Projects in genres: Drama

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A bipolar and bigoted junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

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A drama that brings together the lives of four people during the struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria.

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An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.

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Huba (Parasite) is a film about an ailing old man and a young mother. After retiring from the factory, the man, deprived of his daily routine, loses control over his time. Unable to eat or sleep, he starts drying up. The mother and child are like a single organism. Yet their relationship is, for all its closeness, one of dependence and inequality. The child, whose attachment to life is the strongest, is ravenous and needy; the woman, though enjoying a brief moment of freedom, is doomed to be a victim, while the old man has nothing to keep him going now that he can no longer work at the factory. When the three of them try to have a life together, they are like the Holy Family reversed. Brought together by chance, their lives intertwine in a web of oppression. The film follows their daily existence and slow decline.

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Simon's world is turned upside down when his little girl Katie is abducted during a family day out. After weeks of searching and appeals Katie's lifeless body is found. Simon is devastated, so decides to punish himself by offering a young prostitute with mounting debts, life changing money to end his life.

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A young boy quietly copes with his mother’s nervous breakdown, trying to stop her hurting them both as she drives towards the cliffs.

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The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947.

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Late September takes place over a 24-hour period, in a beautiful Kent house and garden, and follows the course and aftermath of a birthday celebration organised by a middle-aged woman for her husband to whom she has been married for nearly 40 years. As the day and night progress, old rifts, new relationships and secrets emerge amongst friends, and the underlying tensions in the marriage can no longer be contained.

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In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.

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Set in present day London, Love Towmorrow is the story of an ex-ballet dancer whose life is turned upside down after receiving devastating news about her fiancé Dominic. Wandering the underground in a torment of pain and anger, a chance encounter with a charismatic Cuban ballet dancer, Oriel offers a temporary distraction. Oriel overlooks her engagement ring and suggests she spends some time with him. Why she follows this insistent stranger is unclear, and why he tolerates her reserve, mood swings and outright hostility is also unclear. But as the night lengthens, the frustrations, secrets and wounds of their lives begin to emerge and a fragile friendship promises to turn into something more profound as they face the most serious dilemmas of their lives. 

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When an Irishman, whose marriage is in crisis, travels to Singapore after the sudden death of his older brother, he soon becomes drawn into the life his dead brother left behind.

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Nino is a retiring mafia boss isolated from the world in a small attic. A family stumbles upon the mafia boss’s hiding place trying to find a new house to squat without knowing that they have a cohabitant.