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Features 2008 - 2009

 

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1066 (Feature, 2009) Director: Robin Jacob; Principal Cast: Mark Lester, Ian Whyte, Gary Daniels, Marty Klebba, Matthias Hues; It is 1036 and England is without a Monarch and in turmoil. King Canute had died the previous year and a new king has not yet been chosen. Earl Godwin,...
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1234 (Feature, 2008) Director: Giles Borg; Principal Cast: Ian Bonar, Lyndsey Marshal, Kieran Bew, Mathew Baynton; Bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie endures a job he despises and can’t get a girlfriend, but at least he has music. With his mate Neil, he’s been kicking about in bands for...
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1939 (Feature, 2008) Director: Stephen Poliakoff; Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, David Tennant, Charlie Cox, Jeremy Northam, Christopher Lee; 1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic Norfolk countryside in the lead up to the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story...
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25Gs (Feature, 2008) Director: Baldwin Li; Principal Cast: Joe Moan, Steve Garry, Helen Kennedy, Laura Danielle Sharp, Tommy Davies, Graham Gavin; Johnny has lost £25,000. It all happened so fast: he just put it down for a second and then it was gone. It wasn’t his to lose. It was such...
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31 North 62 East (Feature, 2009) Director: Tristan Loraine; Principal Cast: John Rhys-Davies, Heather Peace, Marina Sirtis, Craig Fairbrass; Britain in 2009. The corrupt British Prime Minister John Hammond has secured an 80 billion arms deal with Afghanistan, a deal that will boost his image to the British public,...
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44 Inch Chest (Feature, 2008) Director: Malcolm Venville; Principal Cast: Ian McShane, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, Tom Wilkinson; Ray Winstone, In McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Dillane, star in 44 Inch Chest , a powerful and explosive drama which unfolds when a jealous husband and friends...
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7 Lives (Feature, 2009) Director: Paul Wilkins; Principal Cast: Danny Dyer, Mary Stockley, Kate Ashfield; A modern day It's a Wonderful Life about a man who gets attacked on his way home from work and falls into a parallel world where he 'lives' 6 other...
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8.5 Hours (Feature, 2008) Director: Brian Lally; Principal Cast: Lynette Callaghan, Jonathan Byrne, Victor Burke, Art Kearns, Geraldine Plunkett, Gary Egan; 8.5 Hours is an intense, contemporary drama about one day in the working lives of four software workers in Dublin. On one particular Monday, each of the characters finds their...
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9 Steps to a New Start (Feature, 2005) Director: Neil Wagstaff; Principal Cast: Rhodri Wyn Miles, Nia Roberts, Elena Rose Hanson, Clare Isaac, Rachel Isaac; Gareth embarks on a day like any other - or so he thinks. As things go from bad to worse, he decides he wants more out of life than his...
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A Certain Romance (Feature, 2008) Director: Gabriel Robertson; Principal Cast: Scott Campbell, Austin Low, Jen Byrne, Iain Andrew, Kevin Jamieson; A broken chronological journey revealing a week in the life of a struggling young writer.
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A+D (Feature, 2008) Director: Amber Sealey; Principal Cast: Amber Sealey and Anton Saunders; When Alice and Dan meet their connection is undeniable; it's clear they are meant to be. But are they ready for each other? Confined in their small London flat, they...
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Abraham's Point (Feature, 2008) Director: Wyndham Price; Principal Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Joseph Millson, Mariah Gale, Christian McKay, Harriet Walter; Mackenzie Crook plays a young man, Comet Snape, who steals a grandfather clock and sets off to bring it back to his dying father in West Wales. Sometimes poignant, often...
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Act of God (Feature, 2008) Director: Sean Faughnan; Principal Cast: David Suchet, Max Brown, Jenny Agutter, Adrian Dunbar; When hearts are a rare and valuable commodity, only the most ruthless survive.
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Act Of Grace (Feature, 2008) Director: Noreen Kershaw; Principal Cast: Leo Gregory, Jody Latham, Jennifer Lim, David Yip, Andrew Schofield and Crissy Rock; In a secret world a family's code of honour is under threat, and an ancient way of life is knocked off it's axis by one small boys act of grace...
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An Act of Terror (Feature, 2008) Director: Shahid Nadeem; Principal Cast: Asim Bukhari, Jamil Jarral, Gia Avan, Bryan Larkin; Police raid a Glaswegian Asian household. The son, Ali is arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Between cops, hacks, mullahs and militants, the Malik family’s world descends into nightmare. Yet not...
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Adulthood (Feature, 2008) Director: Noel Clarke; Principal Cast: Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Jacob Anderson, Femi Oyeniran, Red Madrell, Ben Drew, Cornell S. John, Nathan Constance, Danny Dyer; After Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he finds difficulty adjusting to life on the outside. Sam is forced to confront the people he hurt, trying to...
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Affinity (Feature, 2008) Director: Tim Fywell; Principal Cast: Anna Madeley, Zoe Tapper, Anna Massey, Anne Reid; Set in and around the women’s prison at Millbank in the 1870s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing mystery and a poignant love...
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Afghan Star (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Havana Marking; Principal Cast: n/a; After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan. Millions are watching Afghan Star - a Pop Idol-style TV series in which people from across...
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Afro-Saxons (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Rachel Wang, Mark Currie; Principal Cast: George Kosit, Apple Kosit, Wayne Shorter-Campbell, Cyndia Harvey, Allan Henry; Angela is a braid stylist to the stars. Wayne and Cyndia are the leading junior stylists at the UK's biggest chain of Afro hair salons. George and Apple are a...
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Afterwards (Feature, 2009) Director: Kivmars Bowling; Principal Cast: Beate Malkus, Helmuth Meier-Lautenschläger; Berlin. Night. An old, homeless drunk stumbles down the street. Ignored by everyone. Almost everyone. Suddenly a woman appears in front of him, mid-thirties, thin, a drug addict. They stand...
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The Agent (Feature, 2008) Director: Lesley Manning; Principal Cast: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy, Maureen Lipman; It’s all in a day’s work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch… but first there is...
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Agent Crush (Feature/Animation, 2007) Director: Sean Robinson; Principal Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Brian Cox, Neve Campbell, Roger Moore, Brian Blessed, Ruby Wax, Jon Culshaw, Rula Lenska, Trevor White, Tim McInnerny, Niko Nicotera, Matthew Cureton; It’s 200 years in the future and much has changed but one thing remains a constant – crime, and it’s getting a little bizarre. Boris Goudphater is the first prototype...
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Ahlaam (Feature, 2004) Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji; This remarkable debut film plunges the viewer into the madness of occupied Baghdad circa 2003. Two inmates from a mental institution suddenly find themselves out in the streets, negotiating local...
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All Bar Love (Feature, 2007) Director: James Derbyshire; Principal Cast: Jeremy Hancock, Ben Joiner, Cloudia Swann, Joanna Farrell, Jacqueline Wilder, Doug Yacka; Martin is living a loveless and sex-starved existence. If he doesn’t pull himself together, his ex-wife will sell his beloved wine bar. Martin is cast back into the horrifying world...
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All Good Dogs Lie Down (Feature, 2008) Director: Kevin McMonagle; Principal Cast: TBA; A biopic celebrating the life of visionary musician Billy MacKenzie of the Associates. Focusing on his rise to fame and untimely death. Set at the height of the 80's.
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All Tomorrow's Parties (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: All Tomorrow's People; Principal Cast: Iggy and the Stooges, Daniel Johnston, Belle and Sebastian, Battles, Portishead, The Gossip, Grinderman, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mogwai, Seasick Steve, David Cross, Sonic Youth.; In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, alternative music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated...
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AmaZulu: The Children Of Heaven (Feature/Documentary, 2006) Director: Hannan Majid, Richard York; Life in a South African Township is seen through the eyes of seven pupils as they come together under the parental eye of Mr Mtshali, headmaster of Velabahleke High School....
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Ambleton Delight (Feature, 2009) Director: Daniel Parkes; Principal Cast: Brian Capron, Jos Lawton, Kristina Anne Howell, Ernest Worthing; A drama based on a true story in which a restaurant chef (Jos Lawton) haunted by his past, challenges a village mayor's (Brian Capron) opposition to a proposal for a...
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American: The Bill Hicks Story (Feature/Animation/Documentary, 2009) Director: Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas; Principal Cast: Mary Hicks, Steve Hicks, Lynn Hicks, Kevin Booth, Dwight Slade, David Johndrow, James Ladmirault, John Farneti, Andy Huggins, Steve Epstein ; 'At last, the true life story of the outlaw comic who tried to save the world. He still might...' Bill Hicks is considered by many to be the greatest comedian...
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Ana Begins (Feature, 2008) Director: Ben O'Connor; Principal Cast: Cosima Shaw and Steve Huison; Ana’s husband has died. She finds herself alone, isolated in her home on the outskirts of a rural village in North Devon, trying to start again. It is a cold...
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Anaphylaxis (Feature, 2009) Director: Ayman Mokhtar; Principal Cast: Guy Defferary, Katia Winter, Jenna Brook, Frazer Douglas; A doctor develops a strange illness – anaphylaxis, a severe allergy to human skin. He struggles with his inability to touch people until he discovers that dead bodies don’t trigger...
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And The Beat Goes On (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Steve Jaggi; Principal Cast: Jimi Mistry, Danny Rampling, Danny Tenaglia, Johnny Walker, David Guetta, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Charlie Chester, Jo Mills, Alfredo; A stylized feature length documentary following british actor and DJ Jimi Mistry as he explores Ibiza's rich musical and spiritual history. Candid interviews with superstar DJ's, journalists and spiritualists mixed...
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And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Feature, 2007) Director: Anand Tucker; Principal Cast: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson; Based on Blake Morrison’s best selling memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father? is ultimately a father son love story. From scholarly Blake’s fraught and sometimes humiliating teenage...
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Angel (Feature, 2006) Director: Francois Ozon; Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender; Set in England at the turn of the last century, Angel recounts the glorious rise of Angel Deverell, a poor but passionately determined young woman, who climbs the social ladder...
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Another Day In Hell (Feature, 2008) Director: S Kane; Principal Cast: Monique Ganderton, Rowan Lief Tichenor, Kacey Camp, Shea Hobson, Ruth Tichenor.; Through the course of a day an uprising in Hell unfolds from the actions of five revolutionaries. www.anotherdayinhellthemovie.com
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Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo (Feature, 2008) Director: Richard Ayoade; Principal Cast: ; Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo is a cinematic feast with impressive, intuitive, confidently held master shots - a film that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the style and...
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Arritmia (aka Guantanamero) (Feature, 2007) Director: Vicente Peñarrocha; Principal Cast: Mohamed Chafik, Rupert Evans, Derek Jacobi, Natalia Verbeke, Nicolás Belmonte, Ako Chavarri, Ismael de Diego, Said El Mouden; After a violent storm, Ali Abdul Hussein awakens on a deserted Cuban beach, sick and disoriented. Taken to Havana, he meets Manuela, a beautiful and sensual dancer. She is reluctant...
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Art in Las Vegas (Feature, 2007) Director: Mary McGuckian; Principal Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Geraldine Chaplin, Donna D'errico, Colm Feore, Kerry Fox, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth McGovern, Jordi Molla, Amanda Plummer, John Sessions, Sara Stockbridge, Jennifer Tilly; In a climate of rapid technological advance in the fast booming baby business, perhaps a little pause for thought is required on behalf of the patients. Couples with infertility issues,...
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Ashes (Feature, 2008) Director: Alan Coulson; After the death of his wife in a devastating fire, Jonathon Soter's life is in ruins. Barely holding down his job as a teacher and drinking to excess, he's a...
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At the Foot of a Tree (Feature, 2007) Director: R S Reid; Principal Cast: Reece Reid; In Colchester, the oldest recorded town in Britain, an 11-year-old boy seeks heartfelt and poetic revenge for the beating of his father.
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The Auction (Feature, 2007) Director: Zakir Hossain; Principal Cast: Runa Begum, Mostofa Kamal, Sharoswati Dey; Runa, a British Bangladeshi girl, is excited to take her holiday with her father to Bangladesh - the country of origin of her father; she is floating in a sweet...
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Autochrome (Feature/Documentary/Experimental film, 2007) Director: Helena Mitchell, Jake P X Astbury; Principal Cast: Helena Mitchell, Jake P. X. Astbury; Filmmaker Terra Miller documents 24 hours in the life of would be London neo-revolutionary Isabella Beretta. As we follow her life we learn she has plans to burn the city...
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Automorphosis (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Harrod Blank; Principal Cast: Hyler Bracey, Harry Sperl, Uri Geller; Automorphosis looks into the minds and hearts of a delightful collection of eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have transformed their autos into artworks. On a humorous and touching...
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Awaydays (Feature, 2008) Director: Pat Holden; Principal Cast: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen Graham; When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, Awaydays...
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Bad Day (Feature, 2007) Director: Ian David Diaz; Principal Cast: Claire Goose, Donna Air, Anthony Ofoegbu, Robbie Gee, Sarah Harding, George Calil, Riana Husselmann, Tom Bacon, Keith Eyles; Bad Day is a hard-boiled crime thriller that takes place over the course of 24 hours or one day. Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the...
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Badinage (Feature, 2009) Director: Oliver Harrison; Principal Cast: Year of production: 2008 Running time: 98 mins Director: Oliver Harrison Producer: Oliver Harrison Screenwriter: Oliver Harrison Director of Photography: David Rafique Sound: Paul Cameron Principal cast: Steve Smith, Gavin Molloy, Dominic Cazenove, Will Strange, Jim Conway, Sarah Desmond, Emma Hill, Julian Bleach ; The feature debut of award-winning filmmaker Oliver Harrison, Badinage is a dark 'fairy-tale' - a poetic, surrealistic fantasy. Under the brutal rule of a new religous sect, art, music and...
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The Baker (Feature, 2007) Director: Gareth Lewis; Principal Cast: Damian Lewis, Kate Ashfield, Michael Gambon; Milo is a professional hitman living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city...
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The Ballad of A. J. Weberman (Feature/Documentary, 2006) Director: James Bluemel, Oliver Ralfe; Bob Dylan once said 'I don't think I'm gonna be really understood until maybe 100 years from now'. Author of the Dylan To English Dictionary , a Dylanologist and originator...
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Bananaz (Feature/Documentary, 2007) Director: Ceri Levy; Principal Cast: Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, De La Soul, Dennis Hopper, Ibrahim Ferrer; Bananaz takes you “behind the screens” on one of the great creative partnerships of our time. Following a late night conversation between Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn as they dissected...
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Bane (Feature, 2008) Director: James Eaves; Principal Cast: Sophia Dawnay, Lisa Devlin, Tina Barnes, Sylvia Robson, Jonathan Sidgwick, Daniel Jordan; Katherine awakes in an underground cell with three other women; Jane, Natasha and Elaine. With complete amnesia Katherine and the other women have little time to wonder where they are...
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