Alan Plater Movies

A writer seeking seclusion takes rooms in a remote farmhouse. Soon his quiet is broken by sounds and then sightings of a small child...

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...

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...

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...

Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.

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

The new owners of a Manor House discover a legend that whoever is carried across the threshold shall unleash unknown forces...

A city planner puts his breinchild into operation without considering the heartbreak it causes to the people affected.

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

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