Projects in genres: Drama

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A group of youthful robbers are looking for a retirement fund. But the mob and the police want them to keep working - for them.

$teal is an action packed robbery story. Lead character Slim is as smart as they come and has come up with a daring plan: pull off five heists in a week, using a different extreme sport each time to make the getaway.

But after only two heists the gang net $20 million in untraceable bearer bonds. Why risk your neck when you've made more money than you've ever dreamt about?

However, a crooked cop has traced them (supposed to be on the good side, he is rotten to the core) and wants a piece of the action. In fact he wants it all. He forces Slim and his gang to go through with the rest of the plan, but they're going to have to hand him all the money from each successive heist. Only the last heist is going to be a bloodbath: every member of the gang is not going to get away alive from that one.

Slim has two other minor problems: the bearer bonds are owned by the mob, and suddenly the young gang have a holy hitman on their tails.

And Carmen, Slim's newfound girlfriend? She's a cop.

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Exploring the threshold between the authentic and the fake, the apparitions of identical twin sisters guide the viewer deep into an investigation of the memory arena. Through the mirror and behind the curtain, the reflection of a play is trying to be witnessed.

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A young man stops at a telephone box to call his mother, but she is busy and takes an age to answer the phone.

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Manchester, 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, a Granada TV Presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, and proceed to sign a number of bands destined to be some of the most influential artists of their time. First, Joy Division, who go on to become New Order; then come the Happy Mondays.

What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70s to the early 90s, 24 Hour Party People documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place to be.

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The entire planet has been devastated by a virus. The human race is facing extinction. A handful of survivors are left to salvage a future from the apocalypse.

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About a Boy tells the story of Will, a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties, who in search of available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons he meets Marcus, a strange 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually, Will and Marcus become friends and as Will teaches Marcus how to be a cool kid, Marcus helps Will to finally grow up.

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This is a film about a girl experiencing the hopes and dreams of an average northern working-class teenage girl.

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After his world collapsed around him, Kenneth takes refuge on a park bench and watches life pass him by whilst endlessly reminising about his own love. Love, life and Scotch eggs! According to Colin explores the workings of a troubled mind on any one day in three hundred and sixty five.

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An elderly Greek-Cypriot man lies dying in a hospital bed, attended by a nurse and his daughter. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, we follow him into his memories of 1955 and a secret.

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AIPS is an observational piece, exploring the very private world of re-enactment. It focuses on a Kent-based group who play the roles of both a US and a Vietcong unit, six weekends a year. They aim to recreate 'living history' by dressing, camping and eating as authentically as possible.

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It's 1927, the height of the Roaring Twenties, and Chicago is rife with corruption gambling, prostitution and prohibition.

Jimmy and his two Liverpool pals, Dan and Eddie, work as lowly waiters on a luxury liner. Always on the make, the three lads are pinning their hopes on getting enough money to jump ship in New York and start a new life in the USA.

They plan a ruse which nets them six bottles of gin from the ship's stores, which they know will fetch a good price in Prohibition America.

Unwittingly they sell them to two gangsters on the New York quayside, one of whom turns out to be the right-hand man to Al Capone.

It soon becomes clear that the trio have got themselves into a dangerous situation. A further complication is created by Jimmy's attraction to Edith, girlfriend to one of the gangsters.

When Capone's son is kidnapped and the lads are implicated, it's time to get out of town. But not before Jimmy's big fight and a small matter of Dan and Eddie removing the contents of Capone's vault to pay for their trouble.

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Interlocking emotional stories about various characters on a housing estate, focusing particularly on a family whose young son's illness has a traumatic effect on his parents' relationship.