Projects in genres: Drama

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Single mum gains security but loses her adored son. After battling the housing authorities, a Castlemilk machinist succeeds in buying her own home. But her victory is bittersweet, because her main reason for wanting home-ownership has just walked out her front door, bound for London and adventure.

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Set in the present day and in 1946, this is a story of lost love and missed opportunities.

Anne, an English woman in her early seventies, is incorrectly diagnosed with terminal cancer. As she believes she has only a few weeks to live, she travels to a lake in northern Italy where she restored paintings as a young girl after the Second World War. Anne wishes to discover what happened to Antonio, her first and only passionate love, from whom she was forced to flee in unexplained circumstances.

When she arrives in Orta, Antonio's village, she is told contradictory stories about Antonio's fate. Faced with these stories and hostility, Anne begins to lose hope of discovering the truth.

She befriends Fleur, a Jamaican born, English raised young woman who teaches English in the village. Fleur has fallen in love with a local boy whom she is forbidden to marry by the boy's grandfather. Despite Anne's deepening depression, she encourages Fleur to not surrender her relationship and to therefore live a life of regret.

Meanwhile, in England, the mistake in Anne's diagnosis is discovered. A race begins to get the news to Anne before depression consumes her....

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Mina has just arrived in a new city and is looking for somewhere to live. Her search becomes difficult and absurd when an estate agent makes her go through a series of bizarre tests to prove her worth. Mina eventually has to resort to seduction to be awarded a flat.

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A contemporary romantic comedy set in the heart of multi-cultural Bradford. Vivek, a pest controller, steals a pot of magic ointment from the cockroach-infested flat of Bekai Basu - a self-professed love-doctor.

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The Magdalene Asylums in Ireland were run by the Sisters of Mercy on behalf of the Catholic Church. Young girls were sent there by families or orphanages and once there, were imprisoned and sent to work in the laundries where they could atone for their sins. Their sins varied from being unmarried mothers to being too pretty, too ugly, simple minded, too clever or being a victim of rape and talking about it. And for their sins they worked 364 days a year unpaid, they were half starved, beaten, humiliated, raped, their children forcibly removed from them. Their sentence was indefinite. Thousands of women lived and died there. The last Magdalene Asylum in Ireland closed in 1996, five years ago.

This film is from the point of view of four of these young women in the 1960s, an era mistakenly seen by some as a time of unchallenged female liberation. These young Catholic women find themselves in an almost medieval nightmare whilst the outside world tacitly (or in some cases actively) supports a theocratic state. It looks at how their personalities develop for better and for worse in an environment controlled and dominated by celibate women, servants of God, Brides of Christ. In their own ways the girls refuse to be beaten, but what victory is there if they remain imprisoned as little more than slaves? One gets out in a heartbreakingly banal fashion, one is imprisoned in a mental asylum, two finally rebel, run away, escape.

It is a fictional film that unfortunately happens to be true.

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Mythical drama set on an enchanted stretch of coastline. When a deaf girl chances on an abandoned wheelchair, she discovers the incredible secret of the 'Magic Mile'. Finding herself in a strange and unfamiliar world, she picks up the trail of the wheelchair's owner who reveals that miracles have their limits.
 

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Adopted as a baby and taken to England, Daniel Meeks returns to the town of his birth in search of his real family. He finds himself embroiled in a fight for the ownership of the town and to free the soul of the late Lucius Meeks, Daniels great, great grandfather.

Regarded by the town as an evil gun-slinger, Lucius had an affair with the fiancée of Joshua Carter, the town's owner, and shot them both dead in the street during an argument over land rights. Lucius' ghost appears to Daniel to clear his name and allow him to rest in peace.

Daniel quickly adapts to 'life out West' and goes on to discover the truth about his discredited gun-slinging relative, picking up clues along the way which help him to track down his real mother too.

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Three guys appear at the gates of Heaven, stunned. St Peter himself is surprised to see them there all at once. Three flashbacks show what happened.

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The Mystic Masseur, a joyful drama of optimism, self-belief and wondrous imagination, that can work miracles.

Based on the first novel of Nobel winning V S Naipaul,The Mystic Masseur , is the first ever film adaptation of any of Naipaul's work.

The Mystic Masseur tells the story of 'Ganesh', a struggling author, who finds his fortune when he discovers he has an ability to cure people's minds. It is rare to see a rags-to-riches story in which we are so intimately involved with the characters, so sympathetic to them, and led so easily to understand that riches may not always be a good trade for the happiness of youthful ambition.

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A darkly comic tale about Cann Ignatius a man under pressure. By day, put upon by a pernicious office junior. His work piles higher and ever higher, and by night, frustratingly kept awake by a neighbours midnight D.I.Y sessions. To top all this, his once full fridge is now empty.

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When Stevie meets Neil on the day he comes to deliver her new kitchen, it's already too late for love at first sight. Stevie's already five minutes pregnant by her Italian footballer husband Andrea; and it's too late for Neil too - his wife Jenny has already sent off for an African child to adopt.

But too late or otherwise, love at first sight is exactly what happens. How can Neil and Stevie get out of their mistaken marriages and into each other's arms? Simple really - while Neil contemplates suicide under the Angel of the North, his wife is run over on her way to buy a pint of milk.

Andrea proves harder to shift, but eventually, via the arms of a twenty year old beautician, tells the truth (in perfect English, too) about what he really thinks of women.

Is perfect harmony in sight, in this comedy set in Newcastle?

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A hypochondriac air hostess is convinced she has tongue cancer until she finds salvation from an unlikely source