John McGrath

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Fade to Black
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Fade to Black

Jan 01, 1970

Fade to Black
1970 27 min 1 vues
FADE TO BLACK follows the history of movie theatres in and around Kansas City. From its humble beginnings as family-owned single screens in the early 20th century to the large multiplexes of today. Theatre owners have overcome technological advances in entertainment but can they overcome a pandemic and a wearing public.
Un Cerveau d'un milliard de dollars
5.6

Un Cerveau d'un milliard de dollars

Nov 02, 1967

Un Cerveau d'un milliard de dollars
1967 111 min 97 vues
FADE TO BLACK follows the history of movie theatres in and around Kansas City. From its humble beginnings as family-owned single screens in the early 20th century to the large multiplexes of today. Theatre owners have overcome technological advances in entertainment but can they overcome a pandemic and a wearing public.
Thriller
The Long Roads
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The Long Roads

Jan 31, 1993

The Long Roads
1993 90 min 1 vues
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 them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
Drama
Mairi Mhor
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Mairi Mhor

Nov 09, 1994

Mairi Mhor
1994 63 min 1 vues
In 1871, 'tired of the speakers of English', Mairi Mhor began writing resistance songs in Gaelic, protesting at the displacement of the Scottish Highland and Island folk by the Southern landlords. Unjustly imprisoned in Inverness at the age of 51, she expresses her anger in song, discovering a talent for music; these songs became central to the identity of the region and are still sung today. The achingly beautiful landscape of Skye, and the music it inspired, provide a haunting canvas for this valuable piece of historical research.
Drama
Blood Red Roses
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Blood Red Roses

Dec 04, 1986

Blood Red Roses
1986 137 min 1 vues
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Blood Red Roses
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Blood Red Roses

Dec 04, 1986

Blood Red Roses
1986 137 min 1 vues
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
The Diary of a Nobody
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The Diary of a Nobody

Dec 12, 1964

The Diary of a Nobody
1964 41 min 1 vues
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
Comedy
The Diary of a Nobody
1

The Diary of a Nobody

Dec 12, 1964

The Diary of a Nobody
1964 41 min 1 vues
Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.
Comedy
Aberdeen
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Aberdeen

Sep 08, 2000

Aberdeen
2000 113 min 34 vues
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 begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Drama
Exit 19
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Exit 19

Aug 08, 1966

Exit 19
1966 46 min 1 vues
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
Drama
Carrington
6.2

Carrington

May 25, 1995

Carrington
1995 121 min 63 vues
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
History
Shotgun
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Shotgun

Jul 11, 1966

Shotgun
1966 50 min 1 vues
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
Drama
Shotgun
1

Shotgun

Jul 11, 1966

Shotgun
1966 50 min 1 vues
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
Drama
Shotgun
1

Shotgun

Jul 11, 1966

Shotgun
1966 50 min 1 vues
The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints.
Drama
The Reckoning
7.2

The Reckoning

Jan 31, 1970

The Reckoning
1970 111 min 11 vues
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 his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Drama
The Bouncing Boy
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The Bouncing Boy

Dec 11, 1972

The Bouncing Boy
1972 70 min 1 vues
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.
Drama
The Long Roads
1

The Long Roads

Jan 31, 1993

The Long Roads
1993 90 min 1 vues
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 them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
Drama
Orkney
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Orkney

May 13, 1971

Orkney
1971 90 min 1 vues
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Drama
The Dressmaker
4

The Dressmaker

Dec 16, 1988

The Dressmaker
1988 92 min 3 vues
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 affair with an American soldier.
Drama
The Dressmaker
4

The Dressmaker

Dec 16, 1988

The Dressmaker
1988 92 min 3 vues
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 affair with an American soldier.
Drama
The Bofors Gun
5.7

The Bofors Gun

Apr 04, 1968

The Bofors Gun
1968 105 min 3 vues
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
Drama
The Virgin Soldiers
6.6

The Virgin Soldiers

Oct 14, 1969

The Virgin Soldiers
1969 95 min 9 vues
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
War
Double Bill
1

Double Bill

Sep 26, 1969

Double Bill
1969 70 min 1 vues
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 incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
Drama
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Sep 20, 1978
1978 min 4 vues
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Drama
6.1

Aug 28, 1984
1984 min 8 vues
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
1

Jan 16, 1965
1965 min 1 vues
Drama
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Feb 24, 1990
1990 min 1 vues
A three-episode mini-series chronicling the history of Scotland from ancient times through the union with England and culminating with the rise of Thatcherism and the introduction of the Poll Tax.
Drama
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Feb 24, 1990
1990 min 1 vues
A three-episode mini-series chronicling the history of Scotland from ancient times through the union with England and culminating with the rise of Thatcherism and the introduction of the Poll Tax.
Drama
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Feb 24, 1990
1990 min 1 vues
A three-episode mini-series chronicling the history of Scotland from ancient times through the union with England and culminating with the rise of Thatcherism and the introduction of the Poll Tax.
Drama