Alan Plater Movies

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an...

A city planner puts his breinchild into operation without considering the heartbreak it causes to the people affected.

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.

Documentary film about the musician Jake Thackray

The new owners of a Manor House discover a legend that whoever is carried across the threshold shall unleash unknown forces...

Casual labour appeals to Wilfred, and the street market is a friendly home until he meets the beautiful Christabel. Her haughty dismissal drives him...

What was it like to go to school 100 years ago?