Alan Clarke Movies

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.

Video-shot on studio sets, Stars of the Roller State Disco borders on science fiction of the dystopian variety. Unemployed youngsters spend their...

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

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...

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 documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their...

A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband.

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.

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

Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he...

Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the...

Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

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

When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace is mentally disabled and works in the back of a joke shop.

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...

Play for Today about Russian dissidents.

The conflict between a judge who sees himself as a creative and skilful protector of democracy, and his daughter, who sees him in a totally different...

Mavie cannot declare her love, because the object of her affections is a very busy man.