Mark Shivas Movies

Television documentary about German-born American director Douglas Sirk.

The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus

The conflict between a judge who sees himself as a creative and skilful protector of democracy, and his daughter, who sees him in a totally different...

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story...

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the...

A 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics.

British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And...

An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform...

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public...

Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production...

Set in Yorkshire, diabetic Horace is mentally disabled and works in the back of a joke shop.

Why does Sylvia Payne, with her successful husband and luxurious home, get in such a flap about her daughter's schoolfriend coming to visit?

A monologue, originally shown on the BBC. Miss Fozzard is a lonely, middle-aged department-store clerk in Soft Furnishings whose free time is mostly...

Funny Farm depicts a night shift by nurse Alan Welbeck (Tim Preece) on a psychiatric ward.

A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible.

A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family...

As wealthy Johann Schultz lies close to death in an Irish monastery, his heirs gather round.