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Giro City
Movie

Giro City(1982)

5.7
102Minutes

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

A Breed of Men
Movie

A Breed of Men(1971)

49Minutes

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 him on a scale comparable to Tom Jones. Mr. Bailey smoked to his dying day at the age of 99: always a staunch socialist.

DirectorsKarl Francis
One of the Hollywood Ten
Movie

One of the Hollywood Ten(2000)

6.1
NR
109Minutes

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

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Rebecca's Daughters
Movie

Rebecca's Daughters(1992)

6.6
95Minutes

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.

Afternoon of War
Movie

Afternoon of War(1980)

3
90Minutes

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.

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 motiveless prostitute killing, they find themselves drawn into the centre of a fight for survival among Oakland's dangerous drug gangs.

Nineteen96
Movie

Nineteen96(1989)

93Minutes

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

The Angry Earth
Movie

The Angry Earth(1989)

7.9
107Minutes

In 'The Angry Earth,' the story revolves around the devastating aftermath of human activities on the Earth's fragile ecosystems. It delves into the lives of individuals who witness the consequences of their own actions and strive to find redemption.

Ms Rhymney Valley
Movie

Ms Rhymney Valley(1985)

100Minutes

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

Boy Soldier
Movie

Boy Soldier(1987)

6.9
99Minutes

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 Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."

The Happy Alcoholic
Movie

The Happy Alcoholic(1984)

7.3
109Minutes

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.

Streetlife
Movie

Streetlife(1995)

7.1
98Minutes

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.

From Bridgend to Basilica
Movie

From Bridgend to Basilica(1996)

25Minutes

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.

Above Us the Earth
Movie

Above Us the Earth(1977)

6.9
85Minutes

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.

Hope Eternal
Movie

Hope Eternal(2008)

7.2
120Minutes

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.

The Miners' Strike
Movie

The Miners' Strike(2015)

62Minutes

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.

Nutters
Movie

Nutters(2007)

47Minutes

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 talents.

DirectorsKarl Francis
Merthyr and the Girl
Movie

Merthyr and the Girl(1988)

55Minutes

The story of two young women, Donna Edwards and Mary Katherine Jones, who aspire for careers in the theatre business.

DirectorsKarl Francis

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Karl Francis

Karl Francis is a Welsh film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He studied at Manchester University and then attended Hornsey College of Art in London to study for a post-graduate diploma on Film in Education. He was appointed the Head of Drama at BBC Wales in 1995.

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