Projects in genres: Action

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A news story about a school massacre spreads online, but how reliable is the source? Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimentia Strand - World premiere

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Simon knows a serial killer will murder him in five days time. He knows because he’s seen it – the 20-something is a powerful psychic who gets glimpses of the future. Simon hires ex-soldier Steve to put an end to the killer. Steve comes to believe in Simon and the two become friends. Unfortunately MI5 take an interest in Simon’s abilities. The duo must evade the security services to stop the killer. When Simon is captured, Steve allies with a MI5 agent in the race to save Simon. Ultimately they succeed with Simon proving his powers and their story going viral.

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A highly focused athlete is out on a routine training run along an isolated undercliff path when he receives a world-shattering phone call from his concerned Mum who is watching "the biggest event in human history" unfold live on TV.

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Londoner Ronnie embarks on a journey to India when his mother, Suleka, goes missing and mysteriously ends up in a Kolkata hospital. Before Ronnie can unravel the mystery of what brought his mother back to her homeland, Suleka dies in an apparent cult killing. Further deaths point to a series of past murders that stopped 28 years ago when Suleka left India with her infant son. Until now. As the darkness within Ronnie grows and the murders reach their peak, all roads lead to the feared witch of Kolkata's insane asylum.

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A group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. But what they unleashed could almost tear our world apart.

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Based on the true story of Katharine Gun, a former Mandarin translator at the British intelligence agency GCHQ, who made headlines after she leaked a confidential NSA memo that proposed the USA and UK put pressure on six ‘swing’ nations on the UN Security Council to vote in favour of the imminent 2003 Iraq invasion. The Observer newspaper in the UK broke the story and Gun was subsequently arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act, sparking a public outcry. Authorities dropped the case almost as soon as her trial began in early 2004. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Premieres - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Debate Strand Gala - European premiere

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During the Battle of Waterloo, soldier's wife Ellen searches for her missing husband in the nearby forest and resorts to desperate measures to survive.

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Borrowing the speech bubble aesthetics of a comic book, a fresh take on the female assassin story. Kora is a deadly but also lonely hit-woman, living in London. By day, she plays the Cello and teaches kids how to play music. By night, she eliminates targets, following instructions from her handler - Andre - a voice on the other end of a telephone. Kora is looking for a way to change her life when a violent coincidence presents itself. A local underworld mobster who has heard the tale of the mortally dangerous woman gets hold of Andre’s phone number, and manages to set a trap for Kora. It’s a nasty surprise but it's a chance to get out, and she takes it.

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Sam is the world’s toughest female bodyguard, tasked with protecting high profile targets for terrorism and assassination. She fought her way to the top in a man’s world and feels more at home in the war zones of Sudan than back at her L.A. apartment. When she’s assigned to protect a VIP in Morocco, she thinks she’s in for a quick and easy job. That VIP turns out to be Zoe, a young and very rich heiress who’s never left her bubble of wealth and who isn’t keen on being babysat. Sam can take a bullet for a president, but young privileged girls aren’t her specialty - especially a spoiled one. When Zoe’s bulletproof, secluded compound comes under attack in an explosive kidnapping attempt, Sam’s skills are put to the test. Accused of murder themselves, they must find a way to work together, determined to hunt the attackers and their corrupt employers.

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Robert McQueen's day takes a turn for the worse when he is held hostage and accused by three vengeful husbands of sleeping with their wives.

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A stop-motion animated thriller set in a world where deer are the dominant species. An alpha male deer goes for an evening car ride and has an unfortunate accident, triggering a chain of events with dire consequences for the victim. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Cinéfondation - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Cult Strand

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A playwright risks his life in returning to his home city to find out if a woman with whom he once had a passionate and illicit affair ever truly loved him, only to learn that it was only ever the unknowing and distance that kept their desire alive.