Movies: Chris Darwin

  • 1988
    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    6.81988HD

    Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and l...

    Distant Voices, Still Lives
  • 2001
    Liam

    Liam (2001)

    Liam

    6.32001HD

    A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Co...

    Liam
  • 1990
    Needle

    Needle (1990)

    Needle

    101990HD

    Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to t...

    Needle
  • 1994
    Requiem Apache

    Requiem Apache (1994)

    Requiem Apache

    71994HD

    Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, David Ross, Amanda Mealing, Andrew Schofield and Julie Walters. Raymond Murtagh's Requim Apache tell...

    Requiem Apache
  • 1990
    The Fool

    The Fool (1990)

    The Fool

    71990HD

    A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invit...

    The Fool
  • 1990
    Dancin' Thru the Dark

    Dancin' Thru the Dark (1990)

    Dancin' Thru the Dark

    6.61990HD

    Linda's out on her hen night, her fiance is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married, when both groups arrive at a club, to find the band fronted by her ex-boyfriend—and the love of her life—Peter. Linda has to decide...

    Dancin' Thru the Dark
  • 1983
    Gaskin

    Gaskin (1983)

    Gaskin

    01983HD

    Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care....

    Gaskin
  • 1981
    Joggers

    Joggers (1981)

    Joggers

    01981HD

    When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a relay race of Wagnerian proportions. A BBC co-production with the Liverpool Everyman...

    Joggers