Projects in genres: Drama

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N is a 13 year veteran of the Dorothy Fish, a psychiatric day hospital in North London, whose sole ambition is never to be discharged. But when glamorous Poppy bursts onto the scene, loudly protesting her sanity and desperate to get out, a baffled N reluctantly agrees to help her. In a 21st century catch 22, the pair soon discover that to qualify for legal aid to pay for the lawyer to prove she is sane, Poppy must get sickness benefit, for which she must prove she is mad. Trapped in a crazy upside-down world, where nothing turns out to be quite what it seems, a curious friendship develops born of love.

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In a near future world, economics has taken such control that artistic expression is outlawed. Underground groups gather together in the dark corners of Britain to listen to illegal music, while trying to remain one step ahead of the police. Alan Osborne is an accountant who stumbles into this world but once he is on the inside he must decide whether or not to take a stand.

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Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. Cruising at an underground archway, these two worlds collide. Back at Daz' bedsit, Saleem embarks on a dangerous, thrilling sexual adventure. Both characters disparate worlds overlap and collide to tell a tale of loneliness and longing in a city late at night. Flirting with danger, the dialogue erodes to a series of images of tenderness, violence, power and control.

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Psycho Ranger is based on actual events. Our story is set in the Derbyshire Peak District and is about a High Peak Ranger (Samuel Waring) who loses his mother to cancer. The Ranger slips into psychotic episodes, due to isolation, depression, a persistent poacher and 2 hikers who ridicule him. He kidnaps the poacher and hikers and psychologically tortures them before killing them.

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In a small town built around a chemical plant, 2 neighbours are trapped together after an explosion. Locked in together their secret lives are exposed. A man is accused of murder, a woman who has forgotten reality is confronted with her demons and a desperate neighbour fantasises of a life with her. Why does the street's inhabitants have a history of mental illness scarred into its past? Are the plants exhumed fumes affecting the town’s sanity? And what really happened when David met Ruth.

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Tomboyish Pumpgirl loses herself in girlish daydreams about stock-car driver Hammy. She naively believes that Hammy loves her and will leave his wife, Sinead. Stuck in a loveless marriage with Hammy, Sinead’s need to be stimulated spiritually pulls her into an adulterous passion with Shawshank. When Shawshank realises that the lascivious Hammy has a soft spot for Pumpgirl, he orchestrates a gang rape of her. Hammy is filled with conscience-stricken despair after the rape and seeks solace in his family. Pumpgirl starts to stalking Hammy and is furious when she sees him play happy families with Sinead and the kids. Unfortunately, Sinead is now pregnant with Shawshank’s child. As Hammy’s guilt turns to self loathing, he decides to set fire to Shawshank’s truck. He tries to call Sinead and, when she fails to reply, anguished, indeed suicidal, he attaches a tube to the exhaust pipe on his car, feeds it through the window and sits down inside. Ignoring Hammy’s calls, Sinead is trying to tell Shawshank about the baby. Shawshank misunderstands Sinead’s intentions and becomes violent. Finally realising that she had been deluding herself about Hammy, Pumpgirl kidnaps his kids Kelly and Darren. Eventually, she relents and delivers them safely to Sinead.

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Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) and M's (Judi Dench) interrogation of Mr White (Jesper Christensen) proves no one can be trusted on James Bond's newest action adventure, Quantum Of Solace. Fueled by the betrayal of Vesper, the woman he loved, Bond's determination to track down the mastermind behind White's sinister organisation leads to Haiti, where he finds an unlikely ally in Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful but feisty stranger. The trail quickly leads to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) but with the British Government and the CIA working against him, Bond must kill or be killed on his mission to uncover the truth and destroy 'Quantum'.

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Young and pretty Romanian Nicola was trafficked into the UK after the promise of a legitimate job and prosperous future. She’s ended up forced into work at nasty Rocky’s brothel. One evening Nicola snicks out of the flat to make a desperate phone call home. This is short lived as Rocky finds her and drags her to the house where she’s beaten up and coerced to get ready for her next client.

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Rage is a tragicomedy seen through the eyes of a boy who becomes a player in a high fashion murder investigation when interviews for his website start to spiral into catastrophe.

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16 year old Ralph travels alone to Marseille in order to try and find his best friend Clare and declare his love for her.

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The idyllic world of 6 year-old Ravi (the Watchman's son) is tranformed when Pooja moves into the building with her husband Rohit. Pooja takes Ravi under her wing, puts him in school and introduces him to a whole new world, but can she keep it up.

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Ashwina, an Indian girl in a new town, is smitten when she meets her new boyfriend Jamie. Everything seems wonderful until she discovers Jamie's secret double-life within a group of racist boys.