Karl Francis Movies
- 1993
The Cormorant
The Cormorant4.81993HD
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...
- 1992
Rebecca's Daughters
Rebecca's Daughters61992HD
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The...
- 1996
From Bridgend to Basilica
From Bridgend to Basilica01996HD
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.
- 2002
One of the Hollywood Ten
One of the Hollywood Ten5.82002HD
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
- 1987
Boy Soldier
Boy Soldier01987HD
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...
- 1989
Nineteen96
Nineteen9601989HD
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander...
- 1982
Giro City
Giro City51982HD
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
- 2008
Hope Eternal
Hope Eternal7.52008HD
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...
- 1991
Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
Morphine and Dolly Mixtures01991HD
A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a...
- 1995
Streetlife
Streetlife01995HD
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.
- 1984
The Happy Alcoholic
The Happy Alcoholic01984HD
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...
- 1991
Murder in Oakland
Murder in Oakland01991HD
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...
- 1989
The Angry Earth
The Angry Earth21989HD
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...
- 1988
Merthyr and the Girl
Merthyr and the Girl01988HD
The story of two young women, Donna Edwards and Mary Katherine Jones, who aspire for careers in the theatre business.
- 2015
The Miners' Strike
The Miners' Strike02015HD
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...
- 1971
A Breed of Men
A Breed of Men01971HD
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,...
- 1980
Afternoon of War
Afternoon of War01980HD
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....
- 1977
Above Us the Earth
Above Us the Earth01977HD
Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie...
- 1985
Ms Rhymney Valley
Ms Rhymney Valley01985HD
Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.
- 1981
Rough Justice
Rough Justice01981HD
Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil. Life in the valley isn't what it was, there's no pit in Deri now, but the humour survives,...