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1855. An English cavalryman returns from the Crimean intent on marrying his sweetheart, only to find she is expected to wed another. To resolve the issue he accepts the challenge of a duel; for a love you would not die for is no love at all.

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Afterlife is a film about love and filial responsibility. It's the story of two siblings, Kenny and Roberta Brogan. Kenny is an ambitious young journalist, standing on the brink of a fantastic career opportunity in New York. Roberta has Down's syndrome and still lives at home with their mother, May. Two very different siblings. Two very different lives. But everything is about to change when tragedy strikes and they are forced to reassess their future.

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Theirs is, at heart, a love story: Andrew and Jeremy met each other at Bromptons Club, a legendary gay bar in Earls Court, London. Despite a considerable age gap (Andy is 49, Jeremy 69) and stark social differences, they fell in love and began sharing their lives together. Five years later, in May 2004, they got married at an emotional and intimate Town Hall ceremony. Andy is a retired bus driver from South London, handsome in that rough and roguish way. Jeremy is an English professor -  cute, fussy, vivacious and clearly from a patrician world. Both men experienced painful early struggles with their sexuality. Jeremy had a failed marriage to a woman, followed by a misguided attempt to 'cure' himself. Andy cruised public washrooms and indulged with much promiscuity - gay bars, drug addiction, crime, prison and rehabilitation. Jeremy has literary connections and moves in a sphere of chic dinner parties, poetry readings and gay picnics. Between their homes in London and their exploits in Palm Springs and Hollywood, we get to know these likeable, complex and sensitive men in a way that is rare in movies - which is to say we begin to care deeply about them and their relationship.

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An observational documentary about Natty, a 19-year-old from Birmingham, who has just been released from prison, where he was sent for violent crime. Will financial and peer pressure lead Natty back into gang crime? Through the course of filming, Moby Longinotto raises difficult questions - should we be observing these lives and if and when should we be getting involved?  

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Brothers of the Head  is the story of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe - a freak show turned proto-punk sensation. As teenagers in the early 1970s, the Howe twins were plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groomed them into a rock-and-roll act. Against all expectations, the boys - performing as The Bang-Bang - quickly appropriated their status as 'freaks' and spat it back in the form of searing, aggressive rock. Grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, the story follows the twins as they negotiate love, artistic rivalry, and the cruel suppression of their unique voice. Brothers of the Head  investigates our impulse to celebrate the extraordinary, and our tragic compulsion to claim, de-mystify and destroy it.

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Luke Goss teams up with Steven Berkoff to tell the real life story of Charlie Richardson, the head of the notorious ‘torture gang’. In the 1960s, London was owned and ruled by two families, north of the river the Krays, to the south the Richardsons. Now for the first time in his own words Charlie reveals what really happened. London, 30 July 1966, England win the World Cup, a fabled day in English history. But also on that day Charlie Richardson's life was about to change forever. He was arrested and tried in what became known as the ‘torture trial’, a trial of gravest importance to British society. The case was so significant that even today the files remain sealed. 104 jurors were finally whittled down to 12 , each of whom was given a personal bodyguard. At a time when The Beatles ruled the world and young Americans were fighting in Vietnam, for ten weeks the British public was glued to the events at the Old Bailey, where Charlie Richardson was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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Creep is an intimate family drama set in Yorkshire. Christopher, seven years old, lives with his mum and wayward half brother. Christopher's dad disappeared without trace six months ago leaving the family to struggle with daily life and idle gossip. Christopher decides to confide in an elderly neighbour, Reg.

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Two war correspondence are escorted to a recently bombed town. The apparent perpetrators are about to be executed in front of a baying mob of survivors. One journalist doubts the guilt of the adolescent prisoners; the other believes they are not there to take sides but to take pictures.

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Thirty years in the future, mankind has been forced underground by a deadly virus. The surface is thought to be a lifeless wasteland. Loki and Sash, two members of the 'Subtropolis' special forces, are thrust into a deadly adventure when they accept a new mission: Return topside, rescue a lost recon team and come back alive. One problem: they've been lied to. Cut off from civilisation and slowly being infected by the deadly disease, their ordeal is just beginning. Before long the inhabitants of this apocalyptic world show up and are hungry. For them. A thrill-a-minute sci-fi horror that will infect you with fear.

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In the middle of a cold winter night, a mournful sound echoes through the darkness of the Irish countryside. Farmer Dan Reilly (John Lynch) waits as one of his cattle is about to give birth. The noise of her labour resonates through the barn. The animal’s agony weighs heavily on Dan’s mind, as he has reluctantly allowed a bio-tech corporation to run tests on his livestock in return for financial aid for his debt-ridden ranch. Camped in a nearby field are Mary (Ruth Negga) and Jamie (Sean Harris, who played Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People and also starred in last year’s Festival selection Creep). The young couple is running away, hoping to get to London for a fresh start. After giving them a surly warning to get off his land, Dan backpedals and asks them for assistance with the troublesome birth. In the dank straw, the warm breath of new life appears on the cold air - and the group is plunged into a blind panic at the realization that something has gone horribly wrong.

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Public location - Private acts - Moments of intimacy, crisis and transformation in an Edwardian ladies public lavatory. Ladies come and go, insignificant objects are left behind. All is silently witnessed by the attendant who carefully preserves these small discarded fragments of women's hidden lives.

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Jake longs to play football with the older boys in his street. When he inadvertently ends up with the ball, Jake discovers that friendship can come at a price.