Northern cinema

Eunice is walking along the highways of northern England from one filling station to another. She is searching for Judith, the woman, she says to be in love with. It's bad luck for the women at the cash desk not to be Judith, because Eunice is eccentric, angry and extreme dangerous. One day she meets Miriam, hard of hearing and a little ingenuous, who feels sympathy for Eunice and takes her home. Miriam is very impressed by Eunice's fierceness and willfulness and follows her on the search for Judith. Shocked by Eunice's cruelty she tries to make her a better person, but she looses ground herself.

In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite.

The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.

Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.

After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.

Five unemployed men would do anything just to have a job in Thatcher's Britain.

During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.

Two young men hope to fulfill their dreams by hitting the open road in a classic American car they have lovingly restored. Taking along the sultry divorcee with whom one of them has fallen in love is an idea bound to cause tension.

In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.

A former professional rugby player trains a group of underachievers to compete against the dominant local team in a rugby sevens tournament, with the assistance of an attractive woman, after making a bet with his boss.

Two teenage boys will do anything to get money to buy season tickets for their local team.

Politician Michael Murray's life entwines with headmaster Jim Nelson's, changing their trajectories when their paths cross unexpectedly.

The first film in the Tina trilogy, using the actual inhabitants of a tough Leeds council estate in the leading roles. Tina is a single mum who steals to order for her own `shopping' business, her drug-addict boyfriend Aaron is planning the theft of a cow so he can sell the meat, and Tina's father, Don, is the mobster in control of the local drugs trade.

The second in Penny Woolcock's Tina trilogy, Tina Takes A Break was made in 2001 and is the best of the TV outings. Set on a tough housing estate in Beeston, Leeds and employing the real folk who live their to play the characters, the first film had a Shameless like exuberance that depicted the residents as akin to rough diamonds, doing what they had to to survive. This second film is the other side of the coin, opting for poignancy as the rough and ready lifestyle of the estate is shown through the eyes of infants.