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Lily wants to give her younger brother Sam the best birthday she can. However, when she is faced with a sudden threat that will affect their lives immeasurably, Lily is forced to tackle the situation to keep Sam’s day positive.
Anand, his pretty cousin and their sick uncle are stranded in Amsterdam where they receive an offer to take them to England.
Street-smart Dominic's armed robbery of a convenience store goes wrong when he crosses paths with hard-working Jay, a taxi driver with nothing left to lose. Mutual contempt soon turns into a kind of understanding, but not without some pain along the way.
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…
Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee production. Rowland Matthews has always been the main star, but he is getting on, and the young Clive Bates is a strong rival.
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival. In this production by the distinguished film director, John Schlesinger, with spectacular designs by Maria Bjornson and William Dudley, Offenbach's nightmare world is brought to life. The all-star cast is headed by Placido Domingo as Hoffmann: his three loves are Ileana Cotrubas, Anges Baltsa and Luciana Serra and the manifestations of his rival are sung by Geraint Evans, Robert Lloyd, Siegmund Nimsgern and Nicola Ghiuselev. The score, which includes such favourites as the "Barcarolle" and the "Doll's Song", is conducted by Georges Pretre.
Black-and-white, etched-wood animation tale about the Grim Reaper. In a remote forest, Death in disguise calls on a woman and her baby daughter.
An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.
Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
Age of Quorum is a thrilling drama about Issy, a young British Black man, whose NYE celebrations turn terrifying when his friends break out some recreational drugs. He spirals into a paranoid nightmare where he’s confronted, then stalked by a thug intent on violence. The feeling that there is no escape or safe place to weather this storm is exemplified when he believes the friends who abandoned him, turn out to be part of the torture.
After the death of his father, a teenage boy forms a healing friendship with a park ranger in the Yorkshire Dales.
An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
A fisherman from Gaza is trapped in his haunting memories. After losing his only child, he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder that leads him on a psychological journey, reliving his tragedy in a different reality.
Noah and Medhi didn’t expect to make any real connections when they encountered one another cruising in a park. But what starts as a meaningless and transactional hookup, soon blossoms into something unexpectedly romantic and meaningful as they wander the quiet streets of London one remarkable night.
A mockumentary about a Britain which has the death penalty for sex crimes.
Josephine puts the finishing touches to her cake - commissioned by the Orange Order for the Twelfth of July celebrations - but things go awry when she attempts to deliver it.
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.
A Proof-of-Concept short film about a teenager who meets a homeless man after leaving home.
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
A story of adolescent rural life and the inevitable waywardness of experiences earned the hard way.
The pandemic crawls on and Aisha shelters in her flat. Doorstep visits from friends and family mark the passing weeks as Aisha struggles with how to tell them what's happening to her.
In a time when Pluto is still the 9th planet of the solar system, and music tracks needs to be rewind, Julianne, who knows that childhood doesn't last long but being an adult lasts forever. Refuses to grow up too quickly and to let go of her estranged friend. When her fear of the unknown manifests itself in the shape of a mysterious cosmic object, she must overcome her old self and embrace what lies ahead.
Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.
Abeba (2023) is a hybrid genre film for Migration and Mobility (Global Cinema) course. Inspired by the aesthetic approaches found in Nollywood , Documentaries and other genres, and through a fictional narrative. The film centres around Abeba, a young migrant who moved recently to the UK. She works as a cleaner; the film follows her daily routine. We see Abeba doing mundane everyday chores. One day after work, Abeba receives a text message from a guy that she fancies inviting her to a house party. While getting ready for the party, she receives a sudden phone call from her overbearing mother. During the call, Abeba engages in a web of lies to escape her mother's interrogation.
In an unspecified future the human race is struck by a light that pushes those who see it to suicide. But there is someone who tries to save those affected by facing the danger of becoming attached to them.
Penelope is forced to marry Jonathan but there is no attraction between the two. As a matter of fact, Jonathan is more interested in spending time with the butler than with his wife. Penelope finds a way of reuniting with the love of her life and manages to hire him as the gardener. Two secret affairs in one household soon lead to major scandalous situations.
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
the final days in the life of a suicidal, pyromanic bear…
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.
In this thrilling final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads sleuth Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
Told partly through the eyes of a dementia sufferer, populated by 'ghosts' from his past, The Barber portrays a father and son at a crossroad. As Miles struggles to shave the elderly and unloving father he's planning to put in a home, the physical closeness unleashes emotions and a bond that neither of them had thought was there.
A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
After a robbery, two brothers and a girlfriend drift into the countryside - where the air turns cold and hidden desires push brotherhood toward collapse.
A lost teen is abandoned by his alcoholic stepfather, and spurred on a desperate search for connection within the same group he also wishes to escape from.
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?
An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is picked up by the gang involved, who have by then killed the original Middle East agent. He escapes, but he and his girl friend are a marked couple as they retreat to Seaford on the south coast to act as bait in an MI5 plan to catch the thugs.
When a heist goes wrong, Dodger is given his harshest punishment yet - school!
A man does battle with a house fly.
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
A young ruffian learns about the Scouts. Features Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement. Made in 1928 by the pupils and teachers of Altrincham County High School, written and directed by their schoolmaster Ronald Gow.
Lola's Rainbow is a film about the mundanity of life. It's about feeling trapped in the everyday cycle of repetition. The rainbow is symbolic for many reasons to many different people, however for Lola it symbolises a way out. In a world that is often dull and vapid, the rainbow's bright colours call to Lola. Dreaming of chasing the rainbow and actually doing it are two different things. Most of us give up and accept that life doesn't get better than the cycle that we find ourselves in. EAT. SLEEP. WORK. REPEAT.
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
A probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer.
Anamika, the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighborhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her.
Following the sudden death of his girlfriend, Leonardo begins his difficult journey towards grief, opening wounded scars and broken relationships.
An artist reforms weak friends by painting their portraits.
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
The film travels in close-up over the mysterious terrains of nude human bodies as they touch and explore one another.
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
A young man travels to London to close his recently deceased and estranged father’s record shop. He is met with a proposal from the longstanding employees whose love and dedication to the business bring surprises.
Nwa, a British-Nigerian woman, is in torment for not being able to have children. However, a transformative baptism leads her on an unusual journey and offers her a chance to rebirth herself.
An art student encounters a mysterious girl at a psychedelic party. She insists he give her a ride home on his motorbike, when something very strange occurs.
Simone is invited by her cousin Marianne, to visit this naturist resort of Millefleurs in the foothills of the Pyrenees where she is working as a yoga instructor. Simone persuades her photographer friend Jill to come with her. On arrival they discover problems and tension which are eventually resolved.
Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.