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  • Quadrophenia
  • Quadrophenia review by from Cheshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars 28 March 2004
    ...reat cast reads like the who's who of nearly-made-it British actors and Sting. Phil Daniels is, and will always be, Jimmy....   Read customer review
  • Meantime
  • Meantime review by from SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
    Rated - 3.0 stars Blast from the past 6 January 2005
    ...nemployment of the 1980's. It stars a very young Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. Daniels and Roth play two unemployed brothers; the latter (Roth) being slight...   Read customer review
  • Goodbye Charlie Bright
  • Goodbye Charlie Bright review by Apprentice from Norwich
    Rated - 4.0 stars The bonding of two lads 24 January 2008
    ... great supporting role as Francis, others of note are Sid Mitchell as Tommy and Phil Daniels as Eddie. There are many more. Some genuinely funny moments and certainly so...   Read customer review

Phil Daniels - filmography


  • Rock And Chips on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Nicholas Lyndhurst,  James Buckley,  Kellie Bright
    Director: Dewi Humphreys
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Peckham, 1960, and the Trotters are all under one roof: Grandad, Joan, husband Reg and the teenage Del Boy (James Buckley). Things suddenly change, however, when ex-con Freddie Robdal (Nicholas Lyndhurst) appears. Joining this comedy drama are teenage versions of Only Fools and Horses favourites ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 690 members
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  • Freebird on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Alun ap Brinley,  Geoff Bell,  Peter Bowles
    Director: Jon Ivay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the producers of Layer Cake comes a hilarious british road trip movie that will have you trippin out loud! Fred (Gary Stretch) Grouch (Phil Daniels) and Tyg (Geoff Bell) head to the welsh countryside in search of an elusive hippy and his cannabis farm – but what is supposed to be a nice ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3,791 members
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  • Goodbye Charlie Bright on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Paul Nicholls,  Danny Dyer,  Dani Behr
    Director: Nick Love
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Two lifelong friends discover that growing up sometimes means growing apart in this gritty British drama. Charlie (Paul Nicholls) and Justin (Roland Manookian) are a pair of best friends who grew up together in a rough-and-tumble London neighborhood, close enough that some of Charlie's pals ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,772 members
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  • Chicken Run on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Miranda Richardson,  Julia Sawalha
    Director: Peter Lord,  Nick Park
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Facing imminent death while laying eggs at Tweedy's English farm, a group of chickens led by the determined Ginger (Julia Sawahla, BBC-TV's ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS) plan to escape their prisonlike coop. The situation goes from bad to worse when the sinister Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) decides to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 11,809 members
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  • Sex, Chips And Rock 'n' Roll (2 discs) (1999)
    Starring: Sue Johnston,  Phil Daniels,  Joe McFadden
    Director: John Woods
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This television miniseries, directed by John Woods, depicts the lives of teens working at a Manchester chip shop during the rock & roll boom of 1965. The cast includes Phil Daniels, Sue Johnston, and Gillian Kearney.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 313 members
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  • Holding On (3 discs) on DVD (1997)
    Starring: David Morrissey,  Phil Daniels,  Lesley Manville
    Director: Adrian Shergold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Winner of the BAFTA and RTS awards in 1997, Holding On is Tony Marchant's uncompromising drama of struggle and survival in 1990s London. This is London, claustrophobic, frightening and exhiliarting. Its citizens - trying to thrive or just survive the crime-infested, decaying, paranoied capital - ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 696 members
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  • Meantime on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Marion Bailey,  Phil Daniels,  Tim Roth
    Director: Mike Leigh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Mike Leigh presents another slice-of-life drama--this time focusing on a family of acerbic, terminally unemployed working-class Britons languishing in their East End council house. Frank (Jeff Robert) and Mavis (Pam Ferris) are the endlessly bickering parents of Mark (Phil Daniels) and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,190 members
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  • Breaking Glass (1980)
    Starring: Hazel O'Connor,  Phil Daniels,  Jon Finch
    Director: Brian Gibson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's a tough decade, it's a harsh life. Only the hardest make it, or the hardest pushed. But sometimes it drives you over the edge - it's just the music industry...
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 87 members
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  • Quadrophenia on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Phil Daniels,  Mark Wingett,  Leslie Ash
    Director: Franc Roddam
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at explaining the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R? musical score, including the hit single Love Reign O'er Me. Phil Daniels (replacing the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 6,291 members
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  • Quadrophenia - Blu-ray (1979)
    Starring: Phil Daniels,  Mark Wingett,  Leslie Ash
    Director: Franc Roddam
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    It's the Mods versus the Rockers in this striking adaptation of the Who's classic rock opera about alienated youth in the 1960s. The film follows Jimmy (Phil Daniels) an angry young man who feels that he can only achieve a sense of identity and meaning in life through his gang and rock and roll ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3 members
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  • Scum (1977)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Mick Ford,  Phil Daniels
    Director: Alan Clarke
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Featuring both the previously unseen BBC version and the Theatrical version. Controversial story of the cruelty and violence inside a Government Borstal. The film powerfully and sensationally portrays one man's struggle against all odds to be top dog in a system that is intent on breaking his spirit.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,872 members
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  • Number One on DVD
    Starring: Bob Geldof,  Alfred Molina,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Les Blair
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bob Geldof stars as a man trying to survive in the world of snooker halls, small-time crooks, hookers and corrupt cops. Mel Smith appears as a crooked bookie who helps him to the top in the big-time snooker circuit.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 145 members
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  • Al Murray - Time Gentlemen Please - Seri... (5 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Al Murray,  Phil Daniels,  Julia Sawalha
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Al Murray's gloriously un-PC Pub Landlord puts the world to rights with his lager fuelled philosophies, in hit sitcom TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE. The series sees the Guv, and assorted pub regulars, muse on topics such as foreigners, religion, food, sexuality, history and loads of other deep subjects... ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 158 members
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Phil Daniels facts

5 most recent films

Rock And Chips - The Frog And The Pussycat - 3.5 stars
Midsomer Murders - Noble Art - 4.0 stars
Rock And Chips - Five Gold Rings - 3.5 stars
Rock And Chips - 3.5 stars
Freebird - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Al Murray - Time Gentlemen Please - Series 1 & 2 - 4.0 stars
Midsomer Murders - Noble Art - 4.0 stars
Outlaws - Complete Series One - 3.5 stars
Sex, Chips And Rock 'n' Roll - 3.5 stars
Rock And Chips - The Frog And The Pussycat - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Four Idle Hands - The Complete Series - 0.5 stars
Quadrophenia - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Free Jimmy - 2.0 stars
Number One - 2.5 stars
Freebird - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Julia Sawalha - 7 times - show films
Al Murray - 6 times - show films
Emma Pierson - 6 times - show films
Ray Winstone - 6 times - show films
Mick Ford - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 6 times - show films
Alan Clarke - 5 times - show films
Adrian Shergold - 4 times - show films
John Woods - 3 times - show films
Dewi Humphreys - 3 times - show films