Anthony Bate Movies

The apparition of a woman - muse or ghost - helps a depressed writer.

A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble...

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.

A troublesome boy gets other children into danger while skin diving, but learns his lesson after a near-fatal accident.

Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr. Halliday Sutherland for...

Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...

A play about bullying, asking whether anything can actually be done about it. A gang of boys engage David in a game of 'coins against the wall' every...

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a...

BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.

After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than...

Three British soldiers are caught and interrogated by terrorists, unaware that they're in fact being put through mind-unhinging training as part of a...

A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to...

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.