Stephen Tompkinson

This brilliantly witty new play starring Stephen Tompkinson as Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lancel as Harold Pinter, gives a wonderful insight into what the friendship between these two great men may have looked like. As well as being a beautiful tribute to their writing, the theatre of the absurd, and of course their love for the game of cricket.

Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.

For over a decade, an ex-market stall trader from Liverpool called Eddie Braben wrote the scripts that made the nation take Morecambe and Wise to their hearts. But for Braben, it wasn't all sunshine. Beginning in 1969 with the birth of the 'golden triangle' of Eric, Ernie and Eddie, this film chronicles the grind that pushed the perfectionist Braben to the brink of exhaustion, culminating in the triumphant Christmas Day show of 1977.

Héctor lleva años viviendo en las autopistas. Su vida familiar, una vez cómoda, ha sido reemplazada por un recorrido interminable por las estaciones de servicio que le ofrecen refugio, anonimato, instalaciones de lavado y comida. La historia sigue su viaje al sur de Escocia en su peregrinación anual a un refugio temporal de Navidad en Londres, donde encuentra consuelo, amistad y calidez. En el transcurso de su viaje homérico, Héctor decide reconectarse con su pasado tan alejado. A medida que su vida anterior lo alcanza, la historia de cómo llegó a llevar una vida marginal comienza a surgir.

A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?

Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.

A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.

School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.

Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.

A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.

Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.

Taking a look back at the golden era of snooker in the 1970s and 80s.

The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.

With angels crying in the toilets all because of a jealous Angel Gabriel, it could only be the eagerly awaited performance of the Primary school nativity play - this time with a twist! The UK's finest comedy actors take the leading roles as the eight year old performers. Through the inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out, the children's characters evolve into mirror images of thier parents, the nativity play's audience. You'll be drawn into the amusing and enchanting worlds and minds of young children and reminisce about your own childhood performances!

Durante el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher, la mina de carbón de un pueblo del norte de Inglaterra está a punto de ser cerrada. La banda de música de los mineros, toda una institución con más de un siglo de historia, también corre el peligro de desaparecer. A pesar de ello, Danny, el líder de la banda, exhorta a sus compañeros para animarlos a seguir compitiendo en el concurso nacional.

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor

Hester Collyer es rescatada por un vecino después de intentar suicidarse en el departamento que comparte con su joven amante, el ex piloto de la RAF, Freddie Page. Los vecinos alertan a su esposo, quien llega al apartamento solo para encontrarla completamente recuperada...

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.