Movies: Norman Beaton

  • 1983
    Eureka

    Eureka (1983)

    Eureka

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    An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want....

    Eureka
  • 1989
    The Mighty Quinn

    The Mighty Quinn (1989)

    The Mighty Quinn

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    Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk,...

    The Mighty Quinn
  • 1976
    Pressure

    Pressure (1976)

    Pressure

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    A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures....

    Pressure
  • 1977
    Black Joy

    Black Joy (1977)

    Black Joy

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    An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto....

    Black Joy
  • 1972
    Up the Chastity Belt

    Up the Chastity Belt (1972)

    Up the Chastity Belt

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    A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and t...

    Up the Chastity Belt
  • 1988
    Airbase

    Airbase (1988)

    Airbase

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    Hidden beneath an airbase the elite F-111 pilots live in a secret fantasy world as they wait, primed for the ultimate war game of World War Three. The arrival of the delicious Lieutenant Madeline Kohler detonates a chain reaction of deep rooted antag...

    Airbase
  • 1987
    Playing Away

    Playing Away (1987)

    Playing Away

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    To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results....

    Playing Away
  • 1987
    Big George Is Dead

    Big George Is Dead (1987)

    Big George Is Dead

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    Returning to England from Trinidad and Tobago for one night only, a former trickster finds that old friends and communities have moved on....

    Big George Is Dead
  • 1977
    Black Christmas

    Black Christmas (1977)

    Black Christmas

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    A bittersweet drama on a familiar theme - the frictions forced to the surface during a Christmas family get-together - Michael Abbensetts' Black Christmas is an understated and affecting study of relationships, unexpressed pain and a tormented nostal...

    Black Christmas
  • 1980
    Growing Pains

    Growing Pains (1980)

    Growing Pains

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    An old book containing a strange poem resurrects a vengeful spirit from the dead. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States....

    Growing Pains
  • 1984
    Nice

    Nice (1984)

    Nice

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    A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy....

    Nice
  • 1979
    The Last Window Cleaner

    The Last Window Cleaner (1979)

    The Last Window Cleaner

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    When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no one is what they seem and everyone has been living with 'the troubles' for far too long......

    The Last Window Cleaner
  • 1992
    Black and White in Colour

    Black and White in Colour (1992)

    Black and White in Colour

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    A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Mun...

    Black and White in Colour
  • 1984
    Real Life

    Real Life (1984)

    Real Life

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    A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble....

    Real Life
  • 1989
    Endgame

    Endgame (1989)

    Endgame

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    A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett's first play 'Waiting for Godot' in which nothing happens twice. It is not a play about chess, in any explicit sense, but it does feature a lovable if...

    Endgame
  • 1990
    When Love Dies

    When Love Dies (1990)

    When Love Dies

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    A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide....

    When Love Dies
  • 1987
    Mark of the Hand

    Mark of the Hand (1987)

    Mark of the Hand

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    Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of his inspiration” in this vivid Arts Council documentary, filmed towards the end of his life. The title comes from the indigenous Arawak word ‘timehri’...

    Mark of the Hand
  • 1982
    Easy Money

    Easy Money (1982)

    Easy Money

    01982HD

    At a concert Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends....

    Easy Money
  • 1975
    In Sickness and in Health

    In Sickness and in Health (1975)

    In Sickness and in Health

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    A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's Armchair Cinema....

    In Sickness and in Health
  • 1982
    Easy Money

    Easy Money (1982)

    Easy Money

    01982HD

    At a concert Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends....

    Easy Money