Movies: Fraser Ayres

Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...

In the Holy Land, the Roman occupation has produced a cauldron of oppression, anxiety and excessive taxes levied upon the Jewish people. Fearing the wrath of Roman governor Pontius Pilate , Jewish high priest Caiaphas tries to keep control of his peo...

The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End of London, an area notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According ...

Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love o...

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge....

A collection of tower blocks and concrete expanse, it has its own rules and codes, its own distinctive languages and culture, both old and new. It is a tightly knit community that is on call to protect those within its boundaries. It is an intense, t...

A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the revenge-obsessed Vindice, who has sworn to kill the evil Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered his one true lo...

Jimmy Akingbola reveals the truth of growing up in the care system in England, where the number of children in care has risen by a massive 28 per cent in the past decade to almost half a million....

Don Warrington stars as the tragic monarch in this acclaimed version of the Shakespeare play recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester....

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time....

13 years after Bella, Martin and Lee were there, the manager of their children's home is retiring and the home being shutdown. As they meet up together at a reunion/retirement celebration it sparks old memories of their time together at the home....

A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom....

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty o...

Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland....

A day in the life of Jane Grey, a struggling Black actress living in London's hard, beautiful city, grappling with unemployment. Her affair with a married man in flames, she slips unnoticed down between the cracks in the pavement....

Lucy and her daughter Katy are under siege from a street gang. The gang leader Rabbit wants to make them feel as low as he has been made to feel; as he fights a war against himself and the world around him....

Thirtyish Dan begins to suspect that his sexbot Kiki no longer finds him attractive....

Set in contemporary London, three inner-city friends discover themselves after pursuing desperate measures to cut their own hip-hop record. In spite of the ups and downs that continually spin around them, they not only explore their individual selve...