Maxine Peake Movies

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a...

Two women sit in a barren dystopian wasteland discussing the best way to die.

Sophie, an ambitious novice, walks a razor's edge as her interview with titan of industry Henry Mann descends into a squalid power play.

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and...

From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with...

A woman is moving house and as she is unpacking boxes she finds a long lost letter from her grandfather. As she reads it, his words evoke strong...

MP's wife Celia discovers her husband's true colours when she is taken hostage by his criminal business associates.

Short film starring Maxine Peake and written by actor Reece Dinsdale

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a...

After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the...

Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night...

A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job.

Drama, entirely in verse, following three men who sleep on the streets of Manchester in their vehicles, having lost all their economic and social...

Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels in eastern Ukraine, and documenting its...

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

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

A fun-loving woman expertly juggling the demands of her hectic family life, busy social schedule and successful business gets diagnosed with breast...

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...

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

Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.