1980s UK

A soap opera series about the crew of a North Sea ferry.

In 1948, a socially awkward cricket-obsessed London schoolboy wants to kiss a classmate, his co-star in a play.

Contestants test their darts skills and general knowledge and battle it out to get to Bully's Prize Board.

An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.

Shirley is a 42-year-old bored Liverpudlian housewife who takes a holiday trip to Greece and meets a local man who bolsters her self-confidence. She evolves and transforms to the point that her husband doesn't even recognize her.

Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C..

Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.

A film in feminist reading of the vulgar genre of the 'women's prison film', which without voyeurism tells of violence among women and their relationships with each other.

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Disaster befalls the UK under a seemingly corrupt Conservative government. The Labour Party is elected - but committed to radical change, under a firmly left-wing leader. That's not supposed to happen. Who will save the traditional rulers?

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is re-writing history, tries to rebel. He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair.

Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.

An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

The actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman. It turns out that he's the notorious spy Guy Burgess.

A group of Liverpudlians goes to Middlesborough to lay a tarmac road.

Five unemployed men would do anything just to have a job in Thatcher's Britain.

Jessica, raised in a fanatical cult, endures brainwashing until her forbidden relationship with Melanie opens her eyes. They face cruel treatment for their 'unnatural' bond, but Jessica's spirit overcomes the oppressive teachings.

This play, set in 1977, is about rank, responsibilities and relationships within a Belfast family.

It's 1978, a year on from when we last saw the Martin family, and Ma has died. So, everything erupts again when Norman returns from England for the funeral.

Norman comes storming into the family home with his new lady friend. But has she managed to achieve the impossible by mellowing the big man?

Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust, in which almost everyone has dies, leaving just two families. Eventually just one girl and one man are left, and the majority of the film is about how they cope with the situation and each other.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.