Mark Shivas

Nacimiento : 1938-04-24, Banstead, Surrey, England, UK

Muerte : 2008-10-11

Películas

Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Himself
British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director - Alan Clarke.
El viaje de Julia
Executive Producer
Primeros años setenta. Desencantada de los convencionalismos de la vida inglesa, la joven Julia viaja a Marruecos con sus hijos, Lucy, de seis años, y la precoz Bea de ocho. Alojados en un destartalado hotel de Marrakesh, el trio sobrevive vendiendo muñecas fabricadas por ellos mismos y con los pocos cheques que les envía su padre.
El juego de la venganza
Executive Producer
Una aristócrata que ha sido abandonada por su amante, y un ejecutivo que acaba de ser despedido tras ser sustituido por un rival, deciden suicidarse arrojándose al río Támesis. Pero la pareja encontrará un plan mejor: intercambiarse sus respectivas venganzas...
I Went Down
Executive Producer
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?
The Designated Mourner
Executive Producer
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.
Dos muertes
Executive Producer
Mientras en las calles de Bucarest reina el caos de la guerra civil, el Dr. Daniel Pavenic organiza una cena en su lujosa mansión. Durante el curso del magnífico banquete, sus invitados descubren la apasionada relación de amor que une al doctor con su ama de llaves.
La camioneta
Executive Producer
A Bimbo, un panadero de Barrytown, lo echan del trabajo. Pero se le ocurre una idea para mantener a su mujer y a sus tres hijos: comprar una camioneta con el dinero de su despido para vender comida de forma ambulante. Emprende el negocio con su amigo Larry. La innovadora idea tiene un éxito inmediato. Pero cuanto más prospera el negocio, más se deteriora la amistad entre ambos amigos.
Vidas Enfrentadas
Executive Producer
Retrato de una familia trabajadora con tres hijos en el Glasgow de 1968, centrada, especialmente, en el hijo más pequeño, de 13 años, y su introducción en el mundo de las bandas de delincuencia locales.
Jude
Executive Producer
Siglo XIX. Jude Fawley es un campesino que, desde niño, sueña con convertirse en un hombre ilustrado. Sin embargo, entre Jude y los libros no tarda en cruzarse Arabella, una seductora mujer con la que acaba casándose. El matrimonio resulta un fracaso y, tras la separación, Jude conoce a su prima Sue, una mujer muy avanzada para su época. Entre ambos se entabla una amistad que pronto se convertirá en amor.
I.D. (Identificación)
Executive Producer
Cuatro policías se infiltran en una banda de hooligans para llegar hasta sus líderes y evitar así los numerosos actos vandálicos que llevan a cabo. Sin embargo, uno de ellos se identifica tanto con los hinchas violentos que poco a poco se convierte en uno de ellos.
Priest (Sacerdote)
Executive Producer
En la Irlanda actual, el padre Greg Pilkington, un joven sacerdote católico, llega a un pueblo para sustituir al antiguo párroco, recientemente fallecido. Pronto tendrá que afrontar dos espinosos problemas: el del secreto de la confesión, aun cuando se trate de delitos denunciables, y el de su homosexualidad, que mantiene en secreto.
Un hombre sin importancia
Executive Producer
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Great Moments in Aviation
Executive Producer
The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin), retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.
Genghis Cohn
Executive Producer
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.
The Hawk
Executive Producer
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
El proceso
Executive Producer
Adaptación a la gran pantalla de "El proceso", la prestigiosa novela de Frank Kafka. (FILMAFFINITY)
Café irlandés
Executive Producer
Los miembros de una familia numerosa irlandesa reaccionan de forma distinta ante la noticia de que la hija mayor está embarazada, sobre todo, porque ni siquiera tiene novio; así que sus familiares están intrigados por saber quién es el padre de la criatura.
Maria's Child
Producer
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 father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.
El hombre de la estación
Executive Producer
El marido de Helen muere trágicamente. Ella decide entonces retirarse a un pequeño pueblo irlandés, donde comienza a pintar de nuevo y conoce a un restaurador que trabaja en la la estación de tren de la localidad.
Un abril encantado
Executive Producer
Inglaterra sigue tan lluviosa como siempre, y Lottie Wilkings está muy deprimida, ya que su vida se reduce a oír cada noche las quejas de su marido. Un día, lee un anuncio en el que se alquila por un mes un castillo en Italia, y en él encuentra la ocasión de vivir una aventura. Es abril en Italia, y cualquier cosa puede suceder... incluso el amor.
Truly Madly Deeply
Executive Producer
Nina y Jamie son una pareja muy enamorada. La muerte de Jamie es para Nina un auténtico drama. Así las cosas, el espíritu de Jamie decide intervenir, desde el Más Allá, para buscar a alguien que la consuele, ya que no puede soportar la idea de ver a su amada lamentándose el resto de su vida.
La maldición de las brujas
Producer
Luke es un niño apasionado por las historias de misterio. Un día, las leyendas contadas por su abuela sobre la existencia de las brujas lo introducen en un mundo misterioso.
Función privada
Producer
En 1947, dos años despues del fin de la II Guerra Mundial, el pueblo británico se ve obligado a pasar penurias, pues escasean toda clase de provisiones. Así, los alimentos están sujetos a un estricto racionamiento y a rigurosos controles llevados a cabo por los inspectores del Ministerio de Alimentación. Sin embargo, un acontecimiento mantiene al pueblo alegre y expectante: el matrimonio entre la princesa Elizabeth y el teniente Philip Mountbatten. En todas partes se quiere celebrar la boda, y en un pequeño pueblo del Yorkshire se hacen planes para cebar un cerdo de contrabando, que será el plato principal del banquete. Sacrificarlo a espaldas del inspector, escondiendo las pruebas y acallando los rumores, será el principal objetivo de Gilbert Chilvers y su esposa Joyce.
Trabajo clandestino
Producer
Inglaterra, diciembre de 1981. Cuatro obreros polacos llegan a Inglaterra con un visado turístico de un mes para realizar un trabajo de dos meses de duración. El jefe del grupo, el único que habla inglés, se entera por la televisión del establecimiento del estado de excepción en Polonia, pero decide no contárselo a sus compañeros.
Richard's Things
Producer
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk
Presenter
Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.
Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk
Producer
Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.
She Fell Among Thieves
Producer
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
Professional Foul
Producer
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
The Country Party
Producer
Comedy drama written by Brian Clark.
Rogue Male
Producer
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
84 Charing Cross Road
Producer
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
The Saturday Party
Producer
Richard and Jane Elkinson are having their annual Christmas party. Only trouble is stockbroker Richard's been made redundant and, as the night wears on, the guests are becoming less tactful
Los evacuados
Producer
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Durante los intensos bombardeos de la aviación alemana (la Luftwaffe) sobre las principales ciudades inglesas, una madre judía envía a sus dos hijos de Manchester a Blackpool para ponerlos a salvo. Pero los niños se sienten desgraciados en su nuevo hogar.
Funny Farm
Producer
Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward.
Man Above Men
Producer
The conflict between a judge who sees himself as a creative and skilful protector of democracy, and his daughter, who sees him in a totally different light.
Horatio Bottomley
Producer
Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Producer
1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.
Horace
Producer
Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace is mentally disabled and works in the back of a joke shop.
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Producer
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.