Michael Bradsell

Filmes

Postcards from the 48%
Editor
This is a film made by the some of the 48% who voted Remain. The film is of the 48% and for the 48%. It is their story, feelings and reasons for remain, made totally from their perspective.
Boudica Bites Back
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A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.
Guantanamero
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After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They'll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Ivan, a local Cuban, takes Ali to the apartment of his sister Manuela, a dancer in Havana. At first, she is apprehensive to take in this tormented stranger, but she relents as she feels drawn to this mysterious person who has shown up on her door step. Ali is haunted by nightmares, which bring him to the horror of the interrogation room at Guantanamo, and by startling visions linking his past and his present life. But are these nightmares flash backs to his experiences in the prison or just dreams of a tortured soul?
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
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Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
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Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
Pilgrim
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A beautiful artist helps an amnesiac piece together his identity and evade a gangster on his trail.
Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'
Original Music Composer
Produced by Channel 4, Still Tickin´: The Return of A Clockwork Orange examines the controversy over Kubrick’s iconic film, explaining the film’s “demonic level of attention,” and its influence on culture, politics and society, which led to the director’s self-imposed ban.
Talk of Angels
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This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland
Mero Acaso
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Três rapazes ingleses conhecem, em momentos diferentes, uma garota americana que está de passagem por Londres. Coincidentemente, os três são amigos de infância, e todos acabam se apaixonando pela jovem turista.
Wilde
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A história de Oscar Wilde, gênio, poeta, dramaturgo e o Primeiro Homem Moderno. A auto-realização de sua homossexualidade causou enorme tormento a Wilde, ao manipular casamento, paternidade e responsabilidade com seu amor obsessivo por lorde Alfred Douglas.
Fuga Para o Amor
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Axel Heyst é um recluso americano com um passado duvidoso que viveu no porto de Surabaya nas Índias Orientais Holandesas por volta de 1913. Hospedando-se em um hotel alemão lá, Heyst fica fascinado com um membro da orquestra feminina do hotel.
A História Sem Fim 3
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Bastian (Jason James Richter) se esconde em uma biblioteca ao fugir de uma gangue de garotos. Lá ele encontra o livro "A História Sem Fim". Decidido a esquecer seus problemas, ele começa a lê-lo e novamente chega a Fantasia. Só que o líder da gangue encontra o livro caído no chão e passa a escrever nele diversas maldades e perigos, o que faz com que o reino torne-se um pesadelo. O único jeito de salvar Fantasia é com Bastian retornando ao mundo real para resgatar o livro.
Not Mozart: Scipio's Dream
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Composer Judith Weir collaborates with director Margaret Williams on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.
Um Beijo Antes de Morrer
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Jonathan Corliss é um estudante ambicioso, que vê no casamento com a filha de um milionário a chance de subir na vida. No entanto, no dia em que ela engravida, os planos de Jonathan correm perigo, porque isso prejudicaria a sua imagem diante dos pais dela. Ele decide assassinar a namorada, fazendo com que o caso se pareça com um suicídio. Em seguida, ele pretende se aproximar de sua irmã, seduzindo-a e mantendo as chances de integrar a rica família. Mas as investigações sobre a possível suicida começam a apontar a responsabilidade de Jonathan nesta história...
Henrique V
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O Rei Henrique V da Inglaterra é insultado pelo Rei da França. Por consequência, ele lidera seu exército contra os franceses, o que faz com que ele tenha que estar em constante atenção para deixar suas tropas motivadas e unidas.
Malucos e Libertinos
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Peter está prestes a perder o castelo de sua família na Irlanda, e decide atrair hóspedes anunciando que ele é assombrado. Entretanto, a ficção torna-se realidade, e turistas americanos são assombrados e seduzidos por ancestrais de Peter.
Um Inglês na América
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Um especialista em arte britânico viaja por toda a América a fim de comprar uma pintura rara de Renoir no sul, mas se depara com alguns personagens loucos no caminho.
Gótico
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Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
Absolutamente Principiantes
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Colin é um jovem fotógrafo à procura de seu lugar na efervescente Londres de 1958. Ele é apaixonado por Crepe Suzette, uma aspirante a designer de moda, que deixa o amor em segundo plano para perseguir com ambição seu sonho profissional. Quando um homem mais velho e rico a leva para longe, um devastado Colin lutará para tê-la de volta.
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
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While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.
Cal - Memórias de um Terrorista
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Cal (John Lynch) é um jovem membro do IRA que vive um romance com Marcella (Helen Mirren), uma mulher católica que teve seu marido, um policial protestante, morto pela organização terrorista um ano antes de se conhecerem.
Escândalo
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An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Momento Inesquecível
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Uma companhia petrolífera americana envia um homem para a Escócia para comprar uma vila inteira onde eles querem construir uma refinaria. Mas as coisas não correm como o esperado.
Dançando como Loucos
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Famosa por ser uma grande diretora de filmes documentários, Barbara Gordon (Jill Clayburgh) parece ser uma pessoa muito bem sucedida. No entanto, ela controla seu estresse e ansiedade com anti-depressivos, sobretudo o Valium. Ela finalmente admite seu vício narcótico e luta para se livrar dele e viver tranquilamente sem a ajuda de drogas.
Venom
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International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and the terrorists and several hostages are trapped in the boy's London home.
Breaking Glass
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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 manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
Scum
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Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].
That Summer!
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A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel chambermaids. However, their fun is interrupted by a gang of Scottish punks who come to cause trouble.
Jabberwocky
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A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Inserts
Editor
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
Flame
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Light the Rock 'n Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame. Set in the hardships of North England's seventies working class society and music scene. This build-up from rags to riches is a parody of realism and grit, with double-dealings and harsh unforgiving dog eat dog mentalities, and the golden rule; if you play with matches then you're going to get burnt, in the flames of the music industry.
Swallows and Amazons
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On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
Mahler, Uma Paixão Violenta
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Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
That'll Be The Day
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Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
Savage Messiah
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The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
O Boyfriend
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Um assistente de diretor de palco de uma pequena companhia teatral é forçado a ser o Duble de Corpo de uma atriz principal numa apresentação de matinê, na qual um ilustre diretor de Hollywood estará na plateia procurando por atores para participarem em sua mais recente extravagância musical.
Os Demônios
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Ambientado durante o violento regime católico que tomava conta da França nos idos de 1631, parte da suposta possessão de uma madre-superiora cujas fantasias sexuais com o mais proeminente padre do vilarejo de Loudon resulta num dos mais sangrentos episódios daquela era.
The Music Lovers
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Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein
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In this documentary portrait prepared for the anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 200th birthday, Leonard Bernstein illustrates his analysis with excerpts from his performances of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major and the Ode to Joy from the Ninth Symphony.
Mulheres Apaixonadas
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Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Royal Family
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Intimate portrait of the daily life of the British Royal Family drawn from 18 months of filming within Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral.
O Jogo da Guerra
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Produção que pinta um cenário dos mais catastróficos para o mundo diante de uma possível Terceira Guerra Mundial e na qual bombas nucleares simplesmente aniquilam qualquer tipo de vida na Terra. Apesar de ter ganhado o Oscar de melhor documentário, trata-se de uma ficção. O filme foi produzido para um programa especial britânico a ser exibido na rede BBC, mas acabou sendo banido por causa das cenas de violência.
Culloden
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Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Great Britain. Its aftermath was tragic. The men responsible for such a disaster must be exposed. The men, women and children who suffered because of it must be remembered.
The Diary of a Nobody
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Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.