Movie buffs... help? (1 Viewer)

[chickenham]

Here are the ingredients
I saw this around the turn of the eighties (I think) which means I was less than ten.. the memories are clear-ish.
The movie features Sting as a kind of angel or force of good in the world - he never speaks (I think).
It wasn't 'Brimstone and treacle'.
A memorable scene is where the main character gets on a London bus and everyone on the bus starts coughing their hoop up in a drawn out horrible scene.
Some other guy jumps out of a rose window in cathedral with a rope around his neck.
The whole thing is very dark and disjointed - made a huge impression on little me.

Does this ring any bells? - no sign of it in the Sting filmographies I've looked at.

 

[dudley]

sounds like artemis 81

Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082030/

 

[the departed]

(EDIT) what dudley said

 

[chickenham]

Zong!
That's it '..grindingly slow..' '..incomprehensible..' woo-hoo!
I'd love to see it again.