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- DirectorDavid MackenzieStarsAlastair MackenzieJonny PhillipsEwan StewartTwo men meet while travelling north on separate missions. Charlie wants to catch up with the man who has stolen his wife, while Vicente is trying to escape a contract castration. After their car breaks down, they seek sanctuary in an isolated building home to a strange sect whose whole equilibrium is threatened by the arrival of the two men. The result is chaos.
- DirectorChristopher MorrisStarsPaddy ConsidineMiranda PleasenceSimon GreenallDisaster after disaster, an already frail man descends into madness after his talking dog announces that he is actually his defence lawyer.
- DirectorSimon Cellan JonesStarsJustine WaddellRichard RoxburghJonathan CakeIt's love at first sight when Stevie and kitchen-installer Neil meet. But she's pregnant by her Italian footballer husband, and Neil and his girlfriend are adopting Mgala from Burkina Faso. Is it too late for love and happiness?
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsHarry EdenVinnie HunterMolly ParkerA young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
- DirectorJulian RichardsStarsEmily WoofDouglas HenshallClive RussellA single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the underworld of London and on a collision course with her past.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsIain GlenEmilia FoxCraig FergusonResearchers Maria and Fraser investigate the early 20th century affair between Russian patient Sabina Spielrein and Dr. Jung, uncovering their romance through documents amid turbulent times of revolution and war.
- DirectorFrancesca JosephStarsLucy BatesIan BurfieldBruce ByronAn opera company puts on a production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in a maximum security prison.
- DirectorJohn HendersonStarsKenneth CranhamLeo BillDerek JacobiComedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go A.W.O.L. and invade occupied France on their own.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsTimothy SpallMichael BegleyKaty Cavanagh-JupePete has recently got a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman. His mentor is the veteran Tommy, whose methods are rather rude; his sole target is to be the best salesman in his team and to receive the "Golden Hoover". Their temperaments are quite different and the apprentice days turn wilder and wilder.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsIrrfan KhanPuru ChibberAino AnnuddinIn feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the long time enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
- DirectorConor McPhersonStarsMichael CaineDylan MoranMichael GambonTwo failed actors decide to pull a con on a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
- DirectorReuben LederStarsGreta ScacchiJürgen ProchnowDonald SutherlandA journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
- DirectorJeremy WoodingStarsPreeya KalidasJames McAvoyRay PanthakiA cross cultural romance set in London's East End about a young girl of Indian heritage.
- DirectorStuart St PaulStarsLaura FraserCallum BlueLuke AikmanRachael is called to travel home by ex-boyfriend Rafe, to a small bleak island in the North sea that she ran away from some 5 years ago to find her wayward mother. The pretense is that her father Jake is dying. Matt, a city boy, island hopping to take in the festival of fire, hears that she has been tricked; for Jake is not dying. Matt hangs around to ensure her safety. A love triangle forms, with Rachael, the least interested and keen to leave, but clues to her mothers whereabouts appear, as do her own problems which both Rafe and Matt wish to help with. Nothing is what it seems, and no one will be the same again, as the truth begins to surface in very dangerous circumstances. There will be a burning.
- DirectorEmily YoungStarsIngeborga DapkunaitePeter MullanDavid WarnerHelen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is desperately anxious that he should come home. Taking the kids to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident. She remains caught in limbo, trapped between life and death. Many miles away, in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware that his wife has died. As Helen herself is unaware that she is dead¿ Thus begins, a four-day Odyssey: Grandpa and the kids must come to terms with Helen's death; John must travel across a war-torn land as he tries to reach home; and Helen must stand helplessly observing her own existence as it comes back to haunt her - until at last she is reconciled with John, and thus released.
- DirectorJulian RichardsStarsKevin HowarthMark StevensonAntonia BeamishA serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsAnne ReidDaniel CraigAnna Wilson-JonesA woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
- DirectorMerlin WardStarsSophie WardSophia MylesGeorge AspreyLouise is stuck in an English girls' boarding school. Her only consolation is Matthew, the American art teacher and husband of the headmistress. At half term break, Louise stays behind for some anatomy homework with Matthew.
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsChristopher EcclestonKevin KnapmanMichael RyanIn a post-apocalyptic Liverpool, a man returns seeking revenge for his wife's murder - and everyone speaks perfect Jacobean English.
- DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsJonathan Rhys MeyersSaskia ReevesAlexander RendellA psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assassin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
- DirectorSarjit BainsStarsManish PatelDave CourtneyJass BassiBased on the novel The Stone Shiva by Manish Patel, the movie centres on the Holy Smokes crime syndicate and the real-life $6 million Heathrow Airport robbery, involving battles with the Chinese Triads, Jamaican Yardies and the English Firm to see who rules London.
- DirectorTony FisherStarsJoe McFaddenKate AshfieldMatthew DelamereAfter a failed romance, Matt dates a string of women and falls for his mate?s girlfriend in his quest to understand the opposite sex.
- DirectorJohn FurseStarsIan HartLinus RoacheKalim KoleilatThe true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
- DirectorSaul DibbStarsAshley WaltersLuke FraserLeon BlackTwo troubled, street-smart boys, Ricky and Curtis, who struggle to navigate a volatile neighborhood. They face challenges in friendships, family and loyalty, as guns become a reality and boys try to be men before they're teenagers.
- DirectorChristopher SmithStarsFranka PotenteSean HarrisVas BlackwoodTrapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.