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Helen Fortuno, an Italian living in London, has not heard from her brother Frank for two years. She receives a cryptic postcard from him with enough informaiton for her to track him down to a Buddhist retreat in Scotland. Along for the ride is London girl Sylvia who is using Helen's search for her brother as her chance to leave her psycho husband Gordon. Arriving at the monastry, they are told by a monk that Frank, failing to fit in, has moved on with tantric student Fiona. At Fiona's cottage they find Fiona has been abandoned by Frank and has a baby daughter by him. Frank has gone to live on the coast but when Helen confronts Frank's ex-beach buddy Joe, she realises that Frank doesn't want to be found. Meanwhile, Sylvia takes a fancy to kilted barman Davie and invites him along. Helen feels Davie is slowing them down and provokes him into parting with them. The two women, now followed by a mysterious Man in Black, continue on their search for Frank and encounter the Jeweller, Sunshine and Sophie, who guide Helen to the Drummer Girl, a forger who has given Frank a new identity - Sid Arthur. When the Drummer Girl is murdered, Sylvia realises they are involved in something bigger than just looking for Helen's brother.

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After being knocked out, an erratic Paul Hunt believes he has been the victim of a mugging, robbed of £1000, a deposit for his new house. Relationships are already strained between his new wife and his elderly father who all live under the same roof. Paul is now under pressure at his new job as a double glazing sales man for tyrant Big Al, under pressure to care for his devoting father and under pressure to get the money back, before his pregnant wife finds out.   Life just can't get worse for the trainee salesman as his boss forces him to wear glasses - "They make you look 17% more intelligent" - his new company car looks like Tweety Pie on wheels and his wife's on his back to get a new home.   Made on a shoestring, yet glittering with wit and invention - and jam-packed with brilliant set-pieces - Finnigan's digital feature is a superb example of Scottish independent filmmaking.

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To set the scene - the year is 55 B.C. The Romans are beating a bloody swathe across the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small, cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel.   Now, with the Romans invading, it is up to three sisters to save their country from the bonds of slavery.   Smirgut - Magnificently strong, she towers over most men and then beats them into unconsciousness with a large club.   Dwyfuc - Exquisitely beautiful  and irrestible to men, she is also very spoilt and something of a control freak.    And finally, Worthaboutapig - the youngest, plainest and undoubtedly dumbest of them all.   Gladiatress - A tale of three sisters against the entire Roman Empire. With a little help from the Gods, an emormous amount of luck and a really big axe - they just might be able to do it.

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Simon and Emily enjoy a designer lifestyle, complete with toddler Toby - a child they have little time for. Luckily Toby adores Yelena, their Croatian au pair. Thanks to her, Emily never has to get up in the night. Not so Simon, who visits Yelena's bed while Emily snores. For him it's just easy, on-tap sex. But for Yelena it's love.   When Yelena falls pregnant, Simon persuades her to have an abortion. Fearful of losing her job and the visa that goes with it, and desperate to keep the man she loves, she reluctantly agrees. Or so Simon thinks. But when Emily announces her own pregnancy, Yelena tells Simon she never went through with the termination. Either he persuades Emily to keep her on, or Yelena will reveal whose child she is carrying.   Emily agrees, more out of self-interest than charity. Good help is so hard to find.   But then, with both babies due any day. Yelena suddenly returns to Croatia - much to Emily's annoyance and Simon's relief.    The blackmail seems to be over. But the revenge has only just begun.  

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Harold just wasn't like the other pigs. So he ran away, joined the circus and became an instant star. But will the big lights destroy our contortionist hero? Find out in Harold the Amazing Contortionist Pig, a wonderfully comic tale of trotters, jam jars and a lioness called Linda.

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A doc-drama following a day in the life of two homeless girls. The film looks at how we view that which we see everyday, those dispossessed of a home, yet questions how we use that information.

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Choosing who you work with on a film is a crucial decision that will haunt you if you get it wrong.   Young commercials director, Alessandro Martin swaggers into an East End pub with no idea of what awaits him. If he'd known, he would never have gone there.

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A young girl walks to the sea's edge, railing and crying against the elements, throwing herself into the sea only to be expelled onto the cold harsh shore.   Invisible looks at living with anexoria from a personal point of view.

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Audrey is troubled. Everything should be great - she and Henry love each other, they live in a nice flat, they're a happy young couple - except now she can hardly stand the sight of him let alone allow him to touch her. What went wrong? It wasn't meant to be like this.   Audrey knows she's changed. Deep inside she knows she should make a clean break but that would mean turning her life upside down - being alone. So she carries on as ever hoping her feelings will change. Her mind is plagued by dark dreams - weird sex with her best friend's new boyfriend, taunted by a lunatic farmhand called Crevice. As Audrey struggles to keep her nighttime horrors at bay they start to creep into her reality and invade her waking hours. A small, orange, plastic ring grows at her navel, attached to a piece of string which disappears into her stomach.  What involuntary words will she utter when the cord is pulled? Will her own body betray her?  Audrey must take control of her life before she is consumed by the nightmarish world that runs parallel to her reality and she is forced to do something unspeakable.   Or maybe she's just having a breakdown.   It's a story for anyone who has ever ended a relationship or gone a little crazy.

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Set in a public swimming pool, this comical animated film features a timid young woman and her struggle to swim just - one - length.

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At school, Rick, aged 6, paints a lion green and is rebuked. At home with his mother, Rick discovers his colour-blindness. Back at school, Rick cheats to paint a fire-engine red. Despite the teacher's praise, he sabotages his work with crazy colours. His classmates gleefully follow suit.

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Heathcote, a young English officer, arrives on the Island where Napoleon is being held prisoner. His mission is to keep a close watch on his military idol. Lowe, the new Governor of the island, has just arrived too and rules the island like a prison. Napoleon's valet and childhood friend, Cipriani, waits on this little world. The microcosm of the French court stands united in continuing to treat Napoleon with the utmost respect.   An escape plot is hatched by an American Pirate and the former Grande Armee general. They plan to carry the Emperor away from Saint Helena on board the mythical Flying Dutchman and it becomes increasingly clear to Heathcote that Napoleon has a plan. Heathcote remembers the day when he lost Napoleon who galloped off across Deadwood Plain. He now realises that this allowed Napoleon to calculate the time needed to reach the coast. Everything for the escape goes as planned but, at the last minute, Napoleon seems to change his mind. Napoleon's rescuers are killed in the course of a bloody battle.   We see Napoleon on his deathbed clearly finding some comfort in the priest at his side. In front of Napoleon's coffin, Heathcote gathers together the threads of the story and realises that Napoleon's only chance of leaving the island was to stop being the Emperor. Cipriani laid down his life so that Napoleon could live an ordinary life at last. Heathcote likes to think that this return to a simple and anonymous life is the finest proof of Napoleon's tactical genius.