No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005), The Keeper (2018), 28 Days Later... (2002), Boy A (2007), Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2018), Raining Stones (1993), 24 Hour Party People (2002), The Family Way (1967) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Manchester, England movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Martin Scorsese traces Bob Dylan's evolution from folk troubadour to iconic rock star. Live concert footage and press conferences from the 1960s and a new interview with Dylan are used to draw a portrait of the legendary singer-songwriter.
Plot Keywords: musician, girlfriend, allen ginsberg, gutsy, passionate, new york city, concert stage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young English woman and a soccer-playing German POW overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy near the end of World War II.
Plot Keywords: soccer player, engaging, moving, powerful, soccer field, manchester, england, soccer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature.
Plot Keywords: courier, cab driver, daughter, activist, zombie, military officer, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy weighs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past.
Plot Keywords: murderer, parolee, social worker, teen boy, young man, reporter, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's a documentary about the life of eccentric comedian Frank Sidebottom who wore a huge papier-mache' head and whose true identity was a closely guarded secret until after he died. The 2014 Magnolia Pictures film titled Frank was inspired by his sensational mystery.—Willow Dancer
Plot Keywords: comedian, hilarious, fascinating, manchester, england, comedy club, documentaries, life story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: poor person, sidekick, blue-collar worker, butcher, father, daughter, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
Plot Keywords: reporter, musician, rock star, love interest, gritty, quirky, manchester, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Married life is proving to be difficult for newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills) and Arthur (Hywel Bennett). With well meaning, but interfering parents, nosey neighbors, and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? With all these pressures it's no wonder their personal life is suffering. Will there ever be any good news?—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: newlywed, husband, wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, best friend, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: secretary, mother, wife, mother-in-law, husband, somber, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try and track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: inspector, escaped convict, murderer, detective, gang leader, criminal, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protesters were killed and hundreds more injured, sparking a nationwide outcry but also further government suppression. The Peterloo Massacre was a defining moment in British democracy which also played a significant role in the founding of The Guardian newspaper.
Plot Keywords: protester, british soldiers, engaging, fascinating, manchester, england, protest, massacre ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool - the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, mistress, son, agent, profound, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Plot Keywords: wealthy man, artist, son, father, widower, fiancée, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manchester, 1976. Stephen Patrick Morrissey is unemployed and depressed. He eventually finds work but it doesn't interest him. His only interest appears to be writing down his observations on life and people in a journal. We see his life over the next six years and how this period would have a bearing on his later life for, in 1982, he was to form The Smiths, one of the most influential bands of the 80s.—grantss
Plot Keywords: band frontman, band leader, cool, fascinating, passionate, manchester, england, band ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Teenage musicians (Elliott Tittensor, Nico Mirallegro) travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Plot Keywords: teen boy, teen girl, friend, band member, teenager, love interest, brash ...
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