05 October 1991 Drama, Comedy, TV Movie 120 mins
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Watch the official Absolute Hell 1991 trailer in HD below or find more Absolute Hell videos on Vidimovie.
Judi Dench as Christine Foskett
Susan Porrett as Doris
Paul Birchard as Butch
Sylvia Barter as Julia Shillitoe
Bill Nighy as Hugh Marriner
Ronald Pickup as Siegfried Shrager
Francesca Annis as Elizabeth Collier
Eileen Page as Mrs Marriner
Gregory Floy as Michael Crowley
Charles Gray as Maurice Hussey
Nathaniel Parker as Sam Mitchum
Moyra Fraser as Lettice Willis
William Osborne as Cyril Clatworthy
Susan Brown as Bill
Betty Marsden as R. B. Monody
Shelagh Fraser as Madge
Anthony Page Director
Jason Osborn Original Music Composer
Jason Osborn Music Arranger
Noel Davis Casting
Eleanor Fazan Choreographer
Christina McMillan Production Manager
Ann Aronsohn Production Manager
Steve Lucas Visual Effects Designer
Judy Pepperdine Costume Design
Suzanne Jansen Makeup Designer
Ian Williams Editor
Barry Bonner Sound
Duncan Brown Lighting Director
Michael Hastings Script Editor
Glyn Edwards Associate Producer
Michael Young Production Design
Performance: Absolute Hell Trailer
United Kingdom 05 October 1991
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Absolute Hell:
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Jason Osborn: End Title music from "Absolute Hell" (1991).
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25 April 1991
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02 November 1991
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
03 July 1991
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000.
31 July 1991
Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff.
14 June 1991
Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England.
01 January 1991
The film begins on, two soulmates Seetapathi (Subbaraya Sarma) & Major Pratapa Rao (Abhishith Varma) fixing up their children, Sivudu (Rajendra Prasad) & Parvati's (Amurtha) alliance in their childhood.
25 January 1991
Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets.
15 November 1991
David is sitting in a bar, musing over why he has bedded and left five or six of Asia's loveliest women in such a short time.
26 June 1991
Pierre is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille, an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed.
12 April 1991
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run.
27 June 1991
A snake god, prisoner in a cave since thousand years, takes possession of a man and transforms his arm in a snake.
26 August 1991
Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out.
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