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An Eye for a Tooth tells the story of two families interwoven over several generations. Most family members place honor above everything, while a courageous few believe it is wiser to question tradition. Efkan, a successful businessman living in London, finds his comfortable life in turmoil when he finds out that he is the target of a killer. An unknown assassin from his native Turkey wants to kill him to satisfy a generation-old blood feud. Charlotte, Efkan's wife, this code of revenge, and fears that their 5-year-old son could become a victim of this ancient tradition.

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The film opens in England, on the hottest day of the summer of 1935. Thirteen year old Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic mansion. As the family gathers for the weekend, the combination of the oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions coming to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgling writer, is a girl with a vivid imagination. Through a series of catastropic misunderstandings which take place that day, the lives of Briony, her sister and her sister's newfound lover Robbie Turner - who is also the housekeeper's son - will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach, becoming victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt of which will colour her entire life.

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A neo-Nazi skinhead is apprehended because he has attacked two black teenage boys. As we are taken backwards through the story we realise that things may not be as 'Black and White' as they appear.   Watch on BBC Film Network.

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Social Worker, Vicky presumes that her husband Liam has just gone off in a bad mood. Mysterious phone calls and uncovering the truth, leaves Vicky re-evaluating the state of her own life. Gritty, raw and relentless revenge, a new High Definition feature, Bits N Bites is the fifth no-to-low budget film from the makers of the award winning and critically acclaimed, Two Donuts, Black Coffee, Four Eyes and Big Nose and Twinkle Toes.

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Black Book tells the story of a young and feisty Jewish girl in World War Two who joins the resistance to try and find out who betrayed her family.

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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.