Marion Bailey
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1951-05-05
Locus Natus: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Et ut:
All or Nothing
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...
release : 2002.05.17popularis : 7.944
Good Boy
A son and mother's attempt to rob a bank is scuppered by bizarre manifestations from their past.
release : 2023.06.22popularis : 3.875
Meantime
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership....
release : 1983.10.16popularis : 6.457
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Many people remember Marion Barry as the philandering drug-addled mayor of the nation's capital. He's the poster boy for corruption, a pariah. Yet to...
release : 2009.06.21popularis : 0.981
Way Upstream
Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 8.541
Coppers
Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen...
release : 1988.10.16popularis : 2.587
Tommies
In Regency-era London, five women waiting for a carriage descend into a frenzy of vicious gossip.
release : 2022.10.08popularis : 1.25
Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
release : 2014.10.31popularis : 7.727
The Lady in the Van
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’...
release : 2015.10.30popularis : 8.044
Vera Drake
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
release : 2004.10.22popularis : 9.879
Allied
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they...
release : 2016.02.12popularis : 16.527
Nasty Neighbours
Mr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving couple anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban...
release : 2000.10.20popularis : 1.838
National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea
A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story...
release : 2016.11.14popularis : 1.658
Fuel to Fire
To end a bitter blood feud and bind two warring families, a mother must accept her son's murderer into her home.
release : 2015.06.16popularis : 1.021
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
release : 1982.09.04popularis : 1.68
Persuasion
Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true...
release : 2007.04.01popularis : 18.264
Toast
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained...
release : 2010.12.30popularis : 8.282
The One and Only Mike Leigh
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...
release : 2014.11.24popularis : 1.46
Cherished
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness"...
release : 2005.02.22popularis : 1.343
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death...
release : 2018.09.12popularis : 11.171
Peterloo
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in...
release : 2018.11.01popularis : 12.968
The Sickie
When events at work prove too stressful for Douglas Knott, a diligent and extremely busy office manager, he decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately,...
release : 2006.10.21popularis : 0.986
Brighton
A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A...
release : 2019.09.28popularis : 3.198
Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
release : 1984.06.20popularis : 4.009
Charlie
Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop...
release : 1984.03.23popularis : 0.856