Stephen Frears

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.

A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. ...

Ellen & Scott are facing the end of a long marriage when Ellen decides they should seek marital counseling to facilitate an amicable divorce.

A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit-gang and an ax-murderer – Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of ...

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the ...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, ‘Bimbo’ Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells ...

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World ...

Alan Bennett’s debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains ...

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new ...

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing ...

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong’s performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned ...

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of ...

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know ...

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

Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by ...

A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable ...

Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former “colleagues” and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their ...

A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani ...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return ...

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He’s divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for ...

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn’t changed since they met, he revisits his top five ...

A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper ...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their ...

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

A former stripper’s talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.