Frances Barber Movies

A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien...

Frances Barber stars as Billie Trix — icon, radical, existentialist, and complete disaster — in this bold and hilarious one-woman odyssey...

Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the peak of his powers as Britain's number one comedian...

Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified...

An elderly Irish woman finds herself literally attached to her deceased husband. Their bond leads to increasingly grotesque events.

An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind...

A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.

A middle-aged woman and a young man drink tea and discuss masturbation.

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's...

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young...

A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.

Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political...

When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story...

The Jenkins family are selected by a computer to be the first visitors of the nation’s newest and most exciting theme park - Thatcherworld.

Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first like a perfect solution, soon takes a messy turn...

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24...

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to...

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to...

Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.