Lesley Manville

This year’s great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.

Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for ...

An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

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

A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their ...

Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.

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 ...

A new adaptation of Paul Gallico’s much-loved novel about a cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls in love with an haute couture dress by ...

Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village ...

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, ...

An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with ...

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he ...

After their production “Princess Ida” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is ...

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who’s aging quickly and becoming forgetful, ...

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a Black optometrist decides to make contact with her white working-class birth mother.

This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt ...

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his ...

In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an ...

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.