John McGrath

Aberdeen (2000)

Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years. ...

My Life in Pink (1997)

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl -- and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation, and guilt -- as the in ...

Half the Picture (1996)

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq. ...

Carrington (1995)

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventual ...

Mairi Mhor (1994)

In 1871, 'tired of the speakers of English', Mairi Mhor began writing resistance songs in Gaelic, protesting at the displacement of the Scottish Highland and Island folk by the Southern landlords. Unjustly imprisoned in Inverness at the age of 51, she expr ...

The Long Roads (1993)

An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other. ...

Robin Hood (1991)

The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist. ...

The Dressmaker (1988)

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier. ...

Blood Red Roses (1986)

A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s. ...

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice (1980)

In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness. ...

The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something (1980)

Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected ...

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of ...

The Bouncing Boy (1972)

A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected. ...

Orkney (1971)

Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present. ...

Ende der Vorstellung 24 Uhr (1970)

The Reckoning (1970)

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he's confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father die ...

The Virgin Soldiers (1969)

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is ...

Double Bill (1969)

In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred ...

The Bofors Gun (1968)

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him. ...

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom? ...

Exit 19 (1966)

A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together. ...

Shotgun (1966)

The story of a long love affair is told from three different viewpoints. ...

The Day of Ragnarok (1965)

"Fantasy of the end of civilization. Lesbians commit mayhem during a nuclear war in a wood." - BFI. ...

The Diary of a Nobody (1964)

Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12 ...

imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester (2023)

imagine... tells the story of Aviva Studios, Manchester's colossal new cultural venue, and goes behind the scenes at the world premiere of its opening production, Free Your Mind. ...

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974)

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of ...