The basic plot tells the story of a twenty one-year-old university student, Manisha, and her English boyfriend, Paul. What follows is a typical and very moving story of the clash between her modern way of life and her parents preconceptions of how she must live.
It's the late 60s. The English invasion has conquered the world! The Liverpool Sound tops the charts in every country - except Ireland! There, so called Ceili music - a form of traditional music - still reigns supreme. And they're about to hold the annual Ceili competition to determine who's the best band in the land.
But could the unthinkable happen? Could an upstart English band from Liverpool win the All Irish Championship for the first time in history? Transplanted Irishman Jimmy MacMahon (Colm Meaney) and his motley English crew have their hearts set on it.
Meanwhile, back in County Clare, Ireland, Jimmy's stalwart older brother, John Joe (Bernard Hill) and his fiesty local band are determined to win the trophy for the third year in a row.
The long-standing feud between the MacMahon brothers finally boils over as each tries to sabotage the other and win the first prize, by hook or by crook.
Wnen Liverpudlian Teddy (Shaun Evans), Jimmy's best flute player, falls head-over-heels in love with Anne (Andrea Corr), the beautiful young fiddle player in John Joe's band, her overly protective mother, Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), fears her daughter will end up heartbroken.
In an attempt to stop Anne from seeing Teddy, Maisie tells her daughter her own deepest, darkest secret - the true identity of Anne's father. He is none other than John Joe's rotten but charming younger brother Jimmy, who promised Maisie the world and then abandoned her once she was pregnant.
Now, 20 years later, a boldfaced Jimmy shows up - with no apparent regrets - throwing Maisie into a tizzy and infuriating John Joe who was in love with Maisie himself before John Joe stole her heart.
When all the blarney's said and done, blood is still thicker than water, but - when the time comes to play - who' s going home with the trophy? Who's going home with Anne?
When a wedding comes to a small town in the Indian countryside, it's a good opportunity for Mrs Bakshi to find eligible mates for her four daughters, but the smart and headstrong Lalita is determined to marry for love. Sparks fly when she meets the handsome American Will Darcy, but is it love or hate?
Gurinder Chadha directs this Bollywood-style re-telling of Jane Austen's classic tale of marriage and manners, transplanted to modern-day India, England and America, and complete with lavish musical spectacle.
A Coen-esque black comedy set amidst the underbelly of the mini-cab demi-world in London. We follow a group of four drivers who inhabit a gritty cab office as they attempt to deal with a decline in business. We have Remi, who has been kicked out of his home by his wife and sleeps in his car boot at night. Danny, who prefers to engage his fists to settle disputes rather than his brainpower. Cola, who is tanked up with enough medication to kill a horse and Abdul, who sells anything from pirate DVD's to fetish wear from the back of his car. The minicab owner (Nikos) spends his time scuttling around in his dressing gown and slippers, fermenting his 'New Deal' strategy to turn around his economic fortune. Following an unscheduled visit from the local loan shark, he gives his four drivers an ultimatum. The two who bring the most money back to the office, keep their jobs. The other two can join the unemployment scrap-heap. Simple. This sets off a chain of events that stretches their characters, and ensures that the office will never be the same again.
Set over the course of a single day in June 1804, Beethoven arrives at the Viennese palace of his patron, Prince Lobokowitz, to hear his radical, new masterpiece, the 3rd Symphony for the first time.
With music by the acclaimed Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and starring Ian Hart.
Gordon is about to be 40. Perhaps it's time to grow up. A musical comedy from the streets of Hackney.
Gordon Bennett is a small time drug dealer who bypasses the normal responsibilities of a working man and father. He drifts through life like a puff of marijuana smoke on a summer breeze. His saving grace are a romantic imagination coupled with an optimistic belief that his life will get better.
Over the forty-eight hours that take him to the night of his fortieth birthday his optimism is mangled by a series of events instigated by friends, family and fate, coincidences that should make him change his life for good.
The film begins with a council tax dispute and ends with a stabbing on a council estate pavement, via a scheming father, a burglarising ex-wife, a custom dream car, two Danish junkies, half a kilo of coke in a goldfish bowl, three singing villains with varying degrees of psychosis, a very bad trip, a mysterious stripper, a disappearing boat on the River Thames and far too much marijuana.
Documentary filmmakers par-excellence Samuel Dale and Darren King provide the definitive account of the Luton Institute For Christian and Moral Ethics, (LICME) campaign to prevent notorious rock group Smear of Filth performing in their town. The documentary also contains the only filmed interview with Sven Vader before his untimely death.
A fusion of dance and documentary exploring what "home" means to people in East London. Ervin's family fled from Kosovo. They are still waiting for his brother to find them. Nanthuja travelled alone in a container from Sri Lanka, Laura-anne is one of the first mixed-race members of her family.
