Karl Francis

Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

Karl Francis

Patrick Bergin, Joanna Griffiths

A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father.

The Angry Earth

Karl Francis

Sue Roderick, Mark Lewis Jones

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.

Streic y Glowyr

Karl Francis

Dafydd Hywel

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.

Yr Alcoholig Llon

Karl Francis

Dafydd Hywel, Gwenllian Davies

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.

Hope Eternal

Karl Francis

Christine Rochat Genoud

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.

Streetlife

Karl Francis

Helen McCrory, Rhys Ifans

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.

Above Us the Earth

Karl Francis

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 the trade unions, the film focuses on the fractious interactions between politicians and union leaders, teasing out the forces that are attempting to divide the community.

Milwr Bychan

Karl Francis

Richard Lynch, Emer Gillespie

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.

Rebecca's Daughters

Karl Francis

Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys

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, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

One of the Hollywood Ten

Karl Francis

Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi

Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

The Cormorant

Peter Markham

Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger

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 cormorant. They soon discover, however, that the cormorant is no mere bird, but a foul and malignant creature that may exact a greater price than they are willing to pay. Filmed as part of the BBC series, "Screen Two".

Giro City

Karl Francis

Glenda Jackson, Jon Finch

Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.

Afternoon of War

Karl Francis

Karen Archer, Alan Devlin

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 fascinates Gilda, the wife of the owner of the mine.

Nineteen96

Karl Francis

Keith Barron, Alun Armstrong

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 a complex web of deceit and corruption

Ms. Rhymney Valley

Karl Francis

Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.