Bill Paterson

Alan Bird (Bill Paterson, Outlander, Dad's Army) thinks he has life pretty well organised. Glasgow's top DJ, with a nice apartment, and the only red BMW Cabriolet north of Manchester, he has little to worry about until his kleptomaniac girlfriend Maddy ditches him just before Christmas. With his apartment and his life stripped bare, he stumbles across a furious vendetta between rival ice-cream families. Caught in the crossfire and looking for something meaningful in life, he decides to take things seriously and settle the dispute between these feuding mafiosi.

Aliens send an android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace. She lands in war-torn Palestine and meets a friendly journalist.

An ex-TV foreign correspondent stands for election on an anti-sleaze ticket. Comedy drama.

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.

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.

A revealing drama telling the true story of a Jewish lawyer who challenged Hitler – and paid with his life in Dachau concentration camp. In the spring of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, the audacious Hans Litten put Adolf Hitler on the witness stand of a Berlin court.

A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to earth as a ghost.

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.

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.

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

The three 40-ish women who populate the deliciously sinful world of Crush, Kate (Andie MacDowell), Janine (Imelda Staunton) and Molly (Anna Chancellor), happily engage in weekly rituals of gin guzzling, cigarette puffing, chocolate chugging and men trashing. They are successful women who share one common lament, their love lives, or lack thereof. But when Kate embarks on a passionate and...

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.