Vie, from dying planet Thoria, must find and save brilliant postgraduate Natalie from life force thieves, as her discoveries if she lives, could save Earth and the Thorian race.
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Vie, from dying planet Thoria, must find and save brilliant postgraduate Natalie from life force thieves, as her discoveries if she lives, could save Earth and the Thorian race.
A story of decay rendered through a day in the life of a wayward group of teen friends at the bottom end of the socioeconomic ladder on the south coast of England.
A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.
A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.
One of the 25 best Straight 8 films for 2024.
On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund, and the alcoholism and debauchery of the older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.
In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of traditions and taboos she tries to deal with her love and loss at the same time she tries to find her own voice.
A lonely techno DJ questions his mechanical existence as metal begins to break out of his skin after being forced to employ a sonic algorithm that guarantees success with the crowd... and a ‘supermodel’.
Pearl is a seemingly "normal" young woman who lives a reclusive lifestyle. She struggles between her sexual desires and society's "acceptable" behavior. One day she hears a voice claiming to be Jesus talking to her through the radio. Pearl communicates with him in what appears to be waking consciousness, as well as in her dreams, and he slowly takes over her mind, manipulating and tormenting her as she is pulled between sexual desire and sexual guilt.
Trees are Memories is a short film following a childhood memory of 'Lyra Crayford'. We watch sympathetically as her mother habitually favours her younger sister, and as Lyra tries to comprehend why her mother does this we see through her eyes, and her diary entry how the world is viewed to a small 9 year old child. Her sister, jealously, steals Lyra's precious ribbon, but as the film un-roles we s
After Ben and Eve have an argument during a house party, they meet with their respective best friends in a pub a few days later to tell their side of the story. As we listen to their version of events we find out what actually happened between them.
A tribe of women await their men's return from war. Azaar, one of the last young girls in the village is intertwined between her mother, grandmother and the rest of the tribe, as she comes to learn the true cost of womanhood.
Max is a seven year old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s. One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo, where he sees a lion for the first time. A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever.
Beth's new house is supposed to be a fresh start, but eerie disturbances make it feel anything but home. Then she meets Melissa-an alluring designer who offers her help. As they work together, Beth finds herself drawn to her in ways she can't explain. But as strange events intensify, so do Beth's doubts. Is she losing her grip on reality, or is something far more unexplainable at play?
Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek.
A couple navigating late-term pregnancy loss are confronted with the reality of racism in the healthcare system.
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
Based on the novel "The Ballad of the Belstone Fox", this heartwarming film chronicles the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him. In fact, they never could catch him!
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man.
In the hour of his death, Henry VIII contemplates his life, loves and those he has wronged, wondering if he has earned his place at God's table.
In Fatima, Portugal, between May and October 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared to three young children. The Lady of Light appeared to them on the 13th day of each month for six months, promising that on her last visit she would perform a miracle.
An up-and-coming Onlyfans girl conspires to blackmail her boyfriend after a fierce argument forces her to question both her profession and her relationship.
Director Hazel McKibbin and a terrific cast led by Honor Swinton Byrne capture all the complicated moves in the dance of dominance, deference, and self-diminishment that takes place when a young woman brings her new boyfriend to his first family visit.
Ash is a man torn between two worlds, that of his family and friends and the other, of his dreams. This is his story set across London with it's fast paced nightlife and run ins with the law all caught on camera from the Director of Kidulthood.
Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The film tells the story of the a couple of weeks in this family's life, beginning when a young Czech girl, Tash, comes to visit. The film is made in the Dogme95 tradition, so no costumes, no lighting, no props or sets, which gives the film a gritty texture appropriate to the story.
George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a rough-necked American seaman, invades their dull suburban routine. The play examines the clash of cultures between a fading British Empire and the dominance of American materialistic values.
A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-class French man, a dramatic change of pace from her staid British boyfriend. (TCM)
"The Goal" chronicles the lives of two athletes who are on an adrenaline track, one to the Olympics and the other to the world of Pro Soccer.
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
A young man takes a job working for an older man that makes him question his morals.
In 1925, young Lucy moves to Mauritius to live with her wealthy British aunt and uncle. But when she falls for local laborer Krishna, colonial attitudes threaten not only their relationship but also their lives.
A young man rambles in rundown Leeds, brooding on the ennui of a 1960s Sunday, and on his disillusionment with religion.
High-octane romance set in the recognizable - and sometimes gritty - world of Brighton's homegrown youth, as Boy Racer gangs uneasily coexist with the Indie scene.
After being stranded in a vast wilderness for as long as he can remember, with no memory of how he got there, Daniel stumbles across a businessman who has experienced the same fate. The forced exile of the two opposing men takes them on a journey of self-discovery and freedom.
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
Police must track down the sadistic duo responsible for the rape, torture and murder of 10 women in the Hollywood Hills above LA. The case that drove homicide detective Bob Grogan to drink and divorce resulted in the longest trial in American history.
Marta, a recovering alcoholic, attends her first party since rehab.
Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
When a sixth former and his assigned 12-year-old buddy get stranded on a school music trip to Salamanca, they must race to find their way back in time for the final disco.
An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.
Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, whilst obsessively re-drafting the perfect suicide note.
After the sudden loss of her mother, a young girl, Elsie, is sent to live with her estranged grandfather, a solitary farmer. Having never met, the two work towards building a relationship whilst maintaining both the farm and a vow of silence.
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Set in 1912, an Upper class English family are celebrating their daughter's engagement when their evening is interrupted by a police inspector. He is investigating the suicide of a young woman and the events leading to her death.
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
Sam Jackson was reported missing in August 2003. A few months after her disappearance, her best friend discovers tapes of a video diary she was making as a reality TV experiment, documenting her experiences phone dating. Will they lead to the truth? What really happened to Sam?
A coming of age drama, Gemma returns to her family home after a recent death to discover buried family truths in an uncovered archive of home video.
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
The girl is assisted to her feet and has a bird's head placed on her. The girl is led to another figure who is wearing a horse's head. The bird's head is removed after the horse head and bird size each other up. The girl is the left by herself. She wanders into a fog bank and lands on the ground. She sees an angel. The angel frees her from her mortal bonds.
A mother-daughter trip from the Isle of Man to the Wirral takes an unexpected turn as young Una documents their journey with a 35mm film camera - unaware that the real picture she’s capturing is her mother’s quiet strength in the face of cancer.
Reunion of selfs gathering of tiny frames of time sliding willing to be observed
BIRT DYNELY is set in the real town of Falmouth, Cornwall, but it is a surreal comedy fiction, a strange tale of loss, ambition and endeavour ending with a tragic retreat into fantasy. It is the allegory of both a mythical beach and a life suffocated in the choking folds of political apathy and the pursuit of profit.