Maxine Peake

Based on the true story of three victims in the 2012 sex trafficking case in Rochdale, U.K. The drama explores how the victims were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities, and how they eventually made themselves heard.

An American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.

The determined and overdue rise of a female comedian in England during the 1970s as she breaks through the glass ceiling of all-male comedy circuits.

The life of a high-strung business executive spirals into a world of violence, blackmail, and murder, when she learns she has been betrayed at work.

Sam is ruthless, abrasive, and her willingness to play along with the boys means she’s climbed to the top of the ladder at sportswear company Fly. As COO, it’s a view she’s comfortable with. Maya, the newly hired HR Director, has a very different perspective. She and Sam clash from their very first meeting, and when Maya begins to unpick the toxic culture of the workplace, dark secrets begin to emerge. Soon both she and Sam are asking questions about a young female employee, Amy, who died in mysterious circumstances after a company party some years ago.

Fanny Lye lives a quiet Puritan life with her husband John and young son Arthur, but her simple world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious young couple in need. An unexpected visit from the local Sheriff causes events to escalate that changes Fanny's disciplined life forever.

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s brave crusade, fighting to be an independent voice of truth for the Russian people, puts her own life in jeopardy. Anna was silenced but her legacy lives on. Her story serves as a reminder of the dangers that journalists face and the importance of protecting their right to report the news without fear of death or reprisal.

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed. Driven by a commitment to document the impact of deindustrialisation on working class communities in Northeast England in the 1970s and 1980s, Tish Murtha used her camera to expose societal inequality.

From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed Hamlet, with BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This groundbreaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was Royal Exchange’s fastest-selling show in a decade. Shakespeare’s most iconic work, Hamlet is the ultimate story of loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness. Hamlet’s father is dead and Denmark has crowned a new king. Consumed by grief, Hamlet struggles to exact revenge, with devastating consequences.

FX’s series “Say Nothing” is a gripping story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The 9-episode series is based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe. Spanning four decades, the series opens with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. Telling the story of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, Say Nothing explores the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for all affected, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence. Some flashing lights sequences or patterns may affect photosensitive viewers.

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protestors were killed and hundreds more injured, sparking a nationwide outcry but also further government suppression. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.

Gwen is a young girl struggling with her mother’s unusual illness, her father's absence and the suspicious local community that has turned on them.

A mysterious fainting epidemic disrupts life at a strict English girls’ school, where two best friends have begun to explore their sexuality.

Anna wakes to kind faces she doesn't recognise and a remote island she has no memory of. She is forced to re-learn everything about herself, her husband and the baby she is carrying. But when two disfigured people arrive on the island and there is a violent altercation she discovers that the human race is close to extinction and goes searching for the truth about herself

In 1980s London, a factory worker turned bouncer is pulled into a violent underworld of crime and survival.

Manchester detective Peter Hunter gets brought in by the Home Office to conduct a thorough secret review of the Ripper investigation.

A hilarious dramedy about two brothers-in-law who work together, as they get drawn into a battle over the best Christmas lights.

Two small-town teen brothers from a life of poverty and tragedy fall for the same girl before war with Germany sends them into the trenches.

Examining the life of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett - World War II resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winner, philandering husband and recluse.

Starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, this is the extraordinary story of one of the world's greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.