Bill Paterson
18 titles
Filmography
18 results

The Entity
(2002)A study of a vivid, haunting nightmare phenomenon, delivered by the unconscious in the same form for centuries, and its heavy impact on mental health.

Love Sarah
(2020)A young woman enlists the help of her grandmother and an old friend to fulfill her late mother’s dream of opening a bakery in London’s Notting Hill.

Hard Times
(1994)In an industrial Victorian town, the market's philosophy predominates over human sensitivity and represses true passions in this Dickens' adaptation.

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
(2018)Tragicomedy directed by Ben Wheatley about the difficulty of family relations. Middle-aged Colin organises a New Year's Eve gathering for his extended family.

Miss Potter
(2006)The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.

Complicity
(2000)All fingers point to a young, Scottish journalist when someone starts murdering the people in his articles in gruesome ways.

The Rachel Papers
(1989)A young boy, Charles Highway, decides to have a romantic relationship with an older woman. He falls in love with Rachel Noyce at a computer program.

The List
(2013)The owner of a popular site ranking the world’s most corrupt people is voted to the top of the list, while a killer plans to murder every name on it.

Rag Tale
(2005)British tabloids prove a hostile setting for romance, where frenzied paparazzi hatch plots and shred loyalties for the sake of sensational headlines.

The Witches
(1990)Roald Dahl's scarytale is told in deliciously diabolical style by director Nic Roeg and the effects masters at Jim Henson's Creature Workshop. Anjelica Huston relishes her role as the warty old sorceress who plans to turn every child in England into mice. Rowan Atkinson, Jane Horrocks and Brenda Blethyn all find themselves caught in the fiendish plot.

Defence of the Realm
(1986)An upstart reporter digs into the connection between a member of Parliament and the KGB when the death of a veteran colleague raises his suspicions.

The Object of Beauty
(1991)A couple’s jet-setting life of glamour, including a posh home in London, betrays the fact that they're not as honestly rich as they pretend to be.

The Odd Job
(1978)Suicidal after his wife leaves him, a timid man hires a strange handyman to do the job for him. But when she returns, the assassin refuses to quit.

The Killing Fields
(1984)Two journalists defy danger in a fallen regime to expose brutal atrocities. After one is arrested and nearly executed, he manages a risky escape.

A Private Function
(1984)Michael Palin teams up with Dame Maggie Smith in this uproarious comedy where the laughs come fast and the upper class become furious. Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire, where strict post-war food rationing is putting the squeeze on the townsfolk. The film centres around the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, specifically the secret of an illegally obtained pig!

Marionette
(2020)Pushed by tragedy to start over in Scotland, a child psychologist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

The Ploughman's Lunch
(1983)James Penfield has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers during the Falklands War.

Churchill's Secret
(2016)It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard (Romola Garai) is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill (Michael Gambon), the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife (Lindsay Duncan) and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.