Movies

A barrister's complex life unravels as he juggles a court case and highly-strung mistress.

Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had...

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into...

A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet...

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.

In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of...

The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose...

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in...

They no longer live together because, after 11 years, the marriage is over. They're both agreed on that. So why is she always turning up to see him...

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a...

The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem.

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the...

Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.

Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.

Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for...

67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.