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Seven year old Lilly lives in an old windmill with her mother and big sister. One day, while the mother is out, the two girls fight and Lilly's sister goes off, leaving her alone. As Lilly plays, something comes to haunt her.

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Michelle is young, bright and attractive, leaving prison with a spring in her step and determined to steer clear of the heroin that led her here. Shaun is getting out after a year, his mother Angela there to greet him and take him home to start anew.

In improvised scenes drawn from their past and present experience, Michelle is tempted by a junkie friend and succumbs to an overdose, while Shaun tries hard with his friend Carl to stay straight. It's only a matter of time before Angela's suspicions are confirmed as they return to drugs and thieving. Michelle continues her fighting descent back into addiction, revealing the defining moments of her life: the death of her mother and her father's effective abandonment of her. Angela discusses with Carl's mother the impact of heroin on their lives and her relationships with other men, recalling the despair that led to her attempted suicide. But it's her love which keeps Shaun going, the love Michelle has lost.

In this powerful, often emotional film, Hollywood-bound film director Paul McGuigan achieves a vibrant modern approach to the kind of creative documentary originated by Robert Flaherty and developed by Humphrey Jennings.

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Posh is a fresher at Cabot University and on the same corridor in Hope Hall as Liam, Harry, Animal and Footsie. Liam is Irish, in love with Reena and wants to go home. Footsie is the quiet northerner who's at university to work. Harry's a cockney who wishes he wasn't. Animal's a sports fanatic proving himself to an over-competitive dad. And Posh is a public schoolboy who loves life but can't seem to love anyone.

It's fresher's week and Posh wants to chase girls and hang out with chinless public school wasters. Until he knocks down Animal while driving Footsie to a party. At the hospital he meets Liam and Harry and an unexpected friendship begins.

Posh lusts after Michaela, who fancies Liam, who hardly notices. Ginny is in love with Posh who definitely doesn't notice.

Posh invites the lads to his aunt's house on the moor. Animal turns it down to fulfil his dream of playing in the universtiy rugby team. But he isn't picked so he comes too, setting in motion events that force the lads, and Posh especially, to re-evaluate life and love.

And of course, there's a very tall bridge to jump off.

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Love Actually is not a new romantic comedy - it is ten new romantic comedies in one. Set in contemporary London in the two months before Christmas, it weaves together a series of touching and hilarious stories that end in not one, but really quite a lot of climaxes on Christmas Eve.

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Shayne Worcester was shot dead in a random mugging in May 1999. Sophie Paul, his on/off girlfriend for 10 years is trying to make sense of what happened. Starting at the street where he died, she takes an emotional and physical journey across America, visiting those touched by the murder.

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Never Interfere with another man's animals. Two grown men come to blows over a flock of miniature sheep. Can Kevin keep his extraordinary breed safe from public exposure or will Tony successfully abduct and exploit them?

Dark humour and special effects collide in this skewed suburban tale.

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On a deserted beach in the late 1950's, a young boy wanders off to explore the sand dunes. Here he encounters something that must remain a secret.

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In the year 2010, drugs and sexual excesses are the dominant forces that shape the lives of Europe's teenagers, and London and Paris are at the centre of this chemical nation. No child can shelter from this storm of abusive substances and nowhere is this more visible than in the daily lives of Demon and Davi.

Those two teenage girls have embraced drug culture and now spend their days sleeping and using the dark hours to explore life's chemical and sexual possibilities. Young and naïve they have become the possessions of a schizophrenic mentor, Ryu, who whilst saying he loves them, happily sells them into sex slavery. Too messed up on the drugs he gives them to notice that their lives have been stolen, they have accepted this 'vampiric' version of life.

Demon and Davi's illusions are shattered when their friend is sadistically tortured by one of the sex clients, with the knowing permission of Ryu. Horrified, they fail in an attempt to kill their false protector, and have to escape from his raging fury, only to find themselves in a different version of the same reality. This time with an angry Ryu breathing down their necks.

Realising that they carry with them the past they are trying to escape from, they attempt to clean up. An obsessed Ryu finds them. Now back in his clutches, Ryu begins his theatrical and brutal revenge. The hopelessness of Demon and Davi seems complete.

Demon, now clean, is stronger and able to find the courage to attempt a dangerous escape. Finally in control of their destiny, they have a future worth living for.

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In a small town, the local dog shampooer is trying to escape his repetitive routine by building a machine that will take him to a different day.

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Maddest Man is a film that explores what it would be like to have the ability of controlling one's destiny slowly eroded away.

The world of crime can be viewed as a type of left-handed endeavour where the potential rewards are the same for the high flyers of legitimate business. However, the consequences of failure within this illicit cut throat environment offer an entirely different set of repercussions.

Greed can distort an individual's perspective. Easy money is a fuel that allows the greed to grow. Biting the hand that feeds you becomes a temptation that is never far away. There are people you can take liberties with, and then again there are also people with whom you can't. Make a wrong judgement and there are only a few alternatives as to how events will run.

Maddest Man paints an unnervingly realistic portrait of a world that few people ever see. It is a compelling drama that offers a stark warning as to what can happen within a lawless culture.

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A maniac is on the loose, viciously murdering young women and hiding their bodies.

Jake Summers has been having a passionate affair with the beautiful wife of his best friend, Chad. When she is brutally murdered, Jake helps him to claim the life insurance money. But heartless insurer L T Harvey reminds them that the corpse is missing - no body means no proof and no pay-out!

Fuelled with anger, Jake visits video-maker Vic Travis and the two men concoct a scheme, both brilliant and dangerous. They will stage the next serial murder to create convincing video evidence - the vital proof they need.

With Jake's ex-girlfriend Sarah agreeing to play the part of the victim, the con is on - or so one would think. Unconvincing performances and bad props are the least of their problems as Sarah soon sets her sights on upping the insurance premium for a bigger pay-out.

As tempers flair, greed and deception begins to divide the three performers. But there is a fourth player lurking in the shadows and the knife he is holding is all too real. Suddenly the deranged killer is much closer than any of them could have possibly imagined.

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The shop mannequin sees endless activity that passes for human existence. People fill their time moving, talking, shopping and looking. They gaze listlessly in at him and he stares impassively back. He is aching for their chance to live, imploring them to make the most of their freedom, outraged that they do not.