Anthony Bate Movies

The apparition of a woman - muse or ghost - helps a depressed writer.

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to...

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Events make him grow up rather fast.

An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.

Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the...

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and...

A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than...

Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...

Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr. Halliday Sutherland for...

A Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a...

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a...

Three British soldiers are caught and interrogated by terrorists, unaware that they're in fact being put through mind-unhinging training as part of a...