Michael Byrne Movies

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.

Harry Fielding is an investigative reporter with a brief to covertly document the compromising exploits of public figures. Incriminating evidence...

A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his...

An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones...

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867...

An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.

In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.

Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to leave his recently-betrothered...

Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40...

Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in...

Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle...

A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls.

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover.

Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.

A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection Dirty Faxes, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged...

Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their colonialist ancestor to the Peruvian jungle. Their...