Saxophonist Danny (played by Stephen Rea in the first of eight appearances in Jordan’s films) hunts down the loyalist murder gang who killed the young girl (Veronica Quilligan) he had befriended.

Although made for TV, Angel’s visually poetic style and metaphysical approach to the subject matter caught the interest of then distributor Stephen Woolley who encouraged Channel 4 to give the film a UK cinema release. Its theatrical success would embolden the channel to engage more with the possibilities of cinema whilst the partnership of Woolley and Jordan would lead to some of the decade's (and beyond) most distinctive and defining films - The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992).

The 6.00pm screening on Fri 26 Sept will be introduced by Hugh Odling-Smee (Film Hub NI).

Part of Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema screening alongside Absolute Beginners, My Beautiful Laundrette, and Defence of The Realm.