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In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognize moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears. - Director:
- Thomas Clay
- Cast:
- Nikki Albon, Zoey Campbell, Stephanie de Whalley
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Brad (Danny Dyer) is a tour rep facing his first season on the isle working for YFS - Young, Free and Single. A charismatic character, who has walked through the training school, Brad soon realises that a whole new world of opportunities has opened up in the pursuit of pleasure. Girls are high on his list of priorities as he embarks on a carnal crusade to win the ultimate reps1 prize - the trophy awarded for the most sexual conquests, With prolific Greg (Will Mellor), the pensive Mikey (Des Coleman) and pretty boy Mario (Rik Young) taking part, competition is fierce. But when he meets the beautiful Carmen (Kate Magowan), Brad must decide how much he really wants to win. The only cloud on the horizon is their despicable boss Alison (Davinia Taylor), whose arrogant attitude makes everyone's life a misery. When one of power hungry Alison's selfish scams result in tragic consequences, Brad decides to take action... - Director:
- Menhaj Huda
- Cast:
- Danny Dyer, Rik Young, Des Coleman
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When Adam (Danny Dyer) is invited by Alice (Gillian Anderson), a woman he has just met, to accompany her to a lavish party in the country he knows he is going to have the best night of his life. Following mind-blowing sex, the pair speed away from the party down a wooded and desolate road in Alice's car. In a moment of distraction a fateful collision occurs leading to a vicious and brutal attack that results in a consequent vendetta where Adam and Alice must fight violence with violence. A dark and disturbing sexual thriller, 'Straightheads' is a brutal and uncompromising tale of lust, violence and self-preservation. - Director:
- Dan Reed
- Cast:
- Danny Dyer, Gillian Anderson, Adam Rayner
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When Carl Dawson's successful brother Justin dies in mysterious circumstances he travels to London to collect his belongings. Once there he discovers that the circumstances surrounding Justin's life and death are not as straightforward as they outwardly seem. When he meets up with his brother's girlfriend Sunny they begin to dig deeper into Justin's affairs discovering another side to his life which neither was aware of. As they become drawn into a dangerous underground web of blackmail and deceit, Carl is forced to question who his brother really was and whether his death was really an accident. - Director:
- Alexander Jovy
- Cast:
- Matthew Rhys, Sienna Guillory, Ben Moor
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Colin Briggs is serving a sentence for murder, and has all but given up on life. But after being transferred to an open prison in the heart of the Cotswolds and meeting one of the "lifers" - Fergus - existence takes on a whole new meaning. With his eccentric passion for gardening, the ageing Fergus is the last man Colin would normally team up with. But when he plants some seeds for Fergus - and they grow and blossom - Colin is strangely drawn to the garden. Soon, the inmates are hooked on horticulture, impressing both the Prison Governor and the colourful gardening author, Georgina Woodhouse, who urges the Royal Horticulture Society to sponsor a prisoners' show-garden. Yet Colin finds that he is hooked on more than just roses and violets. In fact, it's a certain Primrose who now consumes his thoughts... Georgina's beautiful and elusive daughter. Based on a true story. Greenfingers is a heart warming and inspiring tale of triumph over adversity. - Director:
- Joel Hershman
- Cast:
- Clive Owen, Dominic Frisby, Helen Mirren
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Frankie is on the run from the high-rise's of South London to a new life in Malaga with nothing but a tin stuffed full of cash. Having no idea that this delivery of cash to super-suave playboy and ex-con, Charlie will change his life forever, he soon becomes one of the gang, and finds himself drawn into a flamboyant and violent world of organised crime. - Director:
- Nick Love
- Cast:
- Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell
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This Is England tells the story of Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), an 11 year old kid growing up in the North of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1983, it follows his journey from a shaggy haired ruffian grieving the loss of his father into a shaven headed thug whose anger and pain are embraced by the local skinhead fraternity. Largely based on Meadows' own personal experience, This Is England not only captures a specific point in British history, but also beautifully articulates the allure of being part of a gang. Brilliantly charting a course from the joyous early passages to darker territory, Meadows also skilfully and with great sensitivity deals with the complexities of rage, race and masculinity. - Director:
- Shane Meadows
- Cast:
- Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley
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Goodbye Charlie Bright is the humorous and heart-warming story of the friendship between two teenage boys from a tough council estate. Set during a long hot summer it charts the close but volatile relationship between Charlie and Justin. Goodbye Charlie Bright features powerhouse performances from Paul Nicholls (Eastenders, The Trench) as Charlie and Roland Manookian as Justin. - Director:
- Nick Love
- Cast:
- Paul Nicholls, Roland Manookian, Phil Daniels
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In Red Dragon we learned who he was. In Silence of the lambs we learned how he did it. Now comes the most chilling chapter in the life of Hannibal Lecter - the one that answers that most elusive question of all - why? Hannibal Rising takes us back to finally explain the origins of Lector's evil. Beginning in World War II, this dark and intense story follows Hannibal's survival of the horrors of war, his formative years in the fields of medicine and forensics and finally a journey of revenge against the predators who changed his life forever. Above all it reveals the mind of a monster and shows us just what would drive a man to cannibalism. - Director:
- Peter Webber
- Cast:
- Gaspard Ulliel, Rhys Ifans, Li Gong
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In his first independent zombie film in over two decades, George A. Romero returns to ground zero in the history of the living dead. When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear. - Director:
- George A. Romero
- Cast:
- Wes Craven, Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close
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Get ready to root for the little guy in this big blue adventure under the sea! When Pi, an ordinary fish from Boston, arrives at the exotic reef to live with his Aunt Pearl, he meets and falls for Cordelia, the fish of his dreams. The problem is that Troy, the meanest shark in the ocean, not only keeps the reef community in constant fear of becoming shark bait, but also his eye on Cordelia, and doesn't want any competition! Now, Pi must band together with his new group of friends in order to outwit Troy and his henchmen, save the reef and win the heart of Cordelia. - Director:
- Howard E. Baker
- Cast:
- John Rhys-Davies, Bruno Alexander, Reedy Gibbs
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Will Smith stars in this moving tale inspired by a true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who's struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raise their 5-year old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) on his own. Chris' determination finally pays off when he lands an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only twenty interns will make the cut. But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the streets, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend. - Director:
- Gabriele Muccino
- Cast:
- Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith
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Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) was only a teenaged stunt biker when he sold his soul to the devil (Peter Fonda). Years later, Johnny is a world renowned daredevil by day, but at night, he becomes the Ghost Rider of Marvel Comics legend. The devil's bounty hunter, he is charged with finding evil souls on earth and bringing them to hell. But when a twist of fate brings Johnny's long-lost love (Eva Mendes) back into his life, Johnny realizes he just might have a second chance at happiness - if he can beat the devil and win back his soul. To do so he'll have to defeat Blackheart (Wes Bentley), the devil's nemesis and wayward son, whose plot to take over his father's realm will bring hell on earth - unless Ghost Rider can stop him. - Director:
- Mark Steven Johnson
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott
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Mr. Bean is heading to the South of France for a simple holiday in the sun. His voyage from London to the Riviera soon transcends into one of mischief and mayhem as he inadvertently creates havoc wherever he goes culminating in an unscheduled and riotous screening of his own video diary at the Cannes Film Festival. - Director:
- Steve Bendelack
- Cast:
- Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Pemberton
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In the third century of the second calendar, after the chaos of the intergalactic wars, a powerful dictatorship has risen to dynamic proportions and engulfed most of the populated worlds. Liberty has become a crime punishable by death, and the majority of the population lives in a drug-induced state of docility. This tyrannical authority fulfils George Orwell's prophecy of 1984 to its most terrifying extremes. This government is known as the Federation. Each world has its share of rebels who either turned to crime or the Resistance. This is the story of one such group of rebels, led by a man named Blake. His group is largely composed of escaped convicts, thieves and smugglers, who are thrown together by chance. - Director:
- Andrew Morgan
- Cast:
- Peter Tuddenham, Paul Darrow, Jan Chappell
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