Paul Barber
Nascimento : 1951-03-18,
História
Paul Barber was born on March 18, 1951 in Liverpool, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Full Monty (1997), Formula 51 (2001) and The Long Good Friday (1980).
Spiceman
Sophie and Paul (an aspiring musician) can't pay their London rent and turn to friends and family for support. Over the course of a summer, things go from bad to worse: The couple lose everything and find themselves lost in the underbelly of life on the streets. Though frustrated, their good humour and positivity land them odd jobs and a temporary shelter.
Adam
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
Harris
Quando um soldado Boina Verde aposentado é assassinado por uma gangue internacional de drogas em Londres, quatro de seus camaradas veteranos do SAS decidem se vingar ele, dispensando sua própria marca de justiça nas ruas de Londres.
Himself
A imprensa os apelidou de "The Black Beatles" - Eddy, Chris, Dave e Ray - quatro meninos da classe trabalhadora de um dos bairros mais difíceis de Liverpool se tornaram os criadores mais celebrados do soul, funk e disco da Grã-Bretanha. Com uma sequência de grandes sucessos, eles dominaram as paradas internacionais ao longo dos anos 70 e 80 com canções icônicas como "You to Me Are Everything", "Can't Get By Without You" e "Can You Feel the Force".
Thierry
An antique book dealer finds himself haunted by the ghost of a young boy, he decides to investigate the strange occurrences within his life.
Paul
Depois de um atraso no seu voo, Jessica fica presa em uma área remota da Inglaterra. A única hospedagem disponível é uma pousada administrada por um belo viúvo chamado Andrew.
Gerry
Two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash. It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.
Jimmy Gotts
A young man struggles with his overbearing and bullying parent against the drama and backdrop of Boxing.
Liam's Dad
Landlord at Dr Duncans
Inspired by The Manchester Passion, Liverpool Nativity employs the city's great musical heritage as the soundtrack to a contemporary music drama set in a fictitious state, a tale as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago. The live event tells the intimate personal story of a pregnant young girl set against a backdrop of political tension and unrest and stars a host of well- known Liverpool actors and personalities.
Paul
Ex Boxer Tom is on the ropes, when a chance encounter at the gym leads to the offer of work as a doorman at a run down nightclub. The volatile head doorman Paul, is a battle hardened veteran from the old school. Recognising Tom for the fighter that he once was, Paul takes him under his wing, and guides him through the ins and outs of life as a club land "peacekeeper."
Winston Churchill
An unwanted statue of the Virgin Mary affects an entire community after an apparent miracle in a chip shop.
Jimmy Joyce
London, one year from today... The dogs of England are dying, of "Mad Dog Disease," and Rabbie Burns, young drifter and certified schizophrenic, is hearing voices again - on Underground trains, over supermarket tannoys, and on his own T.V. He has 30 hours, a last weekend, to save the world from itself, before the "Supreme Being" himself loses patience and starts over, with a new species...
Frederick
Elmo McElroy é um químico que descobriu uma nova droga que promete revolucionar o mercado do tráfico: a Fórmula 51. Para negociá-la ele parte rumo a Liverpool ao lado de Felix DeSouza, um traficante de drogas. Porém ambos terão que enfrentar Dakota Phillips, uma matadora de aluguel, que está atrás da droga.
Prof. Simmington
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Narrator
John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews revealing the ghettoisation and racial abuse in Toxteth that escalated with stop-and-search policing tactics following the “sus” laws.
Barrington "Horse" Mitchell
Seis trabalhadores desempregados ficam tão desesperados que, apesar de não formarem um grupo de homens sexualmente interessantes ou serem bons dançarinos, decidem fazer um show de striptease, no qual se mostra tudo.
Charlie
Padre Greg (Linus Roache) é enviado para trabalhar em uma paróquia em Liverpool. Ele fica surpreso ao ver que seu novo superior, padre Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), não cumpre o celibato, mantendo um relacionamento com uma mulher. Este é apenas o primeiro fator que fará com que Greg entre em conflito e questione algumas regras da Igreja. Um segundo fator é a descoberta da própria homossexualidade, quando se apaixona por um rapaz (Robert Carlyle). Mas o que mais o tortura é quando uma menina de 14 anos lhe conta que sofre abusos por parte do pai, mas Greg está de mãos atadas pelo sigilo da confissão. Dividido entre sua vocação e sua sexualidade, entre as regras da Igreja e os problemas que testemunha, Greg teme ter sua fé abalada. O filme foi proibido pela Igreja Católica.
Security guard
Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.
Earl Preston
Stevie "Smudger" Smith and his wife Marie are both addicted to drugs; he's also a dealer. The day he 'deals with' another dealer, she gives birth to a baby. The baby appears to be addicted too and Marie decides to give up the habit. Because Stevie doesn't want to give up using and dealing drugs, they take Marie and the baby away from him. The new, tough, social worker Liam Kane tries to get Stevie in his group sessions, by using his violent approach and by telling him it's the only way he'll ever see Marie and the baby back. So there seems to be hope to get Stevie clean, if only he wants to himself. That things aren't that easy is shown by the drugs addicted hooker Gail, who's satisfied with the life she leads.
Drugs Counsellor
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Três curtas autobiográficos que contra a vida de Terence Davies e um último que conta a forma como o diretor imagina seu fim.
Compõem o filme "Crianças", "Madona e Menino" e "Morte e Transfiguração", Talvez um dos mais fortes filmes sobre a morte.
Erroll
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
The second part of Terence Davies' trilogy revolving around Liverpudlian Robert Tucker, focusing on the character's efforts in middle-age to come to terms with his homosexuality.
Morgan
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Malleson
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war. Movie screened as part of Play of Today.
Sam ‘Lucky’ Ubootu
“Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unlucky career as a criminal has resulted in a series of stretches in prison for theft. The story follows Lucky on the day of his release from his latest sentence. As he wanders around Liverpool, not really belonging anywhere, it becomes clear that he is still waiting for his father, a man who has long since abandoned Lucky and his family, to return and take him back 'home' to Africa.” - Richard Parkin