Van Damned
When a group of old school friends reunite for a remote weekend watching 80s action movies, they find themselves under attack from a very real criminal gang. The friends must channel every over-the-top movie they grew up on to survive the night in a blaze of roundhouse kicks, one-liners, and VHS-era chaos.
United We Stand
Ex-footballer Harry George gets a chance at redemption when tasked with building the national team for the world's smallest island nation. If combining reluctant locals with asylum seekers wasn't tough enough, the island's best player is imprisoned in an offshore detention centre.
Sentence
Simon, an unemployed, procrastinating wannabe writer learns he is to be cut off by his family. In desperation he decides that a minimum-security prison — with three square meals and light exercise — will be the perfect place to finish his debut novel. The only problem is Simon doesn't like breaking the rules.
SENCo
Robbie Hackett never planned to be a SENCO. Once a promising English teacher, he was "volunteered" into the role when no one else wanted it. Now, buried under endless paperwork, battling reluctant staff, and advocating for students in an overstretched system — and with a young family — he's barely keeping his head above water.
United Kingdom
In a dystopian future, 18-year-old Ani — burdened with her family's survival — discovers the supposed nuclear attack on London was a hoax by an elite secretly living in luxury within the quarantined city. She must lead a rebellion to shatter the status quo.
Here and Now
Alice Humphrey, an aspiring musical writer, is abruptly dumped by her high-powered girlfriend and left with their half-finished seaside cottage. Stranded in Holme-Next-the-Sea — cut off from ambition, certainty, and escape — she begrudgingly becomes part of the local community, discovering unlikely allies who force her to confront who she is without the life she planned.
The Invigilators
Karen Wong, a highly skilled Hong Kong police officer, emigrates to Britain only to find she cannot transfer to the UK force while her husband's visa is unresolved. Sidelined, she takes a job as an exam invigilator at a local secondary school — where her investigative instincts are anything but dormant.
Attic
A civil servant discovers paintings in his aunt's attic that reveal the suppressed identities of British upper-class wartime fifth columnists. At the centre of the mystery: a Polish double agent who worked as a painter — and whose secrets have been buried for decades.
Spectrum
Ani is the smartest person in the world — not that anyone in the care system has bothered to notice. A polymath savant with synesthesia, dismissed as a troubled teenage girl, she uncovers a tech billionaire running illegal experiments on autistic children. His goal: to steal her gifts for himself.
100th Man
The story of Ray Krone — the hundredth person to be released from Death Row due to DNA evidence. The film looks back at Ray's arrest, his years in prison, and his ultimate release, driven by the unwavering efforts of friends and family and Ray's refusal to give up.
The Hypochondriac's Club
Will Chambers is a shallow food critic drifting through a failing marriage when his wife falls into a coma. While performing grief for sympathetic nurses, he stumbles upon four strangers in the hospital café — all convinced they are terminally ill. None of them are. A dark comedy about the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Nick Hornby.
Tracks in the Smoke
It's the first of December and private eye Nick Dante hasn't had a case worth investigating in a while. When a sound engineer asks him to prove his company didn't leak the new album by pop mega-star Maya Prada, Dante is reluctant. He doesn't like the case or his client. Then he meets Ronnie — and his priorities change. A Christmas noir set across the world of multinational record labels, shady ex-military contractors, and several people from Dante's past who don't want to wish him a Merry Christmas.
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