Weird, obscure, rare films seen on UK TV
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- DirectorTerence GrossStarsToni ColletteDaniel CraigKatrin CartlidgeA chef (Toni Collette) seeks reconciliation with her brother (Daniel Craig) by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.Channel 4 / Film4 - last shown 19th August 2022. Despite being a Film4 production this film is rarely seen and obscure.
- DirectorHarri ShanahanSiân A. WilliamsStarsIndigo AzidahakaKaren FischREBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.Channel 4 \ All4 - July 2022
- DirectorJonas ÅkerlundStarsRory CulkinEmory CohenJack KilmerA teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome.Film4 2021. Notable in that this wasn't available on subscription streaming services at the time of TV broadcast, also fairly difficult to find on BR\DVD.
- DirectorPenny WoolcockStarsAlec NewmanMarc WarrenSienna GuilloryCrippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.Channel 4 (first broadcast late 00s?) and Film4 (2021) . Difficult film to find.
- DirectorCamille Vidal-NaquetStarsFélix MaritaudFarid-Eric BernardNicolas DiblaLeo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here - longing for love. He doesn't know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.Film 4 - November 2020
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.Film4 - November 2020
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsZoë NathensonSara SugarmanCathy MurphyGirls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.Channel 4 - TV movie made for Channel 4, but still difficult to find. Last shown Oct 2020.
- DirectorKristian A. SöderströmStarsStefan SaukLena NilssonMorgan AllingA VHS collector and a woman obsessed with the 80s, both alcoholics, initiates a romance that helps them battle their personal failures.Film4 - 2020
- DirectorFreddie YoungStarsJimmy JewelMichael ElphickDavid SwiftArthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.TV Movie for Channel 4 (1984). Notable in it appears to have no DVD or VHS release. Last shown Nov. 2020 on Film4.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.Film4 - 2020. Notable in that it had no UK DVD\BR release at the time of broadcast.
- DirectorLionel JeffriesStarsLaurence NaismithGraham CrowdenDorothy AlisonTwo children befriend ghosts in a haunted mansion. To help the ghosts, they make a potion allowing time travel to the past. After becoming housekeepers, they return to the mansion's past and aid the dead children.BBC 2 - last broadcast 2016
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsSam RockwellKathleen QuinlanMischa BartonWhen Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.BBC 2 - first broadcast 2001, last broadcast 2012
- DirectorReb BraddockStarsWilliam BaldwinAngela JonesBruce RamsayAfter getting interested in murder as a kid in Colombia, Gabriela now has a scrapbook on murders including clippings on "The Blue Blood Killer". While cleaning his latest murder scene in Miami, she comes across a clue missed by the cops.BBC 2 - first broadcast 2006, last broadcast 2011
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsAnne BancroftPeter FinchJames MasonBeautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.BBC 2 - 8th Aug 2007, last broadcast July 2011.
- DirectorThomas SchlammeStarsHolly HunterMary SteenburgenTim RobbinsCarnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.BBC 1 - First broadcast 6th June 1994, last broadcast 2011 (BBC 2)
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsBenjamin BrattGiancarlo EspositoTalisa SotoMiguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.BBC 2 - first shown 2005, last broadcast 2011
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBrad DourifJohn HustonDan ShorFresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.BBC 2 - first broadcast 1992, last broadcast 2010
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsBryant HalidayJill HaworthMark EdwardsA group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...BBC 2 - last shown 2009, first shown 2002
- DirectorDavid PriceStarsSean YoungTim DalyLysette AnthonyA scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.BBC 2 - last shown 2009.
- DirectorTrish McAdamStarsPom BoydGina MoxleySean HughesA wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.BBC 2 - notable for only being released on VHS in the UK. Last broadcast Oct 2008, first broadcast 2007?
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert ForsterVerna BloomPeter BonerzA TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.BBC 2 - first broadcast 1977, last broadcast 2007
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsEdward FurlongChristina RicciBess ArmstrongA talented young photographer, who enjoys snapping photos of his satirical, perverted Baltimore neighborhood and his wacky family, gets dragged into a world of pretentious artists from New York City and finds newfound fame.BBC 2 - first broadcat 2002, last broadcast 2006.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsSterling HaydenSebastian CabotCarol KellyA Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.I saw it around 2006 as part of a daytime screening on Channel 4.
- DirectorWayne KramerStarsWilliam H. MacyMaria BelloAlec BaldwinIn an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.Channel 4?, Early-Mid 00s
- DirectorJørgen LethLars von TrierStarsClaus NissenMajken Algren NielsenDaniel Hernandez RodriguezFilmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.Channel 4 -