When accountant David (Christopher Eccleston), doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox) and journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor) are searching for a fourth roommate for their trendy flat, they settle on the aloof Hugo (Keith Allen). However, they soon find Hugo dead of a drug overdose, beside a large sum of cash. After some deliberation, the three others decide to keep the money and to dismember and bury Hugo’s body. Soon, each roommate starts thinking about keeping all the money by scamming the others.
This Is England, is the story of a summertime school holiday, those long weeks
between terms where life changing events can take place. It’s 1983 and school is
out. 12-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is an isolated lad growing up in a grim
coastal town, whose father has died fighting in the Falklands war. Over the course of
the summer holiday he finds fresh male role models when those in the local skinhead
scene take him in. With his new friends Shaun discovers a world of parties, first love
and the joys of Dr Martin boots. Here he also meets Combo (Stephen Graham), an
older, racist skinhead who has recently got out of prison. As Combo’s gang harass
the local ethnic minorities, the course is set for a rite of passage that will hurl Shaun
from innocence to experience.
Next Exit follows a research scientist who makes headlines proving she can track people after death, and her radical scientific study is looking for volunteers for a pain-free passing to the afterlife. Rose sees a way out and Teddy sees his chance to finally make it. When fate has the two strangers sharing a car rental, they set out on a lengthy road trip to the unknown. As these two misfits quarrel their way across the country, their friction gradually gives way to a deep connection that they’ve both needed.
Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario form a family in the circus where they work as ‘freaks’ in 1943 Nazi-occupied Rome. Israel, the owner and putative father, disappears in an attempt to find an escape route overseas for them all. The four friends are in disarray. Without anyone looking after them but, above all, without the circus, they loose their womb and feel lost as rudderless sideshow attractions in a city at war.
After her mother’s death and father’s ensuing depression, 13-year-old Sasha decides to look on the bright side of life and become a stand-up comedian.
A lonely obese boy everyone calls “Butter” is about to make history. He is going to eat himself to death-live on the Internet-and everyone is invited to watch. When he first makes the announcement online to his classmates, Butter expects pity, insults, and possibly sheer indifference. What he gets are morbid cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan. Yet as their dark encouragement grows, it begins to feel a lot like popularity. And that feels good. But what happens when Butter reaches his suicide deadline? Can he live with the fallout if he doesn’t go through with his plans?
Here is a film that, with tenderness, empathy and love, tells the story, from the inside, of the man and the sportsman that was the legendary Marco Pantani, “the pirate”. His mother called it the “first real film about Marco”: and we are particularly proud of it.
Through public and private archive material and intimate, moving conversations with family members, his coach and close friends, “The Natural” retraces the life of a great cyclist against the backdrop of his home town of Cesenatico, a small town overlooking the Adriatic Sea, a town with the warmth to never stop believing that “someone like him would ever give in”.
This is a portrait that restores vitality and dignity to an iconic figure that has been trampled on.
An adventurer (Noah Wyle) and a brilliant archaeologist (Gabrielle Anwar) use a map to search for the fabled mines of King Solomon.
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident. A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
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