Projects matching: David Morrissey

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In a derelict mansion on the outskirts of London, we witness eight actors - four Macbeths and four Lady Macbeths - work in pairs to investigate Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy.
Sophie Fiennes' richly detailed and immersive film offers privileged access to the vital experience of making theatre with pioneering practitioners Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of the ground breaking international theatre company Cheek By Jowl.
Cheek by Jowl is the international theatre company of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. Its landmark productions, performed in more than 50 countries in the 44 years since the company was founded, have influenced the creation of theatre and the experience of audiences the world over. Actors including Adrian Lester, Tom Hiddleston, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, David Morrissey, Gwendoline Christie and Matthew MacFadyen all developed their talent working with Cheek by Jowl in their early careers.
"The setting of Twyford Abbey is dramatic, but Shakespeare’s text is also haunted by the ghosts of actors and audiences who have passed through it, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future." Sophie Fiennes
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2024 - International premiere

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In the face of her doubts, a naval commander must follow orders and press the launch button triggering the earth’s final nuclear apocalypse.

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Kate is pregnant. Theresa is pregnant and moving in to the apartment below, with her partner. When the two women meet one spring morning, a special bond forms, developing into an intimate friendship as they move closer to the births of their babies. Until tragedy strikes. And changes everything. In the most violent and shocking way.
With echoes of Hitchcock and Polanski, a terrifying psychological thriller of love, betrayal and revenge, bringing one woman’s personal nightmares vividly to life, amidst the affluent loneliness of the modern city.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Won 1st prize at 'Reelhealthstories', a competition judged by Ken Loach and David Morrissey (July 4th, 2010).

The Ramp shows Jeff's struggle to get a ramp fitted at the entrance to his council flat, so he can leave his home with the help of a wheelchair. The money all in place, the ramp delayed for a year due to bureaucratic stumbling blocks about permissions not granted to extend a ramp into a parking space of the estate where Jeff's flat is located.

A once independent and vivacious man is reduced to confinement in his home for over 6 months while the authorities argue about his status, until he dies. Made as a 5 minute short for 'reelhealthstories', to be shown to medical students about the actual impact of their recommendations, and the human cost of agencies working cross side each other.

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Acclaimed actor David Morrissey is the complex and compelling character Detective Inspector Tom Thorne in this nail-biting crime thriller adapted from the best-selling novel by Mark Billingham.
 
Featuring an all-star cast including Sandra Oh, Aidan Gillen and Eddie Marsan, Scaredy Cat is a startling new take on the detective story, destined to thrill and chill audiences in equal measure.

Heading up a new team whose aim is to crack the cases that leave other forces stumped, Thorne finds himself on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.

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In the spirit of 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'Seven', and much-loved TV series CSI, comes a blistering new crime thriller franchise 'Thorne'. Based on the bestselling novels by Mark Billingham, starring David Morrissey and Natascha McElhone alongside an all-star cast, the Thorne franchise is a startling new take on the detective story, destined to thrill and chill audiences in equal measure.

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Based on the novel by Cult Irish Crime Novelist Ken Bruen (London Boulevard, The Guards), Blitz is an edgy, contemporary Police Thriller set in London.
Jason Statham plays Detective Sergeant Brant, an old-style Copper, who is in trouble with the press when he beats up three hoodies who attack him with Carpet Knives when he tries to stop them breaking into his car. Brant is sent to a Police Psychiatrist but after helping his Boss, DI Roberts (Mark Rylance) cremate his wife, he immediately has to find a crazed serial killer calling himself the Blitz, who is bumping off Police officers.
Helped by his new partner, gay Sergeant Porter Nash (Paddy Considine), they track down weird Barry Weiss (Aidan Gillen). Weiss is clearly the killer but they don't have enough evidence and have to let him go. Brant then takes the law into his own hands and, aided by Nash, lures Weiss to his death, which they make look like another Blitz murder.

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An unlikely love triangle springs between a Walrus, a Seal and a Lobster in An Arctic Gym/Sauna.

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Twentysomething London lad David travels up to Liverpool hoping to track down the girl from last night. After she gives him his marching orders, David finds himself walking the streets of a strange city with only some loose change in his pocket and a head full of nonsense.

Stumbling upon a betting shop, demure sales assistant Tina gives him a hot tip on a dog. As a thank you, David invites Tina out for a coffee and persuades her to throw a sickie from work in exchange for the delights of his company. Tina shows David around Liverpool, with a surprise around every corner and a glint in her eye that hides a secret pain.

As day unfolds into night, romance grows between two young people with very different pasts with music as the food of love.

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Set in 1980s seaside England, Is Anybody There? tells the story of ten year-old Edward whose parents have turned their house into a retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward becomes increasingly obsessed with the ghosts and afterlives of the residents when they die. Edward’s is a lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest arrival at the home, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age. Their relationship begins at odds until Clarence notices that the boy is growing up even more fitfully than he is growing old. As they begin to face life together, Clarence comes to terms with his past, Edward tames his obsession with the unknown and they are both reminded of what magic is possible when life is lived to its fullest.

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Brian Jones was the consummate artist, pop star, fashion icon and womaniser. During the seven short years of his glittering rise to stardom and fateful plummet between 1962 and 1969, he became a music legend by creating The Rolling Stones, one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever seen.
 
Described as one of the most decadent men of the 20th century, he rebelled against everything and when he wasn't hating the world, he adored it. However, his copious consumption of drugs and alcohol was legendary and fuelled a vicious temper.
 
This is not the story of The Rolling Stones. This is a murder mystery about the death of one of the most talented musicians of the 1960s. He died at the hands of someone he barely knew, on a friendless summer night, having cried wolf for the very last time.

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Dean, sensitive and intelligent, lives with his mum on an estate out of town. They're very close and she's doing everything she can to ensure that he doesn't end up like the other kids on the estate. But when Dean's friend Charlie-boy, is released from his latest spell inside, it's not long before the two of them are in trouble again. Dean is arrested for being in a stolen car, and is given two months in a young offenders institute.

Meanwhile, when Sam plans an armed robbery on a South London estate, his mate Danny goes along with it. But later they're arrested and are each sent down for two years. Once inside, Sam becomes a bully and joins in the ritualistic taunting of the weaker, new inmates. He targets Dean, who has become weak and vulnerable - although the prison officer, Mike, tries to help Dean and keep an eye out for him as much as he can, it ends in tragedy.