Willie Ross
출생 : 1938-01-01, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England, UK
사망 : 2000-01-01
약력
The Bishop Auckland-born entertainer began as a comic on the North-East club circuit, teaming up with Peter Lambert to become Lambert and Ross, a duo that became nationally known. When the partnership folded in the 1980s, Willie became a successful actor, with hits in film, TV and on stage. His big break was as the foul-mouthed father in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too. He went on to acclaimed roles in Ken Loachs Riff Raff and Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. On TV he was seen in Our Friends In The North, and One Foot In The Grave, to name but a few. He died in 2000, following an accident at home. He was 62.
Homeless Man
Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a dysfunctional family of thieves, unorthodox police procedure and some clever body work of his own, he sets out to clear his name.
Louis's Volunteer
조용한 영국 마을에서 열리는 전국 미용대회
영국 북부 요크셔 지방의 ‘키슬리’라는 작은 마을에는 두 개의 미용실이 있다. 남자 미용사 필이 운영하는 ‘The Barber’ 와 산드라와 쉘리가 운영하는 ‘The Cut Above’가 바로 그것이다. 쉘리는 한 때 필의 아내이자 그의 전속 모델이었지만 약 10년 전 미용대회 당일 산드라와 함께 집을 나가버렸다. 쉘리와 필의 아들인 브라이언은 실연당한 아버지와 살면서 엄마의 정체성에 혼란스러워 한다. 토니는 키슬리의 도지사이며 필과는 오랜 친구 사이. 키슬리의 발전을 위해 전국 미용대회를 주최한 토니는 필에게 대회에 참가하라고 부추기지만, 정작 필은 별 관심이 없고 그의 아들 브라이언이 이번 대회에 꼭 참석하고 싶어한다. 가족의 사랑을 되찾는 사람들…
그리고 그들이 펼치는 감동과 눈물의 헤어쇼!
한편 쉘리는 자신이 걸린 암이 치유불가능 하다는 사실을 깨닫고 아무에게도 알리지 않기로 결심한다. 쉘리는 죽기 전 10년 동안 자신과 한마디도 하지 않았던 필과 자신을 부끄럽게 생각하는 브라이언, 가게보다는 밖으로 돌아다니는 산드라 모두와 화해를 하기로 결심한다. 쉘리는 미용대회야말로 그녀의 가족들이 서로 화해할 수 있는 계기가 될 것이라고 생각하지만 항상 필의 라이벌이었던 레이가 참가한다는 사실은 모르고 있는데...
Ginga
Gerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed. They both wish for better things in life. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost £1000 - they're £1000 short. But they are nothing if not resourceful, and they set themselves a mission to raise the cash. While they think up increasingly outlandish money making schemes - from selling junk to shoplifting and the odd bit of housebreaking - real life begins to interfere with the pair's final scam going hilariously awry landing them in jail, only to discover that their punishment gets them exactly where they want to be!
Mr Swanley
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
Woodbine
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
Mr Fulton
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.
러시아에서 미국에 대한 꿈을 안고 고향을 떠나 먼 길에 오른 얀코(뱅상 페레)는 폭풍을 만나 이민선이 난파되어 모두 죽고 혼자만 살아 남는다. 미국의 작은 해안 마을에 떠밀려 온 얀코는 말도 통하지 않는 이국 땅에서 추위와 기아에 헤매다 스미스의 농장을 발견하고 그곳을 찾는다. 정신병자로 오인돼 죽을 지경에 이르는 스미스 농장에서 일하는 에이미(레이첼 와이즈)의 그리움으로 목숨을 건지게 되고, 지주 스와퍼의 집에서 정원사로 일하게 된다. 스와퍼의 친구인 의사 케네 박사는 얀코에게 호의를 베풀어 영어를 체스를 가르쳐 주고 두 사람은 친구가 되는데...
An old man living in a flat in London makes a final decision.
Geordie Trucker
Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes Bill's cherished sports car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off to the country and to her dysfunctional family's farmhouse. By trying to sort out her own family's problems Rachel hopes to come to terms with her own predicament. But Bill discovers her whereabouts and is on the warpath.
Additional Cast
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Man with Visible Heart
영국 왕립 의대 학생인 마리벨은 여자를 단지 성적인 대상으로만 여기는 바람둥이다. 그는 의대 졸업 후 왕의 궁전에서 왕실의 애견 주치의가 되면서 호사스런 생활의 맛을 본다. 그 러던 어느날 불면증 환자 캐서린을 만나면서 인생의 우여곡절을 겪는다. 의사와 환자로 만난 두 사람은 사랑에 빠지고 캐서린은 그의 아기를 임신하지만 런던 시내에 페스트가 유행병으로 퍼져 캐서린은 교외로 피신하고 마리벨은 남아서 환자들을 돌본다. 그러나 혼자서 아이를 낳던 캐더린은 그만 죽고 마가렛이란 이름의 딸만 남는다. 뒤늦게 이 사실을 안 마리벨은 절망하지만 페스트 환자들을 치료한 그의 공적이 인정되어 그는 작위와 영지를 수여받는데...
Johnnie Hope
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.
Gus Siddon
동료들과 함께 버려진 집에서 지내는 스티비는 공사장에서 일하는 일용직 노동자이다. 하루는 일터에서 도둑맞은 핸드백을 발견하고 이를 가방의 주인에게 돌려주는데, 그렇게 만난 스티비와 수잔은 서로 사랑에 빠지고 곧 동거를 시작한다. 가난한 스티비와 노래에 소질이 없는 가수 지망생 수잔은 과연 어떤 삶을 꾸려나갈 수 있을까.
Anna's Doorman
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
Roy
런던 한복판에 자리잡은 일류 식당 홀란드는 유명한 도둑이자 암흑가 두목인 알버트의 소유다. 그 자신의 미각을 위해 프랑스 최고의 요리사 리차드를 초빙한 알버트는 마음대로 난행을 일삼는 폭력적인 인물. 그에게는 아름다운 아내 조지나가 있다. 조지나는 식당 홀란드에서 차분하고 지적인 남자 마이클을 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 리차드의 도움으로 둘은 화장실, 주방 등을 숨어다니며 사랑을 나눈다. 그러나 알버트는 곧 아내의 불륜을 알게 되고 조지나와 마이클은 쫓기는 몸이 되는데...
Harold, the Communist
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Beadle
Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
First Man
Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.
Dad
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
Sue's Father
Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.