Projects in genres: Action

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Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness... and they’re about to meet their match. Don Wallace is a wide-eyed new boy from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals, presided over by sadistic sixth formers. Matters of status are aggressively enforced and conversations with school goddess Clemsie, are strictly forbidden. But this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally. When a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed. Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron become locked in a bloody battle for survival.

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The year is 1905. Thomas Richardson travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult who are demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.

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On an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their six-week shift. As Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) and Donald (Connor Swindells) settle into their usual, solitary routines, something unexpected and potentially life-changing occurs when they stumble upon something that isn’t theirs to keep. Where did it come from? Who does it belong to? A boat appears in the distance that might hold the answer to these questions… What follows is a tense battle for survival as personal greed replaces loyalty - and fed by isolation and paranoia, three honest men are led down a path to destruction.

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Two men, one English, one German head off to war. Both men have family at home that they have left behind to go and fight for their country, to do their duty. The film follows them as they try to deal with, and, partake in the atrocities of war.

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A contemporary thriller focusing on a fostered teenager who has developed a vendetta against the former guardian of his foster brother. His actions, in redemption, spiral out of control, leaving him in a position where he has to hide from the rest of society. Under the assumption that his new hide-out space is unoccupied, he soon develops further problems than he anticipated.

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A group of convicts is duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful. But, the authorities have no intention of ever letting them return to earth. They want the inmates to procreate and raise a child in space as part of a larger experiment. The film follows the character of Monte a few years after the mission’s launch as he raises his daughter, Willow, in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards its final destination, a black hole. He fathered Willow against his will after his sperm was used to inseminate another convict in space as part of the experiment. In the process of raising her, however, he comes to experience real love for the first time in his life. Claire Denis's first English-language feature is "an adventure beyond the solar system set in a future that seems like the present". Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Deep Focus

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A caper film about the unlikely gang of retirees that pulled off the daring Hatton Garden jewellery heist of 2015. Developed from Mark Seal's Vanity Fair piece 'The Over the Hill Mob', the film tells the story of the epic multi-million-pound robbery initially believed to be undertaken by a gang of super-thieves. The actual perpetrators were a group of tough-guy retired criminals in their late 60s and 70s — with all kinds of physical maladies — who were mostly unoccupied and bored, until they consulted a bunch of how-to books and figured out a way to pull off one last hurrah over a long weekend in April 2015. Entering the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company property via a lift shaft, they drilled through the 50cm thick vault walls with heavy machinery and escaped with a haul estimated to be worth around £200 million.

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California ‘77: playground of the rich and famous, sun-soaked, sex-crazed and powered by shitloads of Colombian cocaine. Leading the parade is maverick auto-designer John DeLorean, a high-risk gambler and corporate vampire. Blinded by ambition, even if that means selling his soul, DeLorean will stop at nothing to design the ultimate car of the future, a sports car with wings. On the outside looking in is DeLorean’s neighbour Jim Hoffman, barely supporting his family while living high-end on the pay of a low-end bullshit artist. When busted by the feds with a planeload of drugs, Jim is forced to turn snitch by Special Agent Benedict Tisa. His ultimatum: deliver the head of John DeLorean. A turbo-charged tale of ambition, entrapment and betrayal based on a true story of sting operations and lurid celebrity scandals. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations

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A feature documentary about Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympic and Olympic athlete who shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2013, and whose culpable homicide sentence was later overturned and replaced with a murder conviction by the South African Court of Appeal in December 2015. The film explores the tragedy of Steenkamp’s death; alongside a look at South Africa’s turbulent society. Over twenty years after Nelson’s Mandela’s seeming triumph over adversity, the country, born out of the violence of apartheid, has so far been unable to overcome the profound damage inflicted upon it – mired in racial tensions, a culture of gun crime, corruption and violence – and failing institutions seemingly unable to resuscitate the dreams of a nation.

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After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange and spooky things start to happen... A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Cult Strand - World premiere

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Awake or asleep? Alive or dead? What lies between? And who, or what, is that voice blurring lines between reality and fantastical nightmare?

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We follow a young photographer, an outcast simply known as Rain Catcher. New in town, he captures the haunting beauty of his new home: the notorious Barbican estate in London. Suddenly, Rain Catcher notices a mysterious man appearing in his photographs, always staring intensely into camera. Who is this man? Official Selection Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival 2018 - Fantastic Competition - World premiere