Michael Byrne Movies

Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...

An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.

Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because Mark himself is under suspicion. But to save his...

In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit.

A movie about a Brazilian entrepreneur who rivalled American's richest man at his time, well-known Rockfeller. Irineu Evangelista de Souza in 1867...

An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.

Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town...

A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his...

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones...

After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the...

A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection Dirty Faxes, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged...

Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.

An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle...

Frank Windsor plays the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40...

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at...

Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover.

A thriller about a maniac murderer who to the outside world is a celebrity TV presenter. His beautiful assistant, a woman who has fallen off the...