Projects with status: Complete

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An English coastal town is the setting for a story of obsessive love when Martin returns to it following an eight year prison term. A young boy and his beautiful sister are drawn into Martin's pursuit of his former lover as he leads them on a dark and tense journey into the heart of desire.

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Jeff is in trouble. Images of a young woman haunt him and he can't shake himself free. Against the eerie landscape of the Cornish clay pits, his memories of an affair, a car crash and a terrible crime take their toll.

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M was a police informer. 'A few people got caught informing, were shot and dismembered .... the true consequences do sometimes come home!' Informer tells his story; he tells of crimes and set ups, the tensions and the paranoia which followed, and eventual escape to a new life and identity.

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Omar Sharif, the one Arab above all others who has bridged the cultural divide between the Middle East and the West, presents this independent television programme about the transformation of the United Arab Emirates from rags to riches. Judicious use of archive library material highlights the changes that have occurred in the society of the UAE over the 25 years of the federation. Local people, the Arab in the street, tell their own stories and give the programme a strong human interest.

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Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But the so-called happiest day of their lives is over faster than they anticipated. Olivia doesn't quite make it up the aisle, and Joe is left jilted at the altar.





A decade later, Olivia and Joe are walking up the aisle again, but this time it's as bridesmaid and best man. They haven't seen each other for ten years and they've changed beyond all recognition. Olivia wears pleated skirts and designs multi-storey car-parks. Joe is older, wiser, sexier and married to the beautiful Spanish model, Mariana. But all is not as it seems, will first love get a second chance?

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The cautionary tale of a boy, his dog and somebody's liver... Up in her attic, a puppeteer carefully prepares Johnny - a lovable little character. She has him act out a drama for her and then takes relish in destroying him. A morbid little film - beautifully shot - involving greed, love, revenge, death and a liver.

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Karmic Mothers is a black comedy about two women - played by Siobhan Redmond and Molly Innes - who have tried to commit suicide and are recovering in hospital close to a maternity wing.

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Chained to his cot, wings confiscatd at birth, 'Ike' is a creature of the kitchen, half baby, half duck; but with every deranged dribble he comes closer to becoming more like the swan on the matchbox of his desire.

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Grant and Bonham-Carter star as a quirky 1930's couple with very modern ideas in an off-beat tale of love, poetry and garden plants. The romantic comedy, shot entirely on location around London, centres around the unconventional relationship between an eccentric budding poet and his long-suffering girlfriend. While Comstock strives to embrace poverty and his 'art', Rosemary works furiously (against all odds) to keep her career and their relationship on the rails. Their odd, but touching, romance revolves around Comstock's bizarre passion to escape that dreaded symbol of middle-class 'respectability' - the aspidistra.

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A fictional portrait based on the accounts of an ex-addict.





'Everything around about you blocks the feeling that you're good out. I can fit in here. I can steal. I can live that life. I can go and steal every day, go and take junk every day, it's easy 'cause I've done it for years. It's the stepping out of that and doing something different that's frightening'.

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Set in a world of bizarre colour and fashion, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is the story of one man's obsession with a beautiful new neighbour that leads to conspiracy and eventually murder. Richard is a science-fiction writer, who works from home. Gradually he becomes obsessed with his neighbour, a woman called Angelica. We see Richard moving from normal desire to becoming psychologically unbalanced when he begins to regulate his life to observe her comings and goings. He starts to photograph her; soon after he begins to follow her. Through deceit and lies, he manages to get close to her flatmate and through her to Angelica. Richard is utterly ruthless in the pursuit of his obsession, eventually leading to triple murder. A twisted and incredible tale of suburban madness and infatuation with the girl next door.

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La Mère Sauvage is an adaptation of the classic short story by Guy de Maupassant. It is a tale of love and revenge set in an unforgiving, wintry landscape in rural France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 -1871.