Projects with status: Complete

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This bitter sweet drama, follows the story of Andy a divorcee who, in a last ditch attempt to recapture the magic of his own childhood holidays chooses to take his two estranged children on a trip to out-of-season Cornwall. Andy struggles to rebuild a relationship with these virtual strangers, but can only watch as the holiday slides slowly towards disaster. But whilst every day seems to carry Andy further away from his children, at night, the family discovers a new sense of connection through a series of spontaneous dreamlike excursions they come to call The Midnight Drives.

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1939: Rome stands on the brink of the Second World War Europe’s political situation is a tense standoff between two blocks: the British and French liberal democracies against German Nazism and Italian Fascism.  Mussolini’s Italian government has signed ‘The Pact of Steel’ with Hitler’s Germany, before occupying Albania and passing racial discrimination laws. 
 
Despite this political and social tension, it seems to be business as usual in the world of Italian cinema: the producer DAVIDE RIETI (Alfred Molina), is making one of his major films with Cinecittà Studios: Tosca stars the German Krsitina Baumgarten (Catherine McCormack), the English actor James Clavel (Jonathan Pryce), the handsome Italian actor Alfonso Ligouri (Roberto Purvis), the gifted young Renzo Daverio (Rupert Friend), and a beautiful young girl named Maria Grazia(Surama De Castro), and is to be directed by the Hungarian Lazlo Molnar
 
During the Tosca film shoot the two actors,  Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel, as the personification of the two different European mentalities - face each other and finally fall in love. They both try to escape reality living inside a movie.  Shooting has to be interrupted as the banks withdraw their backing following the publication of a compromising article about the homosexual relationship between the Jewish Rieti and Renzo.
 
Making one final extraordinary effort to complete the film over one night.  Before the sunrise and before the War, Tosca is finished.  Kristina and Clavel return to their lives in Britain and Germany,  Rieti is arrested.  Months later, in a theatre crowded with critics and interested parties, Tosca is screened for the first time.

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Cats are being stolen by mysterious mechanical arms for nefarious purposes!

One young boy races through a strange city to save his cat and reveal the mystery of Pig City.

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In 1635, the 152 year old Thomas Parr is taken on a journey to the court of King Charles I. The King orders an immediate celebration of his aged visitors' longevity, with fatal consequences.

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When jaded 'nice guy of folk' Herb McGwyer agrees to play a one-off exclusive gig on lottery winner Charles Heath's Wallis Island, he is taken on a journey that ultimately re-ignites his passion for music.

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'I know, lets you and me swap blood, at least there’s music in mine.' Upon discovering that she has an incurable blood cancer, Kaz Hauser, a feisty Berlin music journalist, heads to England to seek out the father she's never met and save his soul.

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Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic who has written a recent book on the link between mathematics and serial killers, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at Oxford hoping to study with Seldom, team up to solve a series of mathematically linked murders. As professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, an elaborate puzzle begins in which every action has an effect beyond anything that Martin could have imagined.

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From the carnage and chaos of the First World War arose one man whose name would pass into legend. Gentleman? Warrior? Adventurer? Manfred Von Richthofen is forever known as The Red Baron. The fearless flying ace was Germany's top pilot, with his good looks and successive victories making him a national celebrity and pin-up. With his distinctive flame red tri-plane, The Red Baron inspired both fear and respect from his enemies at a time when aerial combat was considered a gentlemanly sport. These young pilots, Allied and German, were heroic buccaneers.
 

 

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Young London office worker finds a red box in the street and takes it to furnish her new flat. She doesn't know that the box was used for bleeding pigs. How will the presence of this object influence her life and her budding romance with a new guy in the office?

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Uncompromising moorland, daybreak, a couple narrowly avoid hitting something on the road. Forced to stop and investigate they come face to face with a terrified, naked and blood-soaked woman. Pleading for help, she insists that something is tracking her. She collapses; the couple place her into the car and in doing so seal their fate. The couple are forced into a full on pursuit, which ultimately leads to their horrific and sustained deaths.

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Frankie Lambert heads out to a lighthouse to visit a patient with pneumonia, only to discover that the ghosts of her own past are slowly being excavated by her unearthly patient. She finds herself reliving terrifying past events and confronting her own demons, whilst trapped within the claustrophobic lighthouse.

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An ambitious London journalist investigates a series of present-day murders that follow the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub. Gradually the reporter becomes obsessed with also unraveling a century-old murder in the pages of the manuscript, with the help of a police press officer and a mysterious beach-combing tramp who stalks the Thames foreshore.

In a remarkable twin-role performance, Jacobi also plays the ghost of Charles Dickens, returning to read his long-lost novel.
 
Together, the tramp, journalist and press officer unlock the riddle of the manuscript to solve the modern murders. Along the way they encounter a greedy publisher, a corrupt detective and a menacing construction boss. 
 
Based on the award-winning script by writer-director Brendan Foley, The Riddle is in the vein of classic Hitchcock noir thrillers with elements of the magic realism of films such as The Sixth Sense and The Green Mile.