Alan Clarke Movies

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.

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

Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their...

Stella escapes an unhappy relationship to live in a bedsit. She meets another man which forces her to make decisions about her life.

A lady catches the attention of a compulsive gambler.

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering...

Play for Today about Russian dissidents.

The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem.

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however,...

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...

A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.

A woman seeks shelter from the rain in a park conservatory but is forced into conversation with a man who wants to know what else she is sheltering...

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world...

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. ...

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

A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently...