Projects matching: ISO

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Guest House Paradiso is the much-anticipated feature debut of two popular UK comedians, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. The anarchic story of the world's worst hotel was written by the pair, directed by Edmondson and produced by Phil McIntyre, the music and live show promoter who had worked with Mayall and Edmondson on their live show. The trio had long wanted to make a feature together and funding came from Video Vision, a division of the then-PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, and now Universal Pictures International (UPI).

"With the opportunities available to Rik (Mayall) and Ade (Edmondson), it has been easier for them to take the course of least resistance and to write a book, do a TV series, or act in somebody else's film, that somebody else has financed, than actually to do their own thing," says McIntyre. "But things became easier so we made a film."

In addition to Mayall and Edmondson, the cast is populated by some of Europe's most dynamic acting talent including Vincent Cassel, Helene Mathieu and Bill Nighy.

"There's only one criterion in the whole film, which is that it's very funny," Mayall explains. "We find it's much better to build your own world, to make a fantasy and invite people into it. It's a world where the level of reality is such that you can do the kind of things we do, such as be swung around by meathooks through your nose without it seeming unreal."

Shooting took place in April 1999 at Ealing Studios and on location on the Isle of Wight. Universal International Pictures released the film in the UK in April 2000.

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Richie and Eddie run Guesthouse Paradiso: possibly the worst hotel in the world. The drunken chef has eaten all the food and most of the guests have departed without paying. But things look up when the Nice family check in. Rummaging through the family's luggage, Richie finds exotic rubber underwear. Naturally he has to try them on. Interrupted, he hastily leaves his clothes in their bathroom and makes for the reception area.





There, beautiful actress Gina (having just jilted her fiancé Gino) wants to check in. Unsuitably dressed, Richie hides in the oven - but it ignites, fusing the underwear to his body. Eddie tries to remedy this with compressed air and a skewer - but the pants blow up, hurling Eddie onto the road. Still unconscious, a truck runs over his head, the jolt causing some fish to spill.





This, at least, eases the catering problem and Eddie incinerates the fishy windfall for dinner. Things take a turn for the worse when Mr Nice finds video evidence of Richie's panty-pilfering and threatens to sue. The guests also start to show signs of severe indigestion . . .

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Harry, a seasoned CIA agent in his mid forties, wants nothing more than to forget his years of duty in places like Nicaragua and to become his cover as a jazz club owner in Helsinki.





Natasha, a young and ambitious KGB agent with more chutzpah than experience, wants to secure a future for herself amid the uncertainty of the floundering KGB and Russian Republic.





Natasha's assignment to spy on Harry has blossomed into a torrid love affair. Like any two career couple they keep secrets from each other. But theirs have international implications.





The delicate balance of their life together is disrupted when a young, over eager CIA agent, Dave, arrives in Helsinki to intercept a videotape encoded with state secrets en route from New York - its concepts so hot that everybody who touched the tape is now dead. Dave pursues the unsuspecting courier, Max, a manic ex-bond trader who stumbled into the delivery job fresh from a prison sentence for SEC fraud.





For Natasha, the tape could be a ticket out of the KGB and into the American dream - if she crosses her boss. But as satellites hover overhead and the rusting Russian fleet leaks radiation nearby, absolutely everyone except Harry hatches a personal plan to exploit the encoded tape.





Harry is left to try to stop Natasha from getting herself killed - or worse, leaving him for America.

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To re-vitalise his marriage, Lawrence uses CCTV to spy on his wife and place anonymous 'I Saw You' ads in the local paper. Should she meet this mysterious sender?

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eo Rook, the most feared man in Europe, escapes unnoticed from the prison ship Hyperion. Guided by the beam of a lighthouse he heads for nearby Gehenna Rocks. Once ashore, Rook kills the keepers and disables the lighthouse itself.





With no beam from the lighthouse to pierce the gathering fog, the Hyperion runs aground. Once safely on the island, the surviving prisoners and crew discover the bodies of the lighthouse keepers. Fear grips them as they realise that Rook is lying in wait for them, somewhere in the dark night.





Lighthouse is a dark, brooding nightmare, a descent into hell, set almost in real time over the course of one terrifying night.

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A lonely adolescent girl, living on an isolated farm, creates her own friends to make a magical world to retreat from her violent father and mentally ill mother.

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Bethan is drug-dependent and in prison awaiting trial for a murder she thinks her daughter has committed. We learn of the guilt that underlies their relationship as she explores her most precious bond.

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'All the world's a stage, and all the men and woman are merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven.' William Shakespeare.





Merely Playing marries Shakespeare with Modern Britain and defines age through the family. With music from The Waterboys and Naomi.

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A young boy is torn from his American roots and comes to live in a strange world where modern science is being used to free ancient foes, renewing a titanic struggle for dominion over the earth.





In ancient times the vast army of the evil sorcerer Mordred (Craig Sheffer) brought the legendary King Arthur Pendragon (Patrick Bergin) and his knights of the Round Table to their knees. In desperation, Merlin, the Wizard (Rik Mayall) used the immense power of Stonehenge to banish Mordred to the Netherworld and consigned Arthur and his knights to a long, dark sleep, promising future generations that Arthur would be on-hand to save the world should Mordred ever escape to threaten it again.





Fifteen hundred years later, Merlin's spell is the subject of legend - and is weakening. Scientist Joan Maxwell (Tia Carrere) is experimenting with the magnetic flows of the Earth, the precise source of Merlin's magic. She has made contact with Mordred and in return for his promise of power and freedom from the ethics that constrain modern science, is using her knowledge to free the sorcerer from his prison.





American teenager, Ritchie Gould is plunged into the ages-old battle when his father dies and Ritchie's mother moves them to her former home in England. When Ritchie arrives, Merlin's spell is already all but destroyed by Maxwell's meddling. Arthur and his knights are aware, fifteen hundred years out of place, and Mordred is preparing to forge a dimensional gate to freedom. The only thing standing between Mordred and success are the ragged loyalties of Lancelot (Adrian Paul) and Guinevere whom Merlin banished along with him.





In a tale of myth, mythology, demons and duels spanning fifteen centuries, the forces of good and evil once more do battle. And at stake is the world as we know it.

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I speak of the Restorer of What Was Lost,

The Mender of What Was Broken.

Philip K. Dick


Mystery Play is an upbeat comic drama about a mysterious company who intervene in people's lives at times of crisis.


Sadie meets Jude at her therapists'. While waiting, they get talking, Jude revealing that he is there for a loan. Sadie suggests that Shelby, the therapist, might do financial work as a sideline (it's only her second visit). Jude feels that Shelby does counselling as a sideline . . .. Flashbacks reveal how they both came to be there, and the truth is emerges about the enigmatic Layton Shelby, who is neither a counsellor nor a financial advisor, but something more . . . much more.

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Two boys are caught up their father's grief after their mother's death. But the arrival of their estranged grandmother sets in motion a power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.

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John Wallace stars as a sadistic prison warden spending the last hour with a condemned man. A film noir homage to the American prison films of the 1940s.