UK Films Listing
Offered in the 2011 Cannes Marche were 130 finished UK films completed since the previous year’s Cannes, many being screened to buyers for the first time. 42 of the completed films were screened theatrically to buyers within the Marché. Another 66 UK features were in production or post-production, not to mention well over 100 further projects in various stages of development and preparation. Many of these films are represented by Film Export UK members.
Although great efforts have been made to present correct and up-to-date details, no warranty is made regarding the completeness or accuracy of the information in this listing.

Synopsis:                  When Dezzie befriends new boy Yasin at his school, little does he know his life will take an unexpected turn that will ultimately shape his future. Having witnessed the perpetual racist taunts and bullying to the quiet Chinese newcomer, Dezzie - no stranger to beatings himself - stands up to Yasin's persecutors and wins the respect, not only of his tormentors, but more importantly of Yasin. Dezzie takes Yasin under his protective wing and they become firm and loyal friends until Yasin's Godfather Kai Chang arrives to take the teenage Yasin back to Hong Kong. Ten years pass without a word until Yasin comes back to Manchester to find his friend Dezzie, and offers him an envious position at his side within the family firm. But this is a firm with a difference: Dezzie, the only white man to do so this side of the Atlantic is to be a Triad member and run the family business in Manchester and Liverpool.

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Synopsis:                  Charly, a young girl missing in her dinghy unnoticed by her pop celebrity mother drinking in a beach bar. Saved by strong swimmer Danny, they are swept away by the Atlantic current, nearly run down in shipping lanes, capsize in a storm and attacked by sharks. Fighting for survival they find a damaged yacht adrift with an injured woman and a dead body on board. Suspicious police question mother and friends, as International media take up the story.

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Synopsis:                  Following AGE OF HEROES and AGE OF HONOUR, comes AGE OF GLORY, the concluding part of an astounding WW2 trilogy, promising to take the British Commandos on their toughest and most dangerous mission yet; to support a people under attack from a trained and ruthless Japanese army. Assigned to assist the Chindits, an allied Force operating deep behind enemy lines in North Burma, Commandos Lawrence and Mac find themselves in the middle of an escalating and bloody conflict against Japan. Vastly outnumbered and facing an experienced and versatile enemy, Lawrence struggles with witnessing horrors and atrocities on a previously unseen scale. But Fleming's new mission alerts Lawrence to the needs of countless Burmese innocents, and with a new found leadership, resolve and determination, the Commandos team up with Lieutenant Carlson's Raider Squadron and parachute into the Burmese jungle to hunt down enemy leader, General Tazoe, facing a danger-riddled battleground and expert opponent. Brimming with authenticity and action packed from the get-go, AGE OF GLORY will raise the bar yet again in a fitting third chapter to a thrilling and unrivalled franchise; when soldiers became heroes, when honour superseded life, and when glory was found not only in victory, but in the fight itself.

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Synopsis:                  The Dirty Dozen' meets 'Tigerland' in AGE OF HEROES 'an action-packed adrenalin shot based on the true story of the formation of James Bond creator Ian Fleming's 30 Commando, one of the most respected, secretive and exclusive special forces regiments formed during the Second World War, from which the now legendary SAS was born. Ambushed deep behind enemy lines in WW2, the young British corporal Rains (DANNY DYER) fearlessly leads his men out of danger. But his rogue attitude costs him, and he's sent to an allied military prison for insubordination. When the highly esteemed Captain Jones (SEAN BEAN) shows up, Rains's bravado and raw display of fighting skills impress Jones enough to recruit him for his 'Commando' unit. After weeks of mentally intense and physically grueling training ops where Jones tests his men to their breaking point, they are quickly assigned their first mission; to parachute into occupied Norway and capture a deadly new radar technology from the Germans. But as they get near the drop-zone, the newly formed band of brothers, joined by 'Norwegian yank' Steiner and beautiful blonde spy Jensen, find themselves in the midst of a fierce dogfight, before crash landing in a Norwegian village where Nazis have been mercilessly executing civilians. In a bloody battle in the mountains of Norway, outnumbered by an enemy as ruthless as it is clinical, the soldiers soon realize it's do-or-die time. And by pushing their innate skills and hardcore training to the nth degree, we see that this is no time for ordinary soldiers... This is the AGE OF HEROES.

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Synopsis:                  The second film of the all action trilogy, AGE OF HONOUR sees a new squadron of British Commandos launch an offensive in the sand swept deserts of North Africa pitted against the notorious battle tactician, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, known as 'Desert Fox'. Led by Corporal Lawrence, the Commandos join forces with the famed SAS and Long Range Desert Group to infiltrate a German outpost and assassinate a high-profile enemy target, thought to help change the tide of the War. Enlisting two agents from the Special Operations Executive, based on instructions from Commander Fleming, the beautiful assassins Sophie Holbrook and Vera Stevens target the head of enemy forces in North Africa whilst the elite British soldiers are tested to their limit in wave after wave of hostile attacks and explosive dogfights. Retaining the blistering combat, adventure and camaraderie of AGE OF HEROES, AGE OF HONOUR will not only boast some truly awesome desert warfare, but also capture the bond between soldiers over fading dreams of returning home.

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Synopsis:                  Wartime Finland. The Russian Soviet army has taken over south east Finland after bitter fighting.10 year old Tuomas and his family head out of their war ravaged town to stay with his grandfather at a farm house in Soviet occupied territory. One night a Russian bomber crashes in a nearby field.  All crew members are believed to be dead, but Tuomas finds the pilot alive, caught by his parachute in the forest trees. The Finnish villagers refuse to help the Russian and leave him to die overnight. When this fails they decide to shoot him and bury his body in the forest soil.  The next day, Tuomas finds the airman alive wandering across a field. The boy is faced with a dilemma; to tell the villagers that the pilot is alive or hide him. The Airman is a universal story of trust, prejudice and a simple act of humanity.

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Synopsis:                  The Cliff House Hotel: Beth Fischer is cramming for her exams in desperation to escape to university. Dad Jonathan, once the bright young thing of the literary world, is now suffering from writer's block. Wife Joa runs their hotel but resents it, him and everyone around her as she gave up her 'promising career as an actress' for this. Their world is soon turned upside down when seventeen-year-old aspiring writer Emelia starts a new job at the hotel. Building a friendship with Beth and embarking on a love affair with Jonathan, secrets are revealed and relationships explode as the threads of the story collide and unravel. Can Amelia get rid of the Albatross that hangs around her neck and rewrite herself?

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Synopsis:                  19th century Ireland: a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years ''he' is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape this fate. When handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerves to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she's found a soul-mate - but Helen's eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new handy-man... As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time... This humorous but ultimately poignant ensemble story about life 'below-stairs' is nothing less than Gosford Park meets Boys Don't Cry.

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Synopsis:                  The indepth story and thirteen year journey of one extraordinary pilot who lost her career and health to what many say is aviation's biggest cover up and her amazing quest for answers and change. Filmed over a three year period Angel Without Wings relives the story of Melbourne born Susan Michaelis through exclusive footage and interviews. Angel Without Wings is the journey of Susan Michaelis from her dream of becoming a pilot to being awarded a PhD in aviation safety.

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Synopsis:                  A new father narrowly escapes a prison sentence and, with the help of fellow community service workers, concocts a plan to carve out a new future that involves a whiskey distillery.

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Synopsis:                  A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless 'wannabe', who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity. Featuring a hot contemporary soundtrack with artists including Tinie Tempah & Dizzee Rascal.

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Synopsis:                  A kindly old headmaster is forcefully usurped by his ambitious deputy, who promptly suspends the old headmaster's daughter, Rosalind, the most popular girl in the school. Orlando, the school nerd, unexpectedly wins a wrestling match and becomes the object of Rosalind's affections. When the school is sent on a field trip, Rosalind with her friends Celia and Touchstone, decides to gate crash the trip and she disguises herself a boy 'chav' which results in one of the most captivating and amusing love stories in Shakespearian literature.

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Synopsis:                  A fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters.

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Synopsis:                  Two sisters imprison their brother in a basement near an army base. When he escapes he takes revenge on soldiers thinking they have incarcerated him.

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Synopsis:                  In an attempt to save the neck of his junkie son Joe, Eddie (Nigel O'Neill) agrees to do a mysterious pick up with the help of Joe's girlfriend Liz (Aoife Duffin). The two head off across mid Ulster and eventually find themselves in possession of a lamb. En-route they fumble their way through a series of comic, tragic and disturbing adventures; Liz, struggling with her own drug addiction, crippling sensitivity and desire to connect with her disabled son who lives with foster parents. Eddie, an overweight and depressed ex accountant does his best to assume the role of a drug trafficker but his constant cradling of the lamb and love of bird watching doesn't do a lot for his tough guy image. In between moments of unexpected heroism and unlikely sightings of birds (vultures in Mid Ulster) Eddie's dysfunctional humanity connects with Liz's tortured past and a kind of healing begins.

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Synopsis:                  BEL AMI is the thrilling tale of a young man's rise to the top of Parisian high society in the 1890s via the beds of the city's most glamorous and influential women. In a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession, the film has a contemporary relevance which will resonate with audiences worldwide.

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Synopsis:                  Chubby, dance-obsessed private-detective Rajesh Ji and his motley band of helpers tackle poisonings, adultery and the occasional murder on the frenzied streets of Kolkata

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Synopsis:                  Every horror film in Italy has its sound twisted and sharpened at Berberian Sound Studio. Only the cheapest, nastiest and most abhorred films pass through these studio doors. Entering this twilight world of cinema is Gilderoy, an unassuming sound engineer from Dorking Deepdene, England. Having previously recorded sound only for school-television and nature documentaries, Gilderoy is hardly prepared to enter a studio of horror populated by sleazy directors, desperate actresses, freaks, troubadours and troublemakers.

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Synopsis:                  When penniless hustler Danny finds himself deeply in debt to the local gangster, he has no option but to persuade his mentally-disabled "brother" Joseph to take part in a brutal underground fight ring to clear his debt. The bonds of loyalty and love between the two friends are tested to the extreme as they struggle to survive on the desperate fringes of society.

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Synopsis:                  Horror about a young woman haunted by nightmares every birthday...and this is the most terrifying yet.

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Synopsis:                  Nicky Picolo works as a doorman and minder for shifty strip club operator Billy Turquoise. Desperate to be his own boss, he sees his opportunity in an old abandoned warehouse, where he hopes to set up his own club. Nick soon finds that there are some odd facets to this old building. His first visit is from the police, who are investigating a spate of recent murders in the area. All the victims have had the blood completely drained from their bodies. Nick is then visited by the strange Hungarian who wants Nick out of the building. And issue him with a sinister warning. Putting the pieces together, it all points in one direction. The Hungarian and his crew are all vampires and have been killing off junkies to replenish their blood supplies, and the warehouse just happens to be their home!.after all they have been there for hundreds of years! . Nick has a serious vampire problem. Vampires or no vampires, the Hungarian and his goons need to be taught a lesson, or at least removed from the premises.. With the help of a motley assortment of villains, including the sexually deviant hitman Murray, Lebanese gangsters, haz army and mo, the cool but lethal chop chop boys, silky smooth mediator and enforcer Melbourne tony and the wizend Sicilian patriach Franky the fat, brings the boys to a blood curdling showdown with their vampire antagonists

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Synopsis:                  England - the Great War has ended. The arrival of a mysterious soldier to an English farm threatens to drag Ellen, a sexually submissive farmhand, from the clutches of her dominant employer, Jane. Based on D.H. Lawrence’s, “The Fox”, Blackfarm is a re-examination of a classic taboo tale of survival.

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Synopsis:                  WILLIS and JAMIE are 16-year-old best mates with rampant hormones and as of yet unfulfilled adolescent desires. They do odd jobs for extra cash and idolise HARRY, whose garden they tend. He has everything they aspire to; a big house, flash car, designer clothes - and is presumably beating women off with a stick. Harry does indeed meet a lot of women, but he never keeps them for long. Harry is a serial killer who kidnaps, tortures and murders beautiful women. However, when Harry kidnaps BETHAN, he has finally met his match as even though he has her chained up, Harry comes off worse when he tries to dispatch her. Realising he needs some serious hardware for such a tough job, Harry visits a DIY centre. However, when he exits the car park tooled up, he is run over by a half-blind woman. Harry's murderous days could be over as he is taken to hospital where he lies in a coma. The next day Willis and Jamie tend to Harry's garden, but get a very big surprise when snooping in the basement of his house. They discover a beautiful vision in lingerie and in chains, presumably due to a kinky relationship with boyfriend Harry. In spite of her wishes to be set free, Willis has fallen in love and decides to temporarily keep her under lock and key. Discovering Harry's condition in the local newspaper, Willis sees this as a great opportunity to learn about women and love, the basement being the place where all his teenage fantasies can come true. Unfortunately for Willis, Bethan is much wilder than he imagines 'her taste for flesh is literal. Willis is about to be taught a lesson he will never forget 'if he survives...

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Synopsis:                  In a nameless city there’s an ex-con loner with an old score to settle, an exotic blonde with nowhere to run and a tough tycoon with a criminal past. A crooked property deal, blackmail and ultimately murder is about to throw all three inextricably together.

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Synopsis:                  Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, THE BOY MIR covers not one year but ten. It tracks the cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully grown eighteen-year-old. Over those ten years, it is a journey into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth; a journey that mirrors the current and vitally important story of Afghanistan.

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Synopsis:                  Brighton, 1964. Organized crime has moved into this sleepy English seaside town. Ambitious young gangster Pinkie Brown is determined to stop other gangs taking over his patch, but when he kills a rival, vital evidence falls into the innocent hands of a young waitress, Rose. Pinkie seduces Rose to stop her talking,but her employer, Ida, takes an infuriatingly close interest in the case. A year before the abolition of the death penalty, can Pinkie trust Rose not to betray him and can Rose trust Pinkie not to make her his next victim?

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Synopsis:                  Legendary film-maker John Landis directs this black comedy about hapless entrepreneurs William Burke and William Hare as they develop a lucrative venture in 19th century Edinburgh. What starts as an opportunistic "small-business enterprise" soon expands to grave-robbing and "ethical" murder to meet the insatiable demand of the leading Surgeons of the day.

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Synopsis:                  Sir Michael Gifford is dying. Once a prominent stage actor, the prodigious Englishman is now trapped within a body that is slowly but surely becoming a mere shell. The final stages of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) are robbing him of his famed intellect and ferocious independence at an alarming speed. Stanka, a young woman speaking broken English enters his life as his carer. She is somewhat of a mystery, giving nothing away about her past or why she has left her native Bulgaria. Slowly but reluctantly a relationship develops - the teacher and the pupil; the invalid and the carer - and, as Sir Michael's life ends, Stanka's can begin again.

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Synopsis:                  Based on the phenomenally successfully set of books and TV series of the same name about a hapless but loveable wizard who accidentally starts the Battle of Hastings and then finds himself thrust into the future where he must use all of his wayward magic spells to find a way back to his own time.

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Synopsis:                  The Irish banking bailout, triggered by reckless lending to property speculators, will cost 70 billion euro, nearly 16,000 euro per Irish citizen. How did a small group of bankers and property speculators cause one of the fastest and most disastrous financial collapses in history? We trace the spectacular rise and fall of twelve men whose entrepreneurial spirit lifted Ireland from poverty and whose greed brought the country close to bankruptcy. Their stories reflect the huge changes in Irish life over the last thirty years and the dangers of unchecked capitalism in a small country experiencing wealth for the first time.

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Synopsis:                  A young girl from a working class suburb lands a job in an ultra-glam ski resort, where she's totally out of her depth until she discovers her natural snowboarding genius - and the boss's gorgeous son! But there are a million reasons why she'll never make it all the way with either... So will she overcome the obstacles and make it to the famous Ticket to Ride qualifiers? And is Johnny the real deal, or just a high-altitude crush? Can chasing your dreams ever really work out?

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Synopsis:                  Chandalika, an untouchable, is the maidservant of Chandalini. One hot day, Ananda, a disciple of Buddha is passing. He asks Chandalika for water as he is very thirsty. Chandalika hesitates: untouchables should not have contact with people from higher castes. When she gives him the water, he is very grateful. Chandalika is impressed by his reaction and falls in love with him.

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Synopsis:                  Today is Dolly's (Felicity Jones) wedding, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and petty grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. However, when the time comes for the beautiful but secretive bride to make her grand entrance, the uninvited appearance of Dolly's lover from a previous summer, Joseph (Luke Treadaway), cuts short her desire to join in the festivities and embark on her new life with her new husband in South America.

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Synopsis:                  He's a single father, devoted to his beautiful 7 year old daughter. He's also a serial killer.

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Synopsis:                  Havana, 1948. Good looking and with a reputation as the hottest pianist on the island, Chico is a natural match for Rita, a stunning club singer. Their connection is instant and electric; soon they're a promising double act, performing and planning their lives together. Chico starts composing a song - his love song for her. But an American producer, Ron, sees Rita's potential and offers to take her to New York and make her a star. Chico gets drunk with jealousy. At first Rita refuses to go without Chico, but changes her mind after seeing Chico in the arms of another woman. Chico and his best friend Ramon follow her to New York and discover she's become a sensation on Broadway. Rita, still broken-hearted, refuses to see Chico. The years pass and Chico gets piano work any way he can to make ends meet. One day he plays piano at a party at which Rita is the guest of honour. He slowly begins to play her song and the effect is instantaneous. After a passionate night Chico wakes alone to find "I needed to kiss you again" scrawled in lipstick on the mirror. She is off to LA to become a movie star, and Ron deviously arranges for Chico to tour Europe with a famous jazz band. Re-united after their song becomes a hit, they decide to marry in Las Vegas at New Year. Again Ron intervenes, and Chico, an illegal immigrant, is suddenly shipped back home by the authorities. It's 1959, foreign travel is banned after the Cuban revolution 'and the lovers may be separated forever...

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Synopsis:                  CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION tells the stories of Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu - two women who emerged from the student revolutions of 1968 to become the leading female revolutionaries of their time. Appalled by the killing in Vietnam, they set out to destroy capitalist power through world revolution, as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. Authors and journalists Bettina Röhl and May Shigenobu explore the lives of their mothers, Ulrike and Fusako, providing a unique perspective on two of the most notorious "terrorists" in contemporary history. On the run or kidnapped when their mothers went underground, May and Bettina emerged from difficult childhoods to lead their own extraordinary lives. With capitalism once more in crisis, they face up to their mother's actions and we ask: what were they fighting for and what have we learned? Shot in Tokyo, Beirut, Jordan and Germany, the film tells the fascinating stories of Meinhof and Shigenobu through the eyes of May and Bettina, with evocative film of revolutionary training camps and rare archive interviews.

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Synopsis:                  Based on characters from the epic Mahabharata, Chitrangada is the daughter of the King of Manipur. As the King could only have male heirs, Chitrangada was brought up as a boy and became a great warrior. One day, she meets Arjun, another great warrior, who is meditating in the forest. Chitrangada falls in love with him.

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Synopsis:                  In 1921 the British Prime Minister ordered the construction of a military bunker on a remote Scottish Island. 90 years later the facility is downgraded by a government seeking to reduce its military assets and is taken over by private contractors. With the realisation that this bunker has been designed not to keep an enemy OUT but to keep something else IN, the contractors and a rag tag group of burnt out soldiers find themselves in a fight for their lives against an enemy that has survived the ravages of time. The Church is a beautifully designed action horror with strong plot twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Synopsis:                  A man wakes to find that he has been injured in a serious car crash and is being nursed back to health by a beautiful girl that he has never met before. With no memory of the events that brought him there he starts to try to put the pieces of his life back together, but the arrival of a second girl throws doubt on the motives of the first and the man starts to look at everything as uncertain, including his own identity. Will he make sense of it before it is too late? A supernatural psychological thriller from Graham Guy.

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Synopsis:                  Cockneys vs Zombies is the story of Andy (Harry Treadaway) and Terry (Rasmus Hardiker): two hapless brothers who try to save their grandad's (Alan Ford) old age pension home by robbing a bank while unbeknownst to them a virus sweeps across East London turning all the inhabitants into flesh eating zombies. Faced with hordes of undead cockneys and the challenge of rescuing a home full of tough OAPs in wheelchairs and crutches. Andy and Terry learn what it really takes to be a Cockney.

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Synopsis:                  Some people carry their emotional life around like a dead rat in a box - Twenty-year old Carmel McKisco is a daydreamer whose life revolves around a Manchester dive bar and the bar flies she serves and seduces. Recently dumped by her musician boyfriend, Carmel's on the rebound but doesn't know it. The flotsam and jetsam that wash up at her bar become foils for her troubles as she enters a whirlwind of self-doubt in her world of broken souls. She is in danger of joining them until she meets an American, Lucas. In his hotel room the seeds of her future are sown. But then her ex Tony makes a surprise reappearance. A film of broken dreams and dreamers...

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Synopsis:                  THE COMEDIAN is the debut of a very talented and award winning writer/director Tom Shkolnik, who workshops actors and creates a story through improvisation. At no point will there be a script, the preparation comes from working closely with the team.

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Synopsis:                  An offbeat, coming-of age love-story set during the armed robbery of London's most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.

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Synopsis:                  A contemporary version of Shakespeare's dangerous political thriller. The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a mass riot. Rome is bloody. Manipulated and out-manoeuvred by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, Coriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus and Aufidius march on Rome intending to destroy the city. Volumnia appeals to her son. He tries to reject her but eventually breaks. Aufidius, feeling bitterly betrayed, brutally murders Coriolanus.

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Synopsis:                  A young woman with amnesia is the main suspect in a series of gruesome murders. But the killers aren't from this world - and it's her they're after

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Synopsis:                  When Natalie agree to take over the care of a wounded young soldier, she never imagines that it will turn her world upside down, igniting a burning sexual passion, a deep and undying love and a desperate jealousy which leads to the tragic death of her husband whom she has loved for 20 years. What starts as a three week favour to a friend quickly kindles into an extraordinary psychological and erotic relationship. As Natalie stands in for the young and beautiful Theresa caring for Ramsey, the blind and wheelchair bound young soldier, an innocent deception quickly becomes an ongoing and multi-layered subterfuge against a ticking clock.

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Synopsis:                  The very near future. A fortified border known as the 'The Line' separates a wealthy European city from the surrounding Shanty towns full of poor refugees and vicious criminal gangs.   For Tom, Micky and a kidnapped baby, the only hope of survival is to break though the border at Crossing 23.

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Synopsis:                  Polly (Laura Fraser) is trapped in a dead-end life. But when she has the chance to escape, her nearest and dearest have other ideas. Alone at night, mysterious sounds surround her. Voices in the darkness. Whispers of deceit. Polly knows she's not cuckoo, but why won't the noises go away? Polly turns to the one person she can trust 'her boss, Julius (Richard E. Grant). But Julius has a dark secret of his own. He wants Polly, and he'll do anything to get her.

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Synopsis:                  A group of friends are terrorised on a stay at a remote cottage, tempers fray and nerves are on edge as one-by-one they meet their grisly ends. Uniquely, this tense horror movie was shot all in one continuous take, requiring perfectly timed performances from the cast and crew, and giving a claustrophibic 'real time' tension to the unfolding horror.

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Synopsis:                  A glimpse into the turbulent relationships between psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful woman who came between them.

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Synopsis:                  The Dead takes place in the very near future, most of the world has succumbed to the virus of the living dead. After crashing off the coast of Africa, Lt. Brian Murphy battles for survival across the terrible terrain of Africa in search of a way to get back to his beloved family in the USA. Saved by a local military man, who is also searching for his son, both men join forces, all the while battling against the ever-present threat of the living dead.

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Synopsis:                  Posh hitman CHARLES lives in Cannes and wants to retire with a yacht and a woman in tow. He has no experience with either until he lets his cleaning lady (delectable Essex-girl LISA) into his life, but he doesn't bank on her vile boyfriend DENNY or con-artists SIMON and RAY stealing a two million quid nest egg from the boot of his car. Charles hunts them down across the Cote d'Azur whilst pursued by his rival CLANCY who is incensed by the fact that Charles might actually be retiring.

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Synopsis:                  After lovelorn Katie (Kelly MacDonald) is dumped at the altar, she returns home to her windswept Scottish island, thinking she will never walk down the aisle. Little does she know that Hollywood superstar Lara (Alice Eve) has chosen the island as the secret venue for her marriage to her gorgeous boyfriend James (Dr Who's David Tennant). But with the paparazzi hard on her tail, Lara needs to throw them off the scent. Katie agrees to dress in white and walk down the aisle as Lara's 'decoy bride'. Wedding bells ring, love blooms, but who ends up happily ever after?

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Synopsis:                  Beautiful Hester Collyer leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the wife of a high court judge. To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with dashing young RAF pilot, Freddie Page, with whom she has fallen passionatlely in love.

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Synopsis:                  Sean takes his two friends Adam and Danny on a wild-goose chase into the rural wilds of Wales. The Red Herring plot delivers the City Boys into the uncharted, unknown and deeply alien territory of rural isolation where they accidentally cross William Perry, an equally desperate farmer, whose livelihood has failed and who has grown increasingly paranoid, hateful and suspicious of all around him. William is a man ostracized by his local community and peers, whose fear and hatred of outsiders is driven to new violent heights. The situation grows rapidly out of control, spiraling into a horrific 'heart of darkness' spree of pointless violence and revenge as William hunts the boys through the stark and unforgiving terrain.

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Synopsis:                  A naive boy's journey into the the world of violence and gangsterism that control the London drugs trade which he must work in to repay his debts to the pushers. How to get out? When cocaine - the devils dandruff - is the currency.

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Synopsis:                  NORTHERN IRELAND   1968 - During a Civil Rights protest a 21 year old woman is blasted halfway down the street by a water cannon.  1969 - The same young woman makes her maiden speech in The House of Commons.  1972 'A sniper's bullet misses her by inches.  1981- Gunmen crash through her door and pump nine bullets into her body at point blank range.    Miraculously she survives.   This is the story of Bernadette Devlin - the youngest woman MP ever elected. She was loved and hated, obstinate and brave and a champion who tirelessly campaigned against the injustices facing the Catholic people of Northern Ireland.

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Synopsis:                  The director famed for his Shakespeare adaptations, in particular the definitive version of Romeo and Juliet, reflects on his illustrious career. Colleagues and commentators share their insights on the towering director of cinema, theatre and opera.

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Synopsis:                  A 3D motion picture experience, DISTANT THUNDER is a story of courage, loss, risk and hope. Set against a spectacular African landscape the film follows a group of elephants as they struggle to survive in the face of climate change.

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Synopsis:                  Three women from middle England form an Aretha Franklin tribute band and go out on a road tour that could lead them to Las Vegas.

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Synopsis:                  Sex, Drugs and Acid House

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Synopsis:                  Frustrated by the soulless Soutine World he is tied to and troubled by the need to find meaning in everything, the life of advertising executive Callum Cutter is thrown into poetic chaos when he meets the free-spirited French seductress Malika who promises to change his life forever...providing he keeps her identity a secret.

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Synopsis:                  Donor Unknown follows the story of JoEllen Marsh, 20, as she goes in search of the sperm donor father she only knows as Donor 150. JoEllen has always known her family 'wasn't like other families'. She grew up in Pennsylvania with two mothers, and a burning curiosity to know more about her anonymous donor father. When JoEllen discovers a unique online registry that connects donor-conceived children, she manages to track down a half-sister in New York. The New York Times picks up the story, and, over time, 12 more half-siblings emerge across the USA. The New York Times article also falls into the hands of Jeffrey Harrison, living alone with four dogs and a pigeon in a broken-down RV in a Venice Beach car park. In the 1980s, Jeffrey supplemented his meagre income by becoming a sperm donor at California Cryobank. His number was Donor 150.

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Synopsis:                  What if you invited a serial killer on holiday?

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Synopsis:                  DORA is the dramatic story of a young girl from a village deep in the eternal Transylvanian countryside, who dares to broaden her horizon and finally decides to escape to the West. Dora is an awareness film and raises important issues about cultural differences, bullying and immigration.

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Synopsis:                  1918, somewhere in France. A fresh batch of American doughboys arrives at the deadlocked western front, a bloody, blighted landscape where millions of young men have met their deaths. On their very first night in the front line trenches, the new recruits are led by a seasoned sergeant on a night patrol through the corpse-strewn No-Man's Land. In the menacing darkness, one of them sees a dead body turn to look at him. His scream gives away their position and everything goes to hell. The Sergeant is mortally wounded and the inexperienced boys are left alone in this mass graveyard, pinned down by heavy bombardment and a poison gas attack that leaves them shell shocked and causes them to lose their bearings. By the time the boys are captured by German soldiers, they are relieved to see their enemy. But when they learn the Germans are tunneling under the lines, they are faced with a dilemma: let their entire company get slaughtered in a mine explosion, or escape and try to warn them, which means rushing back through the infernal gauntlet of No-Man's Land.

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Synopsis:                  Ecstasy is a dark romantic comedy, set in the nightclubs of Scotland and Amsterdam from the pen of Irvine Welsh the best-selling author of Trainspotting.

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Synopsis:                  Washed-up pop star (PAUL HILTON) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman (MAXINE PEAKE), who is desperate to recover her past. An older woman (MARJORIE YATES) checks into a room with dark intent, but encounters a chambermaid (ANIA WENDZIKOWSKA) who refuses to leave her alone. A blind date set up on the Internet between two teenagers (JOE DEMPSIE, NICHOLA BURLEY) fails to turn out like either of them expected. Over the course of two days and one night the hotel guests, frozen into the snowy landscape, begin to thaw - and to find a purpose that connects them all.

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Synopsis:                  Three people become friends, two form a relationship both loving and destructive. After one takes their own life the other two are left with blame, guilt and self doubt. To keep on living is their only redemption.

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Synopsis:                  This is a 3D horror/comedy/musical starring the late David Carradine in his last role, alongside his fellow Kill Bill cast members Daryl Hannah and Michael Madsen. Currently in post-production, we will introduce to buyers at AFM and screen footage.

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Synopsis:                  A wannabe small town detective gets more than she bargains for when a family of cannibals move in across the road.

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Synopsis:                  ELIMINATE: Archie Cookson is an offbeat espionage thriller about the rapidly unraveling life of a forgotten MI6 spy. Past his prime, Archie is a relic in the office and ignored by his estranged wife and son. Mysteriously receiving cold-war tape recordings that implicate senior MI6 officials in murder, Archie survives the elimination of his department colleagues only to be confronted by his long time friend and ex-CIA 'problem solver', Ennis Miller. At first believing that he is his savior, Archie discovers Ennis is his reluctant assassin who grants him a stay of execution for Archie to reconcile his differences with his estranged family. Assassination is now the last of his worries as Archie tries to make peace with his frosty wife and son, evade the Secret Service and bring the men implicated on the tapes to justice before Ennis can finish his task of killing him.

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Synopsis:                  After becoming a movie star at the age of just 12 in National Velvet, Dame Elizabeth Taylor emerged as a beacon of the Hollywood studio system. Taylor took on the eponymous role in the lavish production of Cleopatra and delivered an unforgettable Oscar-winning performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opposite her then husband Richard Burton. Known for an illustrious screen career, a succession of whirlwind marriages and her sterling charity work, this documentary celebrates the life of silver screen's great Dame.

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Synopsis:                  Elysian Kaffe is an allegory for a City worker, a builder and an artist; 3 estranged characters in parallel worlds perilously haunted and resided by an ethereal waitress and a shrink.

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Synopsis:                  Captured by the US military in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transported to a secret detention center in Eastern Europe. When the vehicle he is riding in crashes, he finds himself suddenly free and on the run in a snow-blanketed forest, a world away from the desert home he knew. Relentlessly pursued by an army that does not officially exist, Mohammed must confront the need to kill in order to survive.

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Synopsis:                  British-Asian rebel Ash is caught in a culture clash. Trapped in a mindless family business, he seeks a way out of his mapped out, mundane existence. From the director of the English hit movie KiDULTHOOD.

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Synopsis:                  This is the inside story of Street Art 'a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shopkeeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner 'with wildly unexpected results.

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Synopsis:                  Facing biological disaster following a lethal viral outbreak, a young woman is forced to lead a group of friends to safety in the face of the military's marshal law doctrine of "kill now and ask questions later."

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Synopsis:                  F tells the story of Robert Anderson, a burned-out alcoholic world-weary English teacher, a man who has to face his most terrifying demons. F is set in a huge sprawling U.K. comprehensive school, after lessons have finished for the day. What is a place of learning during the daytime, becomes a vast and deserted labyrinthine nightmare of endless corridors, empty classrooms, woodwork rooms, gyms, welding rooms, motor pool shops, canteens, photographic darkrooms, art studios and sports halls. The school comes under relentless attack from a group of blood thirsty hoodies, intent on only one thing, to spread terror. Anderson must battle these brutal killers, and his deepest fears, in a desperate battle for the survival of his pupils, fellow teachers and those he holds most dear.

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Synopsis:                  Fast Romance is a romantic comedy which follows the lives of seven very different people who go looking for love and end up getting more than they bargained for. Set in contemporary Glasgow, with a vibrant soundtrack and wonderful performances from some of Scotland's finest talent, Fast Romance has the honest charm of classic Scottish movies such as Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. Fast Romance has already gained a theatrical release through the Cineworld chain and will be seen in cinemas across Scotland from the 1st July.

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Synopsis:                  In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge (Oliver Litondo), an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties, who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied - even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six-year-olds. Moved by his passionate plea, head teacher Jane Obinchu (Naomie Harris), supports his struggle to gain admission and together they face fierce opposition from parents and officials who don't want to waste a precious school place on such an old man. Full of vitality and humour, the film explores the remarkable relationships Maruge builds with his classmates some eighty years his junior. Through Maruge's journey, we are taken back to the shocking untold story of British colonial rule 50 years earlier where Maruge fought for the freedom of his country, eventually ending up in the extreme and harsh conditions of the British detention camps. Directed by Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL/BLEAK HOUSE) from a script by Emmy-winner Ann Peacock (THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, KIT KITTRIDGE), THE FIRST GRADER is a heart warming and inspiring true story of one man's fight for what he believes is his right in order to overcome the burdens of his past. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education. The filming process itself was quite extraordinary, as the children in the film 'who are in many ways the stars 'had never even seen a film or television set before let alone been involved in the filming process. Their involvement in the shoot was a totally novel experience for them and their enthusiasm and energy is captured beautifully on screen

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Synopsis:                  Featuring music from the world's greatest composer Mozart, and his famous opera "COSI FAN TUTTE". This is a movie which fuses the stately grandeur of Gosford Park with the magical music of Amadeus for a unique story of love's fluctuating fortunes, set against a sumptuous backdrop of visual and vocal beauty. As the cast, drama and score all tread the tightrope of tone between humour and pathos, what unfolds is a timeless romantic comedy. Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he's little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of a female conductor he's been pursuing whom, it just so happens, is the first to be recruited for his showpiece.

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Synopsis:                  14 year old Ben moves to London from the country so his sister can have treatment for leukaemia. In the big city he feels lonely and isolated. But then he finds a gold ring in the park. The attendant, Theodore, tells him that this is one of the original Olympic rings. The ancient artefact has come to him, indicating that Ben has the metal of a champion within him. The young lad is initially sceptical, but backed by his loyal sister Ben trains to gain a place on the local running club. School bully Jake does not want competition for places and trips Ben during the trial. But the boy simply pulls himself up, takes Theodore's advice to find his inner strength, and gets to the finishing line first. Seven years later and Ben is competing in the Olympics.

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Synopsis:                  All Hallows Eve 'the perfect night for a ghost hunt. At least that's what documentary film-maker Julia Marsh was told when she joined 'Paranormal Investigations Inc' for their Live Halloween special. Their mission: to discover the truth behind the legend of the 'Screaming Spectres of Emerson Farm'. Their mistake to awaken an arcane presence and the excursion rapidly descends into a night of heart-stopping paranormal terror.

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Synopsis:                  There are three things in JOHN'S life. Betting, betting and betting. Betting rules John's life in more ways than any normal, sane, rational, non-gambling person can ever imagine. For John, it's an obsession. But his wife HELEN puts up with it because she loves him - and she loves the high of a big win. When John's rolling in it, they both roll in it 'flash hotels, flash holidays and a flash life...for a while. When it's good it's good and when it's not, there's always next time. And most important, John's honest with Helen: if he loses, he tells her. Always. That is, up until he meets STAN. Stan is a new bookie down at the dog track. Stan is also a woman. John's never seen a female bookie at the track. Neither have WAGNER and ADRIAN, his two best friends. So John puts his money with Stan, and he wins. Big time. But soon enough the money's gone, and the wins dry up. It's at that point that Stan offers John a new way to make money, the Special Bet. The Special Bet can take any form, eat a hot chilli, spend a week in the bath, and pull out that broken tooth. Each time John can win real money by completing one, but Stan decides the stake and she has a penchant for personal things. She's not interested in money, but if something has sentimental value then that's what she demands as a stake. There's only one other rule, a Special Bet stays secret. No one else is allowed to know. Not even Helen. But when Adrian dies in a mysterious accident John wonders if he was the only person taking these Special Bets. He decides he's had enough but it's not that easy to walk away from Stan. Events start spiralling out of control as John digs himself deeper into Stan's pocket, until the stakes are raised to mind-blowing odds. The bet could change John's life, but like all of Stan's bets there are rules which cannot be broken. Break them and face the consequences. With his family. With his friends. John is going to make one last bet, and the stakes can't get any higher than this.

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Synopsis:                  Forget Me Not is a truly moving, modern day love story set against a stunning London backdrop. Taking place over twenty four hours, the story centres on Will Fletcher, a passionate musician, and Eve Fisher, a beautiful, free-spirited woman who works in the local bar. Whilst struggling to cope with a tragic secret, Will saves Eve from a drunken customer at closing time and their paths become inextricably linked. Intrigued by one another, they journey through London, not knowing what the night holds or what the day may bring. As dawn turns to light and the two draw ever closer, can Will reveal the truth to Eve?

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Synopsis:                  Zooey (Toni Collette) and Alec Morrison (Ioan Gruffudd) are a married couple who have been unable to heal the wounds caused by the death of their 5 year old son several years ago. Now unable to conceive, the Morrisons await confirmation of a child to foster. One day, a 7 year old boy who calls himself 'ELI' appears on their doorstep quite mysteriously, explaining the foster agency has sent him. The boy is old beyond his years and it becomes apparent that he is the listening ear amongst the couple's marriage breakdown. The boy offers moral support and idealistic suggestions to his foster parents on how to repair and re-kindle their love for each other. Adored by his foster Mother and admired by his foster Father, the couple begin to rebuild their foundations at home, at work and emotionally until they find the love they once had for each other. Miraculously, Zooey discovers she has conceived - a baby is on the way. Simultaneously, Eli mysteriously disappears... leaving only a letter on his bed.

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Synopsis:                  An abandoned child with a rare condition becomes a circus freak in 1930s England. Part of Parallel Lines project which is an Award Winning series of shorts produced by Ridley Scott Associates Films, The Foundling is the first to be shot in 3D and one of the World's first Live-Action 3D shorts.

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Synopsis:                  Dylcia Pagan was born in the Bronx and raised in East Harlem El Barrio. She was a child star, on The Children's Hour on NBC. She was community activist and organizer. She struggled to create a Puerto Rican studies department in Brooklyn College that still exists today. She worked as a journalist and television producer for ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. She was a member of the FALN, (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional) 'the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a clandestine group dedicated to fighting for the liberation of Puerto Rico from the US colonial rule. She gave birth to a son and was forced to give him up to strangers to raise when she went underground to continue the fight for her country's freedom. She was arrested, charged with seditious conspiracy, and refused to participate in her trial by taking a prisoner of war status, in which she did not recognize the US government as having any jurisdiction over her throughout her trial. She was found guilty and sentenced to sixty-three years. Twenty. We live in a world that confuses prominence for significance, fame for importance and celebrity for substance. In a different world Dylcia Pagan would be universally hailed as a heroine. She would be recognized for the sacrifices she's chose to make and would be a living folk hero. But that's all not the world we live in. Dylcia is significant but not prominent, important but not famous, substantial but not a celebrity.

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Synopsis:                  Regarded as one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history, “From the Ashes” tells the story of the 1981 Ashes series between England and Australia.

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Synopsis:                  This deeply personal film chronicles George Harrison's life as a Beatle, his success as a solo artist and his lifelong quest to balance the material and the spiritual.

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Synopsis:                  VE Day, 1945. Across the world, people are celebrating the end of the war. London overflows with celebration and excess. Two teenage sisters are allowed out at night for the first time to join the party. They have an amazing adventure; it's like a first date. And they get back home far too late. Home is Buckingham Palace. Our two teenagers are Princess Margaret and the future queen of England, Elizabeth II. This is the story of a delightful and romantic Girls' Night Out.

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Synopsis:                  Vlasta, a patriotic warrior, brings her nation to the verge of extinction following the unexpected death of a gifted visionary Queen, the head of a flourishing matriarchy - Bohemia. Vlasta intends to resolve a power conflict that arises, it all ends on a battlefield. Based on an old legend.

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Synopsis:                  The tale of a mighty Pict warrior battling to rescue his grandson from the clutches of a fearsome werewolf clan while also seeking retribution for the death of his father and son.

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Synopsis:                  Golf In The Kingdom the movie is adapted from the best selling novel ever written about the game of golf. Translated into every language, this 1970's cult classic tells the story of a young American man en route to India in 1956, who stops to play the legendary links of Burningbush and in a single day and night has his life transformed. Paired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, he is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a back swing governed by true gravity. Through mystic-philosopher Shivas Irons, the viewer is drawn into a new world- wild as a banshee, filled with whiskey and Scottish spirited humor.

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Synopsis:                  Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of pictures illustrating the Old Testament's biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.

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Synopsis:                  An idyllic remote Irish fishing village is invaded by enormous tentacled creatures from the sea who are picking off the villagers one at a time. The inhabitants learn that the one thing the creatures don't like is alcohol, it makes people taste horrible, so they realise that in order to stay alive, they're going to have to get as drunk as possible.

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Synopsis:                  A hard-living Galway Guard is forced to team up with a black FBI agent to break a drug smuggling ring off the West Coast of Ireland.

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Synopsis:                  Recently widowed Audrey moves to a small village in the English countryside. She soon discovers the old house she is renting is not as empty as she thought... Her presence has awakened a spirit. Yet she decides to stay, and through the unusual friendship she strikes with the apparition, she begins getting over her grief. But is the ghost benign or malevolent? And is he real, or the product of her fractured mind?

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Synopsis:                  A terrifying ghost story inspired by true events.

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Synopsis:                  When Amy, a wife in the worst marriage ever, stumbles on $2million from a botched bank heist, she grabs her daughter, Elise and runs, but Elise is daddy's girl and daddy is the bank robber. Heaven Sent is a psychological noir set in the American Mid-west. In the tradition of the Coens' and Hitchcock, this is a twisted game of chess with a daughter as the prize. An ensemble cast with strong, emotionally complex roles.

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Synopsis:                  Sibling rivalry turns into betrayal between two brothers; one an aspiring Prime Minister - the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.

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Synopsis:                  Urban myth tells of a vicious fox that stole one of two twin babies in the dead of night from a grieving widow. Distraught and deluded, the deranged woman locks her remaining child in the attic room of her grand London town house. Twenty five years later, Hector Green lives under the belief that life outside will kill him. Curiosity soon wins him over when he develops an imaginary friend by the name of Henry. The ghost of an ex-conman, Henry has just 24 hours to break Hector free from his suburban prison and show him real life played out on the streets of south London. Witnessing birth, death, love and experiencing every emotion in between, Hector's own life is soon in serious jeopardy when Henry's past returns to haunt him in the form of Jackerbee Stonehouse, a violent, sadistic murderer hellbent on finding a fortune to which he believes Hector is the key. After a heart pounding, rollercoaster adventure, Hector returns home to discover the most unbelievable truth yet, the truth about his mother.

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Synopsis:                  HIDDEN REALITY is a fantasy thriller with the elements of a fable. It a story about a "CITY" where people are forced to live under the rules of a system made by powerful and corrupt Corporations and politicians. It's a story about talented people, individual thinkers that struggle and fights for a freeway of life, for art, individuality and human values. HIDDEN REALITY tackles the fragility of today's complexe society by capturing it through the eyes of a young photographer Anne Coldwell. Anne leaves in a society of consumers assembled and guided by gluttony, hate, lust, selfishness and deceptions willingly destroying the individuals and individuality. A Society "founded" and controlled, from the shadow, by Dante and his global corp. Anne is a wall flower by nature, she is hidding from the rest of the world behind the photo camera. She came to terms that she will be always lonely and insignificant like other millions and millions of people on this planet. Dante managed over the centuries to find and take advantage of the Human weakness for more and indirectly "controls" the Human's Decisions based on our greed and vanity. Anne finds herself now in the middle of a battle hidden from the human eye for centuries.

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