United Kingdom
Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who attempt to organise against persistent rent rises.
Roland Joffé
Jim Allen
Casts & Crew
Colin Welland
Val McLane
Ricky Tomlinson
Bill Paterson
Rosemary Martin
Peter Kerrigan
Eddie Angel
Alan J. Bartley
Jeff Batt
Anthony Benson
Cy Benson
Ian Breach
Danny Breeze
Wes Breeze
Peter Copley
Martin Dale
Art Davie
Norma Day
Paul Donner
Gwen Doran
Liel Edwards
Olive Ellis
Julie Fontayne
Walter Gee
George Ging
Joe Ging
David Glyder
John Harris
Anthony Hebron
Harry Herring
Bobby Hooper
Colin Heywood
Terry Joyce
David Blake Kelly
Brendan P. Healy
James Macdonald
Leon Martin
Frank Marvin
Mike Mason
Paula Mason
Dick McCullough
Ken McKenzie
Jeff Milburn
Breeze Nick
Fred Pearson
Spike Rawlings
Peter Royal
Helen Russell
Richard Sands
Tony Scoggo
Tony Shaw
Bryan St John
Hugh Turner
Malcolm J. White
Ken Williams
Des Young
Also Directed by Roland Joffé
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors.
Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth Hog faces tough competition.
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.
After giving birth to her second boy, Jodie recognises a growing dissatisfaction in all areas of her life.
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Brooke begins an affair with Jake a young, hotshot insurance-agent.
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.