Maxine Peake Movies

Every summer, the sheep on Scafell Pike are gathered down to the farm for shearing. On this epic journey, a shepherd reflects on life while caring...

Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he...

A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone, with her conscience and unable to openly discuss her...

A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domestic abuse.

Biopic based on Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder's autobiography, the film will track the singer’s journey from a guitar-loving child to a...

Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels in eastern Ukraine, and documenting its...

Three men in modern Manchester spend each night sleeping in their cars. How did they end up in this situation? How do they cope? Michael Symmons...

A single mum looks for love in the lonely-hearts pages, but someone has already decided to play cupid - her eight year-old son…

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's...

From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with...

Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.

A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves.

'The Butternut Squash Gang' always stumble upon a criminal rouse that is passed off by adults as overactive minds. From their clubhouse in the woods,...

Maxine Peake stars in a short film about three fears (birds, falling, sleepwalking) - filmed and edited in a single day on a mobile phone for Cinema...

Narrated by Maxine Peake, this feature documentary explores the failures and deception that have caused a chronic shortage of social housing in...

MP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal business associates.

In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and...

Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates...

A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV interview goes off the rails due to a surprise...

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she...