Father
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands. A classic British romantic comedy filled with new wave tunes, 80s fashion, a little politics and a lot of heart.
Driver, Catholic Party
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Albion Player
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Mike
Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play; a fictionalised account of the Pilkingtons Glass strike in St Helens, 1970.
Pub Comic
Billy Casper (David Bradley) es un muchacho de aspecto triste que vive en un pequeño pueblo minero de condado de Yorkshire. No va bien en la escuela y comete pequeños hurtos que le reportan algo de dinero. Un buen día, encuentra un pequeño halcón y, lleno de entusiasmo, decide cuidarlo hasta que consiga volar.
Docker
Respondiendo a los planes de mecanizar los puertos, que amenazan sus puestos de trabajo, los obreros portuarios se declaran en huelga. Como sus familias batallan contra la pobreza, los trabajadores presienten que las posibilidades se vuelven contra ellos. ¿Pero hay otra manera? Un ex líder sindical, Jack Regan, propone que los obreros ocupen los puertos y los gestionen ellos mismos: una decisión que el Estado no puede permitir que tenga éxito... "The Big Flame" fue la segunda obra del escritor Jim Allen en "The Wednesday Play" (después de "The Lump") , y su primera con Ken Loach, quien la consideraría "su guión definitivo". La BBC postergó dos veces su estreno, pero eventualmente fue propalada con una reacción predecible: el "Daily Mail" la catalogó como "una pieza marxista presentada como un sermón", mientras una nueva organización socialista revolucionaria adoptaba su nombre.
Brian Croft
The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.
