Who Needs Enemies
91mins | United Kingdom - 2021Be careful who your friends are
When local London gangster and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine, he thinks he's just doing him a favour. But he soon discovers the private party involves something so atrocious and unspeakable that it sparks a bloody feud between the two old friends. A gritty story of morality, loyalty and betrayal.
Oildale
96mins | United States - 2022War wounds. Music Heals.
War veterans from around the world struggle to find balance when they return home. Oildale is the story of three homeless veterans who find family when they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to support her thirteen-year-old brother while following her dream to become a singer.
The VAR Room
20mins/25mins/26mins/19mins | United Kingdom - 2021Three hopeless VAR referees at Stockley Park end up in hot water after a string of bad decisions and a leaked TikTok video turns their world upside down.
The Episodes: 1. Go With the Heart: Brian, Andre and Gary are possibly the worst VAR team in the world. After a terrible decision during a game leads to a chaotic pitch invasion, department manager Martin brings in a very special guest to give the lads a pep talk. 2. The Germans Are Coming: When Brian, Andre and Gary miraculously find themselves reffing the Euro’s, they are closely monitored by an intimidating German UEFA official, Hans. But when a rogue TikTok recorded in the VAR room accidentally goes viral, exposing the VAR team as totally incompetent, they have some explaining to do... 3. Moping: Now unemployed, the VAR lads and Martin try to adjust to normal life. Brian and Gary hit the local boozer and Martin retrains as a ‘proper’ referee. When all seems lost, they find a crucial piece of evidence that could be the key to reclaiming their seats in the beloved VAR room. 4. The Final: Newly reinstated in the VAR room, Brian, Andre, Gary and Martin look forward to ref’ing the final of the Euros - the biggest game of their careers. But when Andre, the only true talent in the group, falls sick after eating the dodgy canteen goulash, Martin must step in to save the day.
The Foolish Bird
117mins | China - 2021Searching for meaning in a small Chinese town
Winter is about to begin in a small town in Southern China, and sixteen year old Lynn, left to be raised by her grandparents, finds herself longing for love. Feeling out of place in the world, Lynn starts selling stolen phones, and as she loses contact with her best friend, Lynn finds solace in Dawei, a police inspector’s son. But when her first sexual experience turns into a cruel one, Lynn finds her already unstable world turned upside down.
The Lost
81mins | United Kingdom - 2020Someone knows where she is.
Detectives investigate the disappearance of a young girl who goes missing from her home during a family birthday party. As the detectives piece together the events of that fateful night they soon discover there's more to the story than they first realized. A complex matrix of child trafficking, abuse and even murder begins to materialise, and one of the detectives finds himself dangerously entangled.
The Stand Up
83mins | United States - 2020Sometimes comedy isn't funny.
In this endearing, only-in-New York love and recovery story, stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick (Jonathan Sollis) abandons his budding career on stage and moves back home to his childhood bedroom after his girlfriend's tragic death. But when his father, Sandy (Aidan Quinn) the principal of an elementary school lands him a gig teaching kindergarten, Zoe finds himself standing up before a very different demographic and a co-worker with a heart of gold.
The American Ruling Class
89mins | United States - 2024America's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege
In this first of its kind "dramatic-documentary-musical", Lewis Lapham takes two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. The novice careerists must decide: should they seek to rule the world, or to save it? The paths they take gradually clue them, and the audience, into the reality posed by the question.
Home Sweet Home
82mins | United States - 2024A couple evoke their childhood memories: one in Africa, the other in the USA
Heidi and Michael, a couple of filmmakers living on a houseboat in Paris, arrive in the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving with Heidi’s family. Michael thinks that the journey is pointless: the two families just don’t get along… But Heidi vociferously disagrees. Rain pelts down while they drive from New York to Boston, and they succumb to the dreamlike atmosphere which conjures up childhood memories: Heidi remembers Boston and Wasp society, Michael recalls colonial Africa.
Toss It
120mins | United States - 2019The anti-romantic comedy
Emily and Finn think they know everything, until everything gets turned upside down. Questioning why men are so screwed up and if women are to blame, this trope-tossing, genre-dismantling film is packed with a stable of complicated characters and their intertwining relationships. A darkly comic, bittersweet look behind the facades of tradition, family and marriage, Toss It blends screwball comedy with an open-hearted deep-dive into family dysfunction.
Code of Trust
62mins | United States - 2019A refugee enters a society run by blockchain - but can she trust it?
Blockchain is a crypto-technology that has the potential to change the world and the way society interacts. In a clever blend of fiction and documentary, this experimental film follows Nasreen, a refugee of war forced to leave her home country and thrown into a society where this new technology reigns supreme. Starting from scratch, she needs to put all her trust in the blockchain to survive. But can she trust it? And will society trust her?
The Green Fog
62mins | United States - 2018A visual tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from visionary filmmaker Guy Maddin
By fusing their love of Hitchcock with an eye for visual flair and intrigue, Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson deliver a spectacle like no other. Constructed with archived TV and film footage both familiar and obscure, The Green Fog is a captivating exercise in non-linear storytelling.
Last Supper
78mins | United States - 2018A gripping psychological thriller
New York City, late night. Two hitmen share a meal. Vincent, the mark, has from appetizers to dessert to convince McCarthy not to kill him. In this game of cat and mouse, situations aren't always as they appear, and people aren't always who they seem be.
The Bleeding Edge
90mins | China - 2016From the Peabody Award-winning director of Human Harvest comes a riveting thriller based on real-life events
When a young western tech executive based in China suffers from heart failure on the job, he receives a heart transplant from an unknown donor. Once he discovers the horrific truth behind his operation he must risk his life to help save the next victims and find redemption.
Under The Same Sun
75mins | Israel/Palestine - 2015In the near future, an Israeli and a Palestinian become friends and help usher in a time of peace.
Under the Same Sun is a brave mockumentary parable that imagines the dramatic consequences of an unlikely business partnership between an Israeli and a Palestinian, and shows that idealism could be a catalyst for change in the war-torn region.
The Great European Disaster Movie
52mins/80mins | Europe - 2015Exploring the present crisis facing Europe and a post-EU dystopian future
In a post-EU future, Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen have come to power, the Greeks have written off their debt and the Eurozone has collapsed. Flitting between artfully constructed sequences and interviews with commentators, politicians and ordinary people, this powerful documentary shows us the stakes and the possible consequences of the European Union's collapse, and asks: what can we do to save it?
Triomf
118mins | South Africa - 2015A tale of marginal madness
March 1994 South Africa. On the day of the first free election Lambert Benade will turn 21, and Uncle Treppie promises him the girl of his dreams. But, in this hilariously horrendous tragi-comedy, as a new world is born, two members of the white trash family are destined to die.
The Unspoken
114mins | United States - 1999Real truth is rarely spoken
Jean, a small town child preacher traumatized by child abuse, grows up in a mental institution without speaking. At age 26, he is involuntarily released and ends up in a broken-down, abandoned motel. There he happens upon Cory, a woman whose past is equally troubled. Together, they begin a precarious journey of healing through their mutual care. But the process is complicated by a confrontation with Jean’s abusive mother and an encounter with a traveling preacher.
My Name is Joe
105mins | United Kingdom - 1998Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
In this classic Ken Loach film, Peter Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a man struggling with unemployment and alcoholism who falls in love with Sarah, his health visitor. The film follows his relationship with Sarah, as well as his troubles with Alcoholics Anonymous and his friend Liam. Mullan's portrayal of Joe led to him winning Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
Isle of Lesbos
98mins | United States - 1997A Little Something to Offend Just About Everyone!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Oklahoma! in this outrageous musical comedy feature - a 1940s Technicolor - style fantasy extravaganza with a modern and subversive twist. Isle of Lesbos is set in two worlds: Bumfuck, Arkansas, a one horse god fearin' town and the Isle of Lesbos, a different dimension in time and space where lesbians rule the universe.
Carla's Song
107mins | United Kingdom - 1997Set in 1987, Carla's Song tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan woman living in exile in Glasgow. Searching for her past (her family and boyfriend), Carla returns to war-torn Nicaragua with George, into the thick of the U.S. sponsored Contra insurgency against the Sandinistas. A film by Ken Loach.
Ladybird Ladybird
88mins | United Kingdom - 1994A British woman gets into a dispute with Social Services over the care and custody of her four children
This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. Subsequently, Maggie was found to be an "unfit mother" and her children were removed from her care. She finally meets the man of her dreams, a Paraguayan expatriate, and they start a family together. Unfortunately, Social Services seems unwilling to accept that her life has changed and rends them from their new children. She and Jorge together, and separately, fight Social Services, Immigration, and other government bureaucrats in a desperate battle to make their family whole again.
Raining Stones
90mins | United Kingdom - 1993Proud, though poor, Bob risks everything for his daughter to wear a beautiful dress for her First Communion.
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Jit
90mins | Zimbabwe - 1991None
A young man, nicknamed UK, lives in Harare with his musician uncle, Oliver Mtukudzi, who plays himself. UK is knocked out when he falls out of a taxicab and then falls in love with the woman he gazes up at when he regains consciousness. He determines that he must marry her, but her father insists on a "bride price" in the form of an expensive stereo and cash. UK sets out to obtain these things, but has to appease his jukwa (ancestral spirit), who is visible only to him and wants him to give her beer and earn money to send to his parents in the countryside.
RIff Raff
95mins | United Kingdom - 1991Stevie, a Glaswegian construction worker, moves to London after recently being released from prison. He gets a job turning a derelict hospital into luxury apartments, and begins a romance with Susan, an unemployed pop singer.
Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site -- a melting pot of itinerant labourers from all over the country -- where he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying but usually failing to control his workers; three hilarious scousers, Shem, Mo and Larry (Ricky Tomlinson); and the other lads as they duck and dive through the rules and regulations of the building trade. In addition, Stevie has other problems to contend with: the wages are low, the site teems with rats, he has nowhere to sleep, and life in London isn't easy. One day on his way to work, Stevie finds a handbag in a skip. He returns it to its owner, Susan, a no-talent singer plagued by depression and neediness. As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life on the edge, Riff-Raff builds a portrait, often funny, of life as it is lived in the margins. Ken Loach's camera follows the workers unobtrusively as they relax in the squats and pubs, revealing, in their gallows humour, the fatalism of those who feel they've been forgotten by the society they inhabit. An absolute classic, bittersweet comedy/drama from director Ken Loach whose political content is still as relevant now as it was in the Thatcher era.
Fatherland - Ken Loach
105mins | United Kingdom - 1987A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity.
The Grass is Singing
105mins | Zambia/Sweden - 1981An acclaimed adaptation of Doris Lessing's seminal work
Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing was at once an author, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and staunch political commentator. This acclaimed adaptation of her iconic first novel captured these talents.
The Price of Coal
91mins/76mins | United Kingdom - 1977None
Two films set in South Yorkshire. Part 1 - Meet the People: The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit by H.R.H. Prince Charles. Part 2 - Back to Reality: A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion. Films by Ken Loach.
Rhodesia Countdown
31mins | Zimbabwe - 1969None
This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969. The "Countdown" theme demonstrates stage by stage, the levels of indignity, injustice and degradation one black man endures before finally starting to fight back against his white master. Using actors to tell different parts of the story, Raeburn's film gives an insight into typical attitudes in the society at the time.
In Two Minds
73mins | United Kingdom - 1967None
In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before. A film by Ken Loach.
The End of Arthur's Marriage
72mins | United Kingdom - 1965None
A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter. A film by Ken Loach.
3 Clear Sundays
85mins | United Kingdom - 1965None
A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency. A film by Ken Loach.
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Latest Features
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Who Needs Enemies
United Kingdom - 2021
Be careful who your friends are
When local London gangster and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine, he thinks he's just doing him a favour. But he soon discovers the private party involves something so atrocious and unspeakable that it sparks a bloody feud between th…
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Oildale
United States - 2022
War wounds. Music Heals.
War veterans from around the world struggle to find balance when they return home. Oildale is the story of three homeless veterans who find family when they rent rooms from an eighteen-year-old girl struggling to support her thirteen-year-old brother while following her dream to become a singer.
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The VAR Room
United Kingdom - 2021
Three hopeless VAR referees at Stockley Park end up in hot water after a string of bad decisions and a leaked TikTok video turns their world upside down.
The Episodes: 1. Go With the Heart: Brian, Andre and Gary are possibly the worst VAR team in the world. After a terrible decision during a game leads to a chaotic pitch invasion, department manager Martin brings in a very special guest to give the lads a pep talk. 2. The Germans Are Coming:…
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The Foolish Bird
China - 2021
Searching for meaning in a small Chinese town
Winter is about to begin in a small town in Southern China, and sixteen year old Lynn, left to be raised by her grandparents, finds herself longing for love. Feeling out of place in the world, Lynn starts selling stolen phones, and as she loses contact with her best friend, Lynn finds solace in Daw…
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The Lost
United Kingdom - 2020
Someone knows where she is.
Detectives investigate the disappearance of a young girl who goes missing from her home during a family birthday party. As the detectives piece together the events of that fateful night they soon discover there's more to the story than they first realized. A complex matrix of child trafficking, abu…
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The Stand Up
United States - 2020
Sometimes comedy isn't funny.
In this endearing, only-in-New York love and recovery story, stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick (Jonathan Sollis) abandons his budding career on stage and moves back home to his childhood bedroom after his girlfriend's tragic death. But when his father, Sandy (Aidan Quinn) the principal of an elementary s…
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The American Ruling Class
United States - 2024
America's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege
In this first of its kind "dramatic-documentary-musical", Lewis Lapham takes two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. The novice careerists must decide: should they seek to rule the world, or to save it? The paths they take gradually clue them, and the audience, into the …
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Home Sweet Home
United States - 2024
A couple evoke their childhood memories: one in Africa, the other in the USA
Heidi and Michael, a couple of filmmakers living on a houseboat in Paris, arrive in the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving with Heidi’s family. Michael thinks that the journey is pointless: the two families just don’t get along… But Heidi vociferously disagrees. Rain pelts down while they driv…
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Vent De Colere
France - 2024
A peasant farmer refuses to accept modernisation – his daughter defies him
Isolated on his farm away from the village, Damien, a former farmer, lives alone with his trade unionist ideals. Only his daughter Louise manages to calm the anger of this resentful man.
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Toss It
United States - 2019
The anti-romantic comedy
Emily and Finn think they know everything, until everything gets turned upside down. Questioning why men are so screwed up and if women are to blame, this trope-tossing, genre-dismantling film is packed with a stable of complicated characters and their intertwining relationships. A darkly comic, bi…
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Code of Trust
United States - 2019
A refugee enters a society run by blockchain - but can she trust it?
Blockchain is a crypto-technology that has the potential to change the world and the way society interacts. In a clever blend of fiction and documentary, this experimental film follows Nasreen, a refugee of war forced to leave her home country and thrown into a society where this new technology rei…
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Affections
United States - 2018
A comedy exploring isolation and loneliness
Stuck in a stagnating relationship and with little to fill her time, a young woman seeks to recapture something lost in the most bizarre ways.
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A Reasonable Request
United States - 2018
A jet black comedy from director Andrew Laurich.
When Seth sits down to meet with his dad in a diner, he's a little nervous. He has a favor to ask him, but he's not sure how it will go down. A jet black comedy from director Andrew Laurich.
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The Green Fog
United States - 2018
A visual tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo from visionary filmmaker Guy Maddin
By fusing their love of Hitchcock with an eye for visual flair and intrigue, Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson deliver a spectacle like no other. Constructed with archived TV and film footage both familiar and obscure, The Green Fog is a captivating exercise in non-linear storytelling.
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Last Supper
United States - 2018
A gripping psychological thriller
New York City, late night. Two hitmen share a meal. Vincent, the mark, has from appetizers to dessert to convince McCarthy not to kill him. In this game of cat and mouse, situations aren't always as they appear, and people aren't always who they seem be.
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The Bleeding Edge
China - 2016
From the Peabody Award-winning director of Human Harvest comes a riveting thriller based on real-life events
When a young western tech executive based in China suffers from heart failure on the job, he receives a heart transplant from an unknown donor. Once he discovers the horrific truth behind his operation he must risk his life to help save the next victims and find redemption.
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Anchors
United States - 2016
A month away from his impending marriage, a man reconnects with an old flame.
This story is all about the dramatic ups and downs of a relationship between Dylan (Will Estes,, Blue Bloods) and Julia (Devin Kelley, Chernobyl Diaries).
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Colby
United States - 2016
A moving family drama of love and loss
Stranded in a small beach town, a troubled young drifter breaks into a wealthy home and cons her way into the good graces of the family that lives there.
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Under The Same Sun
Israel/Palestine - 2015
In the near future, an Israeli and a Palestinian become friends and help usher in a time of peace.
Under the Same Sun is a brave mockumentary parable that imagines the dramatic consequences of an unlikely business partnership between an Israeli and a Palestinian, and shows that idealism could be a catalyst for change in the war-torn region.
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The Great European Disaster Movie
Europe - 2015
Exploring the present crisis facing Europe and a post-EU dystopian future
In a post-EU future, Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen have come to power, the Greeks have written off their debt and the Eurozone has collapsed. Flitting between artfully constructed sequences and interviews with commentators, politicians and ordinary people, this powerful documentary shows us the st…
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Triomf
South Africa - 2015
A tale of marginal madness
March 1994 South Africa. On the day of the first free election Lambert Benade will turn 21, and Uncle Treppie promises him the girl of his dreams. But, in this hilariously horrendous tragi-comedy, as a new world is born, two members of the white trash family are destined to die.
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Turtle Island
United States - 2013
Some documentaries reveal too much.
A documentary filmmaker takes his three friends out into the woods of Vermont searching for Bigfoot.
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The Navigators
United Kingdom - 2001
A film by Ken Loach.
The Navigators tells the story of the reactions of five Sheffield rail workers to the privatisation of the railway maintenance organisation for which they all work, and the consequences for them. A film by Ken Loach.
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Bread and Roses
United States - 2001
The Balance of Power is About to Change
Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.
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The Unspoken
United States - 1999
Real truth is rarely spoken
Jean, a small town child preacher traumatized by child abuse, grows up in a mental institution without speaking. At age 26, he is involuntarily released and ends up in a broken-down, abandoned motel. There he happens upon Cory, a woman whose past is equally troubled. Together, they begin a precario…
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My Name is Joe
United Kingdom - 1998
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
In this classic Ken Loach film, Peter Mullan plays Joe Kavanagh, a man struggling with unemployment and alcoholism who falls in love with Sarah, his health visitor. The film follows his relationship with Sarah, as well as his troubles with Alcoholics Anonymous and his friend Liam. Mullan's portraya…
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Isle of Lesbos
United States - 1997
A Little Something to Offend Just About Everyone!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Oklahoma! in this outrageous musical comedy feature - a 1940s Technicolor - style fantasy extravaganza with a modern and subversive twist. Isle of Lesbos is set in two worlds: Bumfuck, Arkansas, a one horse god fearin' town and the Isle of Lesbos, a different dim…
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Carla's Song
United Kingdom - 1997
Set in 1987, Carla's Song tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan woman living in exile in Glasgow. Searching for her past (her family and boyfriend), Carla returns to war-torn Nicaragua with George, …
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Ladybird Ladybird
United Kingdom - 1994
A British woman gets into a dispute with Social Services over the care and custody of her four children
This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when t…
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Raining Stones
United Kingdom - 1993
Proud, though poor, Bob risks everything for his daughter to wear a beautiful dress for her First Communion.
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questiona…
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Jit
Zimbabwe - 1991
None
A young man, nicknamed UK, lives in Harare with his musician uncle, Oliver Mtukudzi, who plays himself. UK is knocked out when he falls out of a taxicab and then falls in love with the woman he gazes up at when he regains consciousness. He determines that he must marry her, but her father insists o…
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RIff Raff
United Kingdom - 1991
Stevie, a Glaswegian construction worker, moves to London after recently being released from prison. He gets a job turning a derelict hospital into luxury apartments, and begins a romance with Susan, an unemployed pop singer.
Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site -- a melting pot of itinerant labourers from all over the country -- where he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying but usually failing to control his workers;…
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Fatherland - Ken Loach
United Kingdom - 1987
A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and fi…
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The Grass is Singing
Zambia/Sweden - 1981
An acclaimed adaptation of Doris Lessing's seminal work
Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing was at once an author, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and staunch political commentator. This acclaimed adaptation of her iconic first novel captured these talents.
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The Price of Coal
United Kingdom - 1977
None
Two films set in South Yorkshire. Part 1 - Meet the People: The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit by H.R.H. Prince Charles. Part 2 - Back to Reality: A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground …
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Rank and File
United Kingdom - 1971
None
When a pay discrepancy continues without any resolution, glass factory workers turn to their union for support. But when it is not forthcoming, they take things into their own hands. A Ken Loach film.
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Rhodesia Countdown
Zimbabwe - 1969
None
This film explores the conflicts within Rhodesian society in 1969. The "Countdown" theme demonstrates stage by stage, the levels of indignity, injustice and degradation one black man endures before finally starting to fight back against his white master. Using actors to tell different parts of the …
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The Big Flame
United Kingdom - 1969
None
Dock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves. A film by Ken Loach.
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In Two Minds
United Kingdom - 1967
None
In a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'…
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The End of Arthur's Marriage
United Kingdom - 1965
None
A simple-minded man on the outs with his wife and her family must take a large amount of his father-in-law's hard-earned money to buy a house, in the belief that home-ownership will make him responsible and respectable. Instead, he throws it away on a mad spending spree with his daughter. A film b…
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Up The Junction
United Kingdom - 1965
None
Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion. A film by Ken Loach.
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3 Clear Sundays
United Kingdom - 1965
None
A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.…
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A gourmet cannibal secretly loves his neighbour. However, she is a vegetarian. This may be a problem.
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Domestic abuse through the eyes of a child
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United States - 2018
An emotionally charged sci-fi thriller
A body-jumping soldier grapples with the morality of her assignments, ignorant of the fact that her hardest mission will face her at home.
A Little Grey
United States - 2018
A grey man in a colourful world
Is there any cure for being ‘a little grey’? One man’s search takes him through bars, churches, doctor’s surgeries, tattoo parlours and beyond, but will he find what he’s looking for? A colourful story about losing your spark and finding redemption.
Little Elephant
United States - 2018
A short double-feature exploring the complicated nature of same-sex relationships in Britain's South Asian communities.
Chariot Riders Ashok grew up in an Indian family, but he doesn't like anything Indian. Not Indian food, not Indian clothes, and especially not Indian films. Instead, he'd prefer to watch Hollywood action films with his friend Kuldeep. This enchantingly animated short film explores love, culture …
Tungrus
India - 2019
When do you eat your pet rooster?
In a cramped apartment in Mumbai a family considers eating their hell-raising pet rooster so they can reclaim their lives.
Eleven
United States - 2019
When family and duty collide
An astronaut struggles to explain to his 5 year old daughter why he must go away, and why she cannot come with him.
Together
Italy - 2019
A young man tormented by his imaginary friend
Tommy is a boy in distress, constantly tormented by his imaginary friend Osho. It's impossible for Tommy to appease this apparition that prevents him from leading a normal life. Eventually, Tommy decides enough is enough and abandons Osho... but in a most unexpected way. This dramatic, suspenseful …
Post No Bills
Canada - 2019
The biggest risk is not taking one
On an urban city wall plastered with posters Noodle Boy must face his fears and make his way through a series of obstacles and challenges in order to save Miss Fortune from the city’s clean up crew.
Batshit
United Kingdom - 2020
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Bats. They’re just the next species in line having to shoulder the blame for mankind’s mishaps. Poor buggers. This comedy short starring Rich Hall and Romesh Ranganathan gives a voice to the animals who have fallen victim to human behaviour over the years including pangolins, rats, pigs, birds, rab…
Moths to Flame
United States - 2021
Does truth matter in the journey to fame?
In Florida’s hot summer of 1969, just days before the Apollo 11 mission departs, the Astronauts find themselves in quarantine before departure. But instead of the trajectory calculations needed for the mission, they get scripts with jokes and actions - and suspicions arise about the purpose of the …
Recorder Queen
Australia - 2020
A journey into the inner world of recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey
Recorder Queen is a daringly innovative and genre-bending short film through which director Sophie Raymond journeys into the inner world of musician Genevieve Lacey. In a unique collaboration, two distinctive Australian artists push the boundaries of their crafts.