Stephen Frears

An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong’s performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned ...

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing ...

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways ...

A former stripper’s talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their ...

Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety ...

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know ...

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his ...

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World ...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, ‘Bimbo’ Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells ...

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the ...

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He’s divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for ...

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their ...

A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer – Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of ...

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return ...

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and ...

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, ...

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his ...

Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys – the cold, ...

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of ...

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his ...