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Alan Clarke

Alan Clarke

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 matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities.

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Movies Made By Alan Clarke (49)

Elephant (1993)

A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. ...

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The Firm (1989)

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

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Road (1987)

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. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house. ...

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Christine (1987)

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 heroin while their parents are absent. ...

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

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. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side lan ...

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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again. ...

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Contact (1985)

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

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Waterbag (1984)

A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently self-induced miscarriage. ...

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Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984)

Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. For others, it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drugs f ...

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The British Desk (1984)

Documentary about the work of South African intelligence agencies in Britain, with an interview with Information Secretary in the South African government, Eschel Rhoodie, and former agents. ...

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Made in Britain (1983)

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

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Brief Encounters (1983)

An analysis of short consultations, concentrating on five U.K. surgeries, intended for small groups of GPs, vocational trainees or continuing medical education groups. ...

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Baal (1982)

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 high society party is where the end begins. ...

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Psy-Warriors (1981)

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

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Beloved Enemy (1981)

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 that the Soviet Union's chief scientists are in London with government credit to spend. He's keen to flog t ...

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Vodka Cola (1980)

Documentary on the relationship of the Eastern and Western countries of the world characterised by Charles Levinson as the Vodka Bloc and the Cola Front, which have been stimulated into further consolidation by the Afghanistan invasion. ...

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Scum (1979)

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

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Nina (1978)

Play for Today about Russian dissidents. ...

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Danton's Death (1978)

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by ...

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Scum (1977)

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

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Bukovsky (1977)

Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private scree ...

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Fast Hands (1976)

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the d ...

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Diane (1975)

Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close Diane and her father are. ...

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Funny Farm (1975)

Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward. ...

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A Follower for Emily (1974)

Harry and Emily are two of the livelier residents of a London old people's home. When they decide to get married, things prove less simple. ...

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Penda's Fen (1974)

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 politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality. ...

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The Love-Girl and the Innocent (1973)

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 Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for b ...

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Man Above Men (1973)

Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The judge sees himself as a protector of democracy, but his daughter, Susan, regards him as the greatest livin ...

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Achilles Heel (1973)

A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career. ...

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Horatio Bottomley (1972)

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley. ...

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A Life Is Forever (1972)

Johnson begins his life sentence for the murder of a policeman. It is not long before he will experience the harsh realities of the brutality and day to day drudgery of prison life. ...

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To Encourage the Others (1972)

The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion. ...

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Horace (1972)

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace has learning disabilities and works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world. ...

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Under the Age (1972)

The story concerns Susie, a transgender bartender, dealing with four patrons who stumble into her place of work. Susie grows wary of the two men and the two women, the latter of which are underage, and tension begins to mount and escalate between all of th ...

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Everybody Say Cheese (1971)

Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he is getting older, and his trade is dying out as people have their own instamatic cameras. ...

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The Hallelujah Handshake (1970)

Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him. ...

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I Can't See My Little Willie (1970)

When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge... ...

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Sovereign's Company (1970)

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 officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life. ...

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The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel (1969)

A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of eccentric characters. With his passion for the railways and naïve disposition, Benjamin inadvertently enc ...

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The Piano Tuner (1969)

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series. ...

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Stand by Your Screen (1968)

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series. ...

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Thief (1968)

A lady catches the attention of a compulsive gambler. ...

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The Fifty-Seventh Saturday (1968)

Mavie cannot declare her love, because the object of her affections is a very busy man. ...

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Stella (1968)

Stella escapes an unhappy relationship to live in a bedsit. She meets another man which forces her to make decisions about her life. ...

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Goodnight Albert (1968)

Albert lives with his Grandma, who he thinks is cramping his style. However an incident reveals to him that he is as much dependent on her as she is of him. ...

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Sally Go Round the Moon (1968)

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'A Man of Our Times' anthology series. ...

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George's Room (1967)

A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband. ...

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The Gentleman Caller (1967)

Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, ...

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Shelter (1967)

A woman seeks shelter from the rain in a park conservatory but is forced into conversation with a man who wants to know what else she is sheltering from. ...

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Movies Starring Alan Clarke (4)

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020)

Marking Play for Today's 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many ...

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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers. ...

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Director: Alan Clarke (1991)

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 and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of British actors, writers and directors that changed cinema forever. Th ...

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Bukovsky (1977)

Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private scree ...

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