Movies by Matthew Beard

The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Elizabeth Harvest

Elizabeth Harvest

The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.

Four Parts

Four Parts

Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.

National Theatre Live: Skylight

National Theatre Live: Skylight

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

A Day at Santa Anita

A Day at Santa Anita

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

The Kid from Borneo

The Kid from Borneo

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

The Party's Just Beginning

The Party's Just Beginning

In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.

Beginner's Luck

Beginner's Luck

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.

Anniversary Trouble

Anniversary Trouble

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.

Birthday Blues

Birthday Blues

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets

The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets

The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in their own words.

Broken Strings

Broken Strings

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

Camp Meetin'

Camp Meetin'

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.

Sons & Lovers

Sons & Lovers

Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.

The Little Rascals' Christmas Special

The Little Rascals' Christmas Special

Spanky and Porky try to figure out a way to get their mother a winter coat for Christmas after she buys them a Blue Comet electric train.