Dennis Potter Movies

  • 1965
    Stand Up, Nigel Barton

    Stand Up, Nigel Barton

    Stand Up, Nigel Barton

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    Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man...

    Stand Up, Nigel Barton
  • 1972
    Follow The Yellow Brick Road

    Follow The Yellow Brick Road

    Follow The Yellow Brick Road

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    Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.

    Follow The Yellow Brick Road
  • 1987
    Visitors

    Visitors

    Visitors

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    A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both...

    Visitors
  • 1969
    Moonlight on the Highway

    Moonlight on the Highway

    Moonlight on the Highway

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    Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...

    Moonlight on the Highway
  • 1965
    Alice

    Alice

    Alice

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    In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to...

    Alice
  • 1973
    Only Make Believe

    Only Make Believe

    Only Make Believe

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    Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but...

    Only Make Believe
  • 1976
    Double Dare

    Double Dare

    Double Dare

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    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...

    Double Dare
  • 1994
    Midnight Movie

    Midnight Movie

    Midnight Movie

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    American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was filmed...

    Midnight Movie
  • 1970
    Angels Are So Few

    Angels Are So Few

    Angels Are So Few

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    This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in...

    Angels Are So Few
  • 1971
    Paper Roses

    Paper Roses

    Paper Roses

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    Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal,...

    Paper Roses
  • 1965
    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

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    Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
  • 1966
    Emergency Ward 9

    Emergency Ward 9

    Emergency Ward 9

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    Drama set in a men's hospital ward, written by Dennis Potter. Characters include a cunning bronchitic Londoner, a strapped-up Pole and a dying man...

    Emergency Ward 9
  • 1970
    Lay Down Your Arms

    Lay Down Your Arms

    Lay Down Your Arms

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    Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series....

    Lay Down Your Arms
  • 1980
    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

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    Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit...

    Cream in My Coffee
  • 1994
    An Interview with Dennis Potter

    An Interview with Dennis Potter

    An Interview with Dennis Potter

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    Dennis Potter a television dramatist talks about his work, politics and his fears for both.

    An Interview with Dennis Potter
  • 1968
    The Bone Grinder

    The Bone Grinder

    The Bone Grinder

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    George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a...

    The Bone Grinder
  • 1976
    Where Adam Stood

    Where Adam Stood

    Where Adam Stood

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    "Where Adam Stood" is "based on" the 1907 autobiography, "Father and Son", by Christian fundamentalist and naturalist Edmund Gosse, but Dennis Potter...

    Where Adam Stood
  • 1960
    Between Two Rivers

    Between Two Rivers

    Between Two Rivers

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    After a brief tutelage with innovative BBC documentary producer Denis Mitchell, Dennis Potter teamed with producer Anthony de Lotbiniere to film a...

    Between Two Rivers