Alan Clarke Movies

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace is mentally disabled and works in the back of a joke shop.

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

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

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794...

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