TV MOVIES Catalogue
THE 14TH CHICK
After much indecision, Daniel and Francesca decide to get married. A small party has been organised for family and friends in a restaurant to celebrate. The guests arrive but there’s no sign of the couple - both had assumed the other had taken down the address. The guests arrive and start drinking while Daniel and Francesca search for the restaurant up and down the streets of Amsterdam and begin to realise that their basic incompatibilities cannot be resolved. By the time they arrive at the chaotic dinner party, their hope for true love is almost lost.
Genre: Romantic Drama Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Antonie Kamerling (Mindhunters), Thekla Reuten (In Bruges), Dirk Zeelenberg (Black Book), Peer Mascini (Blind Date)
ABOVE SUSPICION
Lisa cannot believe her eyes. The headline on the 11-year-old newspaper states that Johnny Mancini, the youngest son of a notorious New Jersey crime family, murdered his fiancée and then suddenly disappeared 14 years ago. The photograph of the fugitive quite clearly depicts her husband James, who claims to have been her boyfriend all those years ago. Is Lisa’s husband in fact the crime family member? Their entire life together has been based on a lie… but only the truth can save him.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000
Starring: Scott Bakula (American Beauty), Annabella Sciorra (What Dreams May Come True), George Dzundza (Grey’s Anatomy), Edward Asner (Mary Tyler Moore)
AFTERMATH
It should have been a routine assignment for FBI agent Rachel Adamson, but safely moving one of America’s most wanted suspects from a maximum-security prison to the downtown courthouse turns out to be anything but easy. Accused of the lethal bombing of a federal building, Evan Harper is about to learn his fate as the jury reaches its verdict. But someone else has very different plans.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2002 Starring: Sean Young (Blade Runner), William B. Davis (The X Files), Tim Post (Dawn of the Dead), Christopher Heyerdahl (Van Helsing)
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AGATHA & THE CURSE OF ISHTAR (w/t)
It has been two years since the sensation caused by her eleven- day disappearance and Agatha is contemplating giving up detective novels to pursue a serious literary career. Seeking escape and inspiration, she travels to Baghdad on an archaeological tour. What she finds is turmoil: the world’s biggest oil field has just been discovered and Iraq’s ancient treasures are under threat. Agatha also finds a charming, naive young archaeologist, Max, who needs her help as a series of murders unfold in the faded grandeur of the villa where they are staying. Has Agatha met her match?
***COMING SOON***
Genre: Event Drama Movie
AGATHA & THE DEATH OF X (w/t)
Set during the Blitz in 1940s London. After writing twelve Poirot novels in six years, Agatha Christie should be a rich woman. Instead she’s struggling to make ends meet. As the money runs out, Agatha concocts a plan to kill off her most famous creation and sell the manuscript to a superfan. When Agatha’s would-be- buyer suffers a heart attack, it seems unfortunate but benign. When her manuscript is stolen, a wider conspiracy begins to take shape. As the bombs fall and she investigates, the danger of her situation becomes apparent; Agatha herself is the killer’s next target.
***COMING SOON***
Genre: Event Drama Movie
AGATHA AND THE TRUTH OF MURDER
When the goddaughter and namesake of Florence Nightingale is found on a train to Hastings with her skull caved in, the subsequent investigation and public outcry fail to catch the killer. Driven to distraction by the lack of progress and the failure of the police, Florence’s partner of twenty-six years - Mabel Rogers - begins her own investigation. But having found a number of suspects, Mabel cannot find proof which will expose the murderer. At her wit’s end she makes an appeal to Agatha Christie, the creator of Poirot and Miss Marple, whose latest novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is an international sensation, and together they set out to catch the killer.
Genre: Event Drama Movie
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 2018 Starring: Ruth Bradley (In Her Skin), Pippa Haywood (Green Wing), Tim Mcinnerny (Blackadder) www.kewmediadistribution.com
AIRSPEED
Sometimes it takes more than love to bring a family together. Disaster strikes at 30,000 feet. Flight 109 is hit by lightning, causing severe damage to both the aircraft and personnel, blowing a hole through the fuselage and seriously injuring the flight crew. With the pilot incapacitated from a lack of oxygen, 13-year-old Nicole must learn how to fly. Time is running out, and she has one hope left: her own determination and will to survive.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds), Elisha Cuthbert (24), Lynne Adams (Human Trafficking), Charles Edwin Powell (Screamers)
ALIEN ABDUCTION
Do you believe in aliens and UFOs? Neither did the McPherson family. But one evening on Thanksgiving, they experience a power cut in their home and set out into the woods to investigate the faulty transformer. Alien Abduction is a fascinating story depicting the abduction of a typical American family by alien beings and Tommy McPherson’s decision to videotape special family events enables this disturbing visit to be captured on camera!
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Benz Antoinee (19-2, Death Race), Gillian Barber (Double Jeopardy)
ALL AMERICAN GIRL
All American Girl is the true story of Mary Kay Letourneau, a 35-year-old schoolteacher, unhappily married with four children, who had an affair with one of her 13-year-old students. Their forbidden liaison soon became true love in Mary’s mind, and after being discovered she is told to never see the student again. Ultimately the affair led to her arrest, two children and headlines all across America.
Genre: Romantic Drama / True Story Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Penelope Ann Miller (The Artist, Carlito’s Way), Mercedes Ruehl (Last Action Hero, Doubt)
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ALONE WITH A STRANGER (aka DEAD SIMPLE)
Before her stand two men… two men who look exactly alike, but who could not be more different. One of them is Sandy’s husband and the father of her children. The other is a psychotic killer who has already murdered four people in the execution of his plan to take over her husband’s life. The only thing holding him back now is her gun. Sandy must find a way to determine which one of them is her husband before it is too late.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: William R. Moses (Falcon Crest), Barbara Niven (The Rat Pack), Priscilla Barnes (Three’s Company), Mindy Cohn (The Facts of Life), Nia Peeples (Pretty Little Lies)
AN AMERICAN AFFAIR
His political career meant everything to him. He lived for it. He married for it. He killed for it. An American Affair tells a compelling tale of passion and corruption in the world of politics, where a ruthlessly ambitious man will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. However, when the two women District Attorney Sam Brady is sleeping with start to plot against him, there are severe consequences.
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), Maryam d’Abo (Dorian Grey), Jayne Heitmeyer (Maps to the Stars)
AND THEN YOU DIE
Based on a series of actual events, this story traces Eddie Griffin’s last nine days of life. He’s a big time mobster whose inroads into the drug trade, while bringing him incredible wealth, have also increased conflict with a competing biker gang and the Mafia. Eddie wants to leave his criminal life behind, but his past keeps catching up with him as he is forced to face the consequences of his actions.
Genre: Crime Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1987 Starring: Kenneth Welsh (The Day After Tomorrow), Graeme Campbell (Watchers), Wayne Robson (Cube), R.H. Thomson (Chloe)
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ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE
Hadley, her husband Brian and their daughter Skylar move to the idyllic northern Stillwater Cove where they meet the strikingly handsome firefighter, Al Paunovic. But Hadley soon discovers that all is not as it seems with their charismatic new neighbour as she uncovers a shocking link between this man and her own family. As a terrifying wildfire encircles them all, cut off from all escape routes to the outside world, Hadley’s family must work together to find a way out of Stillwater Cove.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 88-minutes Year of production: 2011 Starring: Rena Sofer (24), Tommie-Amber Pirie (The Trotsky), Damon Runyan (Cheaper by the Dozen 2), Dylan Neal (Smallville), Jon McLaren (The Stepson)
ANGEL FLIGHT DOWN
It started as a mission to save a child’s life. The true story of a critically ill two-year-old being transported during a blizzard to a hospital for immediate surgery. The plane crashes into a steep mountain and time is running out for the injured passengers and the child. What follows is the subsequent struggle for survival, as rescuers fight another storm in their desperate attempt to find them.
Genre: Action Thriller / True Story Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1996 Starring: Patricia Kalember (Sisters), David Charvet (Baywatch), Christopher Atkins (The Blue Lagoon), Gary Graham (Robot Jox)
THE ARK
Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of the desert in order to save both his family and the faithful from a devastating flood - a seemingly impossible task, especially when his sons refuse to believe him and lend their help. Noah risks ridicule from his loving but exasperated family, as well as humiliation from the degenerate townsfolk, in his quest to carry out his God-given task.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2014 Starring: David Threlfall (Shameless), Nico Mirallegro (Common), Ashley Walters (Get Rich or Die Tryin’), Joanne Whalley (The Borgias)
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THE ART OF MURDER
First adultery, then blackmail and now murder. Elizabeth, a beautiful artist, is having an affair with her husband’s business associate Tony. A blackmailing photographer with evidence of the affair threatens to go to Elizabeth’s jealous husband unless she gives him some money. When Elizabeth tries to pay him, she is forced to shoot him in order to save Tony’s life. A few weeks later, Elizabeth’s husband is found dead on the beach. The police’s number one suspect is… his wife, Elizabeth.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Michael Moriarty (Law and Order), Joanna Pacula (Tombstone), Boyd Kestner (Hannibal), Peter Onorati (Civil Wars)
ASUNDER
Two happy couples, four best friends; then one of the wives dies in a tragic accident and dark secrets are expoed. An illicit affair, overwhelming grief and an abortion are among the terors that lead to the widower’s obsession with his friends’ happiness and his crazed determination to control their lives and take back what was stolen from him, even if it means murder.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Blair Underwood (Gattaca), Debbi Morgan (Coach Carter), Michael Beach (Third Watch)
A WAR STORY
When Osama bin Laden declares war on the USA in 1997, Pulitizer Prize winning CNN correspondent Peter Arnett embarks on a mission to locate and interview him. Asked by Arnett, "What are your future plans?", Bin Laden said, "You'll see them and hear about them in the media, God willing". On the eve of 9/11, Arnett flew into New York City to stay with his daughter. The next day he watched in horror as the towers collapsed; his mind recalling the interview and bin Laden's veiled threat.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 89-minutes
Year of production: 2018
Starring: John Leigh (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), George Kanaan (East West 101), Tim Carlsen (Westside), Ben Van Lier (The Water Horse)
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BAD MANNERS
A married couple invite guests into their home, one being the wife’s academic ex-lover and the other an over-sexed young woman obsessed with playing games. Neither their hose, not their hostess is prepared for the games they play. Intrigue and lies become inevitable when some money goes missing, bringing to the surface a series of other issues that only intensifes the atmosphere as the evening moves on.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard), Saul Rubinek (Unforgiven), Caroleen Feeney (Escape from L.A.)
BALL AND CHAIN
It’s a setup! Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet and Saima have a problem: they were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decides to do whatever it takes to break off the engagement, resorting to the most highly compromising tactics they can dream up. Saima’s father subsequently promises her to Ashol, a shady playboy. Finally, there is a wedding - and Ashol’s big secret, Ameet’s bigger surprise, and Saima’s biggest decision.
Genre: Romantic Comedy Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 2003 Starring: Sunil Malhotra (Fair Game), Lisa Ray (The World Unseen), Asrani (Bodyguard), Purva Bedi (Sully), Ismail Bashey (Law and Order), Johnny Kastl (Scrubs)
BANGLATOWN BANQUET
The story of a woman who finally finds the courage to break free from her marriage and start a new life. When Sofia’s husband comes back from Bangladesh with a new, heavily pregnant wife, her life is turned upside down. Something had to change and Sofia decided it was going to be her. Divorce is severely frowned upon in the Brick Lane Bangladeshi community, but with a little help from her friends and daughters, she finds a new path of happiness.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x 55-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Riz Ahmed (Four Lions, The Fades), Preeya Kalidas (Mistresses, EastEnders)
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BARABBAS PRESENTED BY PALATIN MEDIA
Based on the Nobel Prize® winning novel by Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas explores the epic story of biblical sinner Barabbas after he is spared from crucifixion rather than Jesus Christ. Struggling with a series of ordeals in the aftermath, Barabbas is eventually fighting in the gladiatorial arena, where he wins his freedom and confronts his inner demons, lastly becoming a believer and follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Genre: Historical Drama
Running time: 1 x 100-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Billy Zane (Titanic), Hristo Shopov (The Passion of the Christ), Paolo Seganti (L.A. Confidential), Cristiana Capotondi (Kryptonite!)
BEAT GIRL
Following the death of her pianist mother, Heather turns to music and DJing as a means of making sense of her life. She is determined to continue her mother’s legacy and decides to audition for a place at a prestigious music school. But finding a balance between her music and career as a DJ leaves her divided, struggling to commit to her dreams and friendships against the backdrop of a turbulent home life. To follow the right path, Heather must find the right beat.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 5 x half-hours; 20 x 5-minutes and
a 90-minute feature
Year of production: 2012 Starring: Louise Dylan (Trust Fund), Craig Daniel Adams (The Bloody Mary Show), Michael Higgs EastEnders)
BELONGING
From the BAFTA award-winning production team, The Producers (The Politician’s Wife, Seeing Red) and directed by Christopher Menaul (Wall of Silence, State of Mind), Belonging is a bittersweet drama set in the picturesque market town of Shrewsbury. At first glance it’s a domestic tale about marital breakdown but a closer inspection reveals a tender, perceptive and, at times, deeply funny story featuring a range of rich and diverse characters.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2003 Starring: Anna Massey (The Machinist), Brenda Blethyn (Saving Grace), Kevin Whately (Lewis), Peter Sallis (Last of the Summer Wine), Rosemary Harris (Spider-Man)
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BETWEEN TOMORROW AND TODAY PRESENTED BY PALATIN MEDIA
Forty-something-year-old Anouk, a translator who dreams of publishing her own novel, travels to Berlin where she meets Heiner, an architect who dreams of building a cathedral. Though are both married, Anouk and Heiner have been privately questioning their lives and wondering whether a new, true love may be out there for them. After a brief and passionate tryst in a hotel room, they are forced to question their next steps. With everything they hold dear at stake, will they stay with their respective - apparently stable marriages, or will they begin a new future together?
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2009
Starring: Peter Lohmeyer (The Miracle of Bern), Gesine Cukrowski (The Last Witness)
BIG DEAL (aka MOOLA)
Based on true events, Big Deal is a comedic look at some everyday folks who find themselves up against the odds in the powerful world of the mega corporation. Just as the business which Steve helped create, ‘American Lightsticks’, is on the brink of collapse, a huge deal suddenly materialises and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to- life comedy with a new perspective on the American Dream.
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 1 x 108-minutes
Year of production: 2007 Starring: William Mapother (Lost), Treat Williams (Everwood), Charlotte Ross (NYPD Blue), Curtis Armstrong (Ray), Daniel Baldwin (Hawaii Five-0)
THE BIG GOOFY SECRET OF HIDDEN PINES
A hilarious tale of cat and mouse filled with fun for the entire family, set in the idyllic small town of Hidden Pines where everyone knows everybody else’s business. Trouble is, one of its most-respected families, Howard, Jill and their daughter Ally, are living with a 14-year-old Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) named Bertie. The story takes on numerous comedic twists and turns as everyone in the town tries to protect Bertie from the local authorities and, ultimately, return him to his home in the wilderness.
Genre: Family Drama
Running time: 1 x 100-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Ashley Brinkman (Knucklebones), Craig Victor (Dog Eat Dog), Heather Howe (Elena Undone)
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BLACKHEART
Ray and Annette are Blackhearts - a pair of con artists who seduce and rob unsuspecting wealthy victims. They have a system - she seduces the target and he closes the deal. A murderous triangle ensues when the male half of the team falls for an heiress with a $10 million inheritance and tries to protect her from his vengeful and deadly femme fatale partner.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Richard Grieco (22 Jump Street), Christopher Plummer (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man), Fiona Loewi
(Everything, Everything)
BLACKOUT
Blackout is a counter-factual drama-documentary exploring the effects of a devastating cyberattack on Britain’s national electricity grid. Based on research and real government contingency plans, Blackout combines real and fake user-generated footage, CCTV archive and news reports to build a terrifyingly realistic account of Britain being plunged into darkness. The film plots the first seven days immediately following a catastrophic nationwide power cut, as experienced by a cast of ordinary characters struggling to feed and protect themselves and their families.
Genre: Docu-drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes or 1 x 60-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Anthony Shuster (Cyberbully), Kirsty Dillon (Locke), Richard Graham (Titanic), Theo Barklem-Biggs (Kingsman: The Secret Service)
BLACKTOP
After an argument outside a club, David watches as his girlfriend Sylvia storms off and climbs into the cab of Jack, a trucker they met the night before. As they roar off, Jack tosses a Polaroid photo out of the window, and David discovers the same woman as in the Polaroid has gone missing. Only the woman is no longer missing – her frozen body has just been found! Jack leaves a trail of clues for David and lures him into a harrowing game of cat and mouse. But while David battles the metal demon, Sylvia must match wits with Jack to save both her and the man she loves.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 99-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Meat Loaf Aday (Fight Club), Lochran Munro (Unforgiven), Kristin Davis (Sex and the City)
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BLIND HEAT
The beautiful but lonely Adrianna is in a troubled marriage to Jeff, a wealthy computer magnate who is having an affair with his secretary. They have just relocated to Mexico when Adrianna is kidnapped, but her avaricious husband doesn’t pay the ransom right away. She uses her beauty and wits to seduce her captor and takes her own revenge on her husband and his scheming mistress.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man), Jeff Fahey (Planet Terror), J. Eddie Peck (The Young and the Restless)
THE BLONDE BABOON
Two detectives are called in to investigate the apparently accidental death of a gallery owner. When it turns out she was murdered, they begin to uncover several mysterious factors; fake art, drugs and the beautiful daughter involved with her mother’s lover. He is known as The Blonde Baboon for his penchant for collecting and creating art depicting the creatures. All the pieces come together in a breath-taking finale where everyone gets just what they deserve.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot), Karoline Eichhorn (A Map of the Heart), Michael Mendl (Downfall), Gotz Otto (Tomorrow Never Dies)
THE BOOTH AT THE END
From Michael Eisner’s leading multi-platform studio Vuguru is The Booth at The End, a psychological thriller created by writer Christopher Kubasik and helmed by veteran television director Jessica Landaw, Xander Berkeley stars as The Man, a mysterious figure who sits in the corner booth at the back of a restaurant, granting visitors their greatest desires. In exchange, he asks that they in turn perform tasks for him, proposing the one lingering question: How far would you go to get what you want?
Genre: Drama Running time: Season 1: 1 x 110-minutes Season 2: 1 x 108-minutes
Year of production: 2010-2012 Starring: Xander Berkeley (Kick-Ass), Sarah Clarke (Twilight), Jenni Blong (True Blood), Jack Conley (Fast & Furious)
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BORDER LOST
Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. In the areas where crime is at its highest, criminals prey upon these defenceless groups. An elite task force is put together to solve this problem that is plaguing our border. After only a few short years, the operation is shut down due to the weight of overwhelming politics and red tape. Three agents decide to take the law into their own hands. Doing what was necessary from the beginning but was always off limits, they decide to cross into Mexico and find themselves up against more than they bargained for.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 105-minutes
Year of production: 2007 Starring: Chris Cleveland (The Prestige), Emilio Roso (Joshua Tree), Kelly Noonan (10 Years)
BORDERLINE NORMAL
When parents get divorced… often it’s the children who must cope. Jeremy is caught in a custody battle with his divorced parents and must also deal with the implications of moving to a new school, but it is here where he meets Beth. In this poignant, modern, coming-of-age drama, two sensitive teenagers from broken homes find comfort in each other’s arms and help one another come to terms with the emotional loss of their families.
Genre: Coming-of-Age Family Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele), Michael Ironside (Total Recall), Robin Dunne (Sanctuary), Caterina Scorsone (Grey’s Anatomy)
BOREALIS PRESENTED BY PALATIN MEDIA
With the world’s last oil and gas reserves exposed in the thawing Arctic, a growing group of entrepreneurs have travelled to the lawless town of Borealis, each vying for their share of black gold and a stake in the earth’s newest and last frontier. At the centre of sabotage and politics is Vic Carboneau – a man controlling the only way in or out of Borealis… but there’s more at stake. A scientific research station manned by Alison Freemont, a highly respected biologist, is situated nearby. When Vic sees a once-in- a-millennium opportunity, Alison sees an ecological catastrophe in the making.
Genre: Sci-Fi Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Ty Olsson (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Patrick Gallagher (Night at the Museum), Terry Chen (House of Cards)
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BREAKING THE SURFACE: THE GREG LOUGANIS STORY
This is the true story of talented athlete and hard-working competitor Greg Louganis. Despite being different from the crowd and suffering from a diving injury, his quest for acceptance led to ultimate glory and helped him overcome great personal difficulties in his life. His unselfish desire to share his hardships with the world has made Greg Louganis a hero.
Genre: Family Drama / True Story Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: Mario Lopez (Nip/Tuck), Jeff Meek (Raven), Rosemary Dunsmore (Orphan Black)
BUTTER
Revenge, power, money and scandal run rampant in the business of music, but when his sister is mysteriously murdered, Freddy is determined to get her killers, even if it means he must turn against the powerful men who have made his career. He’s on the run with his beautiful and innocent neighbour, trying to save both their lives.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 96-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds), Ernie Hudson (Modern Family), Nia Long (The Divide), Donnie Wahlberg (Blue Bloods)
CANCEL CHRISTMAS
Santa Claus is in deep trouble when, in this heart-warming family movie, he is charged with convincing three boys that the true meaning of Christmas is selfless giving - before Christmas Day. If he fails, he’s out of a job. Disguising himself as a janitor, Santa with the help of his head elf, Randal, scouts out the three boys he’s been assigned to convert.
Genre: Family
Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Justin Landry (Morality), Natalie Brown (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Dawn of the Dead)
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CAN’T BE HEAVEN
Danny learns that true love is magical. This refreshing and unique coming-of-age story unites three generations through a universal experience that is shared by all ages… falling in love. Danny is a 12-year-old, lonely and missing his dead father, living with his Mom and Grandmother, when a mysterious musician appears in his life giving him advice on music, growing up and girls. Only problem is, no one else can see him.
Genre: Family Drama
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes Year of production: 1998 Starring: Rachel Ticotin (Man on Fire), Diane Ladd (Joy), Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid), Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
CAPTIVE
A down-on-his-luck businessman succumbs to a beautiful co- worker when she suggests they kidnap their boss’ son, collect the ransom and escape to the tropics. Things begin to go wrong when the boy recognises the man and stricken with guilt, he returns the boy to his mother against the murderous wishes of the femme fatale. The police arrest him and he doesn’t implicate her, but there is still the matter of his friend’s murder, which she committed and she doesn’t plan on taking the blame…
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Richard Grieco (22 Jump Street), Michele Greene (L.A. Law)
CARE
From Emmy® winner and multi BAFTA award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern (The Street, Broken) comes Care, a new drama starring International Emmy Award® nominee Sheridan Smith as a single mother struggling to raise her two children in the aftermath of a family tragedy. After her husband’s departure, Jenny (Smith) is fully reliant on the childcare her mother Mary (Alison Steadman) provides. But when Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia, Jenny’s world comes crashing down, as everything changes for her and her sister Claire (Sinead Keenan). Finding herself torn between her own life and the wellbeing of her mother, Jenny soon discovers that another way could be possible – but she’ll have to fight for it.
Genre: Event Drama Movie
Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2018 Starring: Sheridan Smith (Cilla), Alison Steadman (Gavin & Stacey), Sinead Keenan (Little Boy Blue) www.kewmediadistribution.com
CITY SLACKER
For Amanda, life is perfectly on track. She’s climbed the corporate ladder, has an equally successful city executive on her arm and a family is in the diary - eggs frozen and ready, naturally. But when the eggs are accidentally defrosted, her perfect world is turned upside down - if she’s going to have children, she’s going to have to do it as nature intended! Determined not to give up her hard won career, and with her partner not into being the stay-at-home father required, Amanda needs to find a man who’s willing to sacrifice everything to bring up their baby - will she find the perfect ‘city slacker’?
Genre: Romantic Comedy Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 2012
Starring: Fiona Gillies (Casualty), Tom Conti (The Dark Knight Rises), Adrian Lukis (Bert & Dickie),
Geoffrey Streatfeild (Rush)
A CLEAN KILL
She says he killed his wife because of her… he says they were never involved. Who is telling the truth? Is he a diabolical killer or is she just another of his amorously obsessed writing students? It seems to be an impossible mystery to solve until a bizarre piece of evidence gives the police the clue they have so desperately sought.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Perry King (The Day After Tomorrow), Roxana Zal (River’s Edge), Michele Greene (L.A Law), Susan Blakely (Towering Inferno), Daniel Benzali (Murder One)
CLIFFY
Based on the life of Australian ultra-marathon runner, Cliff Young, feature-length drama Cliffy stars Kevin Harrington as the 1980s cult hero. Virginal, vegetarian and an all-round oddity for his time and place, Cliff is 61 when his life changes. His love of long distance running draws a lady into his life, then it draws him into the inaugural 550 mile Sydney-to-Melbourne footrace. With his old-timer trainer and a rag-tag bunch of supporters by his side, he foregoes sleep and transfixes Australia by winning the race against all odds.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: Kevin Harrington (SeaChange), Roy Billing (Rabbit Proof Fence), Krew Boylan (Wild Boys), Peter Cousens (McLeod's Daughters)
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COLLIDER
Mankind is on the verge of extinction after a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong. In 2018, six survivors awaken, close to what used to be a Large Hadron Collider. Unaware of time and space, the group struggles with the idea that they have been transported to the future in a world destroyed by war and natural disasters. The survivors work to uncover the truth in a desperate attempt to discover what triggered the beginning of the apocalypse, and to reverse the wormhole it created before all is lost…
Genre: Sci-Fi Drama Running time: 1 x 80-minutes
Year of production: 2012 Starring: Lucy Cudden (Judas Ghost), Iain Robertson (Small Faces), Teresa Tavares (Dentro), Jamie Maclachlan (Vikings)
COMING OUT ALIVE
Helen Shaver stars in this fast-paced thriller about a mother who hires a ruthless mercenary soldier to locate and recover her paraplegic son, kidnapped by her estranged husband.
Genre: Action Crime Drama
Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1980
Starring: Helen Shaver (The Colour of Money), Scott Hylands (Night Heat), Michael Ironside (The Machinist), Anne Ditchburn (Curtains), Christopher Crabb (Danger Bay), Monica Parker (Nany Drew), Doug McGrath (Pale Rider)
COMMON
Based on the UK’s controversial joint enterprise law, Common is the dramatic story of two mothers whose lives become intertwined through the loss of their sons. McGovern’s landmark single drama examined the potential for injustice with the joint enterprise (or common purpose) rule. When seventeen-year-old Johnjo gives his friends a lift to the local pizza parlour, the last thing he expects is to find himself charged with murder.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2014 Starring: Nico Mirallegro (Hollyoaks), Jodhi May (Defiance), Daniel Mays (Atonement, Line of Duty), Robert Pugh (Game of Thrones), Michael Gambon (Harry Potter), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones)
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COMPLICIT
In fighting the War on Terror, is torture ever justified? Complicit explores the murky moral compromises that underpin the hidden intelligence war. Edward is an MI5 officer who, desperate to foil another 9/11 style atrocity, wrestles with his own conscience and moral code when he finally comes face to face with British terror suspect Waleed. Convinced that Waleed is plotting an attack, and with time running out, Edward tears up the rule book and makes an irrevocable decision…
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: David Oyelowo (Selma), Arsher Ali
(Line of Duty), Monica Dolan (Appropriate Adult), Paul Ritter
(Quantum of Solace), Makram Khoury (The West Wing)
CRAWLSPACE
In a charming and quiet suburban town, Tim and Susan Gates have found their perfect new house, but as they settle in, a series of eerie events begin to suggest that all is not as it should be. Unbeknownst to them, their cosy little home has an uninvited guest; the deranged previous owner has returned. Living in the walls and obsessively watching the new owners, as the last vestiges of his sanity disappear, his true intentions become horrifyingly clear…
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x 90-minutes Year of production: 2012 Starring: Steven Weber (Desperation), Lori Loughlin (90210), Raleigh Holmes (Kill Me, Deadly)
THE CYBERBULLY
In this real-time thriller, teenager Casey Jacobs is forced to battle with her anonymous cyber-stalker, experiencing the worst the web has to offer – from peer-to-peer bullying to advanced computer hacking – as she fights to overcome her ordeal. Inspired by dozens of real life cases, what happens to Casey is extreme, and framed in a dramatic format, yet all the events depicted are possible and indeed have actually happened to victims individually.
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x one hour
Year of production: 2015 Starring: Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Ella Purnell (Maleficent), Jake Davies (X + Y)
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DAMAGE
The Cahills have the world at their feet – Aidan Cahill is a new breed of Irish property tycoon, his glamorous wife Michelle is a successful estate agent, and their beautiful daughter Emma is an up-and-coming photographic model. But behind closed doors, all is not as it seems. Not only is Aidan having an affair with his secretary but Michelle is secretly seeing John Ward, her daughter’s best friend’s father. When Michelle decides to host a party for Emma’s 21st birthday, little do they know it will turn out to be a night their daughter will never forget.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Olivia Williams (An Education), Natalie Press (My Summer of Love), Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey), David O’Hara (The Departed)
DANGEROUS ATTRACTION (aka DOUBLE EDGED)
Alison Davis’ life changes dramatically when she finds herself attracted to two very different, yet strangely similar men. Neil is dark, handsome and dangerous; Dan is blonde, blue-eyed and gentle. A series of murders take place and in the terrifying climax of the film, Alison discovers that appearances can be more than deceiving: they can be deadly.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Linden Ashby (Teen Wold), Rae Dawn Chong (The Colour Purple), Andrea Roth (Rescue Me)
DANGEROUS OFFENDER
The dramatic, true account of prison inmate Marlene Moore’s fight against an application from the Crown to have her declared Canada’s first female “dangerous offender” – even though she had never committed a serious crime. Condemned to indefinite incarceration, Moore killed herself in a Kingston, Ontario federal woman’s prison. This compelling drama seeks to explain the circumstances that brought the unfortunate Moore to this tragic turn of events.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1996 Starring: Brooke Johnson (The Sweet Hereafter), Patricia Gage (As The World Turns), Sara Botsford (Ride), David Fox (Pacific Rim)
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DANGEROUS REMEDY
Set in the 1960s, Dangerous Remedy follows Dr. Bertram Wainer as he seeks to change the law on abortion and prevent the illegal procedures which are endangering the lives of young women. Before long, the irreverent and mischevious Wainer finds himself in the dark and murky world of criminals, backstreet abortionists, nervous doctors and desperate women. As he persists with his campaign, Wainer uncovers a secret web of police corruption at the heart of his society, which puts both he and his family in danger by those who want him silenced.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x 104-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Jeremy Sims (Wild Boys), Susie Porter (East West 101), William McInnes (Blue Heelers), Maeve Dermody (Griff the Invisible)
DAWN OF THE MUMMY
Dawn of the Mummy describes how a Pharaoh murdered in 3000 B.C. comes back to life to avenge his death by stalking the people of today. A modern-day photographer utilises a newly discovered burial chamber as an exotic background for his fashion photography shoot. This seemingly harmless incident will become the trigger for gruesome events to come when the lighting equipment awakens the mummy that had been lying in its sarcophagus for over 4000 years. The ancient curse prophesised that the dead Pharaoh would seek revenge for his violent death. Nothing and absolutely no one seems to be capable of stopping him!
Genre: Horror
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1981 Starring: Brenda King (Osa), Barry Sattels (Search for Tomorrow)
DEADLOCKED
A young black felon is convicted of the rape and murder of a white female attorney. At the death penalty sentencing, his distraught father overpowers a guard and takes the entire jury hostage. He demands that the prosecuting attorney prove the innocence of his son within 24 hours or they will all die.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: David Caruso (CSI Miami), Charles S. Dutton (Gothica)
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DEAR DUMB DIARY
From the producers of High School Musical and The Spiderwick Chronicles, Dear Dumb Diary is based on the popular kids’ novels by Jim Benton. Follow Jaime Kelly as she navigates Mackeral Middle School with the help of her best friend Isabella, her nemesis Angeline and the boy of her dreams Hudson.
Genre: Family
Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Emily Alyn Lind (The Secret Life of Bees), David Mazouz (Touch), James Waterson (Six Feet Under), Laure Bell Bundy (Hart of Dixie), Madeline Corman (Last of the Ninth), Mary-Charles Jones (Identity Thief)
DEEP FAMILY SECRETS
The secrets were disturbing but the truth was devastating. When her mother is missing and believed to be dead, a young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she has always taken for granted concerning her family was all a lie.
Genre: Family
Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: Richard Crenna (First Blood), Angie Dickinson (Police Woman)
DEEP POWDER
Desperately in love, penniless nineteen-year-old hockey player Danny offers to join rich, troubled seventeen-year-old prep school student Natasha in carrying out the Saint Ambrose High School’s annual drug run, hoping it will sufficiently impress Natasha, as well as pay for his upcoming college tuition. But when Danny is caught by the DEA and refuses to tell the truth in order to protect Natasha, she is desperate to do everything she can to prevent him from spending the rest of his life in jail, and finds herself left with one one drastic choice – forcing them both to decide exactly how far they will go for love.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 91-minutes, 4 x 23-minutes or 15 x 5-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Haley Bennet (The Girl On the Train), Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood)
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DISAPPEARANCE
Disappearance tells the chilling story of a holiday through the Mojave Desert that the Henley family will want to forget. Against the advice of everyone, they decide to take a slight detour and stop off at an old town marked on their map. The town is completely deserted, as though people just got up and left one day. Their compass changes direction. Their cell phones are static, and their car won’t start. The Henleys must settle in for a long night with the hopes of their escaping this dangerous situation fading fast… And just when the nightmares seem almost over, the closer they get to escaping they realise that the real terror is only just beginning.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes Year of production: 2001
Starring: Harry Hamlin (Mad Men),
Susan Dey (L.A. Law), Jeremy Lelliott (Jack)
DOLLAR FOR THE DEAD
In this highly-stylised tribute to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, a lone killer is recruited into a scheme to recover confederate gold from vicious Federals and bands of vengeful soldiers, all the while being pursued by a relentless posse that just won’t give up.
Genre: Western
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club), William Forsythe (Once Upon a Time in America), Howie Long (Broken Arrow), Joaquin de Almeida (Fast and Furious 5)
DOOMSDAY MAN
When a respected doctor working for the Centre of Disease Control goes over the edge, stealing ten vials of a lethal virus and then blowing up the facility, various government officials, aware of the ramifications are panicked. When the same doctor not only infects himself, but also converts the disease that once could only be transmitted through bodily fluids, into airborne spores, the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Esai Morales (La Bamba), Yancy Butler (Kick Ass), James Marshall (A Few Good Men)
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DYING ON THE EDGE (aka HEARSAY)
They thought they had everything under control… until they realised they weren’t pulling the strings. A young record company executive is caught up in the murder through his involvement in a business deal with the mob. To save himself and the company, he must turn the tables and outwit his enemies.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: John Heard (Home Alone), Robert Trebor (Hail, Caesar!), Andrew Hawkes (NCIS), Jasmine Guy (A Different World), Joe Bologna (Big Daddy)
THE EICHMANN SHOW
The Eichmann Show is the behind-the-scenes drama of how a blacklisted Hollywood TV director (Anthony LaPaglia) and a ground-breaking producer (Martin Freeman) overcame enormous obstacles as they set out to capture the testimony of Adolf Eichmann, one of World War II’s most notorious Nazis, architect of the Final Solution and the man who organised the mass deportation and extermination of six million Jews. Integrating actual footage of the trial seamlessly into the story, The Eichmann Show is an intense, absorbing and unique take on a singular and extraordinary moment in television and political history.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x 96-minutes
Year of production: 2015 Starring: Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace), Martin Freeman (Sherlock, Fargo)
THE END OF EDEN
They believed that nothing could come between them but they were wrong. The true story of a young pianist who lusts after his younger brother’s wife and then accidentally kills him in a hunting accident. Raised as strict Mormons, the two brothers were very different but close. Despite a guilty conscience, the man and widow get together, but they face yet another crisis in the months ahead.
Genre: Action Thriller / True Story
Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1996 Starring: Jennie Garth (Beverly Hills 90210), Rob Estes (Silk Stalkings)
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FALKLANDS PLAY
Having recently commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Falklands and Meryl Streep’s 2012 Oscar win as ‘The Iron Lady’, there has never been a better time to see this classic BBC drama. Patricia Hodge stars as Margaret Thatcher opposite James Fox (Lord Carrington) as she presides over the backroom manoeuvrings that lead to the Falklands War. It’s a gripping account of how Thatcher’s government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since Suez. It follows the breakdown of diplomacy between the Brits, Americans and Argentines, the onset of war and ultimately Britain’s military triumph.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2002 Starring: Patricia Hodge (Miranda), James Fox (A Passage to India, The Servant)
KENNETH WILLIAMS: FANTABULOSA!
Michael Sheen won the 2006 Royal Television Society Best Actor award for his heartbreaking portrayal of Kenneth Williams, a consummate entertainer who was loved by everyone but himself. From the intimacy of his diaries and other sources, Martyn Hesford’s Fantabulosa! creates a portrait of a fastidious performer who hankered after recognition, adulation and companionship throughout his career. Yet although he could create a thousand voices and characters, he was unable to live comfortably within his own skin.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 80-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon), Cheryl Campbell (Chariots of Fire), Peter Wight (Babel)
FAREWELL MY LOVE
A young French girl witnesses the brutal murder of her entire family by a Russian gang. After years of carefull planning, she tracks them to Los Angeles and begins to take her murderous revenge.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Gabrielle Fitzpatrick (Mr Nice Guy), Phillip Rhys (24), Brion James (Blade Runner), Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket), Robert Culp (Everybody Loves Raymond)
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A FATHER’S SON
Michael Landon Jr. and his sisters and brothers all idolise their famous father. Michael Landon Sr., star of Little House on the Prairie, is funny, down-to-earth and lots of fun to be around. Most of all, no matter how busy he is, their father always seems to be there when his children need him. That is until he meets a younger woman and begins a new family. Then Mike Jr and his siblings quickly learn a very difficult lesson. When your family once seemed perfect, anything less is almost impossible to accept. A dramatic chronicle directed by a son in memory of his father.
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard), Cheryl Ladd (Charlie’s Angels)
FATHERS AND SONS
Resonant with tender, funny and poignant observations, Fathers and Sons portrays the lives of three families residing on the same street in a suburban neighbourhood. The drama explores the vicissitudes of the paternal-filial relationship over a span of more than thirty years and across multiple generations. While each of the three families on Caleb's Path Road confront their own particular problems, the film follows the central theme of how, despite their best efforts, fathers and sons universally struggle to cross the chasm of alienation to connect.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 105-minutes
Year of production: 2005
Starring: Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Samantha Mathis (American Psycho), Kathy Baker (Picket Fences), John Mahoney (Frasier)
FEAR OF FANNY
The strange and compelling life story of Fanny Cradock, Britain’s most infamous TV chef. In the seventies British TV cookery was dominated by one person: the fearsome Fanny Cradock. Dressed like a drag queen and barking orders at her assistant-cum- husband Johnnie, Cradock terrified and delighted the nation in equal measure. Brian Fillis’ dramatisation of Cradock’s career is based on interviews with her friends and family, and reveals the private vulnerability behind her tart public persona. Nighty Night creator Julia Davis cakes on the make-up as Fanny; The League of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss dons Johnnie’s monocle.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 80-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Julia Davis (Gavin & Stacey), Mark Gatiss (Sherlock)
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FEAR RUNS SILENT
An innocent school trip turns into a terrifying nightmare when an unsuspecting high school class comes face to face with something inhuman in the deep forest. They are being stalked and must use all their wits to try and get out alive.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Stacy Keach (American History X), Billy Dee Williams (Batman), Suzanne Davis (28 Days)
FEELS SO GOOD
Feels So Good is a hilarious coming-of-age tale. Allan is a high school loser and has a major problem: he’s a virgin with no game. But when ladies’ man and constant partier Zack moves in next door, Allan is forced to learn how to man up and go after what he wants, but will he be up to the task? With the lure of sure thing sex with the girls of his dreams, Allan overcomes his better judgement and follows Zack’s lead as they set off on a hormonal-fuelled adventure that leads to some unexpected self-discovery, even at the expense of their safety and sanity!
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 85-minutes, 4 x half hours or 11 x 7-minutes available Year of production: 2013 Starring: Brendan Robinson (Pretty Little Liars, Weeds), Matt Shivley (Paranormal Activity 4), Dean Collins (Without a Trace), Rock Anthony Boynton (Glee)
FIELD PUNISHMENT NO.1
This remarkable film, based on real events and people, is not your usual war story. This is the story of New Zealand’s first conscientious objectors and hundreds of other men who refused to be conscripted into the First World War. We follow the journey of fourteen pacifists who were arrested for their stance against the war and secretly shipped off to Europe. They endured two years in prisons, punishment camps and, ultimately, the Western Front.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2014 Starring: Fraser Brown (The Pretender), Byron Coll (Jack the Giant Slayer), Richard Chapman (Black Sheep), Colin Moy (In My Father’s Den)
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FORBIDDEN BORDER
Young, beautiful and smart, Sienna Castle, travels to Mexico to unwind and celebrate a fabulous job offer. Once over the border, Sienna attempts to purchase a large amount of inexpensive prescription drugs for her ailing mother. But when Sienna runs into local Police Chief Molina, she is arrested and sent to the “Hell Hole”, Mexico’s most notorious women’s prison. Caught up in a conspiracy extending from the powerful pharmaceutical industry to the highest levels of government, Sienna realises her only hope is escape and a deadly chase across the desert ensues.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 101-minutes
Year of production: 2009 Starring: Rachel Day (Suicide is Easy), Gerry Del Sol (The Benchwarmers), Mariann Gavelo (Casa de mi Padre)
FORGOTTEN SINS
The true story of two teenage girls accusing their county sheriff father of incest and participation in satanic rituals. Their father has no recollection of these incidents but does not believe his daughters would lie. A deeply religious man, he gradually comes to believe himself possessed by the devil until a brilliant psychologist convinces him he is the victim of brainwashing and is innocent. Then, he must fight for his life and prove his innocence in a gripping finale.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes Year of production: 1996 Starring: William Devane (The Grinder), John Shea (Mutant X), Bess Armstrong (House of Lies), Dean Norris (Breaking Bad)
FREDDY HEINEKEN: HOSTAGE
Brewery tycoon and business genius Freddy Heineken was a legendary yet controversial figure. It was this fame, along with his powerful public presence and opulent lifestyle, which made him a high-profile target for what came next. In 1983, Heineken was kidnapped and held three weeks for a record ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders. While in captivity, Heineken demonstrated the same will, resourcefulness, and drive that took him to the top of the business world – skills that kept him alive. This gripping TV movie tells the incredible story of Heineken’s ordeal as he faces his own mortality while desperately seeking a way out.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 95-minutes Year of production: 2012 Starring: Thom Hoffman (Black Book), Liz Snoijink (Gooische Vrouwen)
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FROZEN WITH FEAR (aka JACK MIZE)
Katherine is agoraphobic: for the past three years she has been unable to set foot out of her own house. She believes she witnessed her husband die on the doorstep of their home from a gunshot wound. She is convinced that she spoke with an undercover detective before the body of her husband was removed, yet there is now no trace of either the body or the police officer. Jack Mize, a private investigator, is unsure about what to believe. When the husband shows up and declares his wife mentally unstable, Jack becomes convinced it’s more than her sanity that’s at stake; it’s her very life.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes Year of production: 2000 Starring: Bo Derek (Tommy Boy), Stephen Shellen (A River Runs Through It), Wayne Rogers
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THE FUZZ
In a world where humans and puppets coexist, Herbie is a puppet cop who is tired of being treated like a joke by the human officers on the police force. When a string of violent, drug-related crimes rock the seedy Puppet Town neighbourhood, Herbie sees an opportunity to prove himself to the force and help clean up the streets where he grew up. Herbie must work together with his hapless human partner Sanchez to track down the dangerous puppet drug dealer Rainbow Brown, who will stop at nothing in becoming the most powerful criminal in the city.
Genre: Drama and Comedy Running time: 1 x 87-minutes, 5 x 22-minutes or 15 x 6-minutes available Year of production: 2012 Starring: Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Jon Gabrus (4th Man Out)
GETTING MARRIED IN BUFFALO JUMP
When Sophie Ware inherits her late father’s ranch, the hired hand proposes the ideal business arrangement: a marriage of convenience. It’s a rocky road to the altar but en-route Sophie learns a lot about herself, the complexities of love and the value of tradition in the modern world.
Genre: Drama Romance Running time: 1 x two hours Year of production: 1990 Starring: Paul Gross (Passchendaele), Wendy Crewson (Slasher), Marion Gilsenan (Glory Enough For All), Victoria Snow (Slasher)
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THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
A small town doctor finds himself trapped in a nightmarish web of events after agreeing to keep an eye on a teenage girl while her parents are away. Although happily married, Arthur Bradley struggles to keep his confused feelings in check as he finds himself increasingly drawn to Fiona, his neighbour’s daughter. Fiona is equally drawn to the mature older man who she considers as the only person to take her seriously. Arthur is immediately overcome with remorse after things spiral out of control one night and they passionately make love. His remorse turns into panic when Fiona is found murdered the next day.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 101-minutes Year of production: 1998 Starring: Henry Czerny (Mission Impossible), Polly Shannon (Lie With Me), Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon)
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
She would do anything for her lover, even kill his wife. An insecure young woman gets trapped in a relationship with an abusive manipulator. She learns that her policeman boyfriend has a wife but would like to be rid of her without having to pay for a divorce. He convinces her that if he murders his wife, they can be together. The neurotic young woman does as he demands but now the lover really doesn’t need her anymore. Someone else is going to die…
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes Year of production: 1998 Starring: Tracey Gold (Growing Pains), Tom Irwin (21 Grams), Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
GOING DOWN
The party never ends in this college comedy-of-errors! Jack and his buddy Travis wake to a house turned upside down after a big blowout bash, only to discover that two of their friends are dead!? And it gets worse. Jack’s parents have just called and announced that they are coming home early from their vacation and need to be picked up from the airport in three hours. A lot needs to be done. But just when Jack and Travis roll up their sleeves, the “after-party” starts and spins out-of-control!
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 81-minutes Year of production: 2003 Starring: Jay Michael Ferguson (Express: Aisle to Glory), Joshua Blake (Alf), Christine Lakin (Valentine’s Day), Rachelle Carson (The Bling Ring), Hope Riley (The Holiday)
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THE GOLDEN YEARS
Produced by Mark Foligno (The King’s Speech) and featuring an all-star cast of some of the UK’s most established and respected actors, The Golden Years follows a retired, law abiding couple as they enter a life of crime. Refusing to accept the injustice of old age, they decide to fight back by robbing banks in order to save their community.
Genre: Comedy Drama Running time: 1 x 100-minutes Year of production: 2016 Starring: Bernard Hill (Lord of the Rings), Virginia McKenna (Born Free), Alun Armstrong (New Tricks), Sue Johnston (Downton Abbey), Una Stubbs (Sherlock), Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Phil Davis (Notes on a Scandal), Mark Williams (Harry Potter)
GRAVE SECRETS
Three-time Academy Award®-nominee Diane Ladd stars in this screamingly good Deadtime Story! Babysitter Jennifer Stone brings to life the chilling tale of Amanda Petersen and her three best friends as they are forced to confront their next door neighbour “Barnsey” - the scariest old lady on Earth, and possibly even a witch!
Genre: Family Running time: 1 x 61-minutes Year of production: 2013 Starring: Diane Ladd (Joy), Jennifer Stone (Wizards of Waverly Place), Taylar Hender (Den Brother), Lauren Perez (Hopelessly In June)
GROSS MISCONDUCT
From Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Atom Egoyan comes this true story following the tumultuous life of former hocker star Brian “Spinner” Spencer. While achieving his dream of playing professional hockey, tragedy and violence pursued Spencer at every turn. A true-life parable of the myths and mystique of athletic stardom.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours Year of production: 1993 Starring: Daniel Kash (Aliens), Peter MacNeill (A History of Violence), Linda Goranson (Owning Mahowny), Doug Hughes (Legends of the Fall), Lenore Zann (X-Men)
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HALO: THE FALL OF REACH
Relive the origin of the legendary Master Chief and the Spartan program in this animated adaptation of one of Halo’s most beloved stories. Kidnapped as children and conscripted into a brutal military training and augmentation program, the Spartans were designed to be the ultimate weapon against chaos and insurgency – but when a dangerous alien alliance known as The Covenant declares war on humanity, the Spartans might be our only hope.
Genre: Animated Special Running time: 1 x 65-minutes
Year of production: 2015 Starring: Jen Taylor (Left 4 Dead), Steve Downes (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes), Michelle Lukes (Strike Back), Brittany Uomoleale (Meshes of Dusk), Travis Willingham (Avengers Assemble)
HALO 4: FORWARD INTO DAWN
Based on the globally renowned ‘Halo®’ franchise, the new live- action drama Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn delivers a dramatic and personal story of heroism and sacrifice. Featuring groundbreaking live-action drama and strong character-driven storytelling, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn offers action-packed entertainment that will appeal to both long-time fans and newcomers to the Halo universe.
Genre: Sci-Fi Special Running time: 1 x 90-minutes or 5 x half hours Year of production: 2012
Starring: Tom Green (Dance Academy), Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia), Daniel Cudmore (The Twilight Saga), Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons), Osric Chau (Supernatural, 2012)
HALO: NIGHTFALL
Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary manhunter Jameson Locke (Mike Colter) and his team as they are caught in a horrific biological attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra. Led by Locke, agents from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) are forced to coordinate with a Sedran commander with a remarkable history and deep-rooted mistrust of ONI. As the plot unravels, they’re drawn to an ancient, hellish artifact where, forced to fight for their survival, they begin to question everything and, ultimately, have to choose between their loyalties and their lives.
Genre: Sci-Fi Drama
Running time: 1 x 90-minutes Year of production: 2014 Starring: Mike Colter (The Good Wife), Christina Chong (W.E.), Steve Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Luke Neal (Wilderness), Alexis Rodney (Guardians of the Galaxy), www.kewmediadistribution.com Shaun Blaney (Game of Thrones)
HOLLYWOOD IS LIKE HIGH SCHOOL WITH MONEY
Taylor Henning thought the horrors of high school were behind her, but catty co-workers and office sabotage make working in Hollywood equally treacherous. When her boss’ teenage queen bee daughter, Quinn, sees how clueless Taylor is, Quinn agrees to teach Taylor how to outsmart her competition. After all, Hollywood is like high school with money, and Quinn knows all the rules. From how to charm powerful hotties, to the best way to crash an A-list party – Hollywood skills can be learned. And Taylor is about to get schooled.
Genre: Comedy Drama Running time: 1 x one hour or 10 x 5-8-minutes Year of production: 2011 Starring: Kelsey Sanders (10,000 Days), Lili Simmons (Bone Tomahawk), Lori Alan (Family Guy), Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars)
THE HUNTERS
The Hunters follows a family of archaeologists as they hunt down artefacts from fairy tales that have been hidden around the globe. Combining cracking action, exotic locations, and mystical artefacts with technological know-how and a modern sensibility, The Hunters is a fresh, cool action-adventure picture for the whole family!
Genre: Action Adventure Running time: 1 x 87-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: Victor Garber (Argo), Alexa Vega (Machete Kills), Michelle Forbes (The Killing), Robbie Amell (The Tomorrow People)
I LOVE YOUR MOVES
Having just moved from Russia to America, awkward teen Ari has trouble making friends and fitting in to his new American life. But everything changes when he falls in love with Paris, who’s not only the most popular girl in school but also a champion ballroom dancer. In order to get closer to her, Ari joins the school’s ballroom dance program. What he doesn’t know is that his grandfather is Goran Kiev, perhaps the greatest ballroom dancer who ever lived, and Ari appears to have inherited his grandfather’s incredible talent. Despite obstacles in their path to happiness and success, Ari and Paris soon realise the most important rule of ballroom dancing is – NEVER STOP DANCING!
Genre: Family Running time: 1 x 106-minutes
Year of production: 2012
Starring: Andoni Zorbas (Sirk!), Erika Cortes (Love is all You Need)
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ICE
Los Angeles, like most of the world, is now totally encased in ice due to a meteor hitting the sun. The few survivors are battling over the limited number of snow vehicles available. One such snow cat has been filled with the most unlikely mismatched group of survivors one could imagine and is headed on a long and dangerous journey to the Long Beach where they hope to board a ship bound for South America.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1998
Starring: Grant Show (Melrose Place), Eva La Rue (CSI Miami), Audie England (Delta of Venus)
ICE
A thieving husband and wife team are the on the run from two sets of crime families, the one they stole sixty million dollars worth of diamonds from and the one who wants the jewels.
Genre: Action
Running time: 1 x 105-minutes
Year of production: 1994 Starring: Traci Lords (Blade), Zach Galligan (Gremlins), Phillip Troy Linger (The Hunger Games), Michael Bailey Smith (The Hills Have Eyes)
ICEBREAKER
Twenty terrorists, five hundred vacationing skiers and one ski patrol officer… this mountain is about to explode! It’s the biggest ski vacation weekend of the year and ski patrol officer Matt Foster is about to have a very bad day. The night before, a plane carrying stolen nuclear materials crashed into Kilington Mountain. Terrorists send a team of professionals to retrieve the cargo from the crash site. They are well armed and operate with military precision. But Matt has one thing going for him… he knows the mountain like the back of his hand.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1998
Starring: Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings), Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead), Stacy Keach (American History X), Suzanne Turner (Adopting Change)
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ICE ROAD TERROR
The treacherous Alaskan ice road becomes the setting for a deadly pursuit in this suspenseful thriller. Two truckers are preparing to traverse a dangerous path across frozen rivers to deliver equipment to a remote diamond mine. Unbeknownst to them, blasting at the mine has awakened a long-dormant prehistoric creature. Upon arrival at the mine they encounter unbelievable carnage, leaving them stranded in the wilderness with a hungry beast on their trail. Can they escape the terror of the ice road?
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2010
Starring: Brea Grant (Heroes), Ty Olsson (Battlestar Gallactica), Dylan Neal (Dawson’s Creek), Malcolm Stewart (Kyle XY)
IN PURSUIT
A young boy, Rick, watches helplessly as his powerful father, Wells, murders his Mexican mother and gets away with it. Thirty years later, he plots revenge with Cathy who is now married to Wells but is also Rick’s lover. The plot backfires when Wells is suddenly blown up in a car bombing. The police discover that Cathy and Rick were lovers. Cathy, who is his only alibi, disappears and Rick is arrested for murder. He escapes from jail and tracks her to Mexico, where she proclaims her innocence. Wells had faked his own death and contacted her, not realising she was part of the blackmail scheme along with Rick. Cathy must choose between love and money, and Rick must decide how far revenge will take him… all the way to murder?
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2000
Starring: Daniel Baldwin (Hawaii Five-O)
IN THE LINE OF DUTY: BLAZE OF GLORY
Partners in love. Partners in crime. They are partners for life. The true story of a smart, young couple robbing banks to pay the bills. Precision planning mystifies the FBI, but they manage to unfold the robbers’ latest plans and a high-speed chase leads to a fatal and dramatic conclusion.
Genre: Crime Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1997
Starring: Lori Loughlin (90210, Fuller House), Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead)
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IN THE LINE OF DUTY: SMOKE JUMPERS
A tremendous blast of superheated air swoops down upon the weary firefighters, knocking them to the ground as lethal gas engulfs them. As the ‘Jumper In Charge’, Don Mackey has risked his own life trying to save his crew, but when he raises his head after the gas has swept past, he sees that most of his fellow fire- fighters are dead, suffocated by the deadly hot fumes. The true story of courageous firemen parachuting into the most unpredictable forest fires and paying the ultimate price for their courage and dedication to save others.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1996 Starring: Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket), Lindsay Frost (The Ring), Timothy Carhart (The Hunt for Red October)
JINNAH ON CRIME: PIZZA 911
Pizza 911 is the first in a series of Jinnah On Crime mystery television movies tracing the exploits of Hakeem Jinnah, a charming, brilliant and neurotic crime reporter played with engaging style by Canadian actor Dhirendra (EastEnders).
Genre: Crime Drama
Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2002 Starring: Dhirendra (Possession), David Lewis (Man of Steel), Emily Holmes (The Man in the High Castle), Pamela Sinha (ER), Christian Bocher (The Fog), Raahul Singh (The Guru)
JINNAH ON CRIME: WHITE KNIGHT, BLACK WIDOW
Dhirendra reprises his role of Vancouver Tribune crime reporter Hakeem Jinnah, who is busy getting his latest moneymaking scheme – importing Indian wedding dolls – listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange. Jinnah is still juggling family and work, and his life becomes much more complicated (and potentially much shorter) when he becomes embroiled in the mysterious drowning death of flamboyant Vancouver stock promoter Sam Schuster. Jinnah must swim with the sharks on the stock exchange to learn the identity of a White Knight, escape the web of Schuster’s Black Widow and clear his name of murder in order to beat the deadline on his own life.
Genre: Crime Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2002 Starring: Dhirendra (Possession), Pamela Sinha (ER)
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KICK PRESENTED BY PALATIN MEDIA
Aspiring young footballers Dan and Steve have bribed their way into a premier league football stadium to play in an illicit underground football club, leading to a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Unbeknownst to them, they are being watched and are already unwittingly trapped in a game of survival. As their match ends, their nightmare begins.
Genre: Horror Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2014 Starring: Rik Young (Beowulf), Daniel Bayle (Hollyoaks)
KID COP
They had a successful life of crime for twenty years, but they had no idea this kid would get in their way. An adolescent, the son of a deceased police officer, investigates a robbery at a local store on his own. Uncovering a plot to rob a rank, the boy captures the criminals and identifies his father’s murderers.
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: Jeremy Lelliot (Jack), John Rubinstein (Perception), Alexandra Paul (Baywatch), Edward Albert (Power Rangers Time Force), Cindy Pickett (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
KILLER MOUNTAIN
In a dramatic tale of extreme survival and mysterious legend, Ward Donovan and his team of expert climbers are hired by billionaire Walter Burton to rescue a research team lost on the world’s highest unclimbed mountain. But amidst deep crevasses and steep rock faces, Ward discovers an abandoned temple complex… Is this Shangri-La, the mythical land of eternal life – the secrets of which Burton would attain at any cost – or is this something far more sinister?
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2010 Starring: Emmanuelle Vaugier (CSI: NY), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Gallactica), Paul Campbell (Spun Out), Torrance Coombs (The Tudors), Andrew Airlee (Reaper)
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KING OF THE WORLD
This high profile, special event movie chronicles Muhammad Ali’s life up to 1964, when Ali faced defending world champion Sonny Liston for the World Heavyweight Championship in Miami, Florida. It depicts the rise of Cassius Clay through the amateur ranks, from the Olympic Gold Medal, to the World Championship, and his transformation into Muhammad Ali. Sonny Liston was the most feared heavyweight of his time, known as ‘The Bear’ and Cassius Clay was a loud-mouthed upstart with the odds against him, when he knocked out Liston in a stunning upset the boxing world will never forget.
Genre: Special Event Drama
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Terrence Howard (Iron Man), Steve Harris (Minority Report), John Ventimigilia (The Sopranos)
THE LAST RIDERS
One man's vengeance against his past. When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 105-minutes
Year of production: 1991 Starring: Erick Estrada (CHiPs), William Smith (Red Dawn)
THE LIFE
The Life is a gripping drama about police officers who struggle to help addicts in a world on the edge, and their quest for change on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The team of dedicated cops go against their superiors and challenge traditional Police department policies. In place of weapons, the officers use compassion and cameras in their war against drugs, in a bid to change both the community’s view of the addicts and the addicts’ views of themselves. Their story unfolds in a fast-paced and compelling narrative, and as the officers attempt to assist and rehabilitate the addicts, the relationships and situations that develop are both heartrenching and heartwarming.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2004 Starring: Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Brian Markinson (Charlie Wilson’s War)
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LITTLE CRIMINALS
Des is 11-years-old and already perpetrating a string of serious crimes - and there’s little the law can do to stop him. This drama takes an uncompromising look at the tragic and disturbing reality of children who are drawn into the world of crime.
Genre: Crime Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1996 Starring: Brendan Fletcher (The Pacific), Myles Ferguson (Avalanche), Adam Harrison, Jordan Clarke
LITTLE WOMEN BIG CARS
Meg, Barbara, Rocky, and Connie, are friends by virtue of their kids – time spent dropping off and picking up their kids at school, shuttling them around in large SUVs, and drinking coffee together on the soccer field sidelines. When the moms set Barbara up on a date with their kids’ handsome soccer coach, the blossoming relationship forces the other women to re-examine their own marriages. And their friendship is further tested when it comes time for the kids to compete for spots in the school’s gifted programme…
Genre: Comedy Running time: Season 1: 1 x 85-minutes, 4 x half hours or 17 x 5-minutes Season 2: 1 x 105-minutes, 5 x half hours or 19 x 5-minutes Year of production: 2012-2013 Starring: Amy Yasbeck (The Mask), Julie Warner (Nip/Tuck, Entourage) Kristy Swanson (Psych) Romy Rosemont (The Avengers)
LOSS OF FAITH
A young woman gives birth to a baby that is adopted by her wealthy sister and her husband. When the child is kidnapped, it is revealed that the baby’s father was the sister’s husband. Then, he supposedly commits suicide but is, in reality, murdered. The two sisters accuse each other of the crimes and an investigative reporter is drawn into the mystery. When another victim is found dead, the reporter is implicated. He must now try to solve the murders and find the missing child.
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: John Ritter (8 Simple Rules), Michele Scarabelli (Seven Little Monsters)
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LOVELESS IN LOS ANGELES
When a womanising, reality dating TV producer runs into his college crush, he realises his bar-hopping, bed-hopping ways are leaving him unfulfilled so he has the only woman he ever had feelings for re-train him to become the nice guy he once was.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Dash Mihok (Hollywoodland), Brittany Daniel (The Game)
MAMA’S GOING TO BUY YOU A MOCKINGBIRD
Dad was always there for them at Christmas but now he’s gone, leaving 12-year-old Jeremy too angry to care about anything. Based on the award-winning novel by Jean Little, Mama’s Going to Buy You a Mockingbird is a moving drama about a boy’s coming of age in the 1950s.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1988 Starring: Sam Aaron (Seeing Things), Rosa Anderson-Barker, Geoffrey Bowes (The Man), Martha Gibson (Seeing Things), Linda Griffiths (Lianna)
MARABUNTA (aka LEGION OF FIRE: KILLER ANTS!)
A hive of South American killer ants has been lying dormant in Alaska for ten years until seismic activity causes subterranean warming, awakening the ants. While many residents of Burley Pines, Alaska are being eaten alive, a small group races to survive and to find a way to stop the ruthless ants.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Eric Lutes (So Little Time), Julia Campbell (Recovery Road), Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files), Jeremy Foley (Caitlin’s Way), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous)
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MAY I KILL U? PRESENTED BY PALATIN MEDIA
As riots break out in London, a head injury changes Baz from an everyday police officer into a mad vigilante, offering no-hope criminals a stark choice, arrest or death, poilitely asking, “May I kill you?”, whilst filming everything on his head-cam to upload to social media using the alter ego ‘@N4cethelaw’. When the tables are turned on him in a bizarre twist of fate, Baz’s true identity looks set to be exposed. Can he survive to ride another day?
Genre: Black Comedy Running time: 1 x 87-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Kevin Bishop (Super Fun Night), Jack Doolan (Cemetery Junction), Frances Barber (Mr Holmes)
THE MILLIONAIRE TOUR
A mysterious cab passenger who is taken hostage must convince the hijackers that he is not the legendary con man they set out to kill. Is it a case of mistaken identity, or a celever act of deception? A series of mind games and escape ploys will determined who’s taking who for a ride.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 85-minutes, 4 x 23-minutes or 15 x 6-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Dominic Monaghan (Lost), Rick Gomez (Sin City), Jordan Belfi (Entourage), Agnes Bruckner (Blood & Chocolate), Bruce Davison (X-Men)
MIRACLE ON THE 17TH GREEN
Mitch McKinley’s life is fine. He has a wonderful family and he’s had the same job for 22 years, but somehow he feels he’s missing something. At Christmas, the golf clubs given to him by his dead father mysteriously appear beneath the tree and, taking this as an omen, he decides to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a professional golfer. This puts pressure on his marriage with Sarah, who finds herself in crisis with no one to turn to. They seem to be leading separate lives until the magic of Christmas reminds Mitch of what is truly miraculous in his life…
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Robert Urich (Vega$), Ernie Hudson (Oz), Meredith Baxter (Family Ties)
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MURDER SEES THE LIGHT
Benny Cooperman is a scruffy private investigator hired to find a millionaire TV evangelist. His investigation leads him to the northern wilds, where a series of grisly murders disturbs the idyllic surroundings. Along the way Benny stumbles onto some interesting characters. Naturally, Benny suffers some misadventures trying to navigate the bush country, much less solve the case. The discovery of a hidden cache of dynamite and a strange confession lead Benny to finally unravel the horrifying facts behind the mystery.
Genre: Adventure Mystery Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1987
Starring: Saul Rubinek (Unforgiven), George Buza (X-Men), Catherine Disher (Good Witch), Graham Greene (The Green Mile)
NEST OF SINGING BIRDS
Anna, a gifted young philosophy academic, arrives at a small Canadian university as a sessional lecturer. There she meets an older divorced professor, Ian MacGregor and they quickly discover a mutual attraction. Executives at the university notice her skills at teaching and handling university politics, but have no funds to keep her on past the term’s end. She must decide whether to pursue her career or stay with MacGregor.
Genre: Drama Romance Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1988 Starring: Sheila McCarthy (Die Hard), Barry MacGregor (A Night to Remember), Bernard Hopkins (Covergirl)
NETWORTH
Based on a true story, Networth tells the powerful tale of how a small group of men risked their careers to take on the czars of the National Hockey League to fight for their dignity and for the future of professional hockey. This richly-mounted, two-hour drama exposes the myths behind the league’s glory years to reveal the truth about an organisation that would destroy the men who played for love of the game.
Genre: Sports Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1995 Starring: Aidan Devine (A History of Violence), Kevin Conway (The Stupids), Robin Gammell (Skyline), Carl Marotte (My Bloody Valentine), Richard Donat (Haven)
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NIGHT FEEDERS
In the remote Southern wilderness, a fiery meteor crashes to Earth and forever changes mankind’s view of the universe. This “meteor” unleashes an infestation of nocturnal alien creatures with just one intention: to devour every warm-blooded life form on our planet. When night falls, four hapless deer hunters in search of some weekend fun and sport are about to discover how it feels to be prey.
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Donnie Evans, Brett Gentile (We’re the Millers), Mike Monzitta
NUCLEAR FAMILY
Nuclear Family is a compelling thriller about a couple on the verge of splitting up, who find their bond renewed when they must fight for survival after a mysterious catastrophic event. As John and Lynn meet to finalise their divorce, an unidentifiable event occurs outside and they are forced to escape the destruction together, losing track of their son in the chaos.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 100-minutes, 4 x 22-minutes or 20 x 5-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1), Kinsey Packard (Sleeper Cell), Ray Wise (Dollhouse, Twin Peaks, Mad Men), Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives)
NUMBER 13 (M.R. JAMES COLLECTION)
Greg Wise stars as an academic lodging in room 12 of a drafty hotel. Having noticed the numbers jump from 12 to 14, one night a room number 13 appears.
Nocturnal disturbances and foolish curiosity lead him to investigate what lies behind that sinister door.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 40-minutes
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility, Cranford), Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hot Fuzz)
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OBSESSION
Sonia Patton has just accepted a huge promotion at work. Unfortunately, it means moving to Boston and leaving everything behind for her career, including her boyfriend Tom, a cop with the NYPD. As she settles into her new surroundings, Sonia meets mysterious stranger Sebastian. The two embark on a whirlwind romance and the new relationship helps put Sonia at ease with her new life. But her newfound happiness doesn’t last long, as she begins to feel like she is being watched.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Charisma Carpenter (Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Dylan Neal (Smallville, Dawson’s Creek), Nicholas Lea (V, Kyle XY)
ON HOSTILE GROUND
New Orleans’ famed Mardi Gras celebration regularly shakes the Louisiana town to its foundations. But never like this. This time, there is an unforeseen force at work; a gigantic sinkhole beneath the streets that threatens to bring the party to a premature and devastating end. City official Allison Beauchamp, concerned about a series of smaller sinkholes that have begun wreaking havoc in the area, calls upon her fiance, geologist Matt Andrews, to investigate. What he finds doesn’t bode well for Crescent City, which lies completely below sea level. As disaster looms Matt must find a way to stop the ground from caving in beneath the stress of Mardi Gras.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 105-minutes
Year of production: 2000
Starring: John Corbett (Northern Exposure), Britanny Daniel (Sweet Valley High), Jessica Steen (Heartland), John Boylan (Being Erica)
ON THE BORDERLINE
A young married couple with a newborn child set out on a journey across America, on their way to California, where a dream job awaits the husband. They decide to take one last detour south to a small border town where they are robbed of their savings. In desperate need of cash, the husband agress to a one-night job: smuggling illegal migrant workers across the border. When the border patrol ambushes the truck, a violent shootout occurs. The gang leader is convinced the husband set him up and vows murderous revenge on his wife and child.
Genre: Drama Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty), Marley Shelton (Planet Terror), Bill Sage (On the Borderline), Elizabeth Pena (Jacob’s Ladder)
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ONE SPECIAL NIGHT
Two of Hollywood’s most famous award-winning stars reunite in this romantic drama about two lonely people who are thrown together by chance and who, despite their many differences, are drawn to one another. Together they find something they never thought possible… a second chance at love.
Genre: Romantic Drama Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music), James Garner (The Notebook)
OVERKILL
On holiday, Jack Hazard, a stressed out Los Angeles Narcotics Officer gets involved in a white-collar crime organisation. Thrown into a jungle prison, Hazard knows that the only way to stay alive is to escape, so he engineers a dramatic getaway. He then finds himself in a nightmare life and death situation as he is pursued by a group of criminals determined to kill him.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1995 Starring: Aaron Norris (The Cutter), Michael Nouri (The Terminal), Pamela Dickerson (Nixon), David Rowe (Criminal Love)
THE PATRON SAINT OF LIARS
A young, pregnant woman leaves her house and husband and goes to a home for unwed mothers in a small Kentucky town. Here she meets her new husband. She’s a woman on the run, from her husband, from her past and most of all, from herself.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: Dana Delany (China Beach), Sada Thompson (Pollock), Ellen Burstyn (Interstellar), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption)
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THE PAWN
NYPD cop, Ray, retires and returns to his hometown and to his father’s best friend who brought him up for much of his life. It’s only when he becomes involved with two rival Mafia organisations that Ray discovers that the father figure in his life is really a monster.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Greg Evigan (TekWar), Tony Lo Bianco (The French Connection), Sydney Penny (Pale Rider)
THE PERFECT NANNY
Andrea has always loved romance novels. Now she finally has her own romantic hero – Dr. James Lewis, a kindly, handsome widower with a college-bound daughter and a ten-year-old son. James has hired her as the nanny. Now, Andrea just needs to bide her time until he falls in love with her, just like in the plot of her favourite Gothic romance. Andrea cannot wait to become Mrs James Lewis and live happily after… even if she has to kill James’ daughter. This titillating tale of suspense reveals the disintegration of a disturbed young woman’s world as her romantic dream turns into a deadly nightmare.
Genre: Suspense Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Tracy Nelson (A Killer Upstairs), Bruce Boxleitner (Tron: Legacy)
THE PERFECT TENANT
Daniel blames Jessica for accidentally killing his father and thus destroying his family. He plans to make her suffer the same kind of loss he did, before killing her. Daniel rents a guesthouse from Jessica, now living with her adopted daughter Laura, who has immediate suspicions about their new tenant. The murderous cat and mouse game begins in this psychological thriller which will lead to both women fighting for their lives.
Genre: Drama Thriller Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Linda Purl (Mighty Joe), Maxwell Caulfield (Grease 2), Tracy Nelson (A Killer Upstairs), Earl Holliman (Forbidden Planet)
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PETE’S CHRISTMAS
In Pete’s Christmas, overlooked middle child Pete finds himself in the unexpected spotlight when he discovers his family’s terrible Christmas Day keeps repeating! As the only one experiencing the day over and over, he soon realises he must use his unique gift to give the holiday a makeover and his family a Christmas they will never forget.
Genre: Family Comedy Running time: 1 x 86-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Zachary Gordon (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Trilogy), Molly Parker (Hemingway & Gellhorn), Bailee Madison (Just Go With It), Bruce Dern (Coming Home)
PLAYDATE
Lonely and struggling to navigate the dog-eat-dog world of preschool, playdates and playgrounds, new stay-at-home mum Amy is thrilled when the seemingly perfect Grace moves in next door, in this hilariously dark multi-platform comedy series. Amy is not only new to the life of a suburban mum, having left her high powered job in the city to focus her attention on raising her daughters, she’s also new to the mummy politics that accompany it. So when bohemian new neighbour Grace arrives, Amy seems to have found the answer to her prayers. Falling into a fast friendship, the two women and their little girls become inseparable. But how long will it last?
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 83-minutes, 4 x 23-minutes or 13 x 7-minutes Year of production: 2012 Starring: Alicia Witt (Friday Night Lights),
Stephanie Lemelin (Young Justice), Gregory Vaughan (Charmed), Diedrick Bader (Office Space)
POINT LAST SEEN
She searches for another woman’s child refusing to give up… while praying someone will find her own children. A child has gone missing in the California desert and expert tracker Rachel is called upon to help find the little girl. She can only hope that Detective Coreen Davis will show the same perseverance in finding Rachel’s children, kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband. A riveting true story based on actual events.
Genre: Drama / True Story Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Kevin Kilner (Home Alone 2), Sam Hennings (The Aviator), Mary Kay Place (Being John Malkovich)
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POISON
A young mother, estranged from her teenage daughter while incarcerated for a crime she did not commit, discovers that her daughter’s attempts at reconciliation are really masking her deadly intent. The bonds between mother and daughter have tightened into a noose and it’s a nightmare duel to the death to break free.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 1999
Starring: Rosanna Arquette (After Hours), Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot), Mandy Schaffer (Sabotage)
PRETTY TOUGH
Set in the posh, picturesque world of Malibu, California, Pretty Tough follows two teenage sisters at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum. At this privileged high school, against the backdrop of high-end lifestyles and higher expectations, their tumultuous relationship faces the ultimate test when they’re forced to play together on the soccer field.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 100-minutes, 5 x 23-minutes or 20 x 5-minutes Year of production: 2010 Starring: Adelaide Kane (Reign), Crystal Young (Lonelygirl15), Matthew Florida (90210), Guy Wilson (Cold Case)
QUEEN KONG
Not to be confused with King Kong, this satirical feature film stars Rula Lenska as Luce Habit and Robin Askwith as an unforgettable Ray Fay. A hilarious, tongue in cheek romp, it moves from the streets of London through the African jungles, where a feminist Kong is Queen. Be prepared to pick up on countless “insider” play on plays and fasten your seatbelts for an unexpected ride.
Genre: Monster Cult Classic Running time: 1 x 72-minutes
Year of production: 1975 Starring: Robin Askwith (If…), Rula Lenska (Jack Says)
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RAISING GENIUS
Nancy Nestor sees herself as the perfect wife and mother, and now that her teenage genius son Hal has been named high school valedictorian, her own moment of public glory is close at hand. Unfortunately, it’s been over three months since Hal locked himself in an upstairs bathroom to work out mathematical equations while also watching the cheerleader next door. To Nancy’s dismay, no amount of threatening or coaxing seems to have any effect on Hal. Noted psychologist Dr. Curly Weeks comes to her air, in more ways than one, to develop a program that just might get her obsessive-compulsive son out of the bathroom and onto the graduation program.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 74-minutes
Year of production: 2004 Starring: Justin Long (Dodgeball)
RANDOM QUEST
This fast-paced drama tells the story of Colin Trafford, a scientist knocked unconscious in a botched experiment. Waking up in a parallel world, he is amazed to find himself with a new life and a new wife. But Colin’s idyll is shattered when he wakes again only to be told that the new love of his life was just a coma-induced fantasy. Unable to accept what’s happened, he vows to prove the reality of his parallel life, risking ridicule and madness in the process.
Genre: Sci-Fi Running time: 1 x one hour
Year of production: 2006 Starring: Samuel West (Van Helsing, Any Human Heart), Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead, Soldier Soldier)
REAPER
Luke, a writer of violent serial criminal mysteries, drives up to the deserted coast of Maine in a bid to cure his writer’s block. Shortly after his arrival in town, women’s bodies are found and Luke becomes the number one suspect. The female detective on the case struggles to remain impartial when she becomes sexually involved with Luke.
Genre: Drama Thriller Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride), Catherine Mary Stewart (Night of the Comet), Vlasta Vrana (The Day After Tomorrow)
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RITES OF PASSAGE
Some choices should never have to be made by a father. If Del calls the police about the two escaped convicts who have invaded his family’s vacation cabin, then his misguided son Campbell will be sent to prison as an accomplice. If he tries to stop them himself, then both of his sons will be in danger. But if Del does nothing, then Campbell will be leaving for Canada with these two criminals and he may never see his youngest son again… an outcome that would be truly intolerable. A father and his two sons are about to spend a weekend in Hell…
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Dean Stockwell (Blue Velvet), Jaimz Woolvett (Unforgiven), James Remar (Dexter)
ROBOCOP: CRASH AND BURN
Robocop and his robotised partner, Cable are trapped inside Delta City’s control headquarters, but the only way out will obliterate one of them. They must shut down the all-powerful computer with a massive electromagnetic pulse that will destroy any cyborg who detonates it. The two best friends say their good-byes, as Cable insists on taking this suicide mission in order to spare Robocop.
Genre: Action Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker), Maurice Dena Wint (Cube), Maria Del Mar (Blue Murder), Geraint Wyn-Davies (Cube 2)
ROBOCOP: DARK JUSTICE
The Trust, a sinister, rebel group within the OCP corporation that controls Delta City, secretly reprograms Robocop to kill Cable, Murphy’s former police partner and best friend, as part of their plot to overthrow the OCP.
Genre: Action Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2000
Starring: Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker), Maurice Dena Wint (Cube), Maria Del Mar (Blue Murder), Geraint Wyn-Davies (Cube 2)
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ROBOCOP: MELTDOWN
There’s a rival robot in town. The trust, scheming to take over Delta City, transforms the dead body of Robocop’s former best friend Cable into a robot designed to destroy Robocop. But when RoboCable sees Robocop rescue a young girl with fatal techno- illness, Cable remembers the man inside the machine and transforms again, this time into Robocop’s ally and fellow fugitive of The Trust.
Genre: Action Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker), Maurice Dena Wint (Cube), Maria Del Mar (Blue Murder), Geraint Wyn-Davies (Cube 2)
ROBOCOP: RESURRECTION
Resurrection Robocop and his cyborg comrade Cable find refuge in the temple of a techno-religious order that worships Robocop. When the group leader induces Robocop to hallucinate that he’s just an ordinary person, Robocop’s very survival is in jeopardy, as the RoboHunters attack their prey without his powers.
Genre: Action Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker), Maurice Dena Wint (Cube), Maria Del Mar (Blue Murder), Geraint Wyn-Davies (Cube 2)
ROWING THROUGH
Rowing Through is a trip to the fascinating and obscure world of rowers: friends on the land, sworn enemies on the water, accomplished athletes unknown to their fellow countrymen. The film brings to life Tiff Wood, a living legend in this amazing world. Tiff was selected to compete at the 1980 Olympics until a US boycott of the Moscow Games pulled a plug on his dreams. Undaunted, he set his sights on the 1984 Olympics, where he would be challenged by younger rivals. Rowing Through is a riveting story of a remarkable athlete and a vulnerable man racing against time.
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 116-minutes
Year of production: 1996 Starring: Colin Ferguson (Because I Said So), Leslie Hope (24), Kenneth Welsh (The Day After Tomorrow)
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RUN (3D)
Run is a fast-paced, action-packed crime thriller about an energetic street smart 17-year-old named Daniel. Under the guidance of his tough, caring, yet misguided father, Daniel utilises his incredible athletic talent to become an adept and agile young thief – a lifestyle that forces the pair to move from city to city in order to remain inconspicuous. When an enmity from his father’s dark past finally catches up to them in New York City, everything he holds dear is on the line and Daniel must find a way to fight back in order to save those he loves the most.
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2013 Starring: Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Adrian Pasdar (Heroes, Top Gun), William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy)
RUNNING HOME
Many teenagers run away from home… Matt is running to a home… and away from being killed. This riveting and sensitive drama takes us from the fast-paced action of a jewel smuggling bust in Philadephia to a rural town where a homeless street kid is reunited with the mother he had lost sixteen years earlier.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Andreas Apergis (Riddick), Kristian Avre (Elf), Alex McArthur (Kiss The Girls)
SAM CHURCHILL: SEARCH FOR A HOMELESS MAN
Sam Churchill didn’t want to put himself at risk… it just seemed to work out that way. This fast-paced, intriguing fim introduces the character of Sam Churchill, the P.I. who would rather be surfing than working, but who will occasionally toe the line to pay the rent or for the sake of a beautiful woman.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 96-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: John Schneider (Smallville), Robyn Lively (Teen Witch), Alex Rocco (Find Me Guilty)
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THE SCAPEGOAT
The Scapegoat is a morally complex and suspenseful film about two very different men who have one thing in common – a face. Escaping the crushing monotony of his life, teacher John Standing meets his mirror image, the aristocratic landowner Johnny Spence in a railway bar and, after a drunken night, they swap lives. Suddenly responsible for a beautiful young wife, two mistresses, a morphine abusing mother, a precocious daughter, a crumbling stately home and a bankrupt business, John initially tries to escape. But he soon finds himself irresistibly drawn into Johnny’s world – with fatal consequences…
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2012 Starring: Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters), Alice Orr-Ewing, Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Jodhi May (Emma)
SEDUCED BY LIES
In this gripping psychological thriller, inspired by a true story, strained family relationships and an obsessive ex-boyfriend lead to a far from happy homecoming for successful businesswoman Lauren – until she meets handsome oil heir Brad. New romance gives way to suspicion when she discovers that someone is watching her every move… When her ex-boyfriend is arrested, Lauren fears that jealousy has driven him over the edge, until a phone call unravels a deadly web of lies, leaving Lauren the only hope for her family’s survival.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2010
Starring: Josie Davis (90210), Marc Menard (Lost), Lochlyn Munro (Charmed), Johannah Newmarch (Stargate SG-1)
SHADOW ISLAND MYSTERIES - THE LAST CHRISTMAS
Claire’s grandfather, Raymond La Foret, has summoned the entire family to Shadow Island for a Christmas reunion. On Christmas Eve, Raymond announces that he is dying and he has constructed a special game for the occasion, “The Jean La Foret Memorial Puzzle”. The rules are simple: whoever solves the puzzle will inherit the entire La Foret fortune. But when Raymond suddenly dies, Claire finds a note with the message, “End the game before something happens.” As Claire is the puzzle expert, it falls upon her to figure out what her grandfather’s game was designed to reveal… perhaps a murderer.
Genre: Crime Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2010
Starring: Jennifer Finnigan (The Bold and the Beautiful)
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SHADOW ISLAND MYSTERIES - WEDDING FOR ONE
In Wedding for One, Claire hosts her best friend’s wedding. On the eve of the wedding, the Groom goes missing and Claire is determined to find him and bring him back before her best friend finds out. When she begins receiving a series of mysterious clues from an anonymous source, Claire works on solving the mystery and dealing with a threat on her life, the arrival of new, damaging puzzle pieces and the dawning awareness that what started as a game has now become deadly serious.
Genre: Crime Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2010
Starring: Jennifer Finnigan (The Bold and the Beautiful)
SHE’S GONE
When Harry Sands learns that his eighteen-year-old daughter Olivia has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to Turkey to find her. To his horror, he discovers from her best friend, Manda, that they haven’t been working for a charity at all, but as dancers in a nightclub. So begins a nightmarish journey through a foreign land, where Harry must learn that the real battle is not against the people amongst whom his daughter has been working, but against his own prejudices and his mounting paranoia.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2004
Starring: Ray Winstone (The Departed), Lindsay Coulson (Eastenders), Gary Lucy (The Bill)
SHINY, SHINY BRIGHT NEW HOLE IN MY HEART
Sally Hawkins stars in this semi-improvised BBC2 drama about a woman who can’t stop shopping. Nathalie is an attractive and successful young woman, married to dependable GP Jeremy. She works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store, where she befriends a wealthy client, Maya. She soon sets about trying to emulate Maya’s lifestyle, and becomes seduced by the opulent city centre of Manchester, full of designer shops, bars and restaurants. As her spending habits become more extravagant, Nathalie is forced to deal with the repercussions.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 72-minutes
Year of production: 2006
Starring: Sally Hawkins (Made in Dagenham), Steven MacIntosh (The Queen, Luther), Daniela Nardini (This Life)
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SHOOT THE MESSENGER
Joe is a teacher on a mission. He’s determined to save the black youngsters at his school from a life of gangs, crime and underachievement – whether they like it or not. But when a seemingly minor incident rapidly escalates out of control and he loses his job, he turns against his own community. He quickly descends into madness and hits rock bottom, before realising he has a lot to learn about love, understanding and a different way of seeing his world.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2006
Starring: David Oyelowo (Selma, Lincoln, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther)
THE SIMPLE LIFE OF NOAH DEARBORN
Starring two Academy Award-winners, this family drama tells the story of Noah, a 90-year-old recluse who looks 60. He has avoided the modern world completely until developers want his land and he is forced to fight for what is rightfully his. The psychologist sent to declare him incompetent instead becomes his ally and the recipient of his wisdom and magic.
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999
Starring: Sidney Poitier (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), Dianne West (Edward Scissorhands), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), George Newbern (Scandal)
SMALL GIFTS
A delightfully quirky Christmas story about a young, working class couple, who find their financial situation worsening as Christmas Day approaches. All the little hings in life that can go wrong, do go wrong – but together they’ll make it through.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 1994
Starring: Jessica Steen (Armageddon), Jeremy Ratchford (Fly Away Home)
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SMOOCH
Based on the classic fairytale The Frog Prince, this charming romantic comedy sees “English Royal” Percy mugged, awakening the next morning in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with amnesia. Meanwhile, Zoe, a precocious 11-year-old can’t bring herself to dissect a frog in science class and, instead, heads to the park with the intention of setting it free. Cue a serendipitous misunderstanding, which finds Zoe thinking she turned the frog into a man after kissing the frog’s boo-boo away with a kind smooch.
Genre: Romance Running time: 1 x 84-minutes
Year of production: 2011
Starring: Kellie Martin (ER), Simon Kassianides (Quantum of Solace), Nicholas Ullett (Hook), Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men)
SOMEONE IS WATCHING
Michelle Dupre and her son Cory move to a quiet suburb, but the townhouse that she rents has an extremely troubled history of its own. Cory, who has always longed for his father, begins to make reference to a new friend named B.J., and Michelle thinks it is simply an imaginary friend, while her friendly neighbour Sally is sure it is a troubled spirit who may frighten them but is unable of physically harming them. They are both wrong… and the consequences are deadly. Someone Is Watching is a story of love, murder and a need for justice that is so compelling that it reaches out from beyond the grave.
Genre: Drama Thriller Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999
Starring: Stefanie Powers (Herbie Rides Again), Martin Neufeld (Silent Night), Margot Kidder (Superman)
SOUTHERN CROSS
With their mother dead and appalled at the idea of being sent away and put into separate orphanages, illegal immigrants Liang and Bo must escape from the outback Migrant Detention Centre. Prepared with only the knowledge that he should follow the Southern Cross, Liang devises a secret plan. He and Bo are going to escape, travel overland to Perth and go home to China. In a daring scramble across the roof of the Detention Centre, the kids make it into the bush and head south. At times frightened, tired and overcome with heat exhaustion they remain relentless in their pursuit.
Genre: Family Drama Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 2005
Starring: Bill Kerr (Razorback), Jeremy Callaghan (The Great Raid), Heath Bergersen (Sweat)
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SPACE WARRIORS
After discovering that astronauts in the International Space Station are about to run out of air, 13-year-old Jimmy and his space cadet friends must work to help rescue the astronatus before it’s too late. As time is running out, they realise that by instructing the astronauts how to build a robot from spare parts, by reducing their body temperature enough so that they can get into a state of suspended animation, and by remote piloting empty space suits to transfer oxygen canisters, it might just work!
Genre: Family Adventure Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon), Dermot Mulroney (The Grey), Josh Lucas (A Beautiful Mind)
STAN
A beautifully shot, intimate film about the world’s greatest comedy act: Laurel and Hardy. Based on the Neil Brand’s critically acclaimed radio play of the same name, the drama follows Stan laurel’s last visit to his dying friend and comedy partner Oliver ‘Babe’ Hardy and Stan’s subsequent coming to terms with the ghosts of his past. This touching tale follows the story from their first meeting to the end of their careers, remaining friends despite the bitter quarrels.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x one hour
Year of production: 2006
Starring: Jim Norton (Water for Elephants), Trevor Cooper (Ivanhoe, A Perfect State)
THE STEPDAUGHTER
Karen resents all the times she was written off as a problem child, all the times a foster mother did not want her or a foster father wanted her too much, but for the wrong reasons. She resents her birth mother for deserting her and concocts a psychotic plan to get her revenge. Using her beauty and charm, she infiltrates the mother’s new family. Nothing will stand in the way of her bloody scheme. Anyone who tries will die.
Genre: Drama Thriller Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 2000
Starring: Andrea Roth (Rescue Me), Lisa Dean Ryan (Twisted Love), Jaimz Woolvett (Unforgiven), Cindy Pickett (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
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STEPPING HIGH
When Sima is unable to realise her dream of becoming a professional dancer, she is forced to take a job as a dance teacher at a conservative high school. Much to her surprise, it sparks the choreographer in her and, with the aid of a group of talented students, her passion for dance is reignited. However, not everyone is on board with her progressive ideas and dance styles, and when she encounters resistance from some of the parents and teachers, Sima and her students must educate them all by showcasing their incredible dance ability in order to keep their dream alive.
Genre: Family Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: Amir Korangy (Scandal), Kent Boyd (Teen Beach Movie), Mary Carrig (The Young and the Restless)
STILL LIFE: A THREE PINES MYSTERY
When retired schoolteacher Jane Neal found dead in the woods, the village of Three Pines is certain it’s nothing more than a tragic hunting accident. But Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec suspects murder and is determined to uncover what lies beneath the idyllic façade presented by the community. Gamache and his loyal inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir know something dark is buried in this pretty village and if they dig deep enough, Three Pines will give up its secrets and a killer will be exposed.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries), Anthony Lemke (Lost Girl), Kate Hewlett (Flashpoint)
STOLEN MIRACLE (aka AN OFFICER AND A BABY)
This powerful drama re-tells the shocking story of the 1993 Christmas Eve abduction of a new-born baby. Allison McKinley is a hard-working cop and mother of two, whose relationship with husband Mike is frayed by the long hours and demands of her job. In the midst of their long-awaited Christmas together, Allison receives a call. A baby has been kidnapped from the local hospital by a woman posing as a nurse. Allison leaves the comfort of home to answer that call and must unravel a series of clues in a race against time to find the baby. In her determination to bring a Christmas baby home, Allison rekindles the loving bond that keeps her own family together.
Genre: Family Drama / True Story Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 2001
Starring: Leslie Hope (24), Hugh Thompson
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STOLEN YOUTH
A true story of two female friends. One missed a career due to pregnancy and the other lives a glamorous life. When the latter seduces her friend’s son, he is forced to choose between her love and his own family.
Genre: Drama / True Story Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1996
Starring: Sharon Lawrence, Brian Austin Green, Harley Jane Kozak, John Getz
STREET FIGHTER: ASSASSIN’S FIST
Based on Capcom®’s most successful and best loved fighting video game franchise of all time, Street Fighter takes us back to the formative years of the iconic characters Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior’s life in secluded Japan. The boys are, unknowingly, the last practitioners of the ancient fighting style known as Ansatsuken (Assassin’s Fist). The series follows them as they learn about the mysterious past of their Master, Gōken, and the tragic and dark legacy of the Ansatsuken style. Can their destiny be changed… or will history repeat itself?
Genre: Action Running time: 6 x half hours / Feature versions available Year of production: 2014 Starring: Togo Igawa (The Last Samurai), Joey Ansah (The Bourne Ultimatum), Mike Moh (School Dance)
STRIKING POSES
As a paparazzo for a well-known scandal magazine, Gage Sullivan has stalked countless celebrities. Now she herself is being stalked and set up for the murder of an FBI agent. When she discovers she’s the victim of a scam by those close to her, she decides to take full advantage of the situation by faking her own death.
Genre: Action Thriller
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Shannon Doherty (Charmed), Colm Feore (Thor, 21 Thunder), Sean Hewitt (Crimson Peak)
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SUSAN HILL’S THE SMALL HAND: A GHOST STORY
When antique book dealer Adam Snow stumbles upon a dilapidated mansion near his wealthy client, he feels the presence of the ghost of a small child. Adam soon receives increasingly sinister visits from the ghost, causing him to question his own sanity. Struggling to excise the spirit from his life, the ghost will not be ignored, ultimately revealing a haunting secret from his childhood.
Genre: Ghost Story Running time: 1 x 94-minutes Year of production: 2019 Starring: Douglas Henshall (Shetland), Neve McIntosh (Salvage), Louise Lombard (The House of Elliot), Adrian Rawlins (Chernobyl), Paul Barber (The Full Monty), Cal MacAninch (Downton Abbey)
TAKEN AWAY
The true story of two boys who kidnap a woman as a stunt to get some money. Unbeknown to them, the woman they choose has a heart condition and leaving her tied up in the forest may leave them with a dead body on their hands. Can her husband get to her in time?
Genre: Drama Thriller / True Story
Running time: 1 x 94-minutes Year of production: 1996 Starring: Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker
TARGET EARTH
People have been disappearing; strange events have occurred; now a six-year-old child has a message that could save mankind. As aliens invade and take over human bodies, a small town policeman must find the one girl who holds the key to thwarting the invasion.
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Christopher Meloni, Marcia Cross, Dabney Coleman
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THE TEMP AGENCY
With continual efforts at cost cutting and streamlining multimillion- dollar businesses, corporations are forced to hire nameless, faceless ‘temps’ for cheap labour. But, there is a covert world of corporate espionage lurking in the system. One man in particular, known as ‘The Temp’, is recruited by a secret agency that deploys highly trained ‘tempts’ to bring down companies from the inside. He must learn the skills he needs to survive, including doing whatever it takes to complete his mission, even if it means compromising what few scruples he still has.
Genre: Multi-Platform Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 85-minutes, 4 x 23-minutes or 9 x 10-minutes Year of production: 2013 Starring: Austin Nichols (One Tree Hill, Ray Donovan), Nathalie Kelley (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Joe Holt
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THEY COME BACK
After the tragic car accident that takes the lives of her parents, the young and troubled Marley is left grief-stricken and withdrawn. Unable to help his niece, Marley’s uncle Mason turns to Dr. Faith Hardy, a psychiatrist. Faith takes Marley as a patient in the hope that she can come to terms with her own past. Still, her rational mind again prevents her from really listening when she learns that Marley is hearing strange voices in her head. By the time the truth dawns on Faith, Marley has disappeared. Accompanied by Mason, she frantically rushes off in search of the child, now terrified by the understanding of why their fates were destined to collide.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x two hours
Year of production: 2007 Starring: Mia Kirshner, Niamh Wilson, Charlotte Arnold, Rosemary Dunsmore, Yanna
McIntosh, Joanthan Watton
TICK TOCK (aka CLOCKWORK)
A dynamic tale of lust, greed and self-destruction in which Rachel, a young woman married to an older man, decides to defraud her very wealthy husband. In this complex murder mystery, victims become killers, friends become lovers, bodies disappear and nothing turns out as expected.
Genre: Drama Thriller Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2000
Starring: Kristin Minter, Megan Ward, John Ratzenberger, David Dukes, Linden Ashby
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TIME SERVED
She was innocent until she went to jail… now she will never be innocent again. Based on a true story, this riveting film tells a tale of corruption running rampant at an institution that is supposed to be dedicated to rehabilitating the criminal element but instead fosters it and uses it for the personal financial gain of its employees. Time Served is the compelling story of a scandal that put a small town and a state in the national spotlight because of the ultimate abuse of power within their penal system.
Genre: Drama / True Story Running time: 1 x 94-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Catherine Oxenberg, Jeff Fahey, Bo Hopkins, Louise Fletcher
TOTAL STRANGER
Total Stranger relates the compelling tale of a women who lets a room and finds that she has unknowingly invited a dangerous adversary into her domain. Patti’s home is no longer her castle… it has become more like a fortress with Patti blockaded in her bedroom upstairs. But it is not just the sanctity of her home that Patti has lost. She has lost her faith in the legal system. She is beginning to lose her credibility with her daughter and her boss, and if Lara, the tenant, succeeds in her plan to infect Patti with deadly bacterium stolen from the university laboratory, Patti may soon lose her life.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Lindsey Crouse, Zoe McLellan, Dan Lauria, Jay Thomas
TOUCHED BY A KILLER
A female investigative reporter becomes convinced that a wrongly convicted man is in prison. She loses her objectivity by falling in love with him and then goes so far as to lie for him at his new trial. He is set free, but then another murder occurs and she begins to doubt her decision. Trapped and alone at a remote cabin, she is stalked by an unknown man. Is it her lover or is it the real killer who is threatening her life?
Genre: Action Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2000 Starring: Isabella Hofmann, James Wilder, Erin Gray, Jerry Wasserman, Donnelly Rhodes
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UNABOMBER: THE TRUE STORY
The true story of the mail bomb terrorist Ted Kazinsky. Ben Jeffries, a US postal inspector (based on real-life postal inspector Tony Muljat), devotes seventeen years of his life to tracking down a deadly terrorist who is responsible for a series of mail bombings that have resulted in three deaths and an assortment of injuries.
Genre: Thriller / True Story Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 1995 Starring: Robert Hays, Dean Stockwell, Tobin Bell, Victoria Mallory
UNITED
United is based on the true story of Manchester United’s legendary “Busby Babes”, the youngest side ever to win the Football League; the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of their number; and the extraordinary spirit of a community that rebuilt the team in the aftermath of the crash, providing a powerful tribute to a tragedy that spurred the beginning of the global legend that is Manchester United.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2011
Starring: David Tennant (Doctor Who), Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible II), Jack O’Connell (This is England), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
A VIEW FROM A HILL (M.R. JAMES COLLECTION)
A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 40-minutes
Year of production: 2005 Starring: Mark Letheren (The Bill, Wire in the Blood), Pip Torrens (Doctor Who)
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VIKING DESTINY
A Viking Princess is forced to flee her kingdom after being framed for the murder of her father, the King. Under the guidance of the God Odin, she travels the world gaining wisdom and building the army she needs to win back her throne.
Genre: Fantasy Adventure Feature Running time: 1 x 91-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Anna Demetriou (Bravo Team), Will Mellor (Line of Duty), Martyn Ford (Final Score), Ian Beattie (Game of Thrones), Terence Stamp (The Limey)
VIRTUAL LIES
Based on a true story, Virtual Lies follows the intense drama that unfolds when devoted wife and mother, Emma, discovers her husband has been living a double life, carrying out an online affair with a 21-year-old woman named A.J. Things get even more complicated when Emma contacts A.J. revealing the truth about her husband, Will, and what begins as a family dilemma soon takes on much more dangerous dimensions as Emma and Will realise that his virtual lover is not going to let him go quietly.
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Christina Cox (24, Blood Ties), Marc Menard (Lost, CSI:NY), Ali Liebert (Health Nutz, Blood Ties)
WANTED
On the run from accidentally killing a Mafia boss, a young criminal winds up at a home for wayward boys. He relates to the boys in ways the priest cannot and he’s hired to work there. When the Mob boss’ son tracks him to his new home, his newfound friends put their lives on the line for him and he discovers that not only did he not really kill the boss but that he has found a new way of life.
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1998 Starring: Michael Sutton, Tracey Gold, Timothy Busfield, Robert Culp
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WASTED!
Sex! Drugs! And Techno Trance! She had to learn the hard way that there is no such thing as easy money. A young woman finds that life in the city of Amsterdam and the rave dance scene leads to dangerous situations.
Genre: Thriller
Running time: 1 x 100-minutes
Year of production: 1997 Starring: Fern Van Den Elzen, Tygo Gernandt, Thom Hoffman, Hugo Meesters III
THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM
When 15 year-old juvenile delinquent Byron Watson’s antics reach an all-time peak, his parents Daniel and Wilona move their close knit all-American family, which includes Byron’s brother and sister, to Birmingham, Alabama to live with their Grandma Sands. But during that historic summer of 1963, the Watsons find themselves caught up in something far bigger than Byron’s antics – something that will change their lives and country forever.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 87-minutes Year of production: 2013 Starring: Anika Noni Rose (Half a Yellow Sun, Dreamgirls, The Good Wife), David Alan Grier (Jumanji, Stuart Little), Skai Jackson (The Smurfs)
WEB OF LIES
Erik Landon needs to find a way to pay for his university education. Along with his roommate, he starts hustling pool in a local bar, but they are caught in the scam and forced to become runners for the Mob. As the jobs get more dangerous, they try to get out but the police have them on tape and now they must help to put a Mafia boss behind bars or face prison themselves.
Genre: Drama Thriller
Running time: 1 x 92-minutes
Year of production: 1999 Starring: Brad Rowe, Seth Green, Zoe McLellan, Stanley Kamel
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Welcome To The Neighborhood is an edgy film that consists of four skilfully interwoven stories that revolve around the inherent challenges in sharing the planet (or the neighborhood) with people you wouldn’t choose as friends. Welcome To The Neighborhood’s four stories focus on the one idea that we all tend to bump into each other’s lives, despite ourselves.
Genre: Suspense Comedy Running time: 1 x 89-minutes Year of production: 2002 Starring: Nicholas Cascone, Alicia Coppola, Michael Cuditz, Tim DeKay, Anthony Michael Jones, Ian Kahn
WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU (M.R. JAMES COLLECTION)
James Parkin has just left his wife in the care of a nursing home. Pensive and emotional, he travels to their old favourite destination for rambling, an off-season British seaside town. There he encounters an apparition on a desolate beach, which begins to haunt him.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 50-minutes Year of production: 2010 Starring: John Hurt (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, The Alan Clark Diaries)
WIN, AGAIN!
The light-hearted story of Win Morrissey, who returns home after being on the run for 14 years following his wrongful conviction for murder. Although Win longs to return to the life he once knew, he also realises that time has not stood still in the intervening years and that he now must come to terms with the wife he abandoned and his embittered son.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x two hours Year of production: 1999 Starring: Gordon Pinsent (Away from Her), Leah Pinsent (The Industry), Michael Riley (Mr. Nobody), Gabrielle Rose (The Sweet Hereafter)
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The Wipers Times is a poignant historical drama with a comedic twist based on the remarkable true story of a humorous, satirical and subversive wartime trench newspaper that proved hugely popular with soldiers – though not entirely with their superior officers. This film follows the story of Captain Fred Roberts who discovers a printing press in the bombed-out ruins of Ypres and has an idea – to use the press to publish a newspaper filled with spoofs and jokes to lift the spirits of the soldiers. The Wipers Times is a hit with the troops, but distributing in the trenches is fraught with peril. When its subversive humour incurs the wrath of superiors – can the newspaper survive?
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 90-minutes Year of production: 2013 Starring: Ben Chaplin (Mad Dogs), Julian Rhind-Tutt (The Hour), Michael Palin (Life of Brian)
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