Alan Plater Movies

A writer seeking seclusion takes rooms in a remote farmhouse. Soon his quiet is broken by sounds and then sightings of a small child...

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...

Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a...

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

Documentary film about the musician Jake Thackray

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....

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

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

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