A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.
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An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
Three Silent Men
A couple dance and play in the snow yet neither realise they won’t be together in the morning. How will Madeline cope?
Icicle Melt
Jian drives his talented footballer son Theo, to a trial at a professional club but his intense style of support threatens their relationship and clashes with a ruthless youth academy system, jeopardising Theo's chances at an academy spot.
Academy Boy
Tribute film and poem...Unemployed Craig O'Sullivan, 25, of Barley Street, Ingrow, died on 22nd March 1998. He started on heroin when he was 18. This is the story of HIS LIFE'S LAST DAY.
Sully Lad
The Infernal follows the paranormal events that Oscar, a University graduate, experiences upon moving into a new household with his friends. But are the events that occur at Hollowmere House truly paranormal, or are his housemates playing some twisted games?
The Infernal
Claire is in an emotional and creative pause, until she finds her old projector and, with it, a way to reconnect with her childhood self.
Wounded Light
The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
Carla
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
The Mind of Mr. Reeder
A young Chinese British woman undertakes a symbolic journey of self-discovery. Incorporating elements of poetry and dance within a dramatic narrative, Bound explores a woman’s attempt to reconcile the past with the present as she confronts the complexities of her cultural identity and memory.
Bound
A young man called Shiro from London tries to live a comfortable life with his family.
Shiro's Story
After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The only person who takes an interest in his plan is Katie, Noah's wild-hearted next-door neighbor. Noah's parents think his compulsion to turn off taps is foolish, but even they can't deny the growing storms that are threatening their little fishing village.
Never Land
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.
Dual Alibi
In 2035, a new law holds parents responsible for their children’s crimes. Set in the United Kingdom, Dione and David Sinclair are thrust into a nightmarish legal battle when their teenage daughter, Teah, commits a serious crime.
The Trial
After witnessing his wife's illicit affair, a humiliated businessman flees deep into the countryside where he encounters a reclusive war veteran. Together, they strike a maniacal pact to take revenge on the man who cucked him.
The Whole World Blind (Or: The Ballad of the Cuck and the Eunuch)
There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.
Bird Fancier
An apprehensive young man moves into university halls, and the sudden feeling of isolation forces him into an argument with his older brother about identity, love, and the repression of dreams.
Cycles
A group of night club entertainers supplement their income by being international jewel thieves
The Primitives
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
Strapless
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe. Will anyone reach the land of promise?
Journey of Hope
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
After Mein Kampf
The deep relationship between an artist and his sculpture: Victor’s love for art is limitless. When he finishes modelling his latest statue, he discovers himself deeply in love with the gorgeous figure he created, his statue Leia. That very day, the statue comes alive. Very soon, Victor starts to notice flaws in his creature… she is not as perfect as he wanted her to be.
Heart of Stone
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, London, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
Honeytrap
A countdown the 20 most thrilling moments from the fantasy drama based on George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Cast members and celebrity fans also discuss the series and there is a look at who the main contenders for the Iron Throne really are.
Game of Thrones Greatest Moments
A woman struggles with the isolation of being confined as a prisoner in a war-torn country.
Branded
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Success Is the Best Revenge
Just as she is trying to carry on with life, Sam is once again interrupted by her best friend, Marcie, and forced into a discussion about ducks and death. Sam, ever the pessimist, finds fear in every eventuality, whilst her friend, ever the optimist, attempts to convince her that it will all be alright in the end. As they contemplate every gruesome method, they both must come to terms with what has happened and what is yet to come.
A Chat About Ducks
Drama telling the true story of the murder of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster in 2007, who was kicked to death in a park by a gang. Her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, was also severely beaten and put into a coma. The two of them were attacked because they were dressed as goths.
Murdered for Being Different
After a sheltered upbringing in St. Helena, Norah arrives in England and goes to live in London, taken under the wing of her Uncle and his business associate Andy. She works for the latter and falls in love with him, but he refuses to reciprocate her feelings. When she starts receiving a series of obscene phone calls and letters at home and work, she is determined to identify the caller, and strongly suspects Andy
He's Asking For Me
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
Shadow of a Gunman
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
John Wesley
Lady Behave follows the progress of a young woman whose manners are so piggish that her boyfriend walks out on her. Defeated, she pulls the phone out of the kitty litter and dials the number of the Lady Behave School of Etiquette.
Lady Behave
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
Pacific Destiny
Rebecca Worlock murdered her husband in 1820, by mixing poison into his beer. She was hanged for this crime the same year, in Gloucester, England.
The Trial of Rebecca Worlock
Indian coming-of-age story set in the 1970s and a love story between Seth, a young Englishman, and Asha, a young Indian girl and his friend from the childhood.
Little Box of Sweets
A Supply Teacher returns to his old college to teach, but after bonding with an autistic student, he soon finds, the college isn't how it used to be.
The Supply Teacher
My Silent Christmas Wish is a short silent film shot on an iPhone during Christmas as an experiment and a fun creative project. It delves into the complex yet heartfelt dynamics between two sisters during the festive season. Against a lovingly decorated Christmas tree, the story unfolds a quiet but transformative moment. Blending humour, emotion, and a hint of mystery, the film beautifully captures the essence of family connection unexpectedly.
My Silent Christmas Wish
A teenager is determines to clear the name of a black friend who is accused of murder.
The Heart Within
Two carers; a disheartened young immigrant and an experienced but irritable Scottish lady strike up an unlikely connection, while they struggle to give people the care they deserve under their private agency's command.
Care
In an unspecified future the human race is struck by a light that pushes those who see it to suicide. But there is someone who tries to save those affected by facing the danger of becoming attached to them.
Kyo
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Sunny talkaholic Pip doesn’t know which is worse; to be entirely invisible or seen but not noticed. She also can’t remember when it started, just that she can’t get rid of the damned thing. Not so much an elephant in the room as one that follows her every move like a crazed stalker whenever she leaves the bloody house. It takes seven-year-old Alice to see what’s so clearly in front of her.
Treasure
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
The Night My Number Came Up
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Diamond City
The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."
Joe's Ark
A usually strong married couple faces a horrifyingly tense, heartbreaking situation when their son is rushed into emergency surgery after a horrific car accident.
Empty Chair
A woman arrives on a Greek island and makes profound connections with those she encounters.
Terma
"Hello. I'm Billy and I'm going to enjoy myself first." Saturday. Out on the streets, young people looking for fun. Billy, living for Two-Tone music. Adrian, only limping when he walks. Lectric, dressed to kill. Debbo, bored with stereotypes. Rhoda, bored with Elvis. Elvis, playing games. They move around the city in the day, making life happen wherever they are. They come together at nights to listen to their music. For as long as the song lasts, they're heroes. Three minute heroes.
3 Minute Heroes
A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
Detective Lloyd
Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.
Deadlines
After dropping out of university and ditching his dreams of becoming a hockey player, 22-year-old Marcello, has a week to sort out his future before moving back in with his parents.
The Ice Lolly King
Beck’s new moustache makes waves when it slows him down in the pool shortly before a big race. As his coach grows more aggressive in his attempts to make him shave, Beck must choose between his moustache and freedom, or his coach and treading water.
A Hair's Breadth
A family man being held captive in his own home by a psychotic homeless man he has befriended, struggles to free himself before his family is threatened.
The Gates of Vanity
Inflamed by his readings of chivalric novels, Don Quixote, a knight with a sad face, accompanied by Sancho Panza, a peasant steeped in common sense, decides to set off across the world in search of improbable adventures.
Don Quixote
Trapped and bleeding as killers move in, a father phones his son and reminds him to stand up for himself, moments before he rises to make his own final stand.
Son
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
The Informer
Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the nativity play, and this is her last year before retirement. She is unlikely to change her ways without a battle.
Angels in the Annexe
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
Down at the Hydro
Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain brings to life letters, diaries, speeches and personal testimony to depict the months of May, June and July 1940. This was a period when France was collapsing, the Nazis had the Allies on the run, the British Army was being defeated at Dunkirk, and - at any moment - Britain faced invasion by Hitler’s troops.
Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain
During 'operation overlord' in the second world war, British soldiers find themselves fighting behind enemy lines in war torn France. Jim, a British soldier, realises he is the last standing and flees the battle. When Oskar, a young German soldier finds Jim hiding, he soon must make a decision. Jim and Oskar find that they have more in common than they initially thought.