Movies: Paul Jesson

  • 1981
    The Muscle Market

    The Muscle Market (1981)

    The Muscle Market

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    Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winnin...

    The Muscle Market
  • 1985
    Love's Labour's Lost

    Love's Labour's Lost (1985)

    Love's Labour's Lost

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    When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants ...

    Love's Labour's Lost
  • 1983
    Acceptable Levels

    Acceptable Levels (1983)

    Acceptable Levels

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    A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by...

    Acceptable Levels
  • 1987
    Quartermaine's Terms

    Quartermaine's Terms (1987)

    Quartermaine's Terms

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    TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher at the school who, becuase of his gentle character, has hardly any enemies - in fact, the rest of t...

    Quartermaine's Terms
  • 1982
    Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home (1982)

    Home Sweet Home

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    Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner....

    Home Sweet Home
  • 1993
    Resnick: Rough Treatment

    Resnick: Rough Treatment (1993)

    Resnick: Rough Treatment

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    A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to mak...

    Resnick: Rough Treatment
  • 1975
    Waiting at the Field Gate

    Waiting at the Field Gate (1975)

    Waiting at the Field Gate

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    Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?...

    Waiting at the Field Gate
  • 2021
    Sitting

    Sitting (2021)

    Sitting

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    Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection....

    Sitting
  • 1981
    Joggers

    Joggers (1981)

    Joggers

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    When five girls start jogging in Liverpool's Sefton Park they soon encounter predictable male opposition. The result is a comedy that ends with a relay race of Wagnerian proportions. A BBC co-production with the Liverpool Everyman...

    Joggers