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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...
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...
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 (John Rhys-Davies) has secured an 80 billion arms deal with Afghanistan, a deal that will boost his image to the...
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...
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...
A Certain Romance (Feature, 2008) Director: Gabriel Robertson; Principal Cast: Scott Campbell, Austin Low, Jen Byrne and Iain Andrew as Mercer; A broken chronological journey revealing a week in the life of a struggling young writer.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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....
American: The Bill Hicks Story (Feature/Animation/Documentary, 2009) Director: Matt Harlock; 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Badinage (Feature, 2008) Director: Oliver Harrison; Principal Cast: Year of production: 2008 Running time: 103 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Battle For Haditha (Feature, 2007) Director: Nick Broomfield; Principal Cast: Elliot Ruiz, Jasmine Hanani, Falah Flayeh; Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation....
The Be All and End All (Feature, 2008) Director: Bruce Webb; Principal Cast: Eugene Byrne and Josh Bolt, Connor Mcintyre, with Liza Tarbuck and Neve Mcintosh; At fifteen years old you would do anything for your best mate, so when Ziggy's life-long friend Robbie is diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, he has just one favour...
The Beautiful Outsiders (Feature, 2008) Director: Andrew Jones; Principal Cast: Tara Reid, Cameron Douglas, Brad Dourif, Doug Bradley, Stephanie James.; After six years, former drug addict Jason Starkweather is released from prison. Placed in a halfway house and in a dead end job he struggles to suppress the urge to...
Better Things (Feature, 2007) Director: Duane Hopkins; Principal Cast: Liam McIlfatrick, Che Corr, Tara Ballard, Megan Palmer, Kurt Taylor, Rachel McIntyre, Patricia Loveland, Frank Bench, Betty Bench; Better Things is a multi-narrative intergenerational tale set in the picturesque rural Cotswolds of present day England. Both the old and young are followed on their journeys of withdrawal and...
Beyond the Pole (Feature, 2008) Director: David L Williams; Principal Cast: Stephen Mangan, Rhys Thomas, Helen Baxendale, Rosie Cavailiero, Alexander Skarsgard, Mark Benton, Rosie Cavaliero, Patrick Baladi, Zoe Telford; As the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, Organic expedition EVER to attempt the North Pole, MARK and BRIAN have high hopes of not only doing their bit for global warming, but...
Bhavishya: The Future (Feature, 2006) Director: Dr Nikhil Kaushik; Principal Cast: Akansha Tyagi, Vikrant Gautam, Dr Rob Lister, Saeed Jaffrey, several members of the medical profession ; Dr Deepa is in the UK for a short term fellowship with Dr Gareth Williams at an NHS Hospital. Here she is exposed to the attractions of working in the...
The Big I Am (Feature, 2008) Director: Nic Auerback; Principal Cast: Leo Gregory, Michael Madsen, Robert Fucilla, Vincent Regan, Steven Berkoff and Paul Kaye; A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking...
Big Things (Feature, 2008) Director: Mark Devenport; Principal Cast: Tony Claassen, Micaiah Dring, Dean Palo, Shaun Mechen, Elaine Donnelly, Rupert Procter, Jonny Phillips; Richard, bored of his mundane existence as a cycle courier, ttempts to make his film A Distance Too Far in a bid to escape to a better life. Driven by...
Bigga Than Ben (Feature, 2007) Director: S A Halewood; Principal Cast: Andrei Chadov, Ben Barnes, Ovidiu Matesan; A guide to ripping off London by two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum'. www.biggathanben.com
Biggest Chinese Restaurant In The World (Feature/Documentary, 2009) Director: Weijun Chen; Principal Cast: ; The 5000-seater West Lake Restaurant in the Chinese city of Changsha is the setting for this feature-doc. Old traditions and new money come together in a vibrant and colourful exploration...
Black Forest Gateau (Feature, 2008) Director: Mike Naylor; Principal Cast: Colin Pollard, Stephen Tomlinson, Lynn Halliday, Dorothy Clarke, Trevor Cooper, Gloroa Harding, Ken Stevens.; On the mediterranean coast a group of retired Brits spend their winter months reminiscing and putting the World to right. Inspired by a news item about a bungled post office...
The Blade (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Zakir Hossain; Principal Cast: Rafiul Anwar,James Readfern,Ashfaq Ahmed, Zia Ali,Kevin Barton,Akkas Abdin; Polash, a 14-year-old British-Bangladeshi school going boy, has become mentally imbalanced to see the death of his classmate Freddy, a British-African boy, on his lap. An egoistic clash between Polash’s...
Blood + Roses (Feature, 2007) Director: Simon Aitken; Principal Cast: Marysia Kay, Kane-John Scott, Benjamin Green, Adam Bambrough, Pamela Flanagan, Axelle Carolyn; Blood + Roses is a story about a couple who take a holiday in the hopes of rekindling their love. The wife meets a strange man who turns out to...
The Boatmaker (Feature, 2007) Director: Ajay Patel; A man wanders alone moving from town to town in North West India. Once a brave warrior now a Boatmaker for Yama, Lord of Death. He is Dharayan and ferrying...
Bodyguard: A New Beginning (Feature, 2007) Director: Chee Keong Cheung; Principal Cast: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Vincent Sze, Richard Ng, Stephanie Langton, Carl Ng, Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Brandon Rhea, Sing Fu On; Bodyguard: A New Beginning focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests...
Bomber (Feature, 2009) Director: Paul Cotter; Principal Cast: Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow, Eileen Nicholas; An 83 year old man returns to Germany to make amends in a village he accidentally bombed during the war.
Bombil and Beatrice (Feature, 2007) Director: Kaizad Gustad; Principal Cast: Katie McGuinness, Prroshant Narayannan, Piyush Mishra; One hundred years ago, a beautiful young English woman named Beatrice promised a young Indian man named Vilas that she would wait for him. For a hundred years, if need...
Botched (Feature, 2006) Director: Kit Ryan; Principal Cast: Stephen Dorff, Jaime Murray, Jamie Foreman, Sean Pertwee, Bronagh Gallagher, Edward Baker Duly, Geoff Bell, Hugh O'Conor, Alan Smyth; Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and...
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