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Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
The life of a single mum spirals out of control when a shocking event threatens to tear her family apart. Pursued by a dangerous criminal, they flee the city to hide out in a remote caravan on the coast. Along the way they accept the help of a stranger, but who is he and what is he hiding? Soundproof is a gripping story about family, secrets and trust.
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions for themselves. If they can change their lives maybe they can meet again.
A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.
Panning from a tour guide testing his microphone, to tourists deciding on a cafe, to a camera operator hurriedly scouting for locations, this comedic single-take filmed from a rooftop in Kowloon City, Hong Kong, moves between rehearsed, reenacted, real, and all the way back again. Who’s watching who, and if everyone is both watching and performing, who gets to frame the truth?
Scripted drama-documentary based upon diaries, journals and letters, about the life of the woman many blame for the biggest Royal crisis in the last century, Wallis Simpson.
Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.
Inspired by real events, a London architect travels to the grand dunes of the Namibian Desert to escape. But when he finds himself stranded alone, desperately waiting for a ride that never comes, he must embark on a bitter rite of passage.
Albine is bereft and heartbroken after she is abandoned by her lover. Tearing flowers, almost in a frenzy, from the garden where they consummated their love, she creates what will become her deathbed. As she lies amongst the petals, she suffocates on their overwhelming perfume and thus embraces her death. Inspired by the French novel La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret, or The Sinful Priest) by Émile Zola.
Excluded from a Highland battle re-enactment, a middle-aged Warrior Queen must rediscover her courage and defend her family’s honour.
An alpha female barrister complicates her professional and personal life when she falls for a client.
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
On holiday, with his family, nothing to do and his wife ill, Sasha (Alexander) is only too pleased to meet again the girl he loved at 17.
London. It's Christmas. Tom is a timid loner who cuts keys in a dry-cleaners in Soho. He's dominated by his extroverted boss, Mick, who habitually cracks on to his female clientele. One customer, Eva, is particularly unimpressed by Mick's behaviour. When Tom tries to apologise, she gives him the cold shoulder. Wanting emotional contact, Tom tries unsuccessfully to call his estranged father. Desperate, Tom takes drastic action.
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.
A boozy barmaid and her newfound gay friend quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout for sex and excitement in this multi-award-winning film based on Tennessee Williams’ short story Two on a Party.
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.
My Hair is a River of Tears is a hypnotic experimental animation that plunges viewers into the isolating depths of mental illness. Through poetic visuals and haunting narration, the film traces a solitary journey across surreal cityscapes and shifting inner landscapes. As the protagonist’s thoughts unravel - sparkling with hope, yet clouded by fear - the world becomes a kaleidoscope of anxiety and longing.
The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.
Two childhood sweethearts haven't spoken in ten years - now in their thirties, they decide to take a second chance at love.
In a decadent Venetian hotel, general manager Eva is drawn to the mysterious Contessa. Once a sanctuary from the outside world, the hotel has become a haunting cage, and both women long to escape. A hypnotic gothic fantasy that seduces and unsettles.
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
This is the epic story of a B-24 'Liberator' bomber aircraft called 'Shady Lady', that took off from Darwin, Australia, on Friday, 13th August 1943, on what was at that time, the world's longest ever attempted bombing mission.
Sofia, a deceased young girl, enters the reception room for the dead. She is met with Angel who agonises at the idea of doing his own job. He must process her file and send her to a new destination. However, a breach appears in the system which leaves the characters wondering, was this truly Sofia’s time or will Angel have to send her back?
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.
A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.
Two best friends, Tom and Johnny, plan a movie night to marathon the legendary Star Wars films together. Tom is excited to share his favourite galaxy far, far away, but Johnny quickly gets bored and makes fun of the movies. What starts as harmless teasing turns into a heated argument that threatens their friendship. As the night spirals out of control, the boys must decide whether their friendship is stronger than their differences — and learn that not everyone has to love the same things to still be friends.
Vernon Duxley, a Yorkshire chemist, confesses the traumatic, intimate secrets of his marital life to his video camera.
Identical twin zoologists lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. They become obsessed with the death and decay of animals, and develop a strange and unusual relationship with the driver of the car, a woman who is now an amputee.
After a year in London, Jiu’s girlfriend vanishes, leaving a seaside recording, a plant named “White White”, and an empty room.
A woman mops while listening to music.
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.
A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans. When 'The Firm' decide to confront a rival gang, it ends in tragedy.
A cheeky tale of a female football referee whose life takes an interesting turn when, despite a lack of enthusiasm for anything other than sport, she finds herself working as a plus-size model.
In December 1926, at the height of her fame, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home. In a case of life imitating art, this whodunnit explores the investigation behind her disappearance, strangely resembling an Agatha Christie novel itself where everyone in her life became a suspect.
After the vampiric Carmine's murderous past is revealed, her human girlfriend Allyson must decide whether or not to accept her own darker self.
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
An impressionable young woman is thrust into a dilemma with her best friends charming brother. Assumptions lead to a sensitive situation.
A 15-minute short about squatting in London, the film sees Lebon’s signature melding of cut-and-paste graphics and animation meet disarmingly intimate camera work. Told from the perspective of both the squatter and the squatted, it explores unconventional choices and the moral grey areas found in ownership, public and private living, family and community.
Stuck in a lonely and unforgiving city, a Bus Canvasser waits for an opportunity to migrate to create a better future for his family. Migrating means making sacrifices, but sometimes the reasons to stay outweigh the reasons to leave.
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Tasha Robson, 16, has run away from home! While she rides the waves aboard the large ferry heading from South Shields, England to Scandinavia in search of her unknown father, "The Viking" all is less than calm in the Robson household.
A romantic drama set in a stunning village in Italian Switzerland. Alice is a beautiful and troubled twenty-something who is on the run from a life that is out of control. When her estranged father dies she returns to the village of her childhood to execute his will. Here she meets the grandmother she never knew, a man who may hold the key to her heart and a young epileptic boy. We watch to see if Alice can mend the damage inflicted by warring parents. Ultimately Jump is an uplifting story about the power of friendship and love.
George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three of the four toilets don't work and cracks are starting to appear in the ceiling. However, nothing can dent their determination to have a good time.
A woman on the last day of her marriage tries to figure out what to do with her wedding ring. Walking through London, she has a series of encounters that propel her toward a new relationship...with herself.
Everyday, small moments are captured between families, lovers, and strangers in Glasgow.
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.