Ben Whishaw
30 titles
Filmography
30 results

Paddington 2
(2017)Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
(2006)In18th-century France lived Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who was born with a great sense of smell. But as his gift becomes an obsession, he strives to create the most intoxicating perfume in the world by murdering young women to capture their essence.

Paddington
(2014)After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

Lilting
(2014)The world of a Chinese mother mourning the untimely death of her son is suddenly disrupted by the presence of a stranger who doesn’t speak her language. Through a translator they piece together memories of a man they both loved dearly.

Paddington in Peru
(2024)PADDINGTON IN PERU brings Paddington's story back to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Teenage
(2013)Leaping between the UK, US, and Germany, this fascinating documentary from filmmaker Matt Wolf maps the social and cultural development of teenagers as a political entity. Employing multiple narrators—including Ben Whishaw and Jena Malone—Teenage is a vibrant examination of pre-war youth culture.

Limonov: The Ballad
(2024)Rebel, iconoclast, outlaw, and counterculture provocateur: controversial Russian writer and political dissident Eduard Limonov was all of these things and more. In Kirill Serebrennikov’s electrifying odyssey, Ben Whishaw delivers a bravura performance as the exiled Limonov as he goes from the 1970s New York punk underground to literary fame in Paris and, ultimately, back to Russia, where he undergoes yet another startling reinvention as the leader of his own extremist political party.

Surge
(2020)Set over 24 hours in London, this film is a stripped-back thriller about a man who goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation.

Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in this elegant new piece from Ira Sachs, a captivating portrait of the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life. In 1974, the acclaimed photographer describes the routines and rituals that define a single day of his life to his friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz-from interactions with the era's cultural icons to the texture of downtown New York.

Black Doves
When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

Bright Star
(2009)A beautiful depiction of love and loss, Campion’s film Bright Star charts the sad love affair between the nineteenth-century poet John Keats and his neighbour and lover, Fanny Brawne, during the years in which the poet penned much of the most celebrated verse in the Romantic period. Narrated from Brawne’s view on the romance, the movie not only uncovers the evolution of their young romance,...

Passages
(2023)Three lovers spin in a vortex of pent-up desire and resentment in Ira Sachs’ fresh, honest and acerbically funny take on messy, modern relationships. Just like its dynamic leads—Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben Whishaw—this refreshingly fluid relationship drama simply oozes sex appeal.

Brideshead Revisited
(2008)An English middle class youth becomes infatuated with an upper class family, falling in love with the young woman and her brother - but the strict mother could prove insurmountable. With Emma Thompson.

Little Joe
(2019)A botanist engineers a new flower that makes its owner happy. After taking one home, she soon realizes that it may not be as harmless as she thought.

Mary Poppins Returns
(2018)The magic returns in Disney's reimagined classic as Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) helps the Banks family remember the joy of what it's like to be a child. Together with her friend Jack the lamplighter (Lin-Manuel Miranda), fun is brought back to the streets of London in celebration that everything is possible even the impossible!

The Personal History of David Copperfield
(2019)Dev Patel stars as the title character in this exuberant, revisionist take on the classic Charles Dickens tale.

The Danish Girl
(2015)Artist Einar Wegener travels to Germany to undergo one of the first sex-change operations, that takes place over the course of two years.

Criminal Justice
This series follows individuals as they are sent through the criminal justice system, where dangerous truths slowly come to light.

A Hologram for the King
(2016)Desperate for new business, an American businessman packs up his product and travels to Saudi Arabia in a last ditch effort to generate revenue.