Alan Plater Movies

After giving up her job as a librarian to care for her husband’s elderly family, Jess’ world falls apart when he leaves her for a younger...

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

While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns...

A play about a young man's experiences in his first job and in becoming a member of the Union.

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell....

Sam and Ingrid start out with dreams of marrying someone rich who will make life easy. When they find they do not match up to each other's dreams...

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies...

'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat...

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

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her...

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