Alan Plater

Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard.

Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard.

Documentary film about the musician Jake Thackray

Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previously.

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.

While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.

In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s' veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.

런던과 뉴욕간의 정기여객선 브리태닉 호가 1200명의 승객과 승무원을 태우고 지금 막 런던을 떠난다. 승객 가운데는 런던 경찰청의 머클레엇 수사 과장(Supt. John McCleod: 안소니 홉킨스 분)과 아내(Susan McCleod: 캐롤린 모티머 분), 아들 데이빗(David McCleod: 아담 브리지 분), 딸 낸시(Nancy McCleod: 레베카 브리지 분)도 있다. 브리태닉 호가 소속한 서버린 선박 회사의 니콜러스 포터(Nicholas Porter: 이안 홈 분) 사장에게 자칭 저가노트(Juggernaut: 프레디 존스 분)라는 사람의 전화가 걸려온다. 브리태닉 호에는 '아마톨' 폭약 일곱 드럼이 실려있는데, 내일 새벽, 즉 22시간 뒤에 터지도록 시한장치를 해놨다는 것이다. 50만 파운드를 내야 해체 방법을 알려준다고 한다. 포터 사장, 경찰청의 머클레엇 수사과장, 공군의 마더 중령(Commander Marder: 줄리안 글로버 분)과 폭탄전문가인 팔론 소령(Fallon: 리차드 해리스 분), 외무부의 간부 휴즈 등이 모여 대책회의를 연 이들은 범인의 요구를 무시하고 폭탄을 해체하는 쪽으로 의견을 모은다. 팔론 소령이 대원들을 이끌고 브리태닉 호에 낙하산으로 투하된다. 배에 오른 해체팀이 폭약이 든 드럼통의 내부를 진단한 결과 정교한 시한장치가 들어있었다. 스스로 챔피언이라고 자랑하는 팔론 소령이지만 그 정교한 시한장치에는 혀를 내두른다. 하나하나 해체해 나가지만, 도중에 실수로 부하 찰리(Charlie Braddock: 데이빗 허밍스 분)를 잃은 팔론은 자신의 한계를 느껴 포기한다. 이젠 범인의 요구대로 돈을 줄 수밖에 없다. 돈을 주고 머클레엇 등 수사관들이 범인의 하수인을 미행한다. 하지만 미행한 사실에 분노한 범인은 배가 폭파되도록 내버려두겠다고 하는데.

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.

The new owners of a Manor House discover a legend that whoever is carried across the threshold shall unleash unknown forces...

A writer seeking seclusion takes rooms in a remote farmhouse. Soon his quiet is broken by sounds and then sightings of a small child...