Projects with status: Complete

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Mystery and misfortune, in spades.
 

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Silent film with 1920s soundtrack.
 
Millie and her flapper friends go to the beach to view the solar eclipse of 1927. Millie bumps into George, also on the beach with a sunbathing band. Frolicking ensures, watched by Spike through a telescope. George disappears at sea.

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The discovery of a shipwreck off Salcombe in Devon, uncovers much more than a glittering haul of Islamic coins and jewellery - it also reveals a forgotten time, when coastal Europe lived in terror of the 'Barbary Pirates', buccaneers from North Africa. Was the wreck an infamous Barbary 'xebec', on its way to another slave raid?

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A dreamy young woman's attempts to instill life with symbolism and deeper meaning are rudely awakened by life's determination to reveal the bare facts.

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Wilbur wants to kill himself, but is yet to succeed. Even though he has a unique magnetism, especially with the ladies, his wit and charm can't disguise his pessimism. Quite contrarily, his younger brother, Harbour, is an incurable optimist and providing for Wilbur's happiness is his purpose in life. These two eccentric brothers live in Glasgow where they have inherited a dilapidated bookshop, the only memory of their recently deceased father.
 
After yet another failed suicide attempt Harbour convinces Wilbur to move in with him in the apartment above the bookshop. But Harbour finds love in the shape of shy and beautiful single mother Alice, who works at night cleaning the hospital, where she collects books left by the patients, which she then sells at the bookshop.
 
Soon Alice and her young daughter Mary move into the bookshop with Harbour and Wilbur, and together the four of them discover a little happiness in life; Alice comes out of her shell, Mary finds a family and Wilbur beings to find some meaning in life. Although Harbour has never been happier, he carries a dark secret, which cannot be hidden forever.

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Wimbledon tells the story of Peter (Paul Bettany), a British man struggling at an embarrassingly low position on the tennis ranking ladder. He is given a wild card for Wimbledon which is to be his final bow but when he falls in love with a young hot shot American tennis star, Lizzie (Kirsten Dunst) his on court prowess, skills - and a little luck - catapult him from round to round bringing him closer to his dream of winning the men's singles title.

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A guy walks into a bar and takes on a challenge to win a pot of money. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen properly to the rules of the challenge, with shocking results. The story is told in funky rap-style dialogue.

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William always wanted to be a gangster. He turns his paper round into a racket and soon he's living like a 'made guy'. Just like in the mob movies he loves though, things quickly get out of control.

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Worst Case Scenario starts out as a series of still photography depicting daily life on a Viennese street corner. But as Sigmund Freud casts his long shadow across the city, the static world slowly and subtly comes to life and an increasingly improbable chain of events and relationships starts to emerge.

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Bryn works in a cell centre. An email cuts across his soul destroying existence. Aled, a mate and kindred spirit, has been sacked. Bryn must follow if he is to discover the wreckless freedom of his past. To achieve his goal he loses his job, turns his back on his family, fights the army - all for being with his mates as the sun sets on the sea - but is there something else?

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Yes is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband and Shirley Henderson a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.
 

 

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You are a monkey. That's why you pick your nose, that's why you eat fruit and that's why you have those funny dreams about falling out of things.