Writing

Ian McEwan

Born 1948-05-21

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Good Son poster
6.8

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

The Good Son

1993

The Children Act poster
6.6

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

The Children Act

2018

On Chesil Beach poster
6.1

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

On Chesil Beach

2018

The Innocent poster
6.1

A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.

The Innocent

1993

The Ploughman's Lunch poster
4.8

As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.

The Ploughman's Lunch

1983

The Imitation Game poster
7.9

Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code.

The Imitation Game

1980

Soursweet poster
6.0

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

Soursweet

1988

Solid Geometry poster
4.9

A successful young man's world view is turned upside-down when he inherits his great-great-grandfather's diaries, and starts pursuing the mystical geometric theories held within. Based on a short story by Ian McEwan.

Solid Geometry

2002

Last Day of Summer poster
9.5

A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

Last Day of Summer

1984

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration poster
NR

David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when David's parents come to dinner and he reads an extract from a story he has written...

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration

1976