Alan Plater Movies

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship....

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an...

A plumber named Benny tries to find his way around a university, and gets no sense out of the intellectuals who work and study there.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government...

After giving up her job as a librarian to care for her husband’s elderly family, Jess’ world falls apart when he leaves her for a younger...

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...

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...

While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns...

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....

Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a...

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Branch obviously have inside Information.

Sam and Ingrid start out with dreams of marrying someone rich who will make life easy. When they find they do not match up to each other's dreams...