Mark Shivas Movies

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the...

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

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

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...

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story...

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace has learning disabilities and works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy, Gordon Blackett who...

A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family...

Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student...

A 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics.

An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform...

A monologue, originally shown on the BBC. Miss Fozzard is a lonely, middle-aged department-store clerk in Soft Furnishings whose free time is mostly...

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...

The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.

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...

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public...

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

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