John Thomson Movies

Single mum Rachel is on the poverty line, leaving her working all hours of the day as a cleaner to provide for her son. Out of the blue, she is…

The unique life and talent of Caroline Aherne is celebrated in a new Arena film, featuring unseen photographs and contributions from a cast of her lifelong friends, including Steve Coogan,…

A frustrated office worker finds himself caught between the realms of his deranged imagination and the mundane reality of his everyday existence.

Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem.

Tony Towers is a successful nightclub manager in 1985, a local celebrity and engaged to a much younger woman, Sue. But when he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for…

Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads to the north to ask whether, in this once united kingdom, a ‘schasm’ has formed between north and south, between the have’s…

Neo Rauch is known worldwide to be one of the most successful German painters of his generation. His paintings fascinate by their enigmatic realism, the characters seem to have fallen…

A short series portraying six different people who all live in a town called Ottle; all played by Steve Coogan.

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Widowed factory hand Len Spud becomes a billionaire after inventing a new kind of toilet roll, Bumfresh, buying a palatial mansion, complete with staff and celebrity butler Warwick Davis, for…

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It is the 1890s. Bob Gregson is a young lad who works as a porter at a rural railway station. He is keen to impress the stationmaster who is looking…

Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up…