Maxine Peake

The filmmaker behind Oscar-winning doco Man on Wire depicts the many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse.

UK mystery set in a 1969 English girls’ school where a tragedy unfolds. Soon after, an unknown epidemic begins to spread, causing students to faint suddenly. Amidst the disorder, a troubled girl attempts to keep hold of her friendship with a fellow pupil.

When a hard-headed manager arrives at work one day to find a dead body in the office, she's forced to reckon with murky behaviour in the present as well as murderous secrets from the past. Stars Maxine Peake (Anne).

British period piece set in 1657, following the wife to an oppressive husband and mother to their young son. One day, on their quiet English farm, a young couple claim to have been robbed and ask to stay the night. However, these strangers might not be who they say they are...

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Biopic on renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, nominated for five Academy Awards. Stars Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables) as Hawking and Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) as his long-time partner Jane.

Director Paul Sng celebrates the work of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha.

UK comedy-drama charting the rise of a comedian (Maxine Peake, The Theory of Everything), set against a backdrop of Northern England working men's clubs in the '70s and '80s.

Multi-Oscar nominee Mike Leigh (Another Year) writes and directs this story on the 1819 Peterloo Massacre.