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
Eleanor Fazan Choreographer
Simon Curtis Producer
Michael Young Production Design
Michael Hastings Script Editor
Christina McMillan Production Manager
Suzanne Jansen Makeup Designer
Ann Aronsohn Production Manager
Glyn Edwards Associate Producer
Jason Osborn Music Arranger
Steve Lucas Visual Effects Designer
Ian Williams Editor
Barry Bonner Sound
Duncan Brown Lighting Director
Noel Davis Casting
Performance: Absolute Hell Trailer
United Kingdom 05 October 1991
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Absolute Hell:
Wonderfully Awful - Gin & French Daahhling? This switches to colour after a few moments! I remember seeing this on it's original presentation I'm sure it was on ...
Jason Osborn: End Title music from "Absolute Hell" (1991).
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1991:
28 February 1991
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide.
01 January 1991
Documentary telling the history of Cinecittà, and how it contributed to Italian cinema development.
01 January 1991
The female group "Die Hard Angels" of the Police Department's Investigation Division 1 begins a physical investigation to destroy a vicious organized crime.
12 January 1991
During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.
31 December 1991
Imagine a treacly high-school docudrama about acceptance, cliques, and the secret shames of peer pressure.
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.
01 January 1991
BBC TV documentary
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.
25 February 1991
The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property.
07 April 1991
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail.
01 January 1991
This short fiction film tells the story of a very unusual satellite named Zenon. Zenon is a product of the most up-to-date technology and so displays an unusual characteristic for a computer: he is conscious.
20 September 1991
Sekhar (Chandrasekhar) and Murali (Prabhu) are best friends. Murali sacrifices his job opportunity for his friend and Sekhar becomes a custom officer.
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