Projects in genres: Action

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After a botched art heist in France, a group of friends are left with a body on their hands and the gendarme hot on their trail. They hide the body and make a plan to sell the painting and return home. But as they wait for a chance to escape from their secluded holiday home, they realise the body has gone missing. Paranoia and fear sets in and the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon it is clear there's a killer in the house and the group must figure out who is responsible before they all suffer the consequences.

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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?
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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When famous author Elena Wdig commits suicide, her twin daughters, librarians Nan and Ana, are lost without her. Elena’s final words suggest that her biographer, Eben, murdered her.
During one night shift, the twins set off on a quest to avenge their mother’s death at the National Library of Wales, but are disrupted by night porter Dan, who is unwillingly caught up in the saga.
Directed by award-winning director Euros Lyn, and based on Fflur Dafydd’s bestselling novel, this offbeat thriller explores the secrets and lies at the heart of storytelling, and asks who has the right to tell the story...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Sensitive wallflower Cara exists in her humdrum life until the appearance of charismatic Jay unlocks powerful desires within her. When Jay's beautiful French lover arrives, Cara's journey to self-discovery takes a dark and unexpected turn, with tragic consequences.

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A gang of daring young go-getters from the wrong side of the tracks, battle against oppression, greed and adversity whilst aspiring to pursue their dreams.

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An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's high-speed Autobahn.

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Lucille and Joe have moved to Gozo, a tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Malta. They have a nice car, a steady income, a beautiful farmhouse with breathtaking views and a swimming pool. They seem to have it all. But when a young tourist goes missing on the island, Joe's disquieted conscience begins to get the better of him. As the buried horrors of Lucille and Joe's past resurface, the cracks begin to show in their homespun paradise.

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When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it's a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group steps into hi-tech gear and prepares for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it's a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group is attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realise this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot 'em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it's for real.

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A sci-fi action thriller set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines.
Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

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In 1970s Los Angeles a down-on-his-luck private eye, Holland March and hired enforcer, Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Official Selection Cannes 2016 - Out of Competition

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A young English couple bond with an enigmatic Russian businessman after a chance encounter on holiday. What they don’t know is that he is a gangster, seeking to defect to the British secret service before his rivals have a chance to murder him, and he has chosen them as his lifeline.
The couple’s recruitment is followed by a deadly chase, which takes them from the souks of Marrakech to London, to the French Open Final in Paris and finally to a thrilling climax in the Swiss Alps.
Official Selection San Francisco International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Nestled on its own in the burnt brown hills of Southern Spain is a stunning modern villa with a refreshingly blue swimming pool. “El Cortijo” is the luxurious home of an ageing rock star in his early 60s and his much younger, very beautiful wife. Bill, the wild haired rock star and Isabelle are very much in love, but beneath the perfect surface of their lives, dark secrets lurk.
Into this paradise comes Lucas, a dangerous ex-lover hell bent on revenge. His aim: to destroy their marriage and blackmail her into returning his inheritance - a fortune that his wealthy father had left to Isabelle instead of him.
In a mischievous game of cat and mouse, the hunter soon becomes the hunted and Lucas sees his plans utterly destroyed – nothing is what it seems. What unfolds is a dangerous, tangled web of deceit and destruction as he becomes a plaything in their deadly game.