On the same day that Tom Dunn finds out that he is to become a father again, the people of Earth become plagued with terrifying visions of the end of the world. When a gigantic, all-consuming alien mothership launches a ruthless attack, chaos and destruction follow. The ultimate war for Planet Earth is about to begin...

Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...

Punk, New Wave, Reggae and Techno bands from Europe and the US recorded live in several locations in 1980. The biggest names on the bill are the Police and UB 40 but every performance is a jewel, a time capsule of the influenced and the influential in rock music right up to today.
Soundtracks:
"Driven to Tears"
Police
"Dance"
Toyah Wilcox
"Back in Flesh"
Wall of Voodoo
"Enola Gay"
Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark
"Ain't this Life"
Oingo Boingo
"The Puppet"
Echo and the Bunnymen
"Foolish I Know"
Jools Holland
"Respectable Street"
XTC
"Total Eclipse of the Sun"
Klaus Nomi
"Where's Captain Kirk?"
Athletico Spizz 80
"We've Got the Beat"
Go-Gos
"Ku-Klux-Klan"
Steel Pulse
"Down in the Park"
Gary Neuman
"I Don't Give A Damn About My Bad Reputation"
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
"Model Worker"
Magazine
"Offshore Banking Business"
Members
"Come Again"
AuPairs
"Tear it Up"
The Cramps
"Valium"
Invisible Sex
"Birdies"
Pere Ubu
"Uncontrollable Urge"
Devo
"Nothing Means Nothing Anymore"
Alley Cats
"Cheryl's Going Home"
John Ottway
"He'd Send In the Army"
Gang of Four
"Homicide"
999
"Shadow Line"
The Fleshtones
"Beyond and Back"
X
"Sign of the Cross"
Skafish
"Roxanne"
Police
"Bleed For Me"
Dead Kennedys
The 94 minute theatrical version widely released in America by Filmways Pictures omits 10 songs and artists that appear in the 124 minute version released to U.S. home video. The selections missing from most theatrical prints are:
John Cooper Clarke - "Health Fanatic"
Chelsea - "I'm on Fire"
Athletico Spizz 80 - "Where's Captain Kirk?"
Magazine - "Model Worker"
The Members - "Offshore Banking Business"
Invisible Sex - "Valium"
Pere Ubu - "Birdies"
John Otway - "Cheryl's Going Home"
Skafish - "Sign of the Cross"
Splodgeness Abounds - "Two Little Boys"

In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.

It's her business doing pleasure with you. A witty and provocative series based on the real-life adventures of a high-class escort. Juggling her own reality with her clients' fantasies can be difficult, but this savvy sweetheart knows every trick in the book, and she's doing it in style.

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.