Steve Sweeney

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Schadenfreude
1

Schadenfreude

Jan 01, 1970
Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a beautiful local actress and a savage Press that demands to know, "Who killed Paige Boston?"
Smack and Thistle
1

Smack and Thistle

Apr 20, 1991
With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.
Made in Britain
6.9

Made in Britain

Feb 25, 1982
Trevor est un skinhead qui porte une croix gammee entre les deux yeux. Il a un penchant pour la bagarre et passe son temps entre le bureau d'aide sociale aux chomeurs et le hangar dans lequel il vit.
TV Movie
Beyond the Rave
5.3

Beyond the Rave

Apr 17, 2008
Un militaire anglais n'a qu'une nuit pour sauver sa petite-amie des griffes d'un étrange groupe de ravers hardcore avant son départ pour l'Irak le lendemain matin.
Horror
Goodie-Two-Shoes
5.7

Goodie-Two-Shoes

Sep 01, 1984
Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Drama
Shoreleave
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Shoreleave

Jan 01, 1987
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 weeks prior to his leave. Trying to piece together what happened, Billy becomes enamoured with Myra (Joanne Whalley), a nightclub singer.
Simulation Exercise
1

Simulation Exercise

Jan 29, 1984
'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice then he knew.
Jack of Diamonds
4

Jack of Diamonds

Jun 10, 2001
Two jewel thieves take refuge in a remote village where, unbeknownst to them, the government is about to unleash a virus that turns people into savage killers.
Action
Contact
5.8

Contact

Jan 06, 1985
A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.
Drama
Hooligans
6.6

Hooligans

May 05, 1995
John, jeune flic ambitieux, est chargé d'infiltrer un gang d'hooligans afin d'identifier et de mettre en prison les meneurs. Cependant à force de fréquenter ces groupes de supporters, John prend le risque de basculer dans un univers de haine et d'ultraviolence.
Crime
Arnaques, crimes et botanique
8.119
Eddy, un joueur invétéré, s'apprête à participer à la plus grosse partie de cartes de sa vie avec un enjeu de cent mille livres, somme qu'il a durement amassée avec ses trois acolytes, Tom, Baco et Soap. Eddy est considéré comme l'un des meilleurs joueurs du circuit, mais la partie s'avère être un coup monté à l'issue duquel il doit cinq cent mille livres à son adversaire Hatchet Harry. Ce dernier lui donne une semaine pour réunir cette somme, sinon il aura les doigts coupés. Seul JD, le père d'Eddy, pourrait annuler la dette en cédant son bar à son vieux rival, Harry.
Comedy
Ne pas avaler
6.9

Ne pas avaler

Oct 10, 1997
L'histoire d'une famille ordinaire qui vit dans le sud de Londres. Film autobiographique, "je l'ai voulu honnete, vrai, sans concessions, declare le realisateur, comme l'album-photo de tous ceux qui m'ont touche et trouble dans ma vie".
Drama
A Mother Like Him
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A Mother Like Him

Nov 16, 1982
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
Drama
Mercy
1

Mercy

Jun 14, 2004
A young boy, Ben, lost in a vortex of poverty, is bullied at achool and neglected at home. He takes control of his life and rids himself forever of his aggressors.
Drama
Face
6.3

Face

Sep 26, 1997
Un gang met au point un dangereux braquage qui tourne mal suite à une trahison.
Crime
Skulduggery
1

Skulduggery

Jun 29, 1991
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
Drama
Staggered
5.3

Staggered

Jul 08, 1994
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
Comedy
The Firm
6.4

The Firm

Feb 26, 1989
Clive Bissel est un homme marié avec un bébé, et il est clair que sa femme n'est pas d'accord avec ses activités de hooligan, qui tranchent avec son emploi d'agent immobilier respectable...
Drama
Beautiful People
5.9

Beautiful People

Sep 16, 1999
1993. Alors que le conflit atteint son apogee en Bosnie et que l'Angleterre s'apprete a disputer un match de qualification pour la Coupe du monde contre la Hollande, un Serbe et un Croate se rencontrent dans un bus londonien. Ils sont tous deux originaires du meme village. Pour renouer le contact, ils se jettent l'un sur l'autre, prets a se tuer. S'ensuit une folle poursuite dans les rues de Londres. Dans le meme temps, d'autres refugies d'ex-Yougoslavie vont bouleverser la vie de quatre familles britanniques.
War
Thacker
1

Thacker

Apr 20, 1992
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Comedy
The Last Yellow
6

The Last Yellow

Jan 01, 1999
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
Comedy
Crimes
1

Crimes

Apr 13, 1982
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
White Teeth
7

White Teeth

Oct 08, 2002
The lives of three families are woven together across three decades in multi-cultural Britain.
Drama
Play for Today
5.9

Play for Today

Aug 28, 1984
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama