Projects in genres: Drama

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An isolated air-traffic controller in an island of the Azores archipelago receives a transatlantic emergency signal from a lost plane. As the engagement with the lone pilot unfolds, it emerges that their new found friendship will not last through the night.

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In 1327, Sir Roger Mortimer leads a rebellion against Edward II and loses everything: his land, his titles, his family and his freedom. A lesser man would have surrendered to his fate, but not Mortimer. Making a daring escape from the Tower of London, he goes into exile and plots revenge. England continues to suffer under her twin rulers' Edward and his chief counsellor and Mortimer's sworn enemy, Hugh Despenser. When Mortimer arrives at the head of an invading army, and with the king's estranged wife, Isabella, at his side, it's immediately clear whose cause the people of England will support. Edward is captured and offered a stark choice: renounce the throne, or face his own son across a battlefield. England crowns its new king - the 14-year-old Prince of Wales, but his inexperience shows when he mounts a campaign against the Scots that ends in humiliating defeat. He resents Mortimer's continuing affair with his mother and his unwillingness to hand over control of the country to its rightful ruler. Mortimer's wealth and power are restored, but rumours of Edward II's 'unnatural' death begin to circulate. How long before the man who would be king is brought down?

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Adapted from the internationally praised bestselling novel, One Day charts an extraordinary relationship. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their university graduation - July 15th, 1988.  She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, every July 15th reveals to us how 'Em' and 'Dex' are faring, as their friendship ebbs and flows with the passing of the years. Through laughter and romance, heartbreak and exhilaration, they experience the grandeur of life. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.

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Patience deals with envy and kindness through the eyes of two old women. Although 82, Vera learns a lesson in life from her neighbouring patient Constance.

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An abusive care worker is hired to look after a near catatonic paraplegic at his home. After subjecting him to maltreatment and neglect, the situation takes a turn for the worse.

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A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

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Little Katie loves fairy tales; beautiful princesses and handsome heroes. And in her young head, the real world is just as wondrous. But a storm is about to wreck her childish fantasy and she'll discover all too soon that not everyone can live happily ever after.

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When a young girl wants to help her sick father she thinks she has found the perfect person to call, but this nurse gives a different kind of medicine.

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Teenager, Sandra from the tenth floor of a high rise tower in the Lowry city of Salford, is forced to deal with the new trend of lads wanting to have their names tatooed on any girl they sleep with and the old trend of being left holding the baby. Filmed on the same streets as a Taste of Honey, has anything really changed? Maybe not but even though Sandra may not ever read Hilary Clinton's book 'It Takes Village' inadvertently she lives the premise for real. So maybe just maybe things have changed after all.

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A film about beer and betting in Camden Town. Friends meet to bet on the Grand National and end up on a Pub crawl around Camden town.

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As the plague of teenage violence and anti-social behaviour spreads uncontrolled, society fights back with a radical plan: a revolutionary school to rehabilitate those beyond help. But what are their methods and are they a step too far? After getting drawn into street violence, a rebellious youth and his sister Dana are sent by their concerned parents to a radical new school where anti-social children rapidly become compliant. Vee, a newly arrived teacher, is spooked by these ‘Stepford’ teens and grows suspicious, as does Dana whose brother has changed beyond recognition. With the aid of Peter, a local reporter and Bobby, another pupil seemingly unaffected by the school, Vee and Dana set out to uncover the truth behind the McCarthy Institute. But their investigations are cut short as, in true ‘Body Snatcher,’ style they find themselves hunted down by pupils and teachers alike until Dana is the only girl left with a mind of her own. Even by seeking refuge at home, Dana is faced with one final impossible dilemma.

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1944: after the failure of the D-day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. Sarah Lewis, a 26 year-old farmer's wife, wakes to find her husband Tom has disappeared. On the same morning the other women in the isolated Welsh border valley of Olchon discover their husbands have gone, too. Assuming their men have joined the resistance, the women in this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms themselves and waiting, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, a fragile mutual dependency develops. Sarah begins a faltering acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer, Albrecht. But as the chaos of the war presses in on them, Albrecht feelings for Sarah deepen and he confesses to her the secret of his mission. Soon the valley’s delicate state of harmony begins to falter and the women and soldiers are forced to make decisions that will change their lives forever.