Maxine Peake Movies

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he undergoes a remarkable trip to find new meaning in...

A fun-loving woman expertly juggling the demands of her hectic family life, busy social schedule and successful business gets diagnosed with breast...

Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — one physically and the other psychologically.

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

After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the...

In Moss Side a white vampire offers a black ex-addict immortality. A story about privilege, hunger, and the high cost of power in today’s world.

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...

Documentary exploring the key events of 1966, a period when British pop music, fashion and sport was making waves across the globe, but when the...

A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job.

A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk...

Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moon. From Wales to Wyoming, Hong Kong to Croydon,...

Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night...

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...

Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and...

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves...

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...

The story of Merseyside mum and campaigner Anne Williams, who lost her son Keven. For nearly three decades she fought the English establishment to...

Short film starring Maxine Peake and written by actor Reece Dinsdale