MOVIEHOUSE Catalogue
THE MOVIEHOUSE COLLECTION 1234 – THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL
Ardent musician Stevie endures a day-job he despises and can’t get a girlfriend, but... at least he has his music! With friend Neil, he’s been kicking around for a while not achieving very much but, when the pair of misfits team up with the more-experienced Billy and his cute pal Emily, the possibility they might be on to something really good presents itself. For Stevie, this is the opportunity he’s been waiting for with the band and just maybe, with Emily too!
Genre: Music Drama
Running time: 1 x 85-minutes Year of production: 2008
Starring: Ian Bonar (New Blood), Lyndsey Marshal (Being Human), Kieran Bew (AVP: Alien vs. Predator), Mathew Baynton (Tonight You're Mine)
ABRAHAM’S POINT
Comet Snape is a man with a mysterious past who embarks on a journey from London to the tiny west Wales village he left abruptly 15 years previously to overcome a family tragedy which had haunted him since his youth. Whilst on his journey, Comet meets a colourful cast of rogues and angels, who all participate in this classic tale of one man’s struggle to conquer the obstacles before him.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x 110-minutes
Year of production: 2008 Starring: Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean), Christian McKay (Rush), Natasha O'Keeffe (Peaky Blinders)
ALLIES
It is 1944 and the Allies are advancing across France when a tight- knit, war-hardened unit of British paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines. Led by U.S. Captain Gabriel Jackson, it’s their mission to ambush a heavily-guarded German commander and secure information vital to ending the war in Europe. Taking orders from a Yank was never going to be easy for a man used to leading his own men, but Sergeant Harry McBain knows he must if they are to complete their operation and get home alive.
Genre: War Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 93-minutes Year of production: 2014 Starring: Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey), Chris Reilly (Call the Midwife), Matt Willis (Birds of a Feather)
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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)
BEACON 77
Two young women arrive at a curious penthouse apartment, led by one’s crush on her tutor. However, her love interest doesn’t live alone. He’s part of a trio of computer hackers about to embark on the ultimate job on the world’s most mysterious mainframe. Whilst doing so, they unlock more than they bargained for with supernatural and ultimately fatal results. Can this seemingly insignificant chain of events, which have thrown this group together, be construed as fate? Can the beacon provide a signal of hope or is it a web of manipulation, paranoia and ultimately... murder?
Genre: Horror / Thriller Running time: 1 x 95-minutes
Year of production: 2009
Starring: Kelly Adams (Bronson), Jonathan Rhodes (Dominion)
BEING ROSE
A widowed ex-cop discovers that she may have a life threatening illness and decides to go on a solo road trip in a motorised wheelchair to explore the beauty of the Southwest. On her journey, Rose discovers more than just the simple beauty of New Mexico when she meets - and falls in love with - Max, an old cowboy who comes to a crossroads of his own.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x 91-minutes Year of production: 2017 Starring: Cybill Shepherd (Taxi Driver), James Brolin (Life In Pieces), Pam Grier (Jackie Brown)
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BENJI THE DOVE
Based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, Benji the Dove is a tender tale of four boys rapidly coming to terms with growing up, school, bullies, friendship and loyalty.
Genre: Coming-of-Age Drama Feature
Running time: 1 x 84-minutes
Year of production: 2017 Starring: Karen Pittman (The Americans), Kelly AuCoin (Billions), Lynn Cohen (Munich)
BIG FAT GYPSY GANGSTER
A fast moving, star studded, roller coaster ride of violence, madness and mayhem in this gritty British crime comedy. Bulla is the Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, Britain’s most dangerous man. After sixteen years in prison, he’s on the streets again but, things soon go wrong when he loses everything, robbed by the same corrupt cop who put him behind bars in the first place. So, it’s time for Bulla to fight back. Get ready for a white knuckle ride in London’s underworld...
Genre: Crime / Comedy Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 2011 Starring: Ricky Grover (EastEnders), Omid Djalilli (The Paul Reiser Show),
Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who), Rufus Hound (Scottish Mussel),
Eddie Webber (The Business)
BLINDED
Running from a dark secret, Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi arrives at Black’s estate in the Scottish Borders, looking for work. Cut off from the outside world, Francis Black, the blind owner, lives in a shuttered, decaying mansion, with his elderly mother Bella. Francis reluctantly offers the traveller a low- paid job in the yard. Whilst working on the farm, Mike and the farmer’s wife Rachel fall for each other. Unable to resist each other they start a love a affair and kick off a dangerous play of love, jealousy and rage.
Genre: Thriller Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 2004
Starring: Peter Mullan (Trainspotting), Jodhi May (Defiance), Anders W. Berthelsen (Italian for Beginners), Samantha Bond (James Bond)
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BOOTS ON THE GROUND
In October 2014, five British soldiers in Afghanistan try to stay alive on the last night of the Afghan War, facing not only the Taliban, but also supernatural forces more terrifying than anything they've encountered before. As the night unfolds and their mission is finally explained, they find themselves engulfed in a labyrinthine nightmare, and forces seemingly from another realm.
Genre: Horror Feature Running time: 1 x 87-minutes Year of production: 2017 Starring: Tom Ainsley (Versailles), Ryan McParland (Kissing Candice), Ian Virgo (Black Hawk Down), Valmike Rampersad (Bazodee), Sally Day (Trapped!)
BOSTON KICKOUT
The early 1980s, Phil’s family moves from an inner city slum to build a bright new life in Stevenage, a ‘new town’ in Southern England. But, a decade later, the dream has crumbled and Phil finds himself in a bewildering world of unemployment, violence and with no hope for his future. His best friend Ted disappears and another, Steven, desperately tries to conform to his parents’ expectations whilst Matt gets engaged. Feeling alienated and dissatisfied, Phil gets involved with Steven’s brother Robert, a dangerously incompetent villain who’s forever planning his next ‘big job’.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 1995
Starring: Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), John Simm (Moving On),
Marc Warren (The Good Wife)
BYE BYE BLACKBIRD
London. Early 1900s. Young builder Josef joins the Dempsey Circus because he has fallen in love with the circus director’s daughter, the beautiful trapeze artist Alice. Alice, although attracted to Josef, is wary and reticent after a lifetime spent in the circus, but Josef, full of love, only wants to fly with her like two birds. The day comes when Alice and Josef are to perform an incredible trapeze act for the first time. Before an excited and expectant audience, tragedy ensues and Josef is never the same again. However, all is not as it seems…
Genre: Drama / Love Story Running time: 1 x 101-minutes
Year of production: 2004
Starring: James Thierrée (The Vanishing Point), Izabella Miko (Clash of the Titans), Derek Jacobi (The King's Speech), Jodhi May (Blinded,
Defiance)
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THE CATCH
Based on a true story of cheating in the annual fishing contest in New Zealand's beautiful Kaipara Harbour, The Catch tells the story of mates Brian and Wiremu who are up against the ruthless professional fishermen. The Catch is a heart-warming film about friendship, trust, morals and the triumph of good over evil, all set against the backdrop of over-fishing and ecological frailty and all told with wry humour.
Genre: Comedy Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 88-minutes Year of Production: 2016 Starring: Nicol Munro, (Last Star), Tainui Tukiwaho (Jake), David Capstick (3 Mile Limit), Ruth Wynne (Not For Children)
CREDO
A group of students in London decide to test their faith by proving the existence of Hell. Following the ritualistic summoning of a demon, they’re found dead, apparently from mass suicide. A decade later, another group of students, evicted from their apartment and homeless, break into the same abandoned halls of residence for somewhere to stay but soon discover they’re not alone and the true horror within.
Genre: Supernatural Thriller Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 2007
Starring: MyAnna Buring (The Twilight Saga), Clayton Watson (The Matrix), Stephen Gately (Watership Down)
DEAD CERT
A gang of tough London gangsters get more than they bargained for when a group of Eastern European businessmen make an offer to buy their club, ‘The Inferno’. Refusing to take no for an answer, mayhem ensues as the businessmen turn out to be nothing less than a group of vampires hell-bent on reclaiming what they consider to be their property. The gangsters and the vampires battle it out for the ultimate prize...
Genre: Horror / Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2010
Starring: Craig Fairbrass (EastEnders), Steven Berkoff (The Borgias), Lisa McAllister (The Fear),
Dexter Fletcher (Kick-Ass), Billy Murray (EastEnders), Danny Dyer (The Business)
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DEAD DOG BLUES
The macabre story of a victimised woman, Christine, who kills the men that torment her and buries them one by one, on top of each other, in a shallow grave. To her surprise, however, the dead do not rest easily. The abusive husband she kills returns to torment her as a very real ghost - all while she is being investigated for his murder by a sadistic investigator who is also not what he appears to be. It is only when she is able to clear her mind of the past that Christine is finally able to escape her personal nightmare.
Genre: Horror / Thriller Running time: 1 x 75-minutes
Year of production: 2001
Starring: Kate Vernon (The Last Song), Steve Parrish, Tim Dezarn (Fight Club)
THE ECSTACY OF WILKO JOHNSON
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson tells the extraordinary story of British cult musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with a terminal illness and given months to live, accepted his fate with uplifting positivity and embarked on a farewell tour, capturing the imagination of the world as he went. Filled with a surprising explosion of music, found footage, and surreal movie clips - this is not only a documentary about one man's amazing journey, but also a meditation on the meaning of music, art, history, and a love letter to cinema and the joy, terror and surrealism of life itself. Genre: Documentary Special Running time: 1 x 91-minutes Year of Production: 2015 Featuring: Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltrey
EL CANTANTE
El Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe, a pioneer of the sound and sensibility that redefined Latin music in the 1960s and 70s. Arriving in New York in 1963 Hector finds a thriving music scene in the city’s Latino neighbourhoods and soon becomes a singer with various bands. Joining up with trombonist Willie Colon they mix traditional Puerto Rican style music with rock, jazz and R&B to form the exciting sound of salsa.
Genre: Drama / Biography
Running time: 1 x 116-minutes
Year of production: 2007 Starring: Marc Anthony (Hawthorne), Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan), John Ortiz (Fast & Furious)
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THE FLIP SIDE
Tapping into the madness inflicted when visitors overstay their welcome, The Flip Side is a story about the intricacies of relationships, ambition, love and the cultural divide of a 'sophisticated' European couple looking down at Australians and their way of life. Ronnie is a struggling restaurateur who is mired in debt and the fallout from her previous short-lived but intense affair with British movie star, Henry. She's now living with laidback, loyal Jeff in Adelaide, but when Henry returns to Australia with his French lover Sophie in tow, Ronnie’s world is turned upside down.
Genre: Romantic Comedy Feature Running time: 1 x 91-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Emily Taheny (Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell), Eddie Izzard (Ocean's Thirteen), Luke McKenzie (Wentworth Prison), Vanessa Guide (Let the Girls Play)
FORGET ME NOT
Forget Me Not is a moving, modern day love story set over twenty- four hours against a stunning London backdrop. Will is a passionate musician struggling to cope with a tragic secret. When he saves bartender Eve from a drunken customer at closing time, their paths become inextricably linked. Intrigued by one another they journey through London, not knowing what the nights holds. As dawn draws near, can Will reveal the truth to Eve?
Genre: Romantic Drama Running time: 1 x 93-minutes Year of production: 2010 Starring: Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Casino Royale), Genevieve O'Reilly (Rogue One, Episodes), Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones’s Baby)
FUNNY COW
Funny Cow charts the rise of a female comedienne through the 1970s and 1980s in industrial Northern England. From her violent childhood to her turbulent adult relationships, she uses the raw material of her life experiences to bring comedy to the stage as the sole stand-up comedienne in an all-male world.
Genre: Comedy Drama Running time: 1 x 102-minutes Year of production: 2017 Starring: Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything), Tony Pitts (Peaky Blinders), Paddy Considine (Dead Man’s Shoes), Stephen Graham (Line of Duty)
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THE GO-BETWEENS: RIGHT HERE
A heartfelt story of discovery, uncovering the intensely passionate, creative and fraught relationships that formed one of the most loved and influential bands in Australian rock history. This is a universal story of a great creative adventure that spanned decades, through countless successes, failures, romances, break-ups, betrayals, triumphs and tragedies..
Genre: Documentary Feature
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes Year of production: 2017
HALLOWS EVE
The Hallows Estate is on alert as strange graffiti tags with messages declaring the streets will be taken over on Halloween night begin to appear on walls, along with sightings of strange figures lurking in the shadows. One of the gangs responsible for the serious anti-social behaviour that gives the estate a bad name decides to take these threats head-on and ignore the curfew on Halloween night. But whoever or whatever is behind this new threat, they seem to have the very night on their side, as they make good on their promise of reclaiming the streets by frightening, intimidating and violent means.
Genre: Horror Feature Running time: 1 x 88-minutes Year of Production: 2016 Starring: Sarah Akokhia, (The Intent), Ethan Taylor, (More Strange Than Blue), Lenox Kambaba (The Man
Inside)
THE HAUNTING OF ELLIE ROSE
Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin along a broken East U.S. coastline. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies, she seems anxious, either at leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin, unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family. Plagued by her childhood and nightmares of her murdered family, Ellie anxiously prepares for an unwelcome visitor.
Genre: Horror Feature Running time: 1 x 80-minutes Year of production: 2015 Starring: Lucy Benjamin (Detectorists), Alexandra Moen (Fortitude), Bill Ward (Robin Hood), Kika Mirylees (Moving On)
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HERE TO BE HEARD: THE STORY OF THE SLITS
From the band’s inception in 1976 to the band’s end in 2010 following the death of lead vocalist Ari Up, Here to Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits tells the story of the world’s first all-girl punk band and the lives of the young pioneering women involved. Contemporaries of The Clash and The Sex Pistols, The Slits are the trailblazing godmothers of the musical movement known as ‘Punky Reggae’. Here to Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits combines original archive footage with new, insightful interviews of band members, contemporaries and experts including Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Palmolive, Tessa Pollitt, the band’s former manager Don Letts, The Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook, Gina Birch of The Raincoats and many more.
Genre: Documentary Feature Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 2017
HOW TO LOSE YOUR LOVER
Owen is an LA-based writer who’s lost sight of his own dreams while writing about the sensational - and not so sensational - lives of z- grade celebrities. When he is cruelly dumped by his girlfriend, he quits his job and makes plans to leave LA, the city that he loves yet hates at the same time. To ensure that he can’t go back to his old life he tells his so-called ‘friends’ what he really thinks about them...He plans to start again on the east coast. A fresh start. A new beginning.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Running time: 1 x 95-minutes Year of production: 2004 Starring: Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace), Paul Schneider (Water for Elephants), Tori Spelling (Beverly Hills, 90210), Jennifer Westfeldt (24), Fred Willard (Modern Family)
HUNTER PREY
From cult director Sandy Collora comes the sci-fi spectacle Hunter Prey. The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation: critical, status of crew and prisoner: unknown. With orders to catch their alien prisoner alive, the surviving crew of the spaceship Prometheus pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with their escaped prisoner on a deserted and barren planet. But, who is the hunter and who is the prey?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2009 Starring: Isaac C. Singleton Jr. (Deadpool), Clark Bartram (Batman: Dead End), Damion Poitier (Payday 2)
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I DECLARE WAR
Two groups of thirteen-year old friends play ‘war’ in a local forest each day. They make their own guns from anything they can lay their hands on. One day, the game gets out of hand as leaderships, loyalties, tactics and friendships are tested to the ultimate degree and like their adult counterparts in the ‘real’ world, victory and defeat are celebrated and suffered in equal proportion... With overtones of Lord of the Flies, I Declare War is a chilling depiction of humanity and innocence lost that mirrors events seen daily throughout the world. It’s the law of the jungle.
Genre: Drama / Coming-of-Age Running time: 1 x 91-minutes
Year of production: 2012
Starring: Siam Yu (Arthur, A Beginner's Guide to Endings), Gage Munroe (Immortals, The Shack)
ID2 SHADWELL ARMY
DC Mohammed ‘Mo’ Anwari, a young and ambitious British Muslim undercover police officer, is sent to infiltrate the violent East London Shadwell Town gang. They are fired up by Shadwell FC’s takeover by a Russian oligarch who is using the club as a money laundering enterprise, liquidising assets in the form of highly valued international players and in doing so, pricing many local fans out of the ground.
Genre: Drama / Crime Running time: 1 x 92-minutes Year of production: 2016 Starring: Linus Roache (Batman Begins), Simon Rivers (Doctors), Neil Pearson (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), Christine Tremarco (Casualty)
THE ILLUSTRATED FAMILY DOCTOR
Gary has a new task at work: he needs to rewrite The Illustrated Family Doctor, a medical guide for the lucrative mail-order market. The assignment disturbs him, but Gary tries to get on with the job. Soon The Illustrated Family Doctor begins to infiltrate his life in strange and mysterious ways - he starts inheriting the symptoms he is reading about: a rash on his neck travels to his arms and then his face, then his eyes become infected. And to make the situation worse, Jennifer, his girlfriend nurse, can’t help him – she’s sick of their relationship.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 101-minutes
Year of production: 2004
Starring: Samuel Johnson (Crawlspace), Colin Friels (The Secret Daughter),
Jessica Napier (McLeod's Daughters), Kestie Morass (Wolf Creek)
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JERUSALEMA
From acclaimed South African filmmaker Ralph Ziman (The Zookeeper) and in the tradition of City of God and Goodfellas, Jerusalema takes an unwavering and blisteringly stylised look into the crime, corruption and transgressions of the new South Africa. If you’re going to steal, steal big and hope like hell you get away with it.
Genre: Crime / Thriller Running time: 1 x 119-minutes
Year of production: 2008 Starring: Rapulana Sepheimo (Tsotsi), Ronnie Nyakale (Blood Diamond), Shelly Meskin, Jeffrey Sekele (Strike Back), Robert Hobbs (District 9)
JUST FOR THE RECORD
Just For The Record is a movie for anyone thinking of making a feature film on the cheap. By turns hilarious, tragic and poignant, the film shows what it’s really like in the seedy, cash strapped and ultimately thankless world of low budget film making. Reminiscing about every stage of the process from conception to delivery, this pathetic tale will both entertain and inform. It’ll make you laugh, it’ll make you cry so, don’t say you weren't warned! With a stellar British and international cast you’re about have the experience of a lifetime.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 75-minutes
Year of production: 2010 Starring: Danny Dyer (The Business),
Craig Fairbrass (Dead Cert), Victoria Silvstedt (BASEketball), Billy Murray (Dead Cert),
Steven Berkoff (The Borgias), Phil Davis (Golden Years),
Rik Mayall (Drop Dead Fred)
KILL ALL REDNECK PRICKS
Kill All Redneck Pricks is the story of three childhood friends who get together to form a rock band in Tumwater, WA. It chronicles both their triumphs and the personal tragedies that befall them as they pursue their dreams. Kill All Redneck Pricks is about how friendships can change over the course of growing up and how people react in the face of adversity. Most of all, it’s about the music that, years later, still hasn’t left many radio playlists.
Genre: Documentary Running time: 1 x 84-minutes
Year of production: 2010
Featuring: Big Business, Melvins, Unwound, Beat Happening, Calvin Johnson, Kathleen Hanna, Kimya Dawson, Joe Preston and many others
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KICKING OFF
Despite a disastrous season, loyal fans Wigsy and Cliff join the thousands of adoring supporters each Saturday in the terraces to sing and cheer their boys to victory. But today is different. Today is important. Win: they stay up. Lose: they go down. In the dying moments of the match, unbelievable elation as their team scores is immediately followed by unbelievable deflation as the referee disallows the goal. Determined to right this injustice, Wigsy and the more reluctant Cliff inadvertently form their own two-man firm….and kidnap the referee.
Genre: Comedy Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of Production: 2015 Starring: Warren Brown (Luther), Greg McHugh (Fresh Meat), Alistair Petrie (Rogue One)
THE KRAYS’ MAD AXEMAN
Based on fact, The Krays’ Mad Axeman follows the untold story of Frank 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell, henchman to the notorious ‘Kray Twins’ who mastermind his escape from Dartmoor Prison ten days prior to Christmas in 1966. Whilst a national manhunt ensues, Mitchell is secretly imprisoned once more in an East London apartment with a minder and hostess who attempt, in vain, to placate him. As the tension, suspense and fear mounts, Frank becomes harder to control. Is Frank destined to be the Krays right hand man leading the good life or do they have more sinister plans in mind for him? Genre: Crime Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 106-minutes Year of production: 2019 Starring: Diarmaid Murtagh (Vikings), Morgan Watkins (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Elen Rhys (World War Z)
LAST SUMMER
Set in rural Wales during a long hot summer in the 1970s, four friends roam free through a neglected rural paradise, untroubled by the adult world until family tragedy strikes. This is a film about friendships, loyalty and love pushed to the very limit. It is a story of recovery: how hope and love can survive despite the horrors that may be inflicted upon us. Last Summer takes us on a compelling journey through a wild, beautiful landscape that at its end will uplift and leave us with the bittersweet sense that although something is lost it can still be treasured.
Genre: Coming-of-Age Feature Running time: 1 x 97-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Noa Thomas (Merched Parchus), Christopher Benning, Gruffydd Weston, Richard Harrington (Hinterland), Rowan Jones, Ruth Ollman (Pink Wall), Steffan Cennydd (Enid a Lucy), Steffan Rhodri (Submarine) www.kewmediadistribution.com
THE LONG LUNCH
All they wanted to do was eat lunch at a Chinese restaurant and plan the next day’s robbery. Before the first bottle of cognac has even destroyed any brain cells, the restaurant staff have overheard the plans and are making plans of their own to hijack the heist. East tangles none-too-gently with West, in this controversial Aussie action-comedy, where everyone is a few steamed dumplings short of a Yum Cha.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2002
Starring: Jeanette Cronin (The Rage in Placid Lake), Ian Bliss (The Matrix), Vincent Gil (Mad Max), Alex Menglet (The Mule), Victor Rodger (Stickmen)
LOVE & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
It's summer in the Hamptons and love is in the air! What could possibly go wrong? Recent college graduate Matt Lynch romances 17-year-old Abby Smythe. Their relationship is put to the test when a July 4th beach party ends with a sexual assault, causing their relationship to implode. What unravels is Love & Everything In Between.
Genre: Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 101-minutes
Year of production: 2017 Starring: Michael Dougherty (The Preppie Connection), Lexi Lapp (Carmen), Nick Gregory (Alpha House), Angela Pierce (30 Rock)
MAD, SAD AND BAD
Atul is a sitcom writer who despises the work that everybody else loves. Rashmi lives at home with her mother, craving a life of her own but dreading all that goes with it. And Hardeep is a psychiatrist who can diagnose everyone's problems but his own. Award-winning writer and director Avie Luthra (Lucky) turns a sharp, observational eye towards an ensemble of often extreme and complex characters.
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 x 108-minutes
Year of production: 2009 Starring: Meera Syal (The Kumars), Nitin Ganatra (Bride & Prejudice),
Andrea Riseborough (Happy-Go- Lucky)
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THE MAGICIAN
The Magician is a darkly comic fictionalised documentary following Melbourne based hitman ‘Ray Shoesmith’ as seen through the video camera of his friend Massimo ‘Max’ Totti, a film student. Max and his camera witness a day in the working life of Ray as it unfolds just like any other, filled with violence and mayhem.
Genre: Fictionalised Documentary / Comedy
Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 2005 Starring: Scott Ryan, Ben Walker, Kane Mason
MANJHI: THE MOUNTAIN MAN
Manjhi: The Mountain Man tells the true story of a man who, all by himself, carved a way through the treacherous mountain that stole the love of his life. Dashrath Manjhi was the poorest of the poor from the lowest of the low castes, living in a remote village cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. One day while climbing the mountain to bring him food, his wife slipped, fell and died. Overwhelmed by grief, Dashrath decided to carve out a path through the mountain so that no one else would ever suffer this fate. Genre: Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 120-minutes Year of Production: 2015 Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Lion), Radhika Apte (Parched)
NATIVITY 2: DANGER IN THE MANGER
An anxious teacher starts a new job at an under-achieving school and quickly finds himself struggling to cope with a wild classroom assistant, a group of under-performing kids and his own very pregnant wife. He soon becomes embroiled in a madcap plan to enter a National ‘Song for Christmas’ Competition and finds himself embarking on a disastrous road trip in search of the competition venue - the ‘Christmas Castle’. Lost in the wilderness with a class of small children, a baby and a donkey, he has to stand up, face his fears and try to lead them not only to safety, but to victory.
Genre: Comedy / Family Running time: 1 x 110-minutes
Year of production: 2012
Starring: David Tennant (Doctor Who), Marc Wootton (Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel),
Joanna Page (Love Actually)
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NEW YORK DOLL
A recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, Arthur Kane works in Los Angeles at the Family History Center Library. No one would connect the shy 55-year-old dressed in the suit and tie to Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane, statuesque bass guitarist for the legendary 70s rock band, The New York Dolls. After enormously successful years, drug abuse and bickering within the band led to a split in 1975, can the band successfully reunite after 30 long years?
Genre: Documentary / Music
Running time: 1 x 77-minutes
Year of production: 2004 Featuring: Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane, Morrissey, Bob Geldof, Chrissie Hynde
NINA’S TRAGEDIES
Israel’s submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of 11 Israeli Academy Awards Nina’s Tragedies tells the coming-of-age story of 13-year old Nadav, who falls in love with his beautiful aunt Nina. As if being a young teenager isn’t enough, Nadav has to cope with his broken family, his parent’s divorce, his dying father and his wild mother, as well as his infatuation with Nina.
Genre: Comedy / Drama Running time: 1 x 106-minutes
Year of production: 2003
Starring: Ayelet Zurer (Man of Steel), Yoram Hatav (Kadosh), Alon Aboutboul (The Dark Knight
Rises), Aviv Elkabets (Wedding Doll)
OVERNIGHT
This jaw-dropping documentary follows the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of musician/bartender-cum-filmmaker Troy Duffy. As a novice film writer/director, he is offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn his screenplay, The Boondock Saints, into a feature film. Caught up in a whirlwind of hype, Duffy makes the unfortunate mistake of asking two friends to document his rise to fame. This leads to a roller-coaster ride of grand proportions as his ego rockets out of control and he refuses to believe the deal has turned sour. Overnight featuring cameos from a number of well-known actors, including Patrick Swayze, Willem Dafoe and Mark Wahlberg.
Genre: Documentary Running time: 1 x 81-minutes Year of production: 2004
Featuring: Troy Duffy, Jeffrey Baxter, Patrick Swayze, Willem Dafoe, Mark Wahlberg
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POPCORN
Too insecure to approach the girl of his dreams Suki, Jamie takes a job at his local cinema where she works - only to learn Jamie’s first day is Suki’s last! After his initial efforts to woo her fail spectacularly, he resorts to drastic measures by enlisting the help of the chief projectionist, a man who no longer knows the difference between the real and ‘reel’ worlds. This is cinema, but not as you know it!
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 86-minutes
Year of production: 2005
Starring: Jack Ryder (EastEnders), Jodi Albert (Respectable), Kate Maberly (The Booth at the End), Andrew Lee Potts (Primeval)
THE POWER
Magda, an anthropologist, is kidnapped by urban Satanists. She awakes in a dirty underground cell. No matter how loudly she screams, no-one comes to her rescue. Every day Magda is visited by Jess whom she tries to befriend so that she can help her escape. Nothing Magda does can help. It seems impossible to escape and as the weeks slip by, she despairs. Eventually, after discovering that she is pregnant, Magda tries to convince Del, the charismatic leader of the Cult, that she has converted. Can she pull it off?
Genre: Horror / Thriller Running time: 1 x 119-minutes Year of production: 2015
Starring: Grace Vallorani (Harry Brown), Valentine Pelka
(The Pianist, First Knight), Constance Carter
THE POWER OF FEAR
Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she transforms into a hideous demon. Ivan fights the creature, managing to strangle it. But it is too late, Evil has been unleashed. When Aivan is charged for the brutal murder, he feels his last hope disappear. As he is overcome by the dark forces trying to pose as his soul, Ivan comes to realise that his only hope lies in his power to find the faith that he once lost.
Genre: Horror Running time: 1 x 116-minutes
Year of production: 2006
Starring: Ita Ever (A Lady in Paris), Yevgeniya Kryukova (My Love), Valeri Nikolayev (The Terminal)
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PRIMERO DE ENERO
During his parents’ separation, Sebastian learns that his father’s beloved piano has been stolen from the family restaurant. Determined to find it before January 1st, when his father will return to visit him, Sebastian, his teenage sister, his loyal best friend and a friendly Haitian street vendor, set out on a cross- country adventure in the Dominican Republic. Primero de Enero (aka January 1st) is a road movie with a difference and with a great big heart!
Genre: Coming-of-Age Road Movie Running time: 1 x 85-minutes
Year of production: 2014 Starring: Carlos Báez (Girasol), Héctor Soberón (The Sins of Others), Paula Sanchez Ferry (Código Paz), Víctor Pintor (No Hay Más Remedio)
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
Placid Lake has always been different. He has brilliant ideas which have either brought him great success or devastating failure. Usually the latter. He doesn’t care; being different in a sea of mediocrity is okay by him. However, after flying off the roof of his school building on Graduation night and breaking almost every bone in his body, Placid makes a decision to change who he is and to become a normal straight-laced person of moderation. Soon, insecurity and neuroses start to kick in, and the normal people he is associated with turn out to be insane. In the middle of a corporate seminar Placid must face what he has become, what he has lost and find a way to get back to who he is.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2002
Starring: Ben Lee (The 3 Minute Talk Show),
Rose Byrne (X-Men: First Class), Miranda Richardson (The Hours)
ROMEO & JULIET: A LOVE SONG
Set against the backdrop of a hot summer at the Verona Campground, two kids from feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets, fall madly for each other and decide to marry. But, before Romeo and Juliet can announce their marriage, events set them on a path that tests not just their resolve, but the very nature of life and death itself. This ‘trailer-park rock opera’ is Shakespeare’s original language reworked as an innovative musical score for a new generation. Romeo & Juliet: A Love Song, with its contemporary and unique setting, is Shakespeare as you’ve never heard him before.
Genre: Musical / Romance / Coming-of-Age Running time: 1 x 100-minutes
Year of production: 2013
Starring: Christopher Landom, Anton Tennet (Hope and Wire), Derya Parlak, Ricky McLennan, Sarah Houbolt www.kewmediadistribution.com
ROUGH STUFF
Buzz has been to damn near every corner of the continent searching for the legendary ‘Stray’s Gold’ - a haul that will keep him in parts and petrol for the rest of his days. But, just as he is ready to give up, Buzz is approached by Eric, who has come into possession of a map to the treasure. Eric is happy to part with the map in exchange for passage - he and his activist friends want to stage a protest at the site of a new mine from mega mining company Madsen Minerals, headed by a reprehensible billionaire. To get to the mine unseen, they must travel through the impenetrable Mamuya Valley.
Genre: Drama Feature Running time: 1 x 120-minutes Year of Production: 2017 Starring: Gareth Rickards (Wonderland), Vincent Andriano (Terminus), Sam Glissan (Cooped Up)
THE RUNAWAYS
When the misguided father of three, Reith passes away, his children, Angie and Ben, are left to cope alone; Angie acting as a surrogate mother. As Whitby, the coastal town where they live closes up for winter their Uncle Blythe suddenly returns from prison, harbouring a grudge over a long-standing family debt. With no other option, Angie is forced to go on the run with her siblings and two of the family’s donkeys. After a desperate scrabble through the alleyways of Whitby, the three children escape into the harsh landscapes and wilderness of the North York Moors. Here Angie begins an odyssey: the search for their estranged mother Maggie.
Genre: Adventure Feature
Running time: 1 x 113-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Mark Addy (The Full Monty), Molly Windsor (Three Girls), Macy Shackleton (The Selfish Giant), Rhys Connah (Happy Valley),
Lee Boardman, (Rome), Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off)
SAVE ANGEL HOPE
Led by an expert con-artist, three crooks launch a bogus appeal to raise money for ‘victims’ of a local disaster in the South Pacific utilising the façade of a fictitious nun, ‘Angel Hope’, in their scheme. With the aid of this young and pretty latter-day ‘Mother Teresa’, they get to work. But, when the plan becomes an unprecedented success and raises millions, unscrupulous profiteers, as well as the media and authorities, get wind of the trio’s true intentions and come after them.
Genre: Comedy Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2008
Starring: Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings), Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn), Luke Mably (The Prince and Me), Alice Evans (The Vampire Diaries)
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SCOTT WALKER: 30 CENTURY MAN
Scott Walker, labelled the ‘greatest voice of his generation’ was the lead singer of 60s sensation The Walker Brothers. His fan club outnumbered the Beatles’ in 1965. But Walker suffered terrible stage fright and performed one of the great disappearing acts in pop history. Often rumoured to be living abroad, working as a cab driver or simply dead, he reemerges decades later with one of the most modern, ear-challenging music albums ever created. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man is a filmed record of that journey seen through his own eyes and those of his many fans including some of the most famous names in contemporary popular music such as David Bowie, Sting and Radiohead.
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 1 x 90-minutes Year of production: 2006
Featuring: Scott Walker, David Bowie, Sting, Radiohead, Goldfrapp, Jarvis Cocker,
Damon Albarn, Johnny Marr
SCOTTISH MUSSEL
Ritchie is a Glaswegian trickster with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city‐life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident-prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist, passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highland, eventually leading him to question his true motivation.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 93-minutes
Year of production: 2015
Starring: Martin Compston (Line of Duty), Talulah Riley (Thor: The Dark World), Morgan Watkins (Kingsman: The
Secret Service), Joe Thomas (The Inbetweeners)
SHOCKWAVE DARKSIDE
Five soldiers, shot down and behind enemy lines in a battle over water, frozen in the deep craters of the lunar surface, find themselves marooned on the dark side of the moon. With depleting air and supplies, they have no choice but to start a dangerous trek through hostile territory. As their numbers dwindle and nerves fray, they make an amazing discovery about the moon that may just save their lives, but destroy the very cause they are fighting for.
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller Running time: 1 x 87-minutes Year of production: 2014
Starring: Mei Melançon (X-Men: The Last Stand), Bill Sage (We Are What We Are), Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead), Rich Ceraulo (The Walking Dead)
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SILENT GRACE
Based on true events, this is the story of a young girl Aine, who is caught joyriding and ends up sharing a prison cell with a political prisoner and high ranking IRA woman, Eileen. At first the two women can find no common ground and are at war with each other. However, when the political protest escalates, Aine risks everything to save Eileen's life. Despite their obvious differences, an unlikely friendship emerges.
Genre: Drama / True Story
Running time: 1 x 85-minutes Year of production: 2001
Starring: Orla Brady (American Odyssey), Conor Mullen (Patrick's Day), Cathleen Bradley (About Adam)
SINATRA IN PALM SPRINGS
Palm Springs, a small desert oasis 100 miles east of Los Angeles, was Frank Sinatra's home for 50 years. During his brief yet turbulent marriage to Ava Gardner, Palm Springs was centre stage, and for the rest of his life, the Rancho Mirage compound on Frank Sinatra Drive was the sanctuary he called 'My Heaven'. Director Leo Zahn explores Sinatra's deep attachment to Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, capturing the spirit of the Sinatra era and paying tribute to his unique lifestyle.
Genre: Documentary Feature Running time: 1 x 92-minutes Year of production: 2018 Featuring: Barbara Marx, Bruce Fessier, Mel Haber, Tom Dreeson, Trini López
SOULBOY
Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that’s going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane. Blonde, brassy, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Mandy, a cute and spunky artist, is eager to help Joe become the cool ‘soul boy’ he wants to be. As Mandy falls for Joe, a love triangle develops leaving Joe to decide who and what he really wants in his life.
Genre: Music Drama
Running time: 1 x 82-minutes Year of production: 2010 Starring: Martin Compston (Line of Duty), Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Nichola Burley (StreetDance 3D),
Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
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SPIRIT TRAP
Strange events take place when four college students move into an unoccupied mansion. One finds an apparently broken Spirit Clock and gets it working again. Mysterious noises and visions begin to develop into a living nightmare from which they cannot escape. Spirits pit the group against each other as we discover dark secrets from their past. As time runs out, the boundary between the real world and afterlife is blurred and they must escape or remain for all eternity.
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Running time: 1 x 91-minutes Year of production: 2005 Starring: Billie Piper (Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Luke Mably (Save Angel Hope, The Prince and Me), Sam Troughton (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)
STUDS
The amateur football team Emmet Rovers play dire football with no heart, no conviction and now, not even a manager. Bubbles, their captain, who once played in the big league, is threatening to quit altogether when a mysterious stranger, Walter Keegan, appears looking to fill the vacant job of team manager. At first, there’s disbelief and the players deride but give him the job, just for a laugh. However, Walter quickly surprises them with his no- nonsense attitude and literally kicks them in to shape. The new manager turns out to be a maverick with only one agenda: he wants the Rovers to win the Cup. Genre: Comedy
Running time: 1 x 90-minutes Year of production: 2005 Starring: Brendan Gleeson (Edge of Tomorrow), David Wilmot (Parked), Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Liam Carney (Braveheart)
SUGARHOUSE
Disillusioned middle class city-boy Tom is looking for something in the back Streets of London; he thinks D, a desperate young man down on his luck can give him what he needs. But D’s offer comes with more than just a price tag. Holed up in a derelict warehouse and with vicious criminal Hoodwink after them, the two men play an intense game of cat-and-mouse; scrambling to cut a deal and make sense of the very lives they may be about to lose.
Genre: Crime / Thriller Running time: 1 x 90-minutes
Year of production: 2007 Starring: Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Steven Mackintosh (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels),
Ashley Walters (The Ark, Get Rich or die Tryin’)
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SUNBURN
During the hot, sweltering summer, Mike, a young American tourist, goes looking for his missing friend in an isolated Spanish village. Here, he gets embroiled with an alluring local woman who becomes obsessed with him. Forced to escape, Mike soon finds that the horror is far greater than he could have ever imagined.
Genre: Horror Feature
Running time: 1 x 85-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Ryan Tonkin (Drones), Helena Antonio (Heckle), Carlos Martin (Okupados)
SWERVE
Driving cross-country, Colin breaks down outside a small town. As he does so, two more cars speed towards each-other on the desert highway and end up in a fatal collision killing one of them instantly. Beside the corpse, Colin discovers a case load of money. The other survivor is a beautiful woman in a big hurry to leave the scene of the accident. Colin decides to head in to town to ‘do the right thing’, help the woman and report to the police. But, it’s only the beginning of his problems... Swerve serves up a potent brew of traditional film noir elements, a femme fatale, a case load of money and a drug deal gone wrong.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Crime Running time: 1 x 87-minutes Year of production: 2011
Starring: Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Emma Booth (Gods of Egypt), David Lyons (ER), Vince Colosimo (The Great Gatsby)
TROUBLE WITH SEX
Michelle, an attractive twenty-something, hard-working city lawyer has been dating Ivan for three years. After a huge argument at a party one evening, Michelle ends their relationship and flees to a close by bar. The successful lawyer learns that love plays by its own rules when she meets bartender Conor. Very soon they start dating, and a roller coaster of emotions ensues as the new relationship blossoms and very quickly, their feelings for each other develop and grow. Michelle and Conor learn the reality, that the trouble with sex is - you can fall in love.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Running time: 1 x 100-minutes
Year of production: 2004 Starring: Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Renee Weldon (Eliot & Me), Gerard Mannix Flynn (Excalibur), Declan Conlon (Amber)
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THE TRUTH
Candy, in her early 20s and wheelchair-bound, joins a group of seven mismatched strangers in an isolated country retreat for a week of new-age therapy that she hopes will change her life. The course is run by charismatic guru Donna, whose six-step programme Adventures in Truth teaches spiritual growth through speaking the truth at all times. Is Donna the warm mother they’ve all been looking for, or is she a dangerously manipulative charlatan? Candy decides she doesn’t want to stick around to find out but, when she tries to leave, she discovers she’s a virtual prisoner.
TU£SDAY
Tu£sday is a taut, fast-moving heist story, revealed by the suspects through a series of police interrogations. By coincidence, four experienced criminals, two beautiful bank clerks and one desperate penniless man nearing retirement decide to rob the same bank on the same day. Two detectives must piece together seemingly unrelated people and clues and determine who really stole the Meidan-i-Noor - an emerald the size of a fist.
Genre: Crime / Thriller Running time: 1 x 79-minutes
Year of production: 2008
Starring: Philip Glenister (Kingdom of Heaven, Ashes to Ashes), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean), Ashley Walters (The Ark), John Simm (Moving On, The Catch)
TWO DOWN
A young woman’s world is turned upside down when an injured hit man takes her hostage at gunpoint in her own home. When her friend shows up unexpectedly and is also abducted, they sit down to a Chinese take-away and a bottle of whisky. After several hours of reflection, the three discover the truth of what really happened earlier that night as a web of deceit unfolds and an alliance is formed that will change their lives forever.
Genre: Comedy Crime / Thriller Running time: 1 x 88-minutes
Year of production: 2015
Starring: Alex Hassell (Cold Mountain), Tori Hart (Keeping Rosy), Graham Butler (Penny Dreadful), Felicity Montagu (Bridget Jones's Diary),
Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones)
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TWO GRAVES
Margaret Powers, a middle-aged, middle class doctor of pathology, seeks revenge when she captures and tortures the young man she believes murdered her son. But, in a bid to extract a confession, her actions lead to tragedy and unearth a series of deep and troubling truths.
Genre: Drama Running time: 1 x 80-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), David Hayman (Taboo), Cathy Tyson (Band of Gold), Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Josh Herdman (The Harry Potter Series)
WHERE THE SKIN LIES
Six people, bound together by a traumatic experience, decide to celebrate the end of a year of therapy in style. They travel up to the Scottish Lowlands for a relaxing weekend. Soon, a number of mysterious and horrifying events start to expose the cracks in their relationships and a night of closure turns out to be far more final than they could have anticipated.
Genre: Thriller Feature Running time: 1 x 91-minutes Year of production: 2017 Starring: Tristan Beint (Doctor Who), Amelia Bennett (Save Me), Simon Rivers (Doctors), Louise Williams (Perfect Song), Georgia Winters (Jupiter Ascending), Nathan Wright (Being Human)
WHO KILLED NANCY?
In 1978, the New York Police discover the lifeless body of twenty-year-old Nancy Spungen. Ex-prostitute, sometime stripper, heroin addict and infamous girlfriend of Sex Pistols’ 21- year-old bass guitarist Sid Vicious. Dressed in her underwear, Spungen bled to death from a stab wound. Incredibly, Vicious was pronounced guilty of her murder in a trial-by-media by noon the following day. However, due to his own death within six months from a heroin overdose, the case never came to trial. Featuring revealing interviews and unseen footage of the Sex Pistols in concert, director Alan G. Parker goes on a journey to discover the truth of Nancy’s death.
Genre: Documentary / Music Running time: 1 x 89-minutes
Year of production: 2008 Featuring: Steve Dior, Alan Jones, Glen Matlock
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ZOOHEAD
Charlie is a zoo-head, addicted to powerful hallucinogens that have memory destroying side-effects. He is forced to enter an experimental rehabilitation program that involves memory looping and regression. The program malfunctions and Charlie struggles to find a way out as he becomes trapped to live the same day over and over again.
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller Feature Running time: 1 x 80-minutes Year of production: 2018 Starring: Daniel Ahmadi (Stat), Hussina Raja (The Survivalist), Brian Potter Jr. (Diren), Ross Mullan (Howl), Jason Wing (Rise of the Footsoldier)
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