David M. Thompson Movies

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally...

A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night....

An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries...

A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.

FREEFALL is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director...

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips...

A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He...

As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".

A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.

After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to...

The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal...

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a...

Annie Kirk's life is in chaos. She is broke, unemployed, can't pay her poll tax and has two boyfriends she wants to be shot of. She is determined to...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world,...

Drama about a woman who works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store who becomes seduced by the opulent lives of her clients, with...

Peter O'Toole stars as the complex, funny, charming, and hard-drinking Jeffrey Bernard in this live performance at the Old Vic Theatre in London.