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In the great tradition of child fantasy stories such as The Wizard of Oz  and Alice in Wonderland , Terry Gilliam takes us on a wild adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel.
 
Welcome to the world of Jeliza-Rose, the young heroine and narrator of Tideland.
 
What has brought Jeliza-Rose from Los Angeles to a rural Texan farmhouse? And why is her former rockabilly guitarist father not talking to her anymore? And who is making all that noise in the attic?
 
Jeliza-Rose drifts from the harsh reality of her childhood and escapes into the fantasies of her own active imagination. This is a fantasy world to rival all others; here fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, monster sharks swim down railroad tracks, and disembodied Barbie heads share in her adventures.
 
Tideland  is as optimistic as it is surreal, as humourous as it is suspenseful - a celebration of the power of a child's imagination.

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The filmmaker returns to her hometown - Stowmarket - a sleepy backwater in rural Suffolk where nothing much ever happens. As she sits with her camera in the local taxi office, a variety of characters pass through - from restless children and old school friends to drunken squaddies. While they sit and wait for their taxis to arrive they share their dreams, desires and disappointments.

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There’s nothing special about Pamela Plagely: her husband doesn’t understand her, her son is doing time for dealing skunk and her doctor wants to fill her up with chemicals.

But she’s not having any of it.

With a little cross-cultural communication Pamela discovers the remarkable medicinal properties of yam and begins to take an interest in promoting her own well-being.

But Pamlela’s alternative health choices attract unexpected attention. Events sweep her out of her predictable daily routine and into public view, where the media machine is waiting.

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Traumatic experiences shape the lives of a group of teenage girls living in the seaside town of Margate.

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Living in a desert, a man believes himself content.

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With Scotland in the World Cup in the summer of 1978 everything looks rosy but 13-year-old Stephen is more into Glam Rock than football. The clash between the world of his football-mad Dad and the lure of the high camp of Slade, Bowie and the Sweet is inevitable.

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Beyond Recognition is the story of an affluent cosmetic surgeon, Jeffery Mills, and his dangerous encounters with an underworld organisation who want him to change the face of their leader Matzo.
 
With a maze of increasingly sinister tactics of persuasion, Matzo and his gang thrust Mills into an evil world, far removed from his own. Mills soon finds himself lost in a remote town in Italy, hunted by the FBI for murder - his life and career in ruins. Police conspiracies, poison, abduction, corruption and extreme confusion reign, with Mills desperately searching for answers and some way to claw his life back.
 
Will he succumb to the pressure? Should he trust the FBI agents who say they're there to help? Whose body is found in his car? And who's really pulling the strings. Mills is manipulated by powers beyond his control, beyond reason and beyond the law, culminating in a fast and frenetic conclusion, with an unexpected twist at the end.
 
An explosive psychological thriller set in upstate New York and the Italian Alps.

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The least you'd expect after breaking out of prison and taking a woman hostage in her own home is a clean and tidy environment to make your demands. Then the police arrive.

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Rogue secret agent Dave Kelsey has proof that UFO's are hiding out on earth, but someone - or something - is trying to stop him telling the world.

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John Reilly appears to live forever. Philip Sturges is sent to investigate and, in his increasing obsession, finds a truth even stranger than he imagined.
 
Forever Young is a story of human need and human obsession. When Sturgess is sent to investigate the strange and solitary figure of John Reilly, he has to open his mind to encompass the impossible: Reilly has lived for 350 years, manning a waystation for travellers from other galaxies. His only human contact is with 10 year old Rose, a child who has not spoken since the death of her mother. Now Reilly wants life - a real life - and looks to Sturges to release him from the burden of his immortality.

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Short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. The film draws on Kahlo's own words and bold painting style. It refutes the picture of Kahlo's life as one of tragedy and suffering.

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In Spain, young men go out into the farms at night to secretly fight bulls. By performing this 'ritual' of 'making the moon' they hope one day to become fully-fledged matadores.
 
The film focuses on one Spanish boy, Jorge Contreras, and his efforts to become a bullfighter. Jorge is helped mostly by his father, who has always dreamt of becoming a torero himself. The relationship between father and son tells us a lot. Not only about bullfighting and Spain, but also about courage, freedom, killing and Oedipus.