Lesley Sharp Movies

Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of...

After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to...

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

A feel-good, heart-warming film set in Yorkshire in 1977 about an adolescent boy's big summer after leaving school. It's about a boy and a dog, class...

A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A...

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. ...

Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.

A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film

Emily and Andy have been trying for a baby for years. After three stillborn babies their world has been torn apart by grief. Having moved house to...

Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a...

A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their...

A Blitz mother confronts a home truth.

After his wife Diane vanished in 1983, suspicion centred on her respected GP husband Robert Jones, but he was never charged by the police. Now, new...

Through archive, dramatic reconstructions and the recollections of key contributors, this documentary recalls the downfall of the popular TV...

When her mother Helen runs off with a car salesman, feisty teenager Jo takes up with Jimmie, a sailor who promises to marry her, before he heads for...

Football icon Paul Gascoigne is at the end of his playing career, heading to the Gansu the poorest province in China's remote north-west to play for...

This film tells the unknown story of the worst child poisoning case since Thalidomide, featuring a landmark legal battle, by a group of mothers...

When Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014, the reverberations affected world events. This documentary explores how the tragedy shaped what came after it.