Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Paddy Considine

Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen, who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
Dir. Ron Scalpello · With Sam Claflin, Charlie Murphy, Timothy Spall

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
Dir. John Boorman · With Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis
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