Geoffrey Hutchings

An uptight but secretly heartbroken primary school teacher's little white lie about Hollywood coming to see his class' nativity play grows like wildfire in his rag-tag school low on self-esteem.

Two lovers attempt to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse.

After being sent to an assessment center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.

After their mother dies, two boys flee their mean aunt and head for Venice, Italy, where they meet Scipio, the mysterious "Thief Lord." Along with a small gang of abandoned kids, the boys start robbing the rich to support themselves.

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.