Stephen Frears Movies

The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews...

The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob...

British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And...

A tribute of Howard Hawks by the British Film Institute.

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes...

Two alcoholic escorts suddenly find themselves involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer.

Biographical documentary on director Lindsay Anderson, featuring interviews with friends, family, and colleages.

Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips...

Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the...

Documentary on the making of the 2006 film 'The Queen'.

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With...

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

A look at the life and work of television producer Innes Lloyd

Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.

When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen,...

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area. Adapted by Peter Prince from his own novel.