Alan Clarke
October 28, 1935 · 90 years old
Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today. His subject m…
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4 titles
Scum
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
Elephant
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
Penda's Fen
Late spring 1973, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his own identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.