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High Hopes (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
High Hopes
director: 迈克·李 actor: 菲尔·戴维斯 / 菲利普·杰克森 …
other title: Belle speranze / Hohe Erwartungen …
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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Bizarro Spotify NeoDB
The Wedding Present genre: 摇滚
release date March 22, 2004 publisher: Bmg/Camden
Originally released in 1989 now includes 7 bonus tracks all the B-sides from the hit singles Kennedy and Brassneck. Standard jewel case in a slipcase.
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Fin de Siècle Spotify
The Divine Comedy
release date Aug. 31, 1998 publisher: Divine Comedy
Jan. 12, 2026 listened
'National Express' never fails to bring joy to my heart, but the whole concept album impresses, too.

But then what do you expect when a chamber pop songsmith like Neil Hannon sits in a flat in Clapham listening to Jacques Brel, playing pirate games on the Playstation & musing on the end of the 20th century? :)
1990s ChamberPop TheDivineComedy UK
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Miniseries) (2004) TMDB NeoDB Douban
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Season 1 part of TV Series: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
director: Richard Ayoade / Paul King actor: Matthew Holness / Matt Berry …
In the 1980s horror writer Garth Marenghi wrote, produced, directed and starred in Darkplace, a groundbreaking series set in a hospital and exploring the depths of the author's imagination. At least that's what Marenghi and his publicist/co-star, Dean Learner, claim in modern-day interviews which both bookend and interrupt the episodes. In fact the show is cheap, chiché'd, full of gaping plot holes and startlingly misogynist. Garth Marenghi is a creation of comedian Matthew Holness, who won a Perrier award with the character at the 2001 Edinburgh festival. Written by Richard Smeltzer.
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Event Horizon (1997) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Event Horizon
5.6 (12 ratings) director: Paul W. S. Anderson actor: Laurence Fishburne / Sam Neill …
other title: Punto di non ritorno / O Enigma do Horizonte …
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
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Night and the City (1950) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Night and the City
director: Jules Dassin actor: Richard Widmark / Francis L. Sullivan …
other title: I trafficanti della notte / Foragidos da Noite …
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Scala!!! (2024) IMDb
Scala!!!
director: Jane Giles / Ali Catterall actor: John Waters / Adam Buxton …
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Dec. 28, 2025 to watch 1984-1989 the Scala was my local cinema!

Trigger: watching The Ladykillers (1955) & recognizing the Scala as someone leaves King's Cross Station
2020s Cinema Documentary London UK
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
The Lavender Hill Mob
director: Charles Crichton actor: Alec Guinness / Stanley Holloway …
other title: L'incredibile avventura di Mr. Holland / Masser af guld …
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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Saloon Bar (1940) IMDb WikiData
Saloon Bar
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Elizabeth Allan …
On Christmas Eve, a group of pub regulars led by a bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempt to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man the next day.
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Bernard and the Genie (1991) NeoDB IMDb Douban
Bernard and the Genie
director: Paul Welland actor: Lenny Henry / John Gabriel …
other title: Bernie und der Weihnachtsgeist
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
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Stalled (2013) Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Stalled
director: Christian James actor: Dan Palmer / Antonia Bernath …
A janitor gets trapped in a women's restroom and encounters an all-out attack by a horde of zombies.
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Comfort and Joy (1984) IMDb
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David …
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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Eclipse (1977) IMDb
Eclipse
director: Simon Perry actor: Tom Conti / Gay Hamilton …
A bereaved brother is troubled by memories of his twin who died at sea. Having returned to his childhood home, a Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son goes horribly awry, as dark secrets and sibling rivalries return to haunt them - before the past can be laid to rest.