Projects in genres: Action

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Night. A deserted New York bar, a lonely barman. A clown runs through the forest pursued by something he cannot escape from. A man enters the bar for a drink and the conversation leads to why he is there, tracking down old schoolfriends with the help of something sinister. Sammy Davis Jr croons away 'Bojangles' on the jukebox as the clown bursts in to the bar and promptly expires. 'Schooldays, best days of our lives - I'm not so sure - When Bojangles comes to call, the time for all apologies is gone, time to admire his sleight of hand.
 

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Introducing James Bond before he holds his licence to kill. His first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell.
Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved with Le Chiffre, banker to the world's terrorist organisations. Secret Service intelligence reveals that Le Chiffre is planning to raise money in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro at Le Casino Royale. MI6 assigns 007 to play against him, knowing that if Le Chiffre loses, it will destroy the organisation.

M places Bond under the watchful eye of the beguiling Vesper Lynd. Bond's interest in Vesper deepens as they brave danger together and even torture at the hands of Le Chiffre. In Montenegro, Bond allies himself with Mathis, MI6's local field agent, and Felix Leiter, who is representing the interests of the CIA. The marathon game proceeds with dirty tricks and violence, raising the stakes beyond blood money and reaching a terrifying climax.

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Dog used to run a highly profitable team of international telephone fraudsters, until he was chased into hiding by a hitman. With little human contact and only a white crow for company, Dog has survived only on paranoia and memories. Now, two years later, he's still alive and desperate to live.

He's had time to re-evaluate his life, and realizes that he doesn't understand most people's idea of normality; but the lure of the buzz, the money and the bullshit is too much: He wants to get his old team together again for one last pitch.

So now he's back on the case, putting together a massive telephone scam, and we're there to witness it in detail so accurate, it's almost a beginner's guide to telephone fraud!

But will this lifestyle still provide him with the illusions he needs to believe in himself?

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Dimitri awakens from his bathtub after a rough night unaware of what is about to happen to him next. A dark atmospheric film from Foghorn Films, this is the first film from director Colin Ross Smith.

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Helmed by award-wrinning director Mark Jay, Dolphins is a hard-hitting, high-octane romance, giving a fresh twist to the classic West Side Story-style plot. It's set in the recognisable - and sometimes gritty - world of Brighton's homegrown youth, as they uneasily coexist with the indie scene that the town's so famous for.

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They're the best there is. Two 'get it done guys' from opposite sides of the Atlantic.

But now they're packing it all in. One last job and it's all over.

But the job to end it all, may very well be the end of them.

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A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported on secret flights to an un-named country where he is plunged into a nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. A victim of the illegal policy of 'Extraordinary Rendition' he is consigned to an Orwellian nether world where only questions remain.

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Rob and Charlie, childhood sweethearts, are engaged to be married. But when Charlie doesn't return home from a trip to London, England, Rob journeys from rural Montana to Central London to track her down.

Along the way he meets pimps, drug dealers, mob bosses and professional hitmen; when Rob finally finds Charlie, she's a different woman - and has no desire to return with him. Stuck in a foreign country with no money and no friends, Rob takes the only job on offer - as an assistant to a professional hitman!
 

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In a future world obsessed with money, image and status, can human emotion ever be bought and sold?

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Fuel Crisis is a short film set just after a nationwide fuel shortage. Cars and other transport are redundant. A man in search of a new life wonders the countryside in search of hope. He discovers something much more valuable; a bicycle! He soon learns the value of his possession.

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Based on an original story written by Alfred Hitchcock in 1919 and never brought to the screen before, Gas is the tale of the surreal anxieties and imagined horror of a woman's trip to.
 

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A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.