Maxine Peake

Dos malévolos demonios hacen un trato con una adolescente fanática del punk para escapar del Inframundo y hacer realidad sus sueños en la Tierra de los Vivos.

A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change.

'The Butternut Squash Gang' always stumble upon a criminal rouse that is passed off by adults as overactive minds. From their clubhouse in the woods, they must come up with a far-fetched plot to overthrow the baddies and claim victory.

A specially commissioned animation inspired by Barbara Hepworth's art and life.

A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone, with her conscience and unable to openly discuss her situation because of society’s stigma surrounding termination and the self- silencing of women concerning reproduction, she painfully decides the best way forward.

The story of Merseyside mum and campaigner Anne Williams, who lost her son Keven. For nearly three decades she fought the English establishment to expose the truth of what really happened at Hillsborough, and to try and get justice for the 97.

While caring for their dying mother, a child finds solace in a group of friends, but begins to encounter violence at every turn.

En una granja inglesa aislada en 1657, Fanny vive una vida tranquila con su opresivo esposo John y su pequeño hijo. Un día, su vida se ve sacudida por la llegada de la joven pareja Thomas y Rebecca que afirman haber sido asaltados y necesitan un lugar para quedarse. Pero, ¿son estos extraños realmente quienes dicen ser?

Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation.

Short film for Refuge, the national charity for domestic abuse, drawing attention to the shocking rise in violence against women during the 2020 lockdown

Every summer, the sheep on Scafell Pike are gathered down to the farm for shearing. On this epic journey, a shepherd reflects on life while caring for his flock in this rugged landscape.

Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he unexpectedly returns.

Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — one physically and the other psychologically.

Set in Royton, Manchester, Judy is the uplifting story of a mother struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. The debut film of acclaimed theatre director Matthew Dunster, Judy stars Maxine Peake and is a Little Brother/ BFI production.

La película narra los eventos sucedidos en la masacre de Peterloo. En 1819, las fuerzas británicas atacaron un movimiento pacífico pro-democracia en la ciudad de Manchester. En total murieron 18 manifestantes, además de producirse cientos de heridos.

Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable figure in the fight for safer trawlers. The programme explores Lillian Bilocca's fight at the time through archive and dramatic reconstructions based on the play The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, written by Maxine Peake.

Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable figure in the fight for safer trawlers. The programme explores Lillian Bilocca's fight at the time through archive and dramatic reconstructions based on the play The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, written by Maxine Peake.

Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable figure in the fight for safer trawlers. The programme explores Lillian Bilocca's fight at the time through archive and dramatic reconstructions based on the play The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, written by Maxine Peake.

Una historia popular ambientada en las oscuras colinas de Gales durante la revolución industrial.

Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels in eastern Ukraine, and documenting its journey and arrival to a homecoming party in Manchester.

Funny Cow es una cómica que utiliza su propia vida para hacer reír a los espectadores: desde su violenta infancia hasta sus no menos violentas relaciones adultas. Nominada en 2018 a los Premios del Cine Independiente Británico en las categorías de mejor actriz y música, Funny Cow une tragedia y comedia con un humor negro y duro.

Funny Cow es una cómica que utiliza su propia vida para hacer reír a los espectadores: desde su violenta infancia hasta sus no menos violentas relaciones adultas. Nominada en 2018 a los Premios del Cine Independiente Británico en las categorías de mejor actriz y música, Funny Cow une tragedia y comedia con un humor negro y duro.

Fenómenos como los eclipses totales, las súperlunas o las lunas de sangre han fascinado a la humanidad desde el principio de los tiempos. Gracias a la última generación de cámaras podremos ver la luna como nunca antes la habíamos visto.

Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which sets Peake’s spoken word performances to Marr’s instrumental soundscapes. ‘The Priest’ is based upon the characters that Joe Gallagher met on the streets in the first few days after becoming homeless in Edinburgh. Gallagher wrote a diary of his experiences for the Big Issue under the pseudonym James Campbell when he first became homeless in May 2015 and continued until he found a new home in March 2016. This short film was filmed in Manchester and features Molly Windsor in the lead role.

Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which sets Peake’s spoken word performances to Marr’s instrumental soundscapes. ‘The Priest’ is based upon the characters that Joe Gallagher met on the streets in the first few days after becoming homeless in Edinburgh. Gallagher wrote a diary of his experiences for the Big Issue under the pseudonym James Campbell when he first became homeless in May 2015 and continued until he found a new home in March 2016. This short film was filmed in Manchester and features Molly Windsor in the lead role.

Three men in modern Manchester spend each night sleeping in their cars. How did they end up in this situation? How do they cope? Michael Symmons Roberts's verse drama explores the world of the invisible modern homeless - not asleep in a shop doorway, not asleep in a shop doorway, but no less desperate.

Two women sit in a barren dystopian wasteland discussing the best way to die.

A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domestic abuse.

Narrated by Maxine Peake, this feature documentary explores the failures and deception that have caused a chronic shortage of social housing in Britain.

Documentary following British punk duo Sleaford Mods on their two year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording sessions to chart success

Shakespeare's comedy adapted for television by Russell T. Davies. In the tyrannical court of Athens, pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, while young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father for loving the wrong man. Meanwhile, in the town below, an amateur theatre group rehearses. And beyond Athens, in the wild woods, dark forces are stirring...

Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.

A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong emotive memories and she is transported back into her childhood by her grandfathers words. As he shares his love and concern for the natural world around us. The journey back in time leaves Mia (the woman) visually and emotionally moved as she remembers and shares her grandfathers love and hope for the world around us. It is a story that transcends time.

Año 1969. En un estricto colegio de mujeres la carismática Abbie y la problemática Lydia son grandes amigas. Después de una tragedia ocurrida en el lugar, una misteriosa epidemia de desmayos estallará amenazando la estabilidad de todos los residentes.

From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was the Royal Exchange's fastest-selling show in a decade.

Two strangers witness a mysterious natural phenomenon that reawaken their senses and draws their fractured lives together.

Versatile singer/song-writer John Shuttleworth struggles to balance semi-professional obligations - a gig at a care home - with domestic, namely his 25th wedding anniversary.

La película gira en torno a la vida de Stephen Hawking, el importante teórico y divulgador científico que cambió la historia de la ciencia y la tecnología moderna para siempre. La película se centrará en la relación que mantuvo el británico con Jane Wilde, su primera mujer, con quien contrajo matrimonio después de que le diagnosticaran una enfermedad por la que no le quedaban más de dos años de vida.

A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job.

Un doctor americano llega a Irlanda para estudiar el caso de Conor, un hombre de 38 años que ha sufrido un derrame cerebral y un cambio de personalidad, dejando a su mujer Vanetia a cargo de su familia. Todo cambiará cuando la vida del Dr. Fielding se mezcle con la de la familia Casey.

MP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal business associates.

En la pelicula Svengali: Vida, Pasión y Rocanrol, Dixie pasa sus días como cartero en un pequeño pueblo de Nueva Gales del Sur, pero lo que él es un fanático de la música, y como nunca ha cantado cree que lo mejor para él es convertirse en el manager de alguna banda. Por eso, en su tiempo libre no deja de buscarlas y un buen día encuentra una que cree que puede llegar a lo más alto. Contacta con ellos, y para su sorpresa aceptan que alguien como Dixie, sin experiencia alguna, sea su manager. A ello ayuda que los The Premature Congratulations sean muy jóvenes y tampoco es que tengan demasiada experiencia en la música profesional. De esta forma, Dixie comienza a promocionarlos. A falta de contactos, sus métodos de trabajo se basan en la constancia por lo que no duda en recorrer Londres a pie, con una maqueta del grupo que representa para intentar conseguir un contrato discográfico.

Lola's sister has stopped eating. Lola treats her with the scorn she deserves - she'll snap out of it soon, won't she? Adapted from Booker Prize Winner Hilary Mantel's short story and featuring BAFTA nominated Maxine Peake.

Historia ambientada en la Primera Guerra Mundial que narra la historia de dos hermanos adolescentes enamorados de la misma chica.

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a giant of a man with a mental age of seven. When Danny finds himself in debt to a local crime boss, he feels he is left with no choice but to manipulate Joseph into participating in a series of underground cage fights from which Danny can pay his debts.

A cinematic snapshot observing the morning routine of a family in 1940s Britain. Mum makes breakfast. Dad reads the paper. Samantha tries to get ready for work but her sister, Rachael, is hogging the bathroom. Soon we see that Rachael is very young, but not as innocent as her parents might hope.

'Ever had that feeling you're being watched?' A Deaf Blind woman has a man living in her house. She doesn't know he's there. What does he want?

A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves.

Short film starring Maxine Peake and written by actor Reece Dinsdale

En la Inglaterra del siglo XIX, la huérfana y rica heredera, Anne Lister, vive con su tío y su tía, quienes quieren verla felizmente casada al desconocer que es lesbiana. Anne va guardando sus pensamientos en un diario encriptado. Cuando su amante, Mariana Belcombe, se casa con el rico Charles Lawton por conveniencia, Anne se siente traicionada a pesar de las visitas de Mariana. La relación entre ambas parece no ir a ningún sitio. (FILMAFFINITY)

En los 80, 'el destripador' siembra el pánico en Yorkshire. El Gobierno recurre a Peter Hunter, el detective más importante de Manchester, para que se haga cargo de una revisión secreta del caso. En 1974, Hunter no había podido completar la investigación de un tiroteo, en el que estaban implicados los policías de Yorkshire. Pero, en esta ocasión, está decidido a llegar hasta el final. Segunda parte de la miniserie británica "Red Riding", compuesta por tres largometrajes basados en las tres novelas de David Peace. (FILMAFFINITY)

An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.

Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.

A single mum looks for love in the lonely-hearts pages, but someone has already decided to play cupid - her eight year-old son…

On his way to a Make Poverty History gig in Scotland, Bob Geldof is accidentally stranded by an incompetent chauffeur in a run-down motel in Northern England. To his horror, he discovers a lookalike contest is taking place, and no-one will believe he is the real Bob Geldof. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, he discovers he may not be the only Bob Geldof in the room... Written by Linda Boulie

Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.

Maxine Peake stars in a short film about three fears (birds, falling, sleepwalking) - filmed and edited in a single day on a mobile phone for Cinema Now, a digital conference held at BAFTA.

In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and some women thought that their genitalia were vanishing, while schoolgirls in Belgium thought that they were being poisoned by a certain brand of fizzy drink. Looking at these various cases, and more, the professor (Maxine Peake) takes us on a musical journey through mass hysteria.

It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.

Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?

Penny, una cajera de supermercado, ha dejado de querer a su marido Phil, un taxista tierno y de espíritu filosófico. Su hija Rachel es limpiadora en una residencia de ancianos, pero su hijo Rory, un chico de carácter agresivo, está en el paro. Phil y Penny han perdido la alegría de vivir, pero cuando Rory cae enfermo y tiene que ser ingresado urgentemente en el hospital, el dolor los une de nuevo y vuelven a descubrir el amor.

Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...

In a post-apocalyptic world, the isle provides a safe haven from a pandemic that has decimated earth. Anna wake up pregnant and unable to remember who her husband is. Nor does Anna recognize Helen and Peter who are supposedly helping her get her health back. Disbelief in what she is being told leads to a horrible revelation and Anna having to contend with existential issues brought on by man’s destruction of the planet.

Biopic based on Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder's autobiography, the film will track the singer’s journey from a guitar-loving child to a leading light of Madchester’s party scene.