Soundtrack: Colin Towns

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Colin Towns. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Slayground

1983 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Bedford

Cast Peter Coyote · Mel Smith · Billie Whitelaw · Philip Sayer

Plot Thieves run over a child while escaping after a robbery. A deadly hitman who likes to taunt his targets is hired to track them down. Stone moves to England, but...

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Not Only But Always

2004 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

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Pat and Margaret (TV)

1994 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gavin Millar

Cast Victoria Wood · Julie Walters · Celia Imrie · Duncan Preston

Plot Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat, a glamorous British born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto biography on television and meets, for the...

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The Willows in Winter

1996 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dave Unwin

Cast Vanessa Redgrave

Plot Mole disappears while answering what he thinks is an urgent summons from Rat, forcing Badger to enlist Toad and his new airplane in a frantic search party.

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Faeries

1999 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gary Hurst

Plot Two children holidaying on a farm are transported to Fairyland but after one eats a charmed fairy-cake they are given three tasks to complete before they can return to their...

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City Boy (TV)

1992 · Movie · 108 min. · Canada

Direction John Kent Harrison

Cast Christian Campbell · Christopher Bolton · Gene Heck · Don MacKay

Plot Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new...

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The Moth (TV)

1997 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Battersby

Cast Juliet Aubrey · Alan Bird · David Bradley · Jeremy Clyde

Plot Set in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has...

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Knights & Emeralds

1986 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian Emes

Cast Christopher Wild · Beverly Hills · Warren Mitchell · Bill Leadbitter

Plot A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer and he...

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Money Kings (TV)

1998 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Graham Theakston

Cast Peter Falk · Lauren Holly · Timothy Hutton · Freddie Prinze Jr.

Plot Frankie Peterson has taken money from the mob. Now they want it back.

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My Angel

2004 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Serge Frydman

Cast Vanessa Paradis · Vincent Rottiers · Eric Ruf · Claude Perron

Plot Colette, lovely and vulnerable prostitute, accepts to take care of her unknown colleague's boy. She, herself, needs a child to make her loved ex return to her. So she's having...

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The Farm (TV Miniseries)

2001 · Movie · 150 min. · Australia

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The Crow Road (TV Miniseries)

1996 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gavin Millar

Cast Joe McFadden · Bill Paterson · Peter Capaldi · Valerie Edmond

Plot Prentice McHoan, a young Scots history student. When Prentice's relatives begin to die in spectacular circumstances, and at an alarming rate, he begins to suspect that his family is hiding...

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Screen One (TV Series)

1985 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Les Blair · Robert Young · Robert Bierman · Dewi Humphreys

Cast Alfred Molina · Geraldine James · Timothy West · Sean Bean

Plot (1985-2002). 6 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for...

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Anglo Saxon Attitudes (TV Miniseries)

1992 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Richard Johnson · Douglas Hodge · Elizabeth Spriggs · Dorothy Tutin

Plot 3 episodes. Gerald Middleton, Professor Emeritus of early medieval history, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from...

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The Rocking Horse Winner (S)

1983 · Movie · 33 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Bierman

Cast Eleanor David · Charles Keating · Charles Hathorn · Gabriel Byrne

Plot In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind. After Paul's uncle cracks...

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Albert Schweitzer

2009 · Movie · 114 min. · Germany

Direction Gavin Millar

Cast Jeroen Krabbé · Barbara Hershey · Judith Godrèche · Jeanette Hain

Plot With the Cold War heating up, Schweitzer (Jeroen Krabbe) is encouraged by his friend Albert Einstein to speak out against the usage of the atomic bomb, which draws the ire...

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Our Friends in the North (TV Miniseries)

1996 · Movie · 623 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Cellan Jones · Pedr James · Stuart Urban

Cast Christopher Eccleston · Daniel Craig · Mark Strong · Gina McKee

Plot A nine part series depicting the varying fortunes of four friends - Nicky, Geordie, Mary and Tosker - from the optimistic times of 1964 to the uncertainties of 1995. Taking...

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Ghostboat (TV Miniseries)

2006 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stuart Orme

Cast David Jason · Ian Puleston-Davies · Tony Haygarth · Julian Wadham

Plot A British Sub goes missing at the end of WWII, leaving only one survivor. Everyone believes it lost to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, then 40 years later it...

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Half Broken Things (TV)

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Fywell

Cast Penelope Wilton · Daniel Mays · Sinead Matthews · Nicholas Le Prevost

Plot Jean, a middle aged house-sitter, meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family.

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Hot Money (TV)

2001 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Winsor

Cast Caroline Quentin · Georgia Mackenzie · Melanie Hill · Gerard Horan

Plot This fictionalised account of a real-life case follows a trio of cleaners at the Bank of England’s incinerating plant. They plan to steal thousands of pounds of old banknotes -...

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