A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
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Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Bread and Roses
An obsessive classical concertgoer wants to be the first clapper at the end of every symphony and sonata. But when he inflicts the clap incessantly on his pianist idol, the tormented virtuoso decides to fight back with music.
The Clap
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
Four Last Songs
Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her to convalesce at a large rural home, where she becomes friends with the woman's stepson, Michael. As Cassie delves into Michael's research about an old, newly discovered area church, it triggers some strange premonitions and offers gradual clues about her deeper links to this British community.
The Gathering
A young boy still has his lovers old notes.
Notes?
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.
Birds of War
When young Kathleen makes a promise to Keith Cameron during World War One, that no matter what happens they will meet again one day, she little realises what the consequences could be.
The Demon Lover
A young, online savvy lad sells his used socks for extra cash, but things start to unravel when a rival content creator threatens his income.
Sox
A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for yet 2 more murders which he did not commit. With the help of his former prison guard, he once again sets out to clear his name
Letters from a Killer
When an angel stranded on Earth loses his memory, he becomes a door-to-door salesman, offering bottles of hope to a town that no longer believes — in this slow, transcendental , and surreal black and white short film about purpose and remembering who you are. Selby Love (Bill Caple) is driven to sell tiny bottles of hope, but as the world turns away, he starts to lose the hope he once carried. When another angel (Mirren Mack) is sent to find him, Selby is forced to confront what he’s forgotten — and whether hope can survive in a world that no longer wants it. Shot in a minimalist , transcendental style, Selby Love blends spiritual allegory with dreamlike realism to explore the quiet ache of losing purpose and the strange, fragile beauty of remembering it.
Selby Love
Exploring how punk influenced politics in late-1970s Britain, when a group of artists united to take on the National Front, armed only with a fanzine and a love of music.
White Riot
It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to Blackpool, but Tommy Bray fears that his beloved choir may not survive the temptations of the time.
Angel Voices
Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage daughter runs the house and tries to engineer a reunion between her parents. But the parents have been keeping secrets from their children, and nothing is as it seems.
Mothertime
In the Scottish village of Arberloch, Kenneth, a grieving tour guide, is devoted to preserving the legacy of the town's sole historical figure—eighteenth-century inventor Sir Douglas Weatherford. But when a fantasy series chooses Arberloch as its filming location, and the town turns its back on Weatherford in favour of fan culture, Kenneth descends into madness.
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.
Hindle Wakes
The Jenkins family are selected by a computer to be the first visitors of the nation’s newest and most exciting theme park - Thatcherworld.
Thatcherworld
Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.
Ricky Gervais: Mortality
A celebration of "Enterprise Britain"; the progress of two nightshift cleaners in a towering exhibition centre. Primed for a royal visitor the following day, the delicate automated infrastructure of the building is compromised by two idiots looking for somewhere to plug in their hoover. Nightmareish video and mechanical apparitions steal their identity as the celebratory monolith descends into terminal chaos.
Babel
A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
Betzi
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former flame, the successful Eilert, enters the picture, violence and blackmail aren't far behind.
Hedda Gabler
A dispirited barber is tormented by the discovery that a beloved local Politician is turning into a donkey. But: enchanted by the Politician's charm - will anyone believe him?
Party Animal
The Happiness Machine is a cinematic performance comprised of animated films, musical compositions and testimonials. Ten women filmmakers, ten women composers and ten musicians present Christian Felber's Common Good Economy for discussion.
Happiness Machine
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen, who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
The Corrupted
Edith explores the heartbreaking inevitability that is old age.
Edith
In this stunningly composed meditation on space and human relationships, an adrift Iranian architect, a disengaged Japanese couple, and a Lithuanian mixed martial arts fighter search for connection in modern Japan. From the stylishly designed shops of Tokyo to a minimalist glass suburban home to a mysterious tree house in the woods, Greater Things reveals the strange places we inhabit, and how they can both unite and divide us.
Greater Things
Follows the assassination of Leon Trotsky.
The Executioner
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
Military Wives
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Millions
Dorothy is a lonely widow whose body is failing, but her mind remains as bright as ever. When 17-year-old JJ accidentally kicks his football into her garden, he upends Dorothy's daily routine of pills, prunes, and crosswords, and an unlikely friendship blossoms. Despite being worlds apart in every way, the two come to find they have more in common than they could ever imagine.
A Friend of Dorothy
Over the course of one afternoon, reunion soon turns intervention when Jimmy confronts Che, his former drug-dealing partner-in-crime.
Stationary
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.
Into the Abyss
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
A woman wakes up hanging upside down. When she screams for help, a phone rings and a voice helps her escape.
Blue Season
Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.
India - Hardwar
After a mysterious object crash lands in Beatrice's garden, she starts to develop strange abilities.
Apex
A hardworking insecure girl from a family fallen into poverty is forced to make an irreversible sacrifice to save her family, and her dreams of continuing education.
Transgressing
Examines the remarkable discovery of Inca children preserved in ice for more than 500 years. Through scientific analysis, researchers uncover details about their final meals, health, and the sacred capacocha ritual that led to their sacrifice—offering rare insight into Inca beliefs, culture, and society.
500 Years Frozen in Time: The Inca Children Mystery
Chris and his uncle need to be careful which conspiracy theories they listen to, as they may raise a little hell.
The Devil’s Symphony
Candida is the sensible wife of a clergyman. Her husband tends to take her for granted, but she has a young admirer who doesn't.
Candida
Polly’s been dumped and she’s done something drastic - she’s cut out her own heart.
Poly Baggage
In 2004 X1 Sports took a band of intrepid climbers to Croatia . Their mission was to find some of the best and unknown rock in the Europe ; the reason, well to see if they could Deep Water Solo off it of course. With some of the best climbers in the world, Chris Sharma, Steve McClure, Leo Holding, Depth Charge charts their progress and antics as they look to challenge their limits each and every day. Depth Charge is an on the wall documentary of their every move and allows the viewer to see exactly what makes a climber tick.
Depth Charge
Amy is home for the holidays, and Rachel is determined to engineer a classic Jessop family Christmas
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
When a covert research team imprisons Popeye to harness his superhuman strength as a military weapon, their experiment spirals violently out of control. Transformed into an unstoppable force driven by rage, Popeye tears through the facility, leaving destruction in his wake. With time running out and casualties mounting, one scientist risks everything to stop the monster they created - before he reaches the outside world.
Popeye III: Requiem
when Neil meets Heather it is love at first sight they enjoy a whirlwind romance and revel in how happy they are until they run into Machlis. Parallel is an erotic and thrilling psychological drama with a distinctly new approach and a killer twist!
Parallel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth. In return a new prosperity and improved standard of living is being brought to the peoples of those formerly barren lands.
Full Circle
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Otto and Leo, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
A Choice of Coward: Design for Living
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
Toast
Cooked tells the story of the unlikely love triangle that sparks between a walrus a seal and a lobster in an arctic sauna.
Cooked
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
Dead Man's Shoes
A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.
I'll Be There
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors — a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow, and an elf with the fastest bow in the land — Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.
Hawk the Slayer
Every boy needs a father. Meet Frank. Lover and father. A high flying sex addict, told that he is dying, tries to connect with his teenage son by teaching him how to get the girl he likes.
Down Dog
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Lay the Favorite
A young Venusian girl lands on Earth to explore the planet. She lands in Soho in London, UK where she has ample opportunities to research sex on Earth.
The Girl from Starship Venus
Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.
The Starfish
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Page Eight
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
A Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive.