Alan Plater Movies

In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for...

South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Branch obviously have inside Information.

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