A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
Set in a Yorkshire milltown in 1957, Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten-year-old son, Victor. The family has recently moved house and Victor has started at a new school where Ellen has become friendly with his teacher, Kathy Thompson, who is keen to encourage him at art. As the friendship between the two women grows, Ellen's millworker husband, Hardy, feels increasingly alienated at home.
Dramatização da história real do famoso "assassino do ácido" John George Haigh, que assassinava mulheres e eliminava seus corpos em tambores de ácido na década de 1940. Ele só foi capturado quando foram encontradas pedras de vesícula de uma de suas vítimas, a Sra. Durand-Deacon, os cálculos não se dissolveram no ácido e foram detectados pelo patologista que examinou os resíduos.
For Jack, the dream was to live in a castle with grounds big enough to ride a horse for two hours. For Lu, it was the dream of love. Shelagh Delaney's drama Charts 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present day
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Um dos primeiros filmes da carreira do consagrado diretor Ken Loach, Kes conta a história de um menino que vive em bairro pobre da cidade que, violentado em casa e ridicularizado na escola, acha uma forma de abstrair de sua dura realidade treinando um falcão. Poética e singela obra de formação do cineasta que posteriormente realizou obras-primas como Terra e Liberdade e Pão e Rosas.
