Tony Wilson Movies

This in-depth retrospective surveys the history and music of the Smiths via interviews with the band, expert commentary and insights from insiders,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Gannon

Here is the movie for all the Clever Trevors and Billericay Dickies out there! A stunning and truly 'Rare and Unseen' look back at Ian Dury, poet,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Dury

Shadowplayers is a two hour documentary film by James Nice tracing the early history of iconic Manchester Label Factory Records between 1978 and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Wilson

Exploring the 'Madchester' music phenomena of the late '80s and early '90s. The band Northside appears in interview, rehearsal, live in concert and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stuart Maconie

Catch: The Hold Not Taken is a 2005 feature documentary film that contrasts the billion dollar industry of professional wrestling with its humble...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dan Gable

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Coogan

The Manchester Passion is a passion play about the last hours of Jesus, retold using a backdrop of the contemporary music of Manchester, England. The...

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Cast: Darren Morfitt

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Coogan

Carol Morley returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s, five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic blur. The Alcohol Years is a poetic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carol Morley

A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anton Corbijn

Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Janet Amsden

Rising from the ashes of the legendary British post-punk unit Joy Division, the enigmatic New Order triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gillian Gilbert

Upon his release from a mental hospital, James re-kindles his relationship with pirate DJ Marion, helping her kick her nasty heroin addiction....

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Cast: Vincent Phillips

Showing for the first time how it all came together and what made it so great, the film is all at once hugely enlightening, downright entertaining,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Thomas Arnold

New Order filmed live in concert in Tokyo, May 2nd 1985

Genre: Music

Cast: Bernard Sumner

A 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader Mark E Smith. The Film follows the current band recording...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark E. Smith

An examination into Factory Records. The members of New Order interview founders Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett, who speak on the philosophical and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Wilson

Documentary celebrating the triumph, tragedy and human comedy that was Manchester record company, Factory. Started by the late Tony Wilson, Alan...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Simm

Part concert, part documentary, this film follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes.. with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bernard Sumner

Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Burke

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Poly Styrene

In the final days of the yuppie decade, the summer of ’89 saw a new type of youth rebellion rip through the cultural landscape, with thousands...

Genre: Music

Cast: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Norman Evans and many more....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: C.P. Lee

Director Bill Keating built a programme around following Rory through a day of his short 1972 Irish tour. At the center of the programme is a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tony Wilson