Movies: Karl Francis
- 1982
Giro City (1982)
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Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home....
- 2002
One of the Hollywood Ten (2002)
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Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s....
- 1992
Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
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Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca...
- 1993
The Cormorant (1993)
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For a young couple, the small cottage tucked away in a quiet village in the mountains of north Wales, a legacy from a distant, estranged uncle, is a dream come true. The one condition of the inheritance is that they keep the uncle's beloved pet cormo...
- 1989
Nineteen96 (1989)
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Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers ...
- 1987
Boy Soldier (1987)
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A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pa...
- 1989
The Angry Earth (1989)
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About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old woman....
- 1991
Murder in Oakland (1991)
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Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions to the police department's five overworked homicide teams. When they investigate a seemingly motive...
- 1984
The Happy Alcoholic (1984)
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A stark drama about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the impact this has on his family, friends, and work. His gradual disintegration is a reflection of the decaying mining community around him....
- 1985
Ms Rhymney Valley (1985)
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Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s....
- 1995
Streetlife (1995)
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The rough urban life in a Welsh valley that focuses on Jo, a single mother who has just become pregnant by her married boyfriend Kevin....
- 2008
Hope Eternal (2008)
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After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium....
- 1991
Morphine and Dolly Mixtures (1991)
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A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At ...
- 2007
Nutters (2007)
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A film about teenagers struggling to rebuild their damaged lives at a "reform" academy on the South Wales coast near Cardiff. All the students have been violated one way or another, but were encouraged by the school to build ambition based on their t...
- 2015
The Miners' Strike (2015)
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Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of 1984-5, and their descendants, who have inherited a Wales without coal mines....
- 1971
A Breed of Men (1971)
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The story was inspired by the stay-down strikers in the 1930s who refused to leave the mines for three weeks. Ernie Bailey, one of the miners, relayed the story to director Karl Francis, but declined appearing in the film because HTV would not pay hi...
- 1977
Above Us the Earth (1977)
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Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his family home. Critical of the National Coal Board and...
- 1996
From Bridgend to Basilica (1996)
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A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome....
- 1980
Afternoon of War (1980)
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Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war. The story of a man who is as handy with his fists as with his poetic fantasy. His masculinity fascinat...
- 1988
Merthyr and the Girl (1988)
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The story of two young women, Donna Edwards and Mary Katherine Jones, who aspire for careers in the theatre business....