Lesley Sharp

Through archive, dramatic reconstructions and the recollections of key contributors, this documentary recalls the downfall of the popular TV presenter.

Año 1290. En el pueblo medieval inglés de Stonebridge, Lady Catherine (conocida como Birdy) es la hija menor de Lord Rollo y Lady Aislinn. Su patio de recreo es la Mansión Stonebridge, una casa que, al igual que la familia, ha visto días mejores. Con una economía precaria y al mismo tiempo una codicia total, Rollo ve en su hija la solución para salir de la ruina económica casándola con un hombre rico a cambio de dinero y tierras. Pero Birdy, como todas las grandes heroínas adolescentes, es enérgica, inteligente y aventurera, y está dispuesta a rechazar a cualquier pretendiente de maneras cada vez más ingeniosas. Su imaginación, su rebeldía y su profunda creencia en su propio derecho a la independencia la llevan a chocar con sus padres. Cuando llega el pretendiente más malvado de todos, los padres de Birdy deberán superar la máxima prueba de amor hacia su hija.

When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge.

Sarah parece haber encontrado su vocación trabajando en un hogar de ancianos de Liverpool, donde tiene un talento especial para conectarse con los residentes. Luego, en marzo de 2020, llega la pandemia de Coronavirus.

A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result is a vengeful act of violence that exposes the gaps and similarities between class, gender, and sexual orientations.

A feel-good, heart-warming film set in Yorkshire in 1977 about an adolescent boy's big summer after leaving school. It's about a boy and a dog, class and ambition, first love, and above all, family.

Ellie, a smart and successful woman, has her life changed when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. As her condition worsens, she joins a support group where she meets Dan; an encounter that has unexpected results.

Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, whilst obsessively re-drafting the perfect suicide note.

Emily and Andy have been trying for a baby for years. After three stillborn babies their world has been torn apart by grief. Having moved house to make a fresh start, Emily slips into a delusional state as a way of coping with her loss. Andy tries to help guide her through whilst privately struggling in his own way with the loss of his much wanted children, as well as the gradual loss of his wife as he becomes isolated from her world. Andy then takes drastic action to help Emily see the truth. But is their relationship strong enough to survive?

Follows three young couples as they travel to Korea to be blessed by their messiah, Reverend Moon, at one of the movement's controversial mass weddings

Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn money singing in pubs around the docks after her father if jailed for sexual crimes. As a young teenager she begins singing and dancing in 'coloured review shows'. But it is a chance meeting with struggling agent Mike Sullivan that changes her life forever. He promises to make her a star, but has no idea of the personal sacrifice that will mean for the teenaged Shirley.

After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. But at night he seemingly becomes the victim of a ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?

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)

A Blitz mother confronts a home truth.

Mortimer “Mo” Folchart y su hija de 12 años, Meggie, comparten su pasión por los libros. También comparten un don, ellos pueden hacer aparecer en la vida real a los personajes de los libros que están leyendo; si los leen en voz alta. Pero un peligro acecha: por cada personaje de fantasía que llega al mundo real, una persona real desaparece en el mundo de fantasía. En una de sus visitas a una vieja librería, Mo escucha voces que no había oído en años, y cuando reconoce de qué libro vienen, siente un escalofrío que corre por su espalda.

Basado en el best-seller del galardonado escritor Simon Garfield, cuatro historias de la "década perdida" británica (1945-1955) se presentan en los diarios de cuatro personas muy distintas. En su libro, Garfield seleccionó a algunos de los diaristas más expresivos, y se centró en los años de la posguerra dando un vívido retrato de cómo Inglaterra se enfrentó en los años de la posguerra y qué poca, o cuánta, las actitudes han cambiado en los últimos 60 años.

A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.

Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.

Londres, 1950. Vera Drake es una humilde mujer que vive con su marido y sus hijos. Ella es limpiadora, y su marido es mecánico. No tienen dinero, pero son una familia unida y se sienten felices. Vera se dedica completamente a su familia, pero tiene un secreto: ayuda a jovencitas a practicar abortos, una actividad ilegal.

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.

Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.

Basada en la historia de Jack el Destripador y el cómic de Alan Moore. Amanece en Whitechapel, el barrio más sórdido de Londres, donde las drogas, la enfermedad y la miseria campan a sus anchas. Cinco chicas dedicadas a la prostitución se encuentran amenazadas por un terrible monstruo que podría robarles su única posesión: la vida. El único que se toma la molestia por protegerlas es el Inspector Fred Abberline que con la ayuda de su amigo el sargento Godley, trata de desentrañar una espeluznante conspiración. A medida que los salvajes asesinatos se suceden, los dos hombres ven obstaculizado su trabajo por unos superiores más interesados en esconder los crímenes bajo la alfombra que en encontrar al verdadero asesino, un sádico loco destinado a pasar a la historia.

El joven Pip está destinado a ser herrero, pero odia el hollín y el humo y, en secreto, sueña con llegar a ser un caballero. Después de conocer a la enigmática señora Havisham y a su altiva sobrina Estella, las circunstancias de Pip experimentan un cambio tan radical e inesperado que podrá hacer realidad sus sueños.

El cierre de la fábrica de acero de Yorkshire deja sin trabajo a casi toda la población masculina. Gaz, uno de los obreros afectados, perderá el derecho de ver a su hijo si no consigue dinero para pagar la pensión de manutención familiar a su mujer. En medio de la desesperación, se le ocurre una idea, a primera vista disparatada, y se la plantea a los amigos que están en la misma situación: organizar un espectáculo de strip-tease.

Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.

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.

Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.

A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film

Después de un encuentro sexual con una mujer casada en un callejón en Mánchester que se convierte en una violación, Johnny Fletcher (David Thewlis) roba un coche y huye de su ciudad natal a Londres para buscar refugio en la casa de su ex novia, Louise (Lesley Sharp). Johnny es un hombre inteligente, educado y elocuente, pero con una profunda amargura y un pesimismo vital que siempre le mantiene al límite de una conducta sádica. En Londres seduce a la compañera de piso de Louise, Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge), antes de embarcarse en una odisea en la que compartirá sus días entre indigentes y personajes desesperados de los bajos fondos de la capital del Reino Unido.

Dos hermanos unidos por una relación incestuosa llevan su pasión hasta las últimas consecuencias. La relación transcurre en un mundo donde los valores morales parecen resquebrajados, y donde la aparición del sida pone al descubierto su fragilidad.

Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.

Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.

Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.

When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.

A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.