Ricky Tomlinson

When Phil Cope (Malcolm Terris), the manager of the England football team, suffers a heart attack during the qualifying rounds of the World Cup, the Football Association opts to replace him with Norwich FC manager Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson). Followed everywhere he goes by a documentary crew, Bassett gets off to a rocky start when his boys lose to Poland, and he doesn't fare much better in games against Belgium and Slovenia. The press are against him, and the country as a whole seems to have little hope for the national team, but can Bassett do the impossible and turn the lads' game around?

Drama depicting the struggles of a small group of Liverpool dockers

12-year-old Laura's goal in life is to one day play football professionally. Laura has many footballing heroes, but it's her older brother Thomas who's her biggest hero. His inspirational quest to raise money for charity while overcoming the challenges he faces from his cerebral palsy, shows Laura and the rest of the community what determination and perseverance can achieve.

Devoted but stubborn, an impoverished family man goes to extraordinary lengths in pursuit of an expensive new dress for his daughter’s First Communion.

Follows the story of a boxer named Doug, who attempts to save his beloved gym by training a gentle giant for a bare-knuckle fight.

A construction worker from Glasgow falls for a failed pop singer from Belfast and the two scrape by to survive as a working poor couple in London.

Rhys Ifans, Shirley Henderson and Robert Carlyle star in Shane Meadows' charming spaghetti-western style comedy. A criminal returns to his hometown in Nottingham and tries to win back his ex, but he's got competition. 2002

Set in 1980’s Britain, the mentally ill matriarch of a dysfunctional family finds a plan for happiness with the help of her daughter and Morrisey.

This Christmas, primary school teacher Paul Maddens is being charged with the biggest challenge of his life - mounting the school's musical version of the Nativity.

An American master chemist plans on scoring a once-in-a-lifetime drug deal until it doesn’t go as planned and unravels in a web of deceit.

Minister on a moral crusade employs young computer whizzkid Peter to infiltrate the London S&M scene.