Projects in genres: Comedy

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A bitter film director is forced to explain why her latest film, 'She's So Cold', reflects worrying ideas about relationships and men

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A comedy about Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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Despite being hunted by police, a vigilante thief continues to ransack homes across West London.

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In a quiet country farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too: unwitting Essex boy Sebastian Crockett, whose promise of a night of passion with ravishing cougar Vanessa quickly turns into a fight for survival after she decides to introduce him to some of her friends - the coven of hungry vampires. As if Sebastian's night couldn't get any worse, a heavily armed band of mercenary vampire hunters led by the steadfast Captain Bingham, crashes the party - and much like the vampires, they're out for blood. It's going to be a night to remember.

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Based on Raymond Briggs' award-winning graphic novel 'Ethel & Ernest', this animated feature film is a funny and touching tribute to his parents. An entertaining and heart-warming story about two people who fall in love against the background of immense social change in the mid 20th Century, experiencing the Depression, World War II, postwar austerity and cultural upheaval. Forty years of change, one enduring love. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Love Strand - World premiere

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Washed-up actor Richard Thorncroft peaked with hit 1980s detective show 'Mindhorn', playing the titular Isle of Man sleuth with a rather unique ability. As a captured MI5 Special Operative, Bruce Mindhorn's eye was replaced by a super-advanced optical lie detector, which meant he could literally 'see the truth'. Mindhorn escaped and fled to the Isle of Man, to recuperate in the island’s temperate microclimate, and became the best plain-clothes detective the island had ever seen... Decades later, when a deranged Manx criminal demands Mindhorn as his nemesis, Thorncroft returns to the scene of his greatest triumphs for one last chance to reignite his glory days, professional credibility and even romance with former co-star/paramour Patricia Deville. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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In 1919, a tea lady eavesdrops on a top secret government meeting called to solve the latest, gravest problem facing the British Empire... A satirical comedy which wryly suggests that today’s obsession with female appearance was borne out of one official government meeting. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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When a middle aged couple decide to attend the local swingers party, in the hope to save their frozen marriage, they are disappointed to see they are the only attendees, worse yet the hosts are a couple of stuck up liberals who have a opposed their planning permission. What follows is a night of brutal honesty and small town politics. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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Stanley finds himself in prison for a crime that he believes that he didn’t commit. After many years in solitary confinement he begins to talk to his comedy heroes from the past as each one tries to help him remember what he has done. We follow Stanley through his journey of hallucinations as he faces up to his unusual upbringing and his parents’ bizarre religious beliefs. Stanley becomes desperate to learn the truth about what happened to his daughter and what lead to having this ordinary life he has already dreamed of. Award-winning actor Timothy Spall plays Stanley and all the characters in his hallucinations; from the flamboyant Noel Coward to the grotesque Max Wall to the ukulele king George Formby, to Egor in a Transylvanian castle.

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Escorting the fiery young Annie Blake and her gang to the sheriff in Blood Gulch, bounty hunter Dalton discovers the remains of a horrific massacre and rescues its sole survivor, a preacher. Before long the group are fighting for their lives against a zombie horde that walks the desert plains eating all flesh in their path. And as the preacher’s secret unravels, Dalton realizes what he’ll have to do to prevent his wife being resurrected as one of the living dead.

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Naomi, a young homeless girl with mental issues discovers something supernatural and strange in the woods of a cemetery. She gets the local priest to help her investigate. What they discover is surprisingly dangerous.

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Down in Pussy Willow a challenging conversation is happening between two generations. A satirical animated comedy web series set in the fictional town Pussy Willow, which celebrates queer, feminist and absurdist themes. Using real actors with animated worlds it is a portrayl of contemporary Britain.