Movies: Maxine Peake

  • 2017
    The Priest

    The Priest (2017)

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    Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which sets Peake’s spoken word performances to Marr’s instrumental soundscapes. ‘The Priest’ is based upon the characters that Joe Gallagher met on the street...

    The Priest
  • 2024
    Art Matters

    Art Matters (2024)

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    Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates for the importance of the arts as he reflects on his early experiences and engages with influential figures from th...

    Art Matters
  • 2023
    Choked Up

    Choked Up (2023)

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    A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV interview goes off the rails due to a surprise coughing attack....

    Choked Up
  • 2017
    Cake

    Cake (2017)

    Cake

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    Two women sit in a barren dystopian wasteland discussing the best way to die....

    Cake
  • 1969
    Twisting My Melon

    Twisting My Melon (1969)

    Twisting My Melon

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    Biopic based on Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder's autobiography, the film will track the singer’s journey from a guitar-loving child to a leading light of Madchester’s party scene. The film was announced in 2019, with Jack O'Connell, Jason Isaacs...

    Twisting My Melon
  • 2020
    Surfaces

    Surfaces (2020)

    Surfaces

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    Short film for Refuge, the national charity for domestic abuse, drawing attention to the shocking rise in violence against women during the 2020 lockdown...

    Surfaces
  • 2002
    Hamilton Mattress

    Hamilton Mattress (2002)

    Hamilton Mattress

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    Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city....

    Hamilton Mattress
  • 2022
    Inner Polar Bear

    Inner Polar Bear (2022)

    Inner Polar Bear

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    A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change....

    Inner Polar Bear
  • 2010
    Edge

    Edge (2010)

    Edge

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    A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves....

    Edge
  • 2015
    The Shuttleworths

    The Shuttleworths (2015)

    The Shuttleworths

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    Versatile singer/song-writer John Shuttleworth struggles to balance semi-professional obligations - a gig at a care home - with domestic, namely his 25th wedding anniversary....

    The Shuttleworths
  • 2019
    Be Still My Beating Heart

    Be Still My Beating Heart (2019)

    Be Still My Beating Heart

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    Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — one physically and the other psychologically....

    Be Still My Beating Heart
  • 2025
    Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

    Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? (2025)

    Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?

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    Filmmaker Mark Forbes explores the persistent class barriers within the UK film industry, revealing the struggles, resilience, and untold stories of working-class creatives fighting for a voice in a system stacked against them....

    Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry?
  • 2017
    Unseen

    Unseen (2017)

    Unseen

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    A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domestic abuse....

    Unseen
  • 2017
    Men Who Sleep in Cars

    Men Who Sleep in Cars (2017)

    Men Who Sleep in Cars

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    Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social power....

    Men Who Sleep in Cars
  • 2020
    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather (2020)

    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather

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    Every summer, the sheep on Scafell Pike are gathered down to the farm for shearing. On this epic journey, a shepherd reflects on life while caring for his flock in this rugged landscape....

    The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
  • 2013
    Keeping Up with the Joneses

    Keeping Up with the Joneses (2013)

    Keeping Up with the Joneses

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    MP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal business associates....

    Keeping Up with the Joneses
  • 2011
    DeafBlind

    DeafBlind (2011)

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    'Ever had that feeling you're being watched?' A Deaf Blind woman has a man living in her house. She doesn't know he's there. What does he want?...

    DeafBlind
  • 2022
    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business (2022)

    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business

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    The story of Merseyside mum and campaigner Anne Williams, who lost her son Keven. For nearly three decades she fought the English establishment to expose the truth of what really happened at Hillsborough, and to try and get justice for the 97....

    The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
  • 2021
    Doughnut

    Doughnut (2021)

    Doughnut

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    Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation. https://shortoftheweek.com/2021/11/22/doughnut...

    Doughnut
  • 2006
    The Madness of the Dance

    The Madness of the Dance (2006)

    The Madness of the Dance

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    In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and some women thought that their genitalia were vanishing, while schoolgirls in Belgium thought that the...

    The Madness of the Dance