"Leave your expectations at the door"

1998

2h 3m

6.9(517 votes)

Drama

Music

Overview

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Where to Watch

Rent

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

62 members

Acting

Ewan McGregor

Curt Wild

Acting

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Brian Slade

Acting

Toni Collette

Mandy Slade

Acting

Christian Bale

Arthur Stuart

Acting

Eddie Izzard

Jerry Devine

Acting

Emily Woof

Shannon

Acting

Michael Feast

Cecil

Acting

Janet McTeer

Female Narrator (voice)

Acting

Mairead McKinley

Wilde Housemaid

No Image

Acting

Luke Morgan Oliver

Oscar Wilde (8)

No Image

Acting

Osheen Jones

Jack Fairy (7)

No Image

Sound

Micko Westmoreland

Jack Fairy

No Image

Acting

Damian Suchet

BBC Reporter

No Image

Acting

Danny Nutt

Kissing Sailor

No Image

Writing

Wash Westmoreland

Young Man

Acting

Don Fellows

Lou

Acting

Ganiat Kasumu

Mary

No Image

Acting

Ray Shell

Murray

Acting

Alastair Cumming

Tommy Stone

No Image

Acting

Zoe Boyce

Girl on Subway

No Image

Acting

Jim Whelan

Mr. Stuart

No Image

Acting

Sylvia Grant

Mrs. Stuart

No Image

Acting

Tim Hans

Manchester Teacher

No Image

Acting

Ryan Pope

Arthur's Brother

Acting

Stuart Callaghan

Boy in Record Shop 1

No Image

Acting

James Francis

Boy in Record Shop 2

No Image

Acting

Callum Hamilton

Brian Slade (7)

No Image

Acting

Lindsay Kemp

Pantomime Dame

Acting

Carlos Miranda

Pianist

Acting

Emma Handy

Mod Girlfriend

Acting

Matthew Glamour

Mimosa

No Image

Acting

Daniel Adams

Curt Wild (13)

No Image

Acting

Bryan Torfeh

Bartender

No Image

Acting

Joseph Beattie

Cooper

Acting

Sarah Cawood

Angel

Acting

David Hoyle

Freddi

Acting

Winston Austin

Micky

No Image

Acting

Ivan Cartwright

Cecil's Friend 1

No Image

Costume & Make-Up

Peter Swords King

Cecil's Friend 2

Acting

Justin Salinger

Rodney

Acting

Roger Alborough

Middle Age Man

Acting

Peter Bradley Jr.

30's Style Singer

No Image

Acting

Jonathan Cullen

Reporter 1

Acting

William Key

Reporter 2

No Image

Acting

Vincent Marzello

US Reporter 1

Acting

Corey Skaggs

US Reporter 2

No Image

Acting

Nathan Osgood

US Reporter 3

No Image

Acting

Nadia Williams

Teenage Girl

No Image

Acting

Brian Molko

Malcolm

Acting

Antony Langdon

Ray

No Image

Acting

Xavior

Pearl

No Image

Acting

Steve Hewitt

Billy

No Image

Acting

Guy Leverton

Trevor

No Image

Acting

Vinney Reck

Reg

No Image

Acting

Keith-Lee Castle

Harley

Acting

Eden Ford

Bass Guitar

No Image

Acting

Jono McGrath

Lead Guitar

No Image

Acting

Perry Clayton

Drummer

No Image

Acting

Donna Matthews

Polly Small

No Image

Acting

Ritz

Lead Guitar

No Image

Acting

Stefan Olsdal

Bass Guitar

Acting

Trevor Sharpe

Drummer

No Image

Similar Movies

7.0

2005

Transamerica

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Movie

6.6

1996

Basquiat

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Movie

6.6

1995

To Die For

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

Movie

7.8

1990

Dances with Wolves

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Movie

7.3

2002

The Hours

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Movie

7.6

2003

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Movie

7.4

1994

Interview with the Vampire

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Movie

8.0

2000

Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Movie

7.5

2014

Hidden Away

At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it's you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes for themselves, experiencing first love in a way they never could have imagined. And having to keep it Hidden away.

Movie

6.3

1994

Maybe... Maybe Not

The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.

Movie

8.3

1989

Dead Poets Society

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Movie

7.5

2006

Volver

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

Movie

2022

The Lyric

An aspiring singer discovers the lyrics in a song written for her could lead her to the killer of the writer who wrote it.

Movie

7.7

1977

Annie Hall

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

Movie

7.3

1964

A Hard Day's Night

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Movie

7.1

2000

Finding Forrester

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Movie

7.4

1993

The Piano

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Movie

6.5

2019

Lola and the Sea

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting...

Movie

5.2

2023

Riley

The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.

Movie

5.1

1981

Manderley

This is the story of three homosexuals who decide to spend the summer together at the cottage that the parents of one of them have in Santander. The film shows naturally a series of attitudes then considered shocking and even unnatural.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.5

2008

Flash of Genius

In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventing intermittent windshield wipers. Kearns doggedly pursues recognition for his invention, as well as the much-deserved financial rewards for the sake of his wife and six kids.

Movie

5.9

2010

Dear Mr. Gacy

A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Movie

7.7

2000

Arthur's Perfect Christmas

Arthur, D.W., and their family and friends prepare to make the best Christmas ever in Elwood City - but obstacles get in their way.

Movie

7.0

1995

The Uncle from Brooklyn

The best italian film of the 90's, the most extreme and radical work since SALO', a ruthless representation, in a surreal-metaphorical key, of a civilization condemned to worshipping its own blindness. The two sicilian directors use a language free from compromise and from the traditional storyline rules: the movie is photographed in a sharp and very contrasting black & white, with no beautiful pimp music, and lacks a logical story. There are no women (the ones we see are actually men), and the language is strict sicilian dialect. The directing style is characterized by long fixed shots on a post-atomic world, which is really present-day Palermo, inhabited by fat people in socks and underwear who burp and fart while roaming around smelly alleyways and waste dumps.

Movie

7.0

2021

HER

Somewhere between dream, life, and death, a girl sees HERself confronted with HER images of two important people in HER life and HERself.

Movie

7.5

2018

Kinematics Theory

A math genius with social phobia and a swimmer tired of pressure meet again in college. Through unlikely friendship, they help each other heal and grow. Prequel to "The Ambiguous Focus".

Movie

10.0

1977

The Experiencer

After taking a wrong turn, a young man somehow falls into a mysterious cave and becomes hopelessly lost. As he searches for a way out, the journey he experiences forces him to confront the deepest parts of himself.

Movie

6.6

2007

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.

Movie

7.2

1958

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.

Movie

5.6

2017

Damascus Cover

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

Movie

7.2

1996

Different for Girls

Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.

Movie

6.4

2007

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

Movie

5.8

1999

Venus Beauty Institute

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.

Movie

7.1

1979

Scum

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

Movie

6.0

1997

Nightwatch

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Movie

7.0

1972

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.

Movie

5.9

2009

Veronika Decides to Die

After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

Movie

6.7

1988

Evil Angels

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Movie

6.0

2012

Ginger & Rosa

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

Movie

6.6

1992

Strictly Ballroom

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

Movie