A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
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A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
From the Indonesian jungle an ancient compound makes it's way into a modern city full of moving shadows and still stuck in the 1990s. Here Augusta, a former stunt woman moonlighting as a dodgy PI, is set on a new case. When she gets infected by a mysterious compound, she is exposed to lovecraftian terrors and new dangers that lurk in the dark corners of the city.
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper won over even his harshest opponents by winning the FA Cup Final for Manchester City in 1956 - playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Trouble explores the intricate dynamics between two brothers in their early twenties, as they attempt to navigate their divorced parents’ shortcomings when Mum shows up uninvited to Dad’s birthday.
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.
A young girl discovers her father is a pop star.
When a cult wake up to find their leader missing, they must choose to continue following his path or carve out their own.
A British-Chinese takeaway girl discovers artistic bravery and the freedom in forging her own path when a circus comes to her small English town.
In this British drama, Ellen (Sorcha Brooks) and Jack (Antony Edridge) recall a time when they traded partners, and their remarks set a partner-swapping party in motion among four other couples. As the long night's journey into sex progresses, various fears and anxieties surface. Shown at Montreal's 1997 World Film Festival and the 1997 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters.... and mysticism. How far do you have to go to get away?
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
Old wounds resurface when a neurotic, overworked law grad is forced to face his estranged friend and former sparring partner, now an amateur boxer in East London.
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Can a dog still be man’s best friend if that man is the Führer? Blondi explores the bizarre bond between Hitler and his beloved German Shepherd. From eating the crumbs under the table at the Führer’s birthday, to living in the confinement of the bunker, this film presents intimate glimpses of the dog’s daily life intertwined with the realities of war, depicting the oblivious pet's surreal impact on the Reich.
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
A visual experiment on the different types of movement in a city.
A small, quaint village is terrorised by a series of unexplained deaths. Unbeknownst to the villagers, a malevolent entity has taken residence. Will it be stopped in time?
Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for his beloved wife Jeannie James (Jean Heywood) who has Alzheimer's disease. When Larry falls and breaks an ankle his life with Jeannie abruptly changes forever. Jeannie is moved into residential care and Larry goes to stay with his son Oliver (Kevin Whately), his daughter-in-law Sandy (Sinead Cusack) and their teenage daughter Millie (Hannah Daniel). But love and consideration wear thin as father and son have to learn to live together all over again.
Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a friendship with Marco, a charismatic, streetwise kid from the local area. Although from warring postcodes, the two quickly form a firm friendship until it is tested and they wind up on rival sides of a street war. Blue Story depicts elements of Rapman's own personal experiences and aspects of his childhood.
Three urban explorers enter an abandoned office building in search of forgotten spaces, but as the layout shifts and reality frays, they find themselves trapped in a 'liminal' maze that quietly erases their sense of time, place and each other.
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including a man who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
Facing death, Rabbit Hayes reflects on her life and future while her loving family prepares for loss and plans for her teenage daughter Juliet's care.
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
A teenage girl, Jessica, looks back on the stories her mother told through her movies and her own memories of her mother. This film is animated entirely in Oculus Quill, a 3D drawing and sculpting program.
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
Alleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London. It was claimed to be the first motion picture until pre-dating footage shot by Louis Le Prince was discovered. It was never publicly shown and is now considered a lost film with no known surviving prints or stills.
Julia, sole survivor of late serial killer Decker, is lured back to the house she shared with him for a ghost hunting TV show. The crew discover the 'Harbinger' - a fairground fortune telling machine that reveals their fates one by one.
When Freddie Dale’s girlfriend sleeps with his house-mate, he is persuaded by his good friend Viz Verdi to unleash revenge through the manipulation of cosmic forces, the Hindi dark magic that is Jadoo, on his unsuspecting housemate Ben – with somewhat unusual repercussions.
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
Cyneric; a young nobleman, has found himself infected by a great evil. In an attempt to rescue him from his cursed fate, Hermeus and his fellow warriors join together in an exorcism of epic proportions. Bloodshed and horror awaits them. The group must navigate their escape of this nightmarish realm, seeped in fae-like mysticism, and unimaginable creatures from another reality, their distrust is moments from getting eachother killed. Will the group put past their differing ideologies to survive, or become the same beasts the fight against?
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Inside a grand Parisian apartment lives an elegant elderly lady. And inside this lady, lives a monster.
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
The Lieutenant escapes from Boxers' torture and shells them.
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
Isolation and loneliness converge on an unexpected journey when intrigue and new come to town.
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
mischievous vixen set her snap trap, and whatever she catches will have to bring her more pleasure than sticks & stones in the forest.
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
In this film's adventure, a volcano erupts suddenly, suddenly awakening the Pacific Ocean floor of hundreds of volcanoes composed of the "ring of fire", this sudden event quickly turned into a global catastrophe. The volcanic clusters that are about to erupt en masse threaten the horned whales washed ashore by the tsunami, the cap penguins living in the volcanic islands, the equipment of the small column maintenance station, the food planted by plant fish in the marine farms... Not to mention the plants and animals that live in the crater all year after year!
Obsessed Cillian watches Grace and Joe. Something terrible is happening upstairs. But when Cillian faces his fears to save Grace, will he be the hero or the one needing to be saved?
The film highlights the beauty of craft, whilst re-contextualising traditional folk narratives to show the strength and power of the often forgotten members of folk communities.
Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his favorite pugilist from his pocket, and they set them on the table. A hot battle ensues, in which one of the midgets is knocked out. The sport whose favorite won the fight takes the money with a look of satisfaction, and replaces his man in his pocket. The loser looks very much disgusted as he picks up his man and puts him back in his pocket. Very mystifying.
A group of people interact and commune with a supernatural, female spirit referred to as ‘The Goose’ and her resting ground, Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark, London. Through experimentation in cinematic form and intimate accounts of grief, a surreal but powerful place of healing is revealed.
Based on the niche YouTube series of the same name, internet cynic Miggle the Smeghog settles down into the town of Smegland, meeting new and old friends and getting into some wacky hijinks. Things start to heat up as Miggle creates YouTube videos exposing the members of the Super Origami Kingdom and the harmful off-brand products of E.V.I.L Corporation; the company that the SOK became a part of since their sudden departure from the internet. The Dastardly E.V.I.L Corp CEO Lord Devious finds out about this and sends the remaining SOK members to Smegland to take down the cynical rodent. Madness ensues as Miggle, his friend Lanko and Sparka that yellow thing try to stop these diabolical goons to save his new home and reputation.
John is a socially awkward man in a downward spiral of debt, until a lucky accident propels him into a new career as a black-market pet exterminator. In these difficult times, some families can no longer afford a pet. John has some inventive ways to help them.
During a hot summer, Sonya and her uncle Vanya spend their days idle in a dilapidated farmhouse deep in the countryside. Alone and isolated, they only receive occasional visits from Astrov, the local doctor.
After experiencing a traumatic event on her school bus, Aleena bottles up her anger until a chance connection triggers a small act of rebellion.
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.