Projects in categories: Fiction

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Charlie is a successful young illustrator of children's books. She and her boyfriend Simon have decided to flee the big city to live a dream life in their newly acquired cottage in the country. Charlie arrives at the cottage to find it far from ready and not a builder in sight. When Simon is called away on business she faces the daunting prospect of spending several nights alone in the woods. Disturbed by the presence of a mysterious man who stalks the grounds of her cottage, she is relieved when her new neighbour Lisa arrives to welcome her into the fold. Charlie's dream of an idyllic life in the country is shattered by vivid nightmares of a terrible and haunting secret, a mystery hidden deep in the woods that only she can unravel. Charlie is about to learn that living in the woods is no walk in the park.

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After the death of their father, Madeleine invites her sister Dinah to stay in her elegant London home. Madeleine's husband, Rickie, is now effectively head of the family, and a man of persuasive charm and sophistication. Efforts to find a husband for the free-spirited Dinah seem to pay off at last, but having announced her engagement, Dinah is secretly told by Rickie to call it off. The reason remains unspoken - as they are both aware of a profound mutual attraction. So begins a wild affair, as Rickie and Dinah's illicit passion spirals into deception, offering ecstasy and despair in equal measure and, finally, as the sisters attempt a reconciliation, an insight into the heart's capacity for forgiveness.

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A vain hypnotherapist discovers that a difficult client is also a journalist. When he finally succeeds in hypno-tising her, he suggests that she write a glowing article about him. He goes too far and her addiction to cigarettes is replaced by an addiction to him. He finds a rather unusual way out of the dilemma.

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The fine line between fiction and reality becomes blurred when a horror video rental is used by a serial killer to morally justify his crimes to the world. What starts off as a conventional teen slasher, transforms into a stark and disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer, with a taste for human flesh.

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The Lighthouse Keeper lives alone. As he prepares to move out of the Lighthouse, his chess game by post nears its conclusion.

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This is a story of when boundaries begin to blur. When life imitates Art and Art wins. For several years Van Gogh was under the care of Dr. Gachet. It was a period of immense creativity and comparative contentment. Peter Saunders is a successful modern artist who suffers from hypochondria. His condition has been confined to all the usual ailments found in any medical textbook until two key events catapult him far beyond the realm of any known medical diagnosis.

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A quite depressed writer, Ia, meets one of his old friends at a bar who starts talking about another old friend Teddy, who is in a terrible state mentally. Ia visits Teddy and finds him in the freezer, destroyed by paranoia. Ia tries to calm him down but doesn't succeed. Teddy reaches his climax of insanity when he starts drilling holes into his neighbours flat.

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A young woman gets to grip with the perfect interview technique armed with some handy advice from her father.

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May is 65. An ordinary granny from the suburbs. When her husband dies she finds herself thrown upon the mercy of her far-too-busy metropolitan children. Stuck in London, far from home, her kids abusing or avoiding her, she feels that life for her is more or less over. Until... The granny from the sticks, the old lady you don't even notice in the supermarket, the broken woman who's life is finished, falls headlong, suddenly, rapturously, disarmingly, girlishly, carnally in love. With a man half her age. (Who just happens to be fucking her daughter as well) From the acid pen of Hanif Kureishi comes another brilliant and shocking slice of modern metropolitan life.

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A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our own decay and death. With some humour and visual seduction, the film uses images that are visceral, abrasive and sometimes quite beautiful, hinting at the consequences of our society's denial of death.

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Arriving in England from America in search of her father, Courtney Francis, a young, insecure woman, finds her hopes of being able to start a new life with him in pieces when she discovers he has long since started a new family. Without care she runs away and soon finds herself lost in the deserted back streets of London where she is immediately in danger as two muggers attack her. She escapes them and finds refuge hiding in a large rundown hotel. Here she is offered accommodation if she works to pay the rent and with seemingly no more choices she resigns herself to living there. But soon Jenny Stein, a charismatic professional woman, arrives to collect debts from the hotel. The two become close and decide that the solution to their lives' problems is to steal drug money from a sleazy character, Carl Wilson, who is at the hotel for one night. However, the two women quickly find this plan leads them into great trouble and Courtney realises that her only way to escape is to overcome her fears and return to the hotel's haunted room. The story is haunting and thrilling. Courtney goes through a dangerous journey in discovering her self-worth.

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It's almost graduation at University. Paul has decided to throw one last party before everyone leaves, and sees what could be his final chance to impress gorgeous Susan. Sadly he didn't count on his friends, who interrupt and interfere every step of the way as they go about their own business in this comic take on student life. Sex, drugs, alcohol and lightbulbs are all discussed in this film which shows what boys and girls really talk about.