Films that I wrote but didn’t direct

FUZE (2025)

Action/thriller. 98 minutes.
Anton, Sigma Films, Sky Original

Directed by David Mackenzie
Written by Ben Hopkins

Toronto Film Festival

An unexploded WWII bomb is discovered on a construction site in the centre of London. Chaos ensues as the military and police begin a mass evacuation against a ticking clock.

LIMONOV: THE BALLAD OF EDDIE (2024)

Biopic (from the book Limonov by Emmanuel Carrière). 138 minutes.
Wildside, Chapter 2, Fremantle

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Written by Paweł Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins and Kirill Serebrennikov.

In Competition, Cannes Film Festival

The outrageous story of Eduard Limonov, the radical Soviet poet who became a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia.

INSIDE (2023)

Drama. 105 minutes.
Heretic, Schiwago, Bord Cadre, A Private View, Ekome.

Directed by Vasilis Katsoupis
Written by Ben Hopkins

Berlin Film Festival

Nemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse. Locked inside a golden cage with nothing but priceless works of art, his struggle for survival leads to deeper questions of meaning and value .

MARIONETTE a.k.a. REPRESSION (2020)

Psychological thriller. 112 minutes.
Accento Films, Black Camel Pictures, BosBros.

Directed by Elbert van Strien
Written by Elbert van Strien and Ben Hopkins

The story of a therapist who loses her grip on reality when her ten-year-old boy patient claims he can control her future.

JANICE BEARD 45 WPM (1999)

Comedy, 81 minutes.
Dakota Films, Films Consortium, Arts Council

Directed by Clare Kilner
Written by Clare Kilner and Ben Hopkins

Janice Beard is a temp, a secretary and a compulsive liar. When she starts working as a temp in the automotive sector she becomes unwittingly embroiled in industrial espionage.