Alan Dossor

Alan Dossor

  • Title: Alan Dossor
  • Popularity: 0.4706
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1941-09-19
  • Place of Birth: Kingston Upon Hull, UK
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Alan Dossor Movies

  • 1989
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    First and Last

    First and Last

    7 1989 HD

    The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

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  • 1985
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    Star Quality

    Star Quality

    5 1985 HD

    Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.

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  • 1989
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    Ice Dance

    Ice Dance

    1 1989 HD

    A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.

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  • 2003
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    The Brides in the Bath

    The Brides in the Bath

    5.4 2003 HD

    Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.

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  • 2002
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    A Is for Acid

    A Is for Acid

    6.8 2002 HD

    Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.

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  • 1977
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    Daft Mam Blues

    Daft Mam Blues

    1 1977 HD

    As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?

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  • 1989
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    First and Last

    First and Last

    7 1989 HD

    The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

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  • 1986
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    Lost Property

    Lost Property

    1 1986 HD

    Anne and John Forrest live in an old Victorian school building. But what for Anne is the fulfillment of her childhood fantasy about a “pretend” school is too real for John and a former pupil at the school.

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  • 1997
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    The Missing Postman

    The Missing Postman

    5 1997 HD

    When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.

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  • 1992
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    Flea Bites

    Flea Bites

    1 1992 HD

    The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus

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  • 1991
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    Broke

    Broke

    1 1991 HD

    Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by Ron, a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Francis finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend Ron's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.

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  • 1998
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    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

    The Life and Crimes of William Palmer

    9.5 1998 HD

    Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.

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  • 2001
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    Bessie and the Bell

    Bessie and the Bell

    1 2001 HD

    Bessie Foley, kindly ladies' lavatory attendant, tells her tragic story.

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  • 1994
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    Fair Game

    Fair Game

    3.8 1994 HD

    It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

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  • 1997
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    The Locksmith

    The Locksmith

    2.5 1997 HD

    When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation.

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  • 2000
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    Stormin' Norman

    Stormin' Norman

    1 2000 HD

    A monologue drama from Chris Chibnall starring James Bolam as a tube driver on his last day before retirement

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  • 1992
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    Flea Bites

    Flea Bites

    1 1992 HD

    The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus

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  • 1994
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    Fair Game

    Fair Game

    3.8 1994 HD

    It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

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  • 1981
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    The Muscle Market

    The Muscle Market

    7 1981 HD

    Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.

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  • 1978
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    Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

    Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

    1 1978 HD

    One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.

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  • 1986
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    Love Match

    Love Match

    1 1986 HD

    Rehana is studying for her A-levels. She is a Muslim and her father thinks it's time he arranged a marriage for her. But Rehana has other ideas....

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  • 1988
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    The Bell-Run

    The Bell-Run

    1 1988 HD

    Deep-sea diving is well paid and glamorous. But the strain is huge, living in a tiny compression chamber for four weeks at a time. And if anything goes wrong, you're a dead man.No wonder Joe can't sleep easy at nights. His nightmares might become reality.

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  • 1983
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    Singles

    Singles

    6 1983 HD

    Set on the international tennis circuit, tension mounts in the dressing room as a major quarter-final approaches.

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton are two teenagers in their final year of secondary school at a comprehensive in Hackney in 1977. Energetic, anxious and occasionally naïve, the unlikely pair are on the brink of entering the adult world of the late '70s and early '80s when prospects are slim.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Postman Clive Peacock decides to rebel when his employers force him to take early retirement. Setting off on his bike, he determines to deliver his last batch of post by hand all over the country. The police are soon on his trail, while the media acclaim him as a hero. For Clive it is a journey of discovery, but he is unaware that back at home his wife is undergoing her own transformation.

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

    Connie is a 1985 British television drama created and written by Ron Hutchinson as a dry commentary on 1980s Thatcherite values. Set in the East Midlands garment industry, the titular character returns to the United Kingdom from Greece after eight years in self-imposed exile. She's determined to claw back control of her chain of high-street clothes shops now controlled by her stepsister, and also get her foot back into the House of Bea, a family-owned garment factory run by her father and stepmother, which is now losing money.

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