Dennis Potter Movies
- 1965
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Stand Up, Nigel Barton01965HD
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...
- 1972
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Follow The Yellow Brick Road01972HD
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
- 1987
Visitors
Visitors61987HD
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both...
- 1969
Moonlight on the Highway
Moonlight on the Highway41969HD
Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...
- 1965
Alice
Alice51965HD
In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to...
- 1973
Only Make Believe
Only Make Believe01973HD
Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but...
- 1976
Double Dare
Double Dare01976HD
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...
- 1994
Midnight Movie
Midnight Movie11994HD
American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was filmed...
- 1970
Angels Are So Few
Angels Are So Few01970HD
This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in...
- 1971
Paper Roses
Paper Roses01971HD
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal,...
- 1965
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton81965HD
Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
- 1966
Emergency Ward 9
Emergency Ward 901966HD
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...
- 1970
Lay Down Your Arms
Lay Down Your Arms61970HD
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....
- 1980
Cream in My Coffee
Cream in My Coffee61980HD
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...
- 1994
An Interview with Dennis Potter
An Interview with Dennis Potter01994HD
Dennis Potter a television dramatist talks about his work, politics and his fears for both.
- 1968
The Bone Grinder
The Bone Grinder01968HD
George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a...
- 1976
Where Adam Stood
Where Adam Stood6.21976HD
"Where Adam Stood" is "based on" the 1907 autobiography, "Father and Son", by Christian fundamentalist and naturalist Edmund Gosse, but Dennis Potter...
- 1960
Between Two Rivers
Between Two Rivers7.251960HD
After a brief tutelage with innovative BBC documentary producer Denis Mitchell, Dennis Potter teamed with producer Anthony de Lotbiniere to film a...