Karl Francis Movies

  • 1993
    The Cormorant

    The Cormorant

    The Cormorant

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    For a young couple, the small cottage tucked away in a quiet village in the mountains of north Wales, a legacy from a distant, estranged uncle, is a...

    The Cormorant
  • 1989
    Nineteen96

    Nineteen96

    Nineteen96

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    Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander...

    Nineteen96
  • 2002
    One of the Hollywood Ten

    One of the Hollywood Ten

    One of the Hollywood Ten

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    Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

    One of the Hollywood Ten
  • 1992
    Rebecca's Daughters

    Rebecca's Daughters

    Rebecca's Daughters

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    Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The...

    Rebecca's Daughters
  • 1989
    The Angry Earth

    The Angry Earth

    The Angry Earth

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    About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old...

    The Angry Earth
  • 2015
    The Miners' Strike

    The Miners' Strike

    The Miners' Strike

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    Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of...

    The Miners' Strike
  • 1995
    Streetlife

    Streetlife

    Streetlife

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    The rough urban life in a Welsh valley that focuses on Jo, a single mother who has just become pregnant by her married boyfriend Kevin.

    Streetlife
  • 1991
    Murder in Oakland

    Murder in Oakland

    Murder in Oakland

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    Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new...

    Murder in Oakland
  • 1980
    Afternoon of War

    Afternoon of War

    Afternoon of War

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    Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war....

    Afternoon of War
  • 1984
    The Happy Alcoholic

    The Happy Alcoholic

    The Happy Alcoholic

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    A stark drama about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the impact this has on his family, friends, and work. His gradual disintegration is a...

    The Happy Alcoholic
  • 1991
    Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

    Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

    Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

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    A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a...

    Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
  • 1982
    Giro City

    Giro City

    Giro City

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    Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.

    Giro City
  • 1971
    A Breed of Men

    A Breed of Men

    A Breed of Men

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    The story was inspired by the stay-down strikers in the 1930s who refused to leave the mines for three weeks. Ernie Bailey, one of the miners,...

    A Breed of Men
  • 1988
    Merthyr and the Girl

    Merthyr and the Girl

    Merthyr and the Girl

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    The story of two young women, Donna Edwards and Mary Katherine Jones, who aspire for careers in the theatre business.

    Merthyr and the Girl
  • 1996
    From Bridgend to Basilica

    From Bridgend to Basilica

    From Bridgend to Basilica

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    A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome.

    From Bridgend to Basilica
  • 1977
    Above Us the Earth

    Above Us the Earth

    Above Us the Earth

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    Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie...

    Above Us the Earth
  • 1985
    Ms Rhymney Valley

    Ms Rhymney Valley

    Ms Rhymney Valley

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    Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.

    Ms Rhymney Valley
  • 1987
    Boy Soldier

    Boy Soldier

    Boy Soldier

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    A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with...

    Boy Soldier
  • 2008
    Hope Eternal

    Hope Eternal

    Hope Eternal

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    After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo...

    Hope Eternal
  • 1981
    Rough Justice

    Rough Justice

    Rough Justice

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    Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil. Life in the valley isn't what it was, there's no pit in Deri now, but the humour survives,...

    Rough Justice