Alan Clarke Movies

Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become...

A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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

Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an...

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

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794...

Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close...

Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too"...

Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will experience the harsh realities of the brutality and day...

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements,...

Harry and Emily are two of the livelier residents of a London old people's home. When they decide to get married, things prove less simple.

Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky leaves the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards.

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'A Man of Our Times' anthology series.

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

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...

A cool hard study of 'the art of the deal' on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns...

A lady catches the attention of a compulsive gambler.

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.

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