Alan Clarke Movies

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. ...

This short film, first broadcast on BBC TWO in 1989, is a chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world...

A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.

A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world....

Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an...

Documentary - Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue...

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and...

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering...

A BBC television adaptation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of...

Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A...

A cool hard study of 'the art of the deal' on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns...

Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.

The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem.

Play for Today about Russian dissidents.

Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their...