Maxine Peake Movies

Filmmaker Mark Forbes explores the persistent class barriers within the UK film industry, revealing the struggles, resilience, and untold stories of...

A specially commissioned animation inspired by Barbara Hepworth's art and life.

Maxine Peake's exploration of the true story of Lillian Bilocca, a largely forgotten but formidable figure in the fight for safer trawlers. The...

Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates...

Every summer, the sheep on Scafell Pike are gathered down to the farm for shearing. On this epic journey, a shepherd reflects on life while caring...

A documentary exploring the life of British cyclist Beryl Burton, who won seven world championships and broke men's records while working on a...

Narrated by Maxine Peake, this feature documentary explores the failures and deception that have caused a chronic shortage of social housing in...

Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which sets Peake’s spoken word performances to...

In the middle ages there was an outbreak of dancing manias in Europe that lasted hundreds of years. In the 20th century thousands of Chinese men and...

A moving depiction of the alternative human and animal perspectives on the implications of climate change.

Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he...

Short film for Refuge, the national charity for domestic abuse, drawing attention to the shocking rise in violence against women during the 2020...

Set in Royton, Manchester, Judy is the uplifting story of a mother struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. The debut film of acclaimed...

Six troubled strangers arrive at a hotel located on the south coast cliffs of Dover. Looking for something, or looking to lose themselves entirely,...

Maxine Peake stars in a short film about three fears (birds, falling, sleepwalking) - filmed and edited in a single day on a mobile phone for Cinema...

On his way to a Make Poverty History gig in Scotland, Bob Geldof is accidentally stranded by an incompetent chauffeur in a run-down motel in Northern...

Things turn sour when an amateur improv class meet for the first time after one of the group misjudges the situation. ...

'The Butternut Squash Gang' always stumble upon a criminal rouse that is passed off by adults as overactive minds. From their clubhouse in the woods,...