Robert Carlyle directs and stars in this Glasgow-set black comedy. The film follows Barney Thomson (Carlyle), a barber working in the East End of Glasgow who unwittingly becomes a serial killer. When a heated argument with his boss results in an accidental death, Barney turns to his bingo-loving mother Cemolina (Emma Thompson) for help. Can Barney outsmart the police and avoid suspicion while disposing of the body? The film also stars Ray Winstone and Ashley Jensen.

Where's Gene Kelly when you need him? Robert Carlyle stars in this doomsday tale, where the meeting of a powerful storm and dangerously high seas results in a tidal surge of biblical proportions sweeping down the east coast of England en route for London. With the Thames Barrier breached and panic mounting, marine defence expert Rob (Carlyle) has to think fast if the capital is to avoid ultimate catastrophe.

Vic (Tom Courtenay), Lenny (David Hemmings), Ray (Bob Hoskins) and Vince (Ray Winstone) are four South London friends who have been drinking in the same pub for years. Their old friend Jack (Michael Caine) has just died, and they have promised to scatter his ashes from the end of Margate pier. As they set out for the coast, they begin a journey which will take them across the years, recalling their history together, and all the secrets and dreams which have cemented their long friendship.

The true story of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston), hanged, aged 19, in the 1950s after a controversial decision holding him responsible for the murder of a police officer. Despite a history of mental illness, and with the court accepting that he did not actually pull the trigger, Bentley was still sentenced to death - on the basis that his ambiguous cry of 'let him have it!' caused his young accomplice to fire the fatal shot. The release of this film focused attention on the case once more, and Bentley eventually received a posthumous pardon.

'I suppose my luck is You, Ann and Dad and more so if I could really write.' Annie Eliza Courtenay Tom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked. When he left home for university, his mother, Annie, wrote to him every week and when her letters became more searching and more intimate in response to Tom's unhappiness he kept every one, not knowing that after her early death they were to become his most treasured possession. Tom has selected the best of them to go in this book and interwoven with them a portrait of what was going on in his life at the time, in the heady days of the early Sixties when successful young working-class actors were coming to the fore for the first time. Annie's letters are astonishing - wise, funny, with a natural instinct for words, but also deeply painful. She knows she's worthy of a better, more creative life, but she hasn't been given the chance. Partly a memoir of a working-class way of life that has gone for ever, partly a powerfully moving record of the love between mother and son, partly a portrait of the artist as a young actor, Dear Tom is sure to excite admiration and delight in equal measure.