Projects in genres: Action

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An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's high-speed Autobahn.

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Lucille and Joe have moved to Gozo, a tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Malta. They have a nice car, a steady income, a beautiful farmhouse with breathtaking views and a swimming pool. They seem to have it all. But when a young tourist goes missing on the island, Joe's disquieted conscience begins to get the better of him. As the buried horrors of Lucille and Joe's past resurface, the cracks begin to show in their homespun paradise.

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When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it's a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group steps into hi-tech gear and prepares for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it's a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group is attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realise this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot 'em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it's for real.

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A sci-fi action thriller set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

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In 1970s Los Angeles a down-on-his-luck private eye, Holland March and hired enforcer, Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power. Official Selection Cannes 2016 - Out of Competition

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A young English couple bond with an enigmatic Russian businessman after a chance encounter on holiday. What they don’t know is that he is a gangster, seeking to defect to the British secret service before his rivals have a chance to murder him, and he has chosen them as his lifeline. The couple’s recruitment is followed by a deadly chase, which takes them from the souks of Marrakech to London, to the French Open Final in Paris and finally to a thrilling climax in the Swiss Alps. Official Selection San Francisco International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Nestled on its own in the burnt brown hills of Southern Spain is a stunning modern villa with a refreshingly blue swimming pool. “El Cortijo” is the luxurious home of an ageing rock star in his early 60s and his much younger, very beautiful wife. Bill, the wild haired rock star and Isabelle are very much in love, but beneath the perfect surface of their lives, dark secrets lurk. Into this paradise comes Lucas, a dangerous ex-lover hell bent on revenge. His aim: to destroy their marriage and blackmail her into returning his inheritance - a fortune that his wealthy father had left to Isabelle instead of him. In a mischievous game of cat and mouse, the hunter soon becomes the hunted and Lucas sees his plans utterly destroyed – nothing is what it seems. What unfolds is a dangerous, tangled web of deceit and destruction as he becomes a plaything in their deadly game.

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A French police unit tries to stop a group of criminals

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Law student, and all round good guy Harper suspects his stepfather Vincent of causing the car crash that landed his mother in a coma. After drowning his sorrows at a seedy bar one night, he wakes up to the realization that he may have hired a hitman and his girlfriend to take out the suspected perpetrator of his mother's life-threatening accident. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Two mercenaries ride a wave of pitch black camaraderie as they travel through the desert night on their way to carry out a kidnapping in Iraq. As the raid progresses, their frenzied world turns in on itself, as past misdeeds come to the surface violently tearing their world apart. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Based on real events- The story of an unlikely friendship forged when a small-time drug dealer and a neglected nine-year-old girl are forced to go on the run together. Jake's world is thrown into disarray when he indadvertedly saves 9-year-old Jade and has to go on the run with her. But can someone from the bottom of the social ladder ever do the right thing in the eyes of the authorities?

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A disillusioned young woman becomes a serial killer who targets wealthy land-owners. A brilliant detective must use his unusual neurological condition to track her down.