A young boy finds a coconut that has fallen from the sky, as he tries to crack it open he realises that the coconut is not going to give up without a fight.
Maria Del Conte, a 26-year-old attractive and intelligent banker has made a decision to take her life on her 27th birthday. Having had an unhappy and troubled childhood, she moved to London and carved out a successful career as an investment banker in European media investment. It is through one of her rich clients, geeky 22-year-old Bruce Day, that she is introduced to Michael - a small time film producer.
Maria finds a renewed interest in life by her association with Michael, a charismatic and worldly man, slightly jaded by a life full of disappointment. He asks her out for coffee. After many refusals she finally agrees to meet. Maria doesn’t drink coffee - she orders herbal tea. They start to meet on a regular basis in front of a backdrop of guerrilla film making, young entrepreneurs Russian ‘trophy’ girlfriends, beef-cake actors and temperamental directors in a modern day, multi-cultural London.
We discover the truth behind Maria’s ‘birthday’ decision, the reason for Michael’s cynicism, Maria’s new passion for strong cappuccino and observe an unusual sexual and intimate chemistry develop between the two of them…more is never enough.
Control is the story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the now-legendary band Joy Division, who killed himself at the age of 23. Ian is a complex character. Marrying at 17, his relationship with his wife Debbie is remarkable in its normalcy - a picture of the young Northern couple trying to create a life. Ian works in the Employment Exchange and Debbie is a homemaker. However, Ian's love of music and literature defines his life. We see the drive of the man, resulting in Joy Division's growing success. As the band's profile grows, Ian is diagnosed with epilepsy, leaving him unsure of himself and his future. While dedicated to his wife and baby daughter, Ian yearns for real compatibility. He finds this in the form of a bright young journalist. The ensuing conflict between responsibility and desire, coupled with the increasing responsibilities of the band and the toll of performance, renders Ian incapable of dealing with the world, and he chooses what for him seems the only way out.
A would-be car thief finds the car of his dreams, but his bungled attempts at stealing it attract the attention of an eagle-eyed security guard who is determined to stop him.
Mercy King is headed nowhere. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a former church pastor she leads a lonely and unfulfilled life. Steven Valentine lives downstairs from the unhappy couple. He secretly desires Mercy but her husband is in the way. Steven will do whatever it takes to possess the woman of his dreams, even if that makes him an accomplice to murder.
Shane is a shy civil servant striking out on his own. Vincent is a gay fashion design student looking for a roommate. When they cross paths, a friendship begins with Vincent helping pull Shane from his shell and sending him on the road to fabulousness.
Action, comedy and cowboys collide in one man's quest to become a real life hero.
John Arthur stars as a man possessed by the spirit of a cowboy who finds himself caught up in a war of pride, desire and very big guns.
The beautiful but dangerous Roberta (Mia Reakes) needs a hero and John is the only one crazy enough to fight for her life.
Carlos (Clive Temple) is feared by everyone in town and when he wants Roberta back, bullets and lives are expendable.
Aided only by the alcoholic but enthusiastic Tim (Mike Dean), the Don Quixote of Westerns must rely on all of his delusional skills to survive the gauntlet of fists and firepower commanded by the baddest man in town.
In a world without heroes, one man dared to believe.
Six months ago. Manchester, England. A man falls from a third story window. Did he jump or was he pushed? Frank Bannister (Dutch Dore-Boize) knows. He's the only witness, and he aims to keep it that way. It should have been David Marx in flat 311. The hit-and-run driver who killed his father. Frank wasn't looking for vengeance; only justice. Now he'll find neither. Somehow, an innocent man has been killed. A man Frank has never met and has no connection with, but who is more dangerous dead than he ever was alive.
For the couple in Dad love in later life is still passionate. Their son though, now reaching middle age, has problems. Unlike his parents he has no outlet for his sexual yearnings and while he hears his mother orgasm next door his own desires are far from fulfilled.
The film is a love duet about a girl and her lover. Slave resistance at times included the slaves’ refusal to dance their African traditional dances aboard the slave ship at the beck and call of the Captain. Inspired by the print by Isaac Cruikshank, entitled 'The Abolition of the Slave Trade', the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh is exemplified by the cruel treatment of a young negro girl of 15. This is all happening in her imagination.
Based on the book by Stuart Browne, this is the (largely autobiographical) story of Noah Arkwright, a cult director in the indie film world, whose life is on a crash course with Noah steering himself towards his own destruction. Noah's life is one of success and excess. Everything, drink, drugs, girls, fame, that Noah can get his hands on he wolfs down with an insatiable hunger. But he is running towards a brick wall, alcoholism and drug addiction have him firmly in their grasp, but Noah has no interest in acknowledging either until Kirstin, a young alcoholic who has seen the light, manages to convince Noah that he is heading for destruction and sets him on the path to reclaim himself.
With the help of his best friend Ray, Noah attempts to right his ship and when fate sends him a guardian angel in the shape of cellist Clare Mathesson, Noah tries even harder to shift his focus from self-abuse to self-preservation and on the road to selflessness and that is when mother nature deals him the cruelest blow of all.
