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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)
Character: Charlie
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.
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Middleton's Changeling (1998)
Character: N/A
Movie adaptation of the 17th century tragedy play, originally written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
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Rocinante (1986)
Character: Jester
England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests him, until he meets a mysterious woman in a van, who seems to be on the run from the authorities.
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Die Stimme (1989)
Character: Kowalsky
A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.
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Ian Dury Sex Drugs Rock & Roll & Other Assorted Glimpses (2010)
Character: Self
Probably the most atypical star in the history of popular music, Ian Dury overcame Polio to be one of the most iconic figures of the late punk movement. With his supercharged live performances and unique blend of sexually poetic lyrics, Ian Dury achieved critical aclaim from both his fans and fellow artists. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads to his superstardom with the Blockheads, Ian Dury was a complicated cocktail of warmth, wit, bile and bombast... quite simply he was unique and unforgettable. To discover the legend that is Ian Dury this DVD contains amazing live performances of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, What A Waste, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Sweet Gene Vincent and many other hits from his heyday, alongside in-depth interviews that give an insight to the man himself.
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Getting to Dylan (1987)
Character: Self
In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.
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Concerts for the People of Kampuchea (1981)
Character: Self
Organized by Paul McCartney and the United Nations, these concerts were in response to the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge’s reign, where three million persons perished in Cambodia. During the concerts, McCartney brought three generations of popular musicians together. The older generation included McCartney and the Wings, The Who and members of Procol Harum. The middle generation was represented by Queen and members of Led Zeppelin. Most notably, there was the new generation of mainly New Wavers and Punk Rockers, such as The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Clash, and The Specials.
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Ian Dury and The Blockheads: Rock Goes to College (1978)
Character: N/A
Ian Dury & The Blockheads in concert at Queen's University, Belfast. 3rd February, 1979. * Setlist: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll / I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra / Clevor Trevor / This Is What We Find / Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards / Sweet Gene Vincent / What A Waste / Blockheads
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Top of the Pops: 40th Anniversary 1964 - 2004 (2004)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Forty years is a long time in pop music, but through the swinging sixties, glam rock, punk rock, new romantics, dance, rap boy bands, r'n'b - and all pop points between - Top of the Pops has showcased the finest in chart sounds. The show forms part of nearly everyone's life and the best performances, as seen on this DVD, will remain with us forever.
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Number One (1985)
Character: Teddy Bryant
A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
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Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles (1993)
Character: Dr Reid
In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell, and his black servant Francis Barber. Staying with a series of hosts, including elderly Jacobite heroine Flora McDonald, Johnson and Boswell encounter traditional Scottish hospitality at first-hand, all the time arguing about politics (and in Boswell's case losing his head over every pretty woman he meets). Meanwhile, Francis and another black servant they encounter provide evidence of the new consciousness emerging in Britain's soon-to-be-independent American colonies.
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If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth a Fuck (1978)
Character: Self
Legendary documentary of the 1977 package tour arranged by David Robinson and Andrew Jakeman ("Kake Riviera") after they founded Stiff Records in London, England for five of their artists, and the bands that they concocted for the tour.
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Skallagrigg (1994)
Character: Rendle
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
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Brennende Betten (1988)
Character: Harry Winfield
A comedy in which a German woman falls in love with a British pyromaniac.
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Ian Dury: Rare And Unseen (2010)
Character: N/A
Here is the movie for all the Clever Trevors and Billericay Dickies out there! A stunning and truly 'Rare and Unseen' look back at Ian Dury, poet, thinker, geezer and all round crowd-pleaser. He wasn't half a clever b'stard. The earliest known TV performance from the London Programme 1976. Three great interviews with much missed Mancunian Tony Wilson who died in 2007. Final Richard and Judy interview and live performance restored for widescreen. Includes eight live musical performances with the Kilburns and the Blockheads: 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll', 'Sweet Gene Vincent', 'Upminster Kid', 'Rough Kids', 'Billy Bentley', 'England's Glory', 'Blockheads' and 'Geraldine'. Is that enough of the old reading matter for you? This ain't a bleeding library… Oi! Oi!
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Different for Girls (1996)
Character: Bailiff
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
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King of the Ghetto (1986)
Character: Sammy
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's east end
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Ian Dury X. (1983)
Character: Self
Ian Dury, singer/songwriter of Kilburn and the High Roads and the Blockheads, talks about how becoming disabled has affected his life and music.
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Hearts of Fire (1987)
Character: Bones
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
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Judge Dredd (1995)
Character: Geiger
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
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The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Character: Noah
A murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. With the help of a beautiful woman, he exacts revenge on his killers – only to realize his enemy has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.
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After Midnight (1990)
Character: Harry
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.
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Split Second (1992)
Character: Jay Jay
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
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Ian Dury - The Promo Videos and Songs (2007)
Character: himself
The Blockheads are an English rock band formed in London in 1977. Originally fronted by lead singer Ian Dury as Ian Dury and the Blockheads or Ian and the Blockheads, the band has continued to perform since Dury's death in 2000. Song listing 1) Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, 2) What A Waste!, 3) Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, 4) Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3, 5) I Want To Be Straight, 6) Sueperman's Big Sister
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The Rainbow Thief (1994)
Character: Bartender
A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
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The Raggedy Rawney (1988)
Character: Weazel
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
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Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja (1999)
Character: Self
Aja was the biggest selling album of Steely Dan's illustrious career. It was the first album by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker as a duo. Fagen and Becker recall the history of the album, along with Peg, Deacon Blues and Josie. Michael McDonald, later of the Doobie Brothers did guest backing vocals on Aja, the late British musician Ian Dury, record producer Gary Katz and the legendary session musicians who worked on Aja also contribute. This is a vivd portrait of a 70's record that is still as fresh and as memorable more than two decades after its release.
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