John Barrett Movies

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the...

Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.

1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Jubilee celebrations.

A quirky comic portrait of the everyday loves, fears and triumphs of a group of New Yorkers in the immediate aftermath of the failed 1993 World Trade...