Projects in categories: Fiction

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Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic who has written a recent book on the link between mathematics and serial killers, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at Oxford hoping to study with Seldom, team up to solve a series of mathematically linked murders. As professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, an elaborate puzzle begins in which every action has an effect beyond anything that Martin could have imagined.

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From the carnage and chaos of the First World War arose one man whose name would pass into legend. Gentleman? Warrior? Adventurer? Manfred Von Richthofen is forever known as The Red Baron. The fearless flying ace was Germany's top pilot, with his good looks and successive victories making him a national celebrity and pin-up. With his distinctive flame red tri-plane, The Red Baron inspired both fear and respect from his enemies at a time when aerial combat was considered a gentlemanly sport. These young pilots, Allied and German, were heroic buccaneers.    

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Young London office worker finds a red box in the street and takes it to furnish her new flat. She doesn't know that the box was used for bleeding pigs. How will the presence of this object influence her life and her budding romance with a new guy in the office?

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Uncompromising moorland, daybreak, a couple narrowly avoid hitting something on the road. Forced to stop and investigate they come face to face with a terrified, naked and blood-soaked woman. Pleading for help, she insists that something is tracking her. She collapses; the couple place her into the car and in doing so seal their fate. The couple are forced into a full on pursuit, which ultimately leads to their horrific and sustained deaths.

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Frankie Lambert heads out to a lighthouse to visit a patient with pneumonia, only to discover that the ghosts of her own past are slowly being excavated by her unearthly patient. She finds herself reliving terrifying past events and confronting her own demons, whilst trapped within the claustrophobic lighthouse.

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An ambitious London journalist investigates a series of present-day murders that follow the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub. Gradually the reporter becomes obsessed with also unraveling a century-old murder in the pages of the manuscript, with the help of a police press officer and a mysterious beach-combing tramp who stalks the Thames foreshore. In a remarkable twin-role performance, Jacobi also plays the ghost of Charles Dickens, returning to read his long-lost novel.   Together, the tramp, journalist and press officer unlock the riddle of the manuscript to solve the modern murders. Along the way they encounter a greedy publisher, a corrupt detective and a menacing construction boss.    Based on the award-winning script by writer-director Brendan Foley, The Riddle is in the vein of classic Hitchcock noir thrillers with elements of the magic realism of films such as The Sixth Sense and The Green Mile. 

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The Riddle is an absurd film noir drama. Bizarrely, a nun, an imam, a rabbi and a Marxist end up in a prostitute's cellar confronted with the task of cleaning her soul! But while they all manage to misinterpret the situation, an innocent, open minded child gets to deliver the ultimate solution with a twist. The Riddle is a deliberate interplay of cliches and iconic characters and it throws out questions around knowledge, innocence and ideology. Ultimately 'The Riddle' in question is the quest for Peace in this bizarre absurd world.

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Amanda and Rowly are a young couple from London approached on holiday in Costa Rica to traffic cocaine for £10,000. For most mules, once is enough, for them it is just the beginning; until the consequences they face are far worse than the fear of imprisonment.

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Full of absurd humor, the film is a poetic story of a sailor lost in the waves and a woman waiting for him in a small house by the sea. Will the boat reach the coast safely? This atmospheric film blends miniature stop-motion worlds with CGI animation and live-action.

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The Secret of Moonacre is an enchanting tale of magic and adventure, following the quest of 13-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather who is sent away to live with her uncle Sir Benjamin in the mysterious Moonacre Manor. It is there Maria uncovers a dark and mysterious truth behind the feud that has been destroying Moonacre Valley and that she has only until the next full moon to undo the ancient curse and save Moonacre from destruction. Aided by a stable of wonderful characters and magical beasts, Maria sets out to bring peace to this magical world.

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When Jack the Ripper holds London town in the grip of fear, only Sherlock Holmes has the keys to his identity, with unique twist.

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A photograph of a silhouetted girl by a lake is stuck on a wall and kissed. Over time the image degrades, becomes inky till eventually all its recognisable features are gone and a hole has worn through it. Alex clings on obsessing to the memory of his lost love Beatrice and the world passes him by as he descends into alcohol, isolation and a deep depression. Gone are the jokers of his past. Beatrice's life doesn't go on any smoother - continually affected by delusion and paranoia, suggesting Alex's violent return. This seems to reach its peak when her new boyfriend is kidnapped, interrogated and murdered. When did young love go so badly wrong? The bullet to the head at the start of this dark psychological drama is nothing by contrast to the reality of a mental health disorder.