John McGrath Movies

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of...

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted...

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier...

Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story...

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to...

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.

Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril...

An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform...

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

“Fantasy of the end of civilization. Lesbians commit mayhem during a nuclear war in a wood.” - BFI.

In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with...

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional...

The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.

A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.

A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.

imagine... tells the story of Aviva Studios, Manchester’s colossal new cultural venue, and goes behind the scenes at the world premiere of its...

Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected