Frances Barber Movies

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes...

A lonely young girl forms an unexpected bond with a woman who agrees to pretend to be her mother for one hour. What begins as a simple lie evolves...

Mr Fraser decides Alfie is the right man to direct the Abbey Grove Christmas play.

The hero Perseus faces the Gorgon, Medusa.

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

Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.

MI5 operative Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov, who has approached MI5 claiming that he has highly classified...

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an...

Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make...

A reclusive, tongue-tied songwriter chasing a comeback falls for a bold and unfiltered first responder. As their connection grows, his songs must say...

Tearaway Frankie breaks out his best friend Taylor for one final night out. Over a riotous few hours filled with laughter, heartbreak and some home...

With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul...

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...

Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified...

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new...

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their...

A boozy barmaid and her newfound gay friend quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout for sex and excitement in this...

Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and...

The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women warriors. Sickened by ceaseless war, the king...