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Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, France |
Duration | 02:21 |
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:12 |
FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | horror, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, short |
Country | Finland, Norway, France, Sweden |
Duration | 01:19 |
It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, comedy, short, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:14 |
One man. One job. But in the desert, nothing is simple. Presenting Desire, created in collaboration with Ridley Scott Associates
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads to the north to ask whether, in this once united kingdom, a 'schasm' has formed between north and south, between the have's and have-nots.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:19 |
A young couple's marriage hilariously hits the rocks during a weekend wedding in the country.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.
Mark | imdb: 8.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:30 |
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:05 |
The story of a lonely woman meeting a lonely cosmonaut.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:14 |
In 1970's Belfast two young boys discover the facts of life aided by the help of their pet chickens.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, crime, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:27 |
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:13 |
Oliver has a mid-life crisis, and decides to get married - to himself. This is the story of his relationship, and how he discovers some truths about life and love on the way.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:40 |
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:29 |
Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | comedy, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:07 |
A funny business meeting illustrating how hard it is for an engineer to fit into the corporate world.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:16 |
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, short |
Country | Macau, USA, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia |
Duration | 01:00 |
Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio must compete for the lead role in Martin Scorsese's next film.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 00:27 |
A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball...
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, adventure, family |
Country | United Kingdom, South Africa |
Duration | 01:27 |
Family adventure based on Mary Norton's classic children's books about a race of tiny people who live under the floorboards, resourcefully surviving by borrowing bits and pieces from the large residents who dwell above. After being discovered by 'human beans', borrower Arrietty and her parents are forced to leave their home while attempting to evade the clutches of obsessive scientist Professor Mildeye.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | horror, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
It's Christmas Eve, and a soon-to-be-shit-canned maintenance gopher (Dan Palmer) is changing light bulbs and cleaning toilets instead of drinking egg nog and making out with drunk receptionists at the annual office party. Unfortunately for this forlorn floor-sweeper, he chooses to use the ladies restroom the very second a zombie outbreak occurs! Will he bowl us over and flush away the undead or (like in his pre-apocalypse life) simply remain ...Stalled?
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:46 |
The US President and the UK Prime Minister are looking to launch a war in the Middle East. The plot follows government officials and advisers in their behind-the-scenes efforts either to promote the war or prevent it.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:05 |
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, short, music |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, South Africa, France |
Duration | 00:15 |
Big dreams, big blunts, big rims, and big guns. It's time to get gangsta gangsta. Ninja and Yo Landi are wheelchair-bound lovers and real gangstas. They live in the outskirts of civilization, they shoot guns for fun, smoke massive joints, and sleep in the woods. They don't have any bling to show for their gangsta cred, but the world deserves to know who they are. They're tramps, and their wheels are starting to fall off. Ninja become despondent over their vagabond existence, but Yo Landi won't let him give up. What ensues is straight up gangsta mayhem, the realist of the real, true gangsta shit.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:14 |
Anna lives in her Mum's garden shed making videos with her thumbs. Her Mum wants her to come out but Anna doesn't want to.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:42 |
A father and son who must team up to save Christmas, once they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage after crashing his sleigh and finding himself on the run from the police.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, comedy, musical |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:21 |
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.