Following the hit biographical TV drama 'The Naked Civil Servant' flamboyant gay icon Quentin Crisp moved from England to New York, where he became what he'd always craved to be -
a successful drama queen. This film, with John Hurt successfully resurrecting his earlier role, follows the ageing Crisp through the ups and downs of his life in the Big Apple.
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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)
Certification15 Our Rating
A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky....
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AND THE BAND PLAYED ON (1993)
Certification15 Our Rating
The story of the discovery of the AIDS virus, from the early days in 1978, when San Francisco gays began dying from unknown causes, to the identification of the HIV virus. Bigots spoke of a gay plague, scientists fought for the kudos of being first to identify the cause, and disagreements beset San Francisco's gays over the closure of the bathhouses. The film, quite rightly, deals with these issues.
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ASHES TO ASHES DISC 1 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This follow up to 'Life On Mars' sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt But he's no longer the self-styled 'Sheriff Of Manchester' - drawn by the action and intrigue of the London Met, Gene's turned his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum! He is joined by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling and Chris Skelton. This time it's a female detective, DCI Alex Drake, who's thrown into the mix, hurled back from 2008 after a near fatal attack in the line of duty. "Ashes To Ashes" lacks the
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ASHES TO ASHES DISC 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This follow up to 'Life On Mars' sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt But he's no longer the self-styled 'Sheriff Of Manchester' - drawn by the action and intrigue of the London Met, Gene's turned his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum! He is joined by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling and Chris Skelton. This time it's a female detective, DCI Alex Drake, who's thrown into the mix, hurled back from 2008 after a near fatal attack in the line of duty. "Ashes To Ashes" lacks the
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ASHES TO ASHES DISC 3 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This follow up to 'Life On Mars' sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt But he's no longer the self-styled 'Sheriff Of Manchester' - drawn by the action and intrigue of the London Met, Gene's turned his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum! He is joined by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling and Chris Skelton. This time it's a female detective, DCI Alex Drake, who's thrown into the mix, hurled back from 2008 after a near fatal attack in the line of duty. "Ashes To Ashes" lacks the
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ASHES TO ASHES DISC 4 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This follow up to 'Life On Mars' sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt But he's no longer the self-styled 'Sheriff Of Manchester' - drawn by the action and intrigue of the London Met, Gene's turned his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum! He is joined by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling and Chris Skelton. This time it's a female detective, DCI Alex Drake, who's thrown into the mix, hurled back from 2008 after a near fatal attack in the line of duty. "Ashes To Ashes" lacks the
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BASQUIAT (1996)
Certification15 Our Rating
Low-key biopic of graffiti vandal turned New York darling Jean-Michel Basquiat. Catapulted to art-world super-stardom after a chance meeting with Andy Warhol, the obscene amounts of money his paintings suddenly command soon sends him down the slippery slope of big-time drug abuse. Enthralling.
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BRICK LANE (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Based on the prize-winning novel by Monica Ali, this is the story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Nazneen's mother always told her she was a survivor, but feeling trapped in a loveless relationship with her husband, the middle aged Chanu, she struggles to accept her lot, a situation not helped by the arrival of hot-headed young Karim. Set against the changing backdrop of multi
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)
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Ennis and Jack are two young men working as herders on a vast sheep ranch in the heart of Wyoming. It is the 1960s but the sexual revolution is in no rush to reach this wilderness and when their relationship spills over into consummated love the two boys are ill equipped to handle what they feel. Over the next twenty years Ennis and Jack settle into conventional lives, dictated by their strict social environment, both get married and both have children but neither can escape the true love they s
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