Alan Plater Movies

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

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

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...

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

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

Casual labour appeals to Wilfred, and the street market is a friendly home until he meets the beautiful Christabel. Her haughty dismissal drives him...

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

Documentary film about the musician Jake Thackray

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