Maxine Peake Movies

A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.

Fanny Lye Deliver'd is a movie starring Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, and Freddie Fox. Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new...

The Falling is a movie starring Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, and Florence Pugh. It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the...

Peterloo is a movie starring Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, and Neil Bell. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Gwen is a movie starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Richard Harrington, and Mark Lewis Jones. An atmospheric arthouse folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.