Projects in genres: Drama

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Two days in the life of Alex DeMello - a narcissistic, drugged-up wannabe yuppie - who sets out to uncover the sinister secrets of his demonic company superiors, but ends up losing his briefcase, his car, his friends, and his mind. During his trip across the bad side of the city, Alex stumbles across car-wrecking psychopaths, all-seeing telephone operators, a knife-wielding skate-boarder, and finally his indestructible corporate rival - The Man. A dark, dream-like psychological thriller about urban paranoia, yuppie greed, corporate manipulation, mind-altering substances, sex, death, betrayal, and a cuddly toy called Mr Buttons. Achieve Synergy.

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After having an abortion against her boyfriend's wishes, Lucia is surprised to find a soul-mate in parent Jimmy.

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Bitter Sweet is a contemporary love story set in Cornwall. Becky and Jack were madly in love once, but drugs got in the way. She cheated him out of a deal, and to make matters worse, shopped him to the police. When Jack is released from prison, he sets out to find her. The role of the avenging angel greatly appeals to him. A Penzance solicitor with a social conscience does his best to help Jack, but he just wants to get even with Becky. His love for her has turned into an unhealthy obsession, and now, hatred. She, in the meantime, turns tricks for money, working under the cover of an aromatherapist. It is not long before he finds her amongst the sand dunes of Hayle, and he shoots Becky with his air pistol. She falls to the ground, crying out in pain. There is a small graze on her arm. He offers to kiss it better. One kiss leads to another and the young lovers soon make up their differences. They are oblivious of a total eclipse passing over their heads. As the sun re-emerges they walk into the brilliant clear light.

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Comedy set in the world of bowls. Try as he might, the roguishly handsome Cliff Starkey, just can't keep out of trouble. In his sleepy hometown on the English coast, nothing much inspires him, apart from bowls. Cliff has always preferred to play by his own rules much to the disapproval of the regimented, elderly fraternity. Before long, the bad boy of bowls is turning the sedate and very English pastime upside down with hysterical results.

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Set in the 1930s, the world of the Bright Young Things is one of nightclubs, dancing, jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an endless series of parties and pleasure seeking: motorcars, jazz bands, gossip journalism, drugs, gramophones - Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living takes its toll and one by one they begin to crash and burn in the search for newer and faster sensations.

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When Annie's husband dies of leukaemia, her best friend Chris comes up with a novel way to raise money for the hospital that cared for him. Why not produce a calendar featuring the two of them and fellow Women's Institute members in traditional WI poses - making jam, pressing flowers, knitting - but just to make it more interesting why not have them in the nude? News of the scheme spreads fast round their small village in the Yorkshire Dales and before long the women are hitting the headlines at home and abroad, an inspiration to millions of women around the world. But this sudden celebrity starts to take over their lives and, during a publicity trip to Hollywood, the friendship between Chris and Annie begins to crack.

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Toyshop owner Harry Sankey (David Thewlis) leads a simple life in the quiet Northern town of Gigglewaite, but the sudden and tragic death of Nancy, his beloved wife and the idolised mother of his estranged son, Sam (Sean Ward) soon turns it all upside down. He then finds himself trying to cope, just as unsuccessfully, with the unusual role of quiz show contestant, believing it to be Nancy's last wish for him to participate in the popular but bizarre TV show 'Cheeky', hosted by the brilliant cheesy Alf Price (Johnny Vegas). Once persuaded, Harry reluctantly joins the crazy show and coincidentally meets another Nancy (Trudi Styler), his charming fellow contestant, who attempts to draw him out of his misery.

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Sandy Kenyon (played by Steve Varden in his first feature role) is an aircraft enthusiast who dreams that one day he will be able to fly. But he has one problem, following his mother's dramatic death in a flying accident, he suffers from cerebral palsy, leaving him with serious mobility problems. Most people Sandy meets find it hard to believe he will ever achieve his dream. Sandy and his grandfather Victor (Sir Derek Jacobi) spend their spare time searching for aircraft wrecks. When Sandy learns that a mystery wreck is still missing in the Lake District, he decides that he will leave the safety of his care home and set out alone to try to find it. Sandy's quest for independence is not a smooth ride. He faces suspicion and hostility as he begins his new life. But as his true potential is revealed, magical things happen. Lucy (Boo Pearce) breaks down her prejudices to become his lover, and a strange group of travellers help him in his quest. Ultimately, Sandy achieves his dream, though not in the way he had planned!

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A serial killer decides to go out in a blaze of terror attempting to kill as many people as he can in a large city before he is stopped. Around which are four inter-linking stories, also taking place in the City on the same summer's day.

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From director Ian David Diaz and producer Julian Boote, who brought you the award-winning cult Brit-Flick, The Killing Zone (Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature, LA International Independent Film Festival 2000), Dead Room is by turns a dark, tense and sometimes bizarrely comic story of the various occupants of innocuously numbered Room No, 2. An otherwise ordinary flat in suburban London, owned by an untrustworthy Nigerian Landlord, No. 2 is a room born bad. You know the kind… bad karma on top of bad décor! It inevitably attracts all the wrong people, and something weird always happens there. Giving examples of its four latest occupants - a gentle writer being driven to murder by a cruel prankster; an ill-prepared trio of women falling foul of a self-perpetuating chain of evil; a TV journalist following an alien-obsessed, barking mad assassin; and a homeless man's encounter with a crazed Stalker and her victim - the Landlord shows us just how macabre and downright odd the room's history really is. Set in a bed-sitting London many will find all too familiar, Dead Room follows the grand tradition of Dead of Night, Creepshow, and Twilight Zone The Movie.

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1917. The Western Front. A million or more Allied and German troops face each other across the shattered landscape of northern Europe. A world of mud, entangled by a wilderness of barbed wire, scarred by miles of trenches, soaked with the blood of the fallen, the air fetid with the suffocating stench of death and gas. Hundreds of thousands of young men are already buried in this terrible wasteland; hundreds of thousands more will die here before the slaughter ends. It is here that one young man must face the truth about himself; that he is a coward, unable to face the coming horror of battle. Private Charlie Shakespeare is frozen with fear. Forced over the top at gunpoint he is hurled into the chaos of battle, witness to the decimation of his comrades; bodies shredded by machine-gun fire, others are blown apart by stray shells. He is alone, desperate to turn and flee. Then the poison gas drifts over the nightmare battle field and all he can do is fumble for his mask, press himself deeper into the mud and pray for dawn. When the battle is over, Shakespeare and the handful of other survivors from Y-Company are utterly lost somewhere in enemy territory. Their only shelter is an abandoned German trench. It's a claustrophobic maze of blind corners and underground tunnels, overflowing with war dead and infested with rats. Here, exhausted and terrified, they seek refuge, waiting to be rescued. But no one will come and as the night draws in, one by one, the young men of Y Company begin to die. An unseen enemy is stalking them, driving them insane with fear until they begin to turn on each other. Is their refuge possessed by something even more terrible than the war that surrounds them? In this cursed, lonely place, Private Charlie Shakespeare must find the strength to overcome his own deepest fears if he is to survive.

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One day top stylist Pim comes face to face with her past when Debbie walks into her salon and back into her memory. Pim's in turmoil as she remembers the summer day when they were ten and her then best friend rejected her. Pim's crime: her Asian hair was black, not blonde. Now Pim has Debbie's head in her hands. Pim has her chance for revenge.