Movies: Mark Shivas

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science....

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace has learning disabilities and works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world....

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. Its title derives from th...

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea....

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a se...

A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country....

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship....

Why does Sylvia Payne, with her successful husband and luxurious home, get in such a flap about her daughter's schoolfriend coming to visit?...

Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen son, Jack (Frank MacCusker), then move to a tiny town and start life anew. There, Helen meets a mys...

A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible. Part of the Black and Blue series of TV plays....

British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an excepti...

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader o...

Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The judge sees himself as a protector of democracy, but his daughter, Susan, regards him as the greatest...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business...

The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz....

A man believes that King Kong was censored for political reasons....

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street....

Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward....

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk....