Barry Hanson

A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, stars Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux.

A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Spall finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.

Los extraterrestres más tontos del universo se ven obligados a realizar un aterrizaje forzoso en la Tierra, en una autopista británica. Proceden del planeta Blob, donde existe una civilización superior, pero ellos son los más idiotas. Se dedican a explorar el espacio. Tres de ellos son capturados por unos militares, que no pueden creer que sean tan estúpidos. Su gran oportunidad llegará cuando un promotor que ve en ellos el futuro de la música los convierta en superestrellas del pop. (FILMAFFINITY)

When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.

Harold Shand, un gángster inglés bien establecido, está a punto de cerrar un lucrativo negocio con la mafia estadounidense. Pero cuando una serie de bombas empiezan a estallar en distintos puntos de Londres, todo parece ir mal. Amigos y miembros de su banda van muriendo a la vez que la relativa calma de los últimos diez años se rompe en mil pedazos. Un misterioso sindicato intenta involucrarle por lo que Harold tendrá que averiguar quiénes son y qué es lo que quieren pero por el camino dejará un rastro sangriento en su recorrido hacia la verdad.

The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.

A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble at home. His lifestyle is very different from the simple one of his family in North London, leading to considerable tension.

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion will not be a solution, and he finds himself more distressed than ever.

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war. Movie screened as part of Play of Today.

Alfy is 30 and on the dole. So what does he want with a stuffed tern, a shooting stick, a Harris Tweed suit and a shotgun?

An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts. Jackie is leaving the army. While waiting for her car to arrive, she encounters Corporal Harvey, the woman who used to be her lover.

Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.

A man has a three-way conversation between himself, his inner thoughts and as a psychiatrist. Part of the BBC Thirty Minute Theatre strand.