Movies: Clive Merrison

  • 2002
    The Falklands Play

    The Falklands Play (2002)

    The Falklands Play

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    The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly com...

    The Falklands Play
  • 1977
    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)

    Riddles of the Sphinx

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    In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood....

    Riddles of the Sphinx
  • 1987
    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers (1987)

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

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    The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests: A conflict persists among the Kangs, humanesque multicolour beings who gath...

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
  • 1985
    Monsignor Quixote

    Monsignor Quixote (1985)

    Monsignor Quixote

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    Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of ...

    Monsignor Quixote
  • 1992
    Rebecca's Daughters

    Rebecca's Daughters (1992)

    Rebecca's Daughters

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    Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca...

    Rebecca's Daughters
  • 2000
    Care

    Care (2000)

    Care

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    A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal....

    Care
  • 1988
    Thin Air

    Thin Air (1988)

    Thin Air

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    Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing acti...

    Thin Air
  • 1987
    Cariani and the Courtesans

    Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)

    Cariani and the Courtesans

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    When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger and deceit....

    Cariani and the Courtesans
  • 1984
    Charlie

    Charlie (1984)

    Charlie

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    Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop steward in the Distributive Worker's Union. Peace dies, but Charlie wants to know why his name was i...

    Charlie
  • 1970
    Come Dancing

    Come Dancing (1970)

    Come Dancing

    5.81970HD

    Celebrated filmmaker Bill Douglas’s early student short follows two men who meet in a cafe on a Southend pier. Glances, body language and very brief snatches of lewd dialogue suggest a pick-up, but the atmosphere soon darkens and events take an unexp...

    Come Dancing
  • 1983
    The Bad Sister

    The Bad Sister (1983)

    The Bad Sister

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    Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death. In...

    The Bad Sister
  • 1978
    The After Dinner Joke

    The After Dinner Joke (1978)

    The After Dinner Joke

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    A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity....

    The After Dinner Joke
  • 1993
    Anna Lee: Headcase

    Anna Lee: Headcase (1993)

    Anna Lee: Headcase

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    A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier ...

    Anna Lee: Headcase
  • 2004
    The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

    The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope (2004)

    The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

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    Documentary that gives background on Trollope's life from childhood, adolescence, adulthood and death....

    The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
  • 1999
    Janice Beard 45 WPM

    Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999)

    Janice Beard 45 WPM

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    Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets....

    Janice Beard 45 WPM
  • 1989
    The Spirit of Man

    The Spirit of Man (1989)

    The Spirit of Man

    01989HD

    In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing....

    The Spirit of Man
  • 1981
    The Cause

    The Cause (1981)

    The Cause

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    "I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind me...

    The Cause
  • 1983
    Submariners

    Submariners (1983)

    Submariners

    01983HD

    Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotlan...

    Submariners
  • 1978
    Stronger Than the Sun

    Stronger Than the Sun (1978)

    Stronger Than the Sun

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    Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas....

    Stronger Than the Sun
  • 1980
    Dead Man's Kit

    Dead Man's Kit (1980)

    Dead Man's Kit

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    After shore-leave in Lisbon for the crew of HMS Diana, Master-at-Arms 'Toby' Toberman makes an official complaint to the ship's Captain about the behaviour of an officer he saw in a casino. Following the ship's 'Sod's Opera' party, Toby is reported m...

    Dead Man's Kit