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Rites of passage story about Jimmy, a sensitive young teenager of mixed race growing up on a rough inner city estate in the North of England.

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When Jack breaks up with his girlfriend, his life is turned upside-down - literally, as gravity completely changes direction, and he wakes up on the ceiling! Stuck upside-down in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, how will he survive?

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G.M. is a surrealist film in which an Edwardian gentleman is alternately tormented and rescued by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wallpaper. It was inspired by the work of film pioneer Georges Melies.

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An off-beat thriller set in a remote Welsh village. Teenagers Glen and Joe let Tin Man, the local tramp, take the rap after they accidentally kill Joe's girlfriend, Jenny.

14 years later, Tin Man is released from prison and a girl, Nicky, turns up. Nicky is a dead ringer for Jenny, and when Joe sees her, the guilt that has haunted him for so long turns into full-blown paranoia. Glen has to do everything he can to keep him quiet. But the enigmatic Sergeant Bracchi is sure that the real story was never told all those years ago, and sets out to uncover it.

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Ronnie wants 'to be a somebody'. He buys himself a classic old Cadillac which he loves more than life itself. When the local loan shark comes after some money Ronnie owes, he hides the car and claims it has been stolen, aiming to get the insurance money and keep the car.

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Rabbie Burns, a young man with a history of mental problems, is given a clean bill of health by his psychiatrist, Dr. MacKenzie. But no sooner has he left the doctor's clinic than the city begins speaking to him in voices, by messages in Underground trains, over supermarket tannoys, and his own T.V, in the guise of a talking pig. Rabbie is told he has thirty hours to stop the world's leaders' experiments with the ultimate weapon of mass destruction - XZB-3 - before forces beyond human control destroy the world and put an end to history.

Rabbie's only friends in the city are Narendra, a TV researcher covering the mad dog story, and Jimmy Joyce, a homeless vagrant and saxophonist. Enlisting their help, Rabbie soon finds that the voices he thinks are his own mental creations are real, and unleashing actual events. As he is abducted, first by government agents, and then by what appear to be alien forces, he seems threatened on all sides, and made responsible by the 'Supreme Being' himself for a cataclysmic outcome he has no power at all to control.

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Morvern Callar is a 21 year old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something you get on with as best you can with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor.

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Set in Harlesden in 1999, the film begins with the shooting of Plato Armanani by police marksmen. He and his friend, Raoul, are criminals under surveillance. As the pressure of the surveillance increases, Plato starts to crack up. He is isolated and alone. He falls out with his girlfriend, buys a gun and vows to use it on one of the cops. He shoots a cop after a boxing match, and goes on the run. Raoul tries to track him down and finds him suicidal at his mother's flat. Raoul and his girl, Raine, try to get him to safety, but they are all run to ground and Plato is tragically shot.

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Remoteis a drama set in a rural part of East Anglia and centres on a man, his disabled father and neighbour. The uneasy relationship between the three comes to a head in a shocking denouement.

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Ten years ago, the Duke murdered Vindici's wife on their wedding day. Vindici fled. His family fell into poverty, while the Duke, Duchess and their decadent sons acquired wealth and power. Today, Vindici returns.

With the help of his brother Carlo, he sets about the destruction of the Duke and his entire clan. But it will not be easy - the Duke is well protected; and his villainous first-born, Lussurioso, is determined to seduce Vindici's sister - Castiza.

When the Duke's youngest son is imprisoned for the rape of a beautiful aristocrat, Imogen, Vindici sees an opportunity to secure his revenge.

Alex Cox directs a fantastically futuristic version of the Jacobean play.

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My mum, she always said to me, 'Anything you do, my son, always leave it neat and tidy' and, do you know, it's a bit of advice I've always followed.

And by an odd twist of fate, the line of work I landed up in made that advice all the more appropiate.

But I must confess, as I get a little older it gets a little harder, leaving everything - neat and tidy.

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Gilly steps out of prison with nothing and no one except J, a small time hustler who owes him money. They go back a long way and that means something. All Gilly wants is to start over, but J has gone and invested his money in some half baked gun deal behind his boss's back and needs Gilly's help. So Gilly goes along with him, as he always has done.

As they get deeper into London's underworld, it's clear that J's drug habit is spiralling out of control and his ruthless boss Max is already one step ahead of him. J's wife Marie wants out, but he has stopped listening and their world is falling apart. Then Max finds out about J's dealings and demands he betray Gilly, setting him up so he has no choice. Desperate, his back against the wall, J takes action the only way he knows how. But when all hell breaks loose, it is Gilly who has been playing a knife edged game all along.