Phil Daniels
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1958-10-25
Locus Natus: Islington, London, England, UK
Et ut: Philip Daniels
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas...
release : 2007.02.03popularis : 4.675
Still Crazy
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an...
release : 1998.10.30popularis : 13.15
Quadrophenia
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While...
release : 1979.09.14popularis : 12.568
Glitter
'I want to be so famous that I'm a household name all over the world.' In her dreams Sue finds a way to sing on Top of the Tops. An episode of the...
release : 1976.11.28popularis : 0.536
Chicken Run
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they...
release : 2000.06.23popularis : 30.73
Goodbye Charlie Bright
Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army...
release : 2001.05.11popularis : 4.173
Scum
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
release : 1979.09.12popularis : 9.885
Breaking Glass
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her...
release : 1980.10.01popularis : 3.227
Freebird
A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales
release : 2008.02.01popularis : 1.894
Death of England: Face to Face
Britain is locked down. Michael and Delroy are dealing with issues closer to home. During an explosive afternoon in Delroy's flat, they are forced to...
release : 2021.11.25popularis : 2.715
Meantime
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership....
release : 1983.10.16popularis : 6.457
Number One
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
release : 1985.03.01popularis : 1.272
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world...
release : 1985.11.25popularis : 8.257
Rock & Chips
Prequel to Only Fools and Horses, set in the 1960s. Joan Trotter is in an unhappy marriage with the work-shy Reg, with whom she has a teenage son,...
release : 2010.01.24popularis : 3.272
Vinyl
Based on true events. When a new record by an old band is turned down by ageist record companies, the veteran punk band assemble a group of...
release : 2012.03.15popularis : 2.589
After Miss Julie
An updated version of Strindberg’s play examining class and social differences. Julie, the daughter of an MP, seduces her father's chauffeur,...
release : 1995.11.04popularis : 2.447
Partygate
Karaoke, suitcases of wine, ambushing cake... this factual drama tells the story of Covid from inside 10 Downing Street as staff kicked back at...
release : 2023.10.03popularis : 1.716
Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One
Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.
release : 1995.01.29popularis : 1.564
Bad Behavior
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached...
release : 1993.05.28popularis : 2.81
Stand and Deliver
Alun arrives in Glasgow to play a gig at The Edge, a comedy club run by would-be promoter Max T. Max T should be looking after Alun, but he already...
release : 1998.03.15popularis : 2.633
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings...
release : 1987.01.18popularis : 0.725
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
release : 1979.01.27popularis : 2.363
Classic Quadrophenia
Pete Townsend's reinvention of The Who's Quadrophenia for the classical music genre (composed by partner Rachel Fuller) filmed live at the Royal...
release : 2015.07.06popularis : 2.29
Scum
A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.
release : 1977.11.08popularis : 2.65
The Naked Civil Servant
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
release : 1975.12.17popularis : 4.3
Zulu Dawn
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
release : 1979.05.14popularis : 10.188
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
The BBC drama about growing up in the turbulent, tuneful '60s. Manchester, England, 1965. "You'll never meet anybody worth knowing working at the...
release : 1999.09.05popularis : 1.77
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
In August 1995 Blur and Oasis were engaged in a head-to-head chart battle which divided music fans and led to a wider argument about British pop...
release : 2005.08.15popularis : 2.314
There's No Place
Val and Tony set up home in a disused railway goods-yard. It is more than just a squat and draws them closer together than they have ever been.
release : 1977.10.06popularis : 1.975
The Art of Tripping
Based on the idea that drugs have influenced some of our greatest minds (Poe, Baudelaire etc.), this film documents just how influential drug...
release : 1993.02.23popularis : 2.95
The Bride
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed...
release : 1985.08.16popularis : 7.754
Sex & Chocolate
Bev Bodger is a married teacher tempted by an old school boyfriend to enjoy a little sex and chocolate in Paris.
release : 1997.10.26popularis : 4.553
Anoop and the Elephant
Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children...
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 1.588
Nasty Neighbours
Mr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving couple anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban...
release : 2000.10.20popularis : 1.838
blur: To the End
blur: To The End follows the unique relationship of four friends - and band mates of three decades - Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave...
release : 2024.07.19popularis : 5.401
Shoreleave
Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his brother Michael has died two...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.81
blur: Live at Wembley Stadium
blur played two massive headline shows at Wembley Stadium in London last summer. These historic and emotional dates will be captured in a forthcoming...
release : 2024.10.15popularis : 6.309
Blur: The Singles Night
On December 11th, 1999, Blur performed a setlist featuring all their released singles at the time at Wembley Stadium.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.633
Last Christmas
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his...
release : 1999.12.22popularis : 0.455
The Hatton Garden Job
In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly...
release : 2017.04.14popularis : 8.78
Director: Alan Clarke
Documentary - 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...
release : 1991.07.12popularis : 1.317
Free Jimmy
Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
release : 2006.04.21popularis : 9.563
I Remember Nelson
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story...
release : 1982.04.14popularis : 0.312
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan...
release : 1985.01.06popularis : 0.43
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the...
release : 1981.12.13popularis : 5.035
The Wanderer
Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer, telling of a warrior's loss of a beloved Lord and his subsequent loneliness as he tracks across...
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 0.952
blur | Live at Hyde Park
Hyde Park Concert Film, July 2009. Blur: Live At Hyde Park is the definitive live Blur concert film. Directed by Giorgio Testi, the film was shot on...
release : 2010.02.15popularis : 2.909
National Theatre Live: This House
It's February 1974. Ted Heath's Conservative government has been ousted. But only just. In the hung Parliament, Labour manages to form a minority...
release : 2013.05.15popularis : 2.773
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a...
release : 1976.09.28popularis : 0.536
Antony and Cleopatra - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three...
release : 2014.01.01popularis : 1.81
Bugsy Malone
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge...
release : 1976.07.22popularis : 14.627
A Way of Life: Making Quadrophenia
Two rival youth cults emerge - the mods and the rockers - with explosive consequences. For Jimmy (Phil Daniels) and his sharp-suited, pill-popping,...
release : 2006.08.07popularis : 1.329