Linda Beckett

У чернокожей лондонской девушки Гортензии умирает приемная мать, и она принимает решение найти свою биологическую мать. Параллельно выписываются образы Синди Роуз, матери Гортензии, которую она ищет, Роксаны, дочери Синди и сводной сестры героини с молодым ухажером, брата матери с его женой, живущих в отчуждении, близком к тихой ненависти… Многое изменится с появлением в доме нового члена семьи.

Действие фильма происходит в Лондоне, во времена правления Маргарет Тэтчер. Главные герои Сирил и Ширли малоимущие хиппи живущие в заброшенном доме. Сирил работает курьером на своём мотоцикле. В прошлом ему были близки идеи социализма, но ныне он в них начинает сомневаться. Ширли работает в компании по озеленению. Она влюблена в Сирила и мечтает завести от него ребёнка, но тот отказывается. Мать Сирила страдает потерей памяти. Его сестра Валери хочет провести 70-й день рождения их матери. Столкновение интересов и идей разных людей, соседей и знакомых главных героев составляет основную сюжетную линию картины.

These three semi-autobiographical short films by Terence Davies follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in "Children" (1976), then as a hollow-eyed middle-aged man in "Madonna and Child" (1980), and finally as a decrepit old man in "Death and Transfiguration" (1983). Dreamlike and profoundly moving.

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.

Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.

Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and let their imaginations run wild seeing a man in a local cemetery who they believe to be a vampire.

Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for a play he is writing with her in mind. As they discuss the play, Martin discovers that a businessman and an escort named Carol are sat at a nearby table and appear to be speaking lines from the as yet unwritten piece. Martin becomes anxious at what will eventually become of the girl, already knowing that the play will not have a happy resolution

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.