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Director: Alan Clarke · 1991Director: Alan Clarke
1991
MovieDocumentary
Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and "Elephant" inspired a generation of British actors, writers and directors that changed cinema forever. This documentary features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with friends and colleagues of Clarke, including Tim Roth, Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears, Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels.
The Comic Strip · 1981The Comic Strip
★ 8.01981
MovieComedy
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'
Christine · 1987Christine
★ 7.51987
MovieTV MovieDrama
Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent.
The Police · 1990The Police
★ 9.01990
MovieComedyDrama
A group of schoolchildren sets up a police force to stand up to the school bullies, but things soon get out of hand..
The Black and Blue Lamp · 1988The Black and Blue Lamp
1988
MovieDramaComedy
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Minder · 1979Minder
★ 7.11979
SeriesComedyDrama
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
ScreenPlay · 1986ScreenPlay
★ 6.01986
SeriesDrama
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993.
Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.
Screen One · 1989Screen One
★ 7.21989
SeriesDrama
Anthology drama series.
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