Alun Armstrong Movies

An Awfully Big Adventure

60/100

Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth... See full summary »

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

64/100

A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching of a reason for this assassination, MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.

Funny Cow

65/100

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 working men's clubs.

Breaking the Code

73/100

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans... See full summary »

Paradise Found

58/100

A successful 19th century French stockbroker (Sutherland) leaves his profession to become an artist in Paris.

Strictly Sinatra

59/100

Small-time crooner find himself on the receiving end of the threatening attentions of a gangster, whose wife has fallen for the singer's Sinatra-like aura.

Possum

56/100

After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life.

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

72/100

Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960s, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.

When I'm Sixty-Four

77/100

One-off drama about the friendship that grows between two men from very different backgrounds, whose paths cross for the first time as they approach retirement age.

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

55/100

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play ... See full summary »

Out of Innocence

88/100

Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the HARRY POTTER films) stars in this crime drama, based on real events. After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.

The Girls Who Came to Stay

72/100

The story of a couple who take in two girls from Belarus, a country that has been affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

Brazen Hussies

65/100

After a chance meeting with her old school-friend Sandra Delaney, pub landlady Maureen Hardcastle finally...

Score

71/100

Inquisition

84/100

Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears...

Dark Angel

A two-part drama about the Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.