Rita Tushingham

About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of...

After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...

Architect Liffey moves to the Irish countryside with her American fiancé, Richard, to refurbish a long-abandoned cottage. Their neighbours are...

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...

Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a...

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years...

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up...

Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives...

A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

A French-Canadian fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.

An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a...

Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death....

The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.

Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each other. After the marriage, they quickly begin to...

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants,...

A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant...

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British...

Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is...

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies...

Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.

Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury...

A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns...

The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but...

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be...

Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get...

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his...

When Martin Luxford leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his...

Four stages in the life of the aging Joan Crawford. 1954: A beautiful woman of a “certain age” drives alone through the Californian desert, stays...

Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chris, arrive in the land of the economic miracle...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...

Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.

Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them the friendship is torn apart...

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her...

A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially...

Set against the turbulent mid 1980s of money, privatisation, unions and dramatic media evolution: A lifelong group of friends find themselves at the...

Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the attacker a beating. Lenny however has also been...

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow...

Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new...

Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who...

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might...

The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".

Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in...

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But...

Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know...

Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential...

A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there...

The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford,...

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first...

After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.

The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer...

'Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties' is an exploration of the 1960s Western cultural revolution as it ushers in our contemporary society....