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- DirectorTerence GrossStarsToni ColletteDaniel CraigKatrin CartlidgeA chef (Toni Collette) seeks reconciliation with her brother (Daniel Craig) by helping him run a decaying resort and health spa.Channel 4 / Film4 - last shown 19th August 2022. Despite being a Film4 production this film is rarely seen and obscure.
- DirectorHarri ShanahanSiân A. WilliamsStarsIndigo AzidahakaKaren FischREBEL DYKES is a full-length documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.Channel 4 \ All4 - July 2022
- DirectorJonas ÅkerlundStarsRory CulkinEmory CohenJack KilmerA teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome.Film4 2021. Notable in that this wasn't available on subscription streaming services at the time of TV broadcast, also fairly difficult to find on BR\DVD.
- DirectorPenny WoolcockStarsAlec NewmanMarc WarrenSienna GuilloryCrippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.Channel 4 (first broadcast late 00s?) and Film4 (2021) . Difficult film to find.
- DirectorCamille Vidal-NaquetStarsFélix MaritaudFarid-Eric BernardNicolas DiblaLeo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here - longing for love. He doesn't know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.Film 4 - November 2020
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.Film4 - November 2020
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsZoë NathensonSara SugarmanCathy MurphyGirls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.Channel 4 - TV movie made for Channel 4, but still difficult to find. Last shown Oct 2020.
- DirectorKristian A. SöderströmStarsStefan SaukLena NilssonMorgan AllingA VHS collector and a woman obsessed with the 80s, both alcoholics, initiates a romance that helps them battle their personal failures.Film4 - 2020
- DirectorFreddie YoungStarsJimmy JewelMichael ElphickDavid SwiftArthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.TV Movie for Channel 4 (1984). Notable in it appears to have no DVD or VHS release. Last shown Nov. 2020 on Film4.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.Film4 - 2020. Notable in that it had no UK DVD\BR release at the time of broadcast.
- DirectorLionel JeffriesStarsLaurence NaismithGraham CrowdenDorothy AlisonTwo children befriend ghosts in a haunted mansion. To help the ghosts, they make a potion allowing time travel to the past. After becoming housekeepers, they return to the mansion's past and aid the dead children.BBC 2 - last broadcast 2016
- DirectorJohn DuiganStarsSam RockwellKathleen QuinlanMischa BartonWhen Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.BBC 2 - first broadcast 2001, last broadcast 2012
- DirectorReb BraddockStarsWilliam BaldwinAngela JonesBruce RamsayAfter getting interested in murder as a kid in Colombia, Gabriela now has a scrapbook on murders including clippings on "The Blue Blood Killer". While cleaning his latest murder scene in Miami, she comes across a clue missed by the cops.BBC 2 - first broadcast 2006, last broadcast 2011
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsAnne BancroftPeter FinchJames MasonBeautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.BBC 2 - 8th Aug 2007, last broadcast July 2011.
- DirectorThomas SchlammeStarsHolly HunterMary SteenburgenTim RobbinsCarnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.BBC 1 - First broadcast 6th June 1994, last broadcast 2011 (BBC 2)
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsBenjamin BrattGiancarlo EspositoTalisa SotoMiguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.BBC 2 - first shown 2005, last broadcast 2011
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsBrad DourifJohn HustonDan ShorFresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.BBC 2 - first broadcast 1992, last broadcast 2010
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsBryant HalidayJill HaworthMark EdwardsA group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...BBC 2 - last shown 2009, first shown 2002
- DirectorDavid PriceStarsSean YoungTim DalyLysette AnthonyA scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.BBC 2 - last shown 2009.
- DirectorTrish McAdamStarsPom BoydGina MoxleySean HughesA wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.BBC 2 - notable for only being released on VHS in the UK. Last broadcast Oct 2008, first broadcast 2007?
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert ForsterVerna BloomPeter BonerzA TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.BBC 2 - first broadcast 1977, last broadcast 2007
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsEdward FurlongChristina RicciBess ArmstrongA talented young photographer, who enjoys snapping photos of his satirical, perverted Baltimore neighborhood and his wacky family, gets dragged into a world of pretentious artists from New York City and finds newfound fame.BBC 2 - first broadcat 2002, last broadcast 2006.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsSterling HaydenSebastian CabotCarol KellyA Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.I saw it around 2006 as part of a daytime screening on Channel 4.
- DirectorWayne KramerStarsWilliam H. MacyMaria BelloAlec BaldwinIn an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.Channel 4?, Early-Mid 00s
- DirectorJørgen LethLars von TrierStarsClaus NissenMajken Algren NielsenDaniel Hernandez RodriguezFilmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.Channel 4 -
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsJeanne MoreauMaurice RonetGeorges PoujoulyA self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.BBC 2 - first shown 1969, last shown 2005 (BBC Four)
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsTerry CamilleriJohn MeillonKevin MilesThe small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.BBC 2 - First shown 1997, last shown 2003
- DirectorAsoka HandagamaStarsAnoma JanadariGayani GisanthikaMahendra PereraIn order to avoid the gender discrimination prevelent in Sri Lanka, a woman decides to pass as a man and gets a job as a mechanic and even takes a wife.Shown late night on Channel 4, early 2000s along with Iron Ladies
- DirectorYongyoot ThongkongtoonStarsJesdaporn PholdeeSahaphap TorEkachai BuranapanitA triumph over adversity. Based on the true story of the 1996 Thailand National Champion Volleyball Team.Channel 4
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsNatalie PressDanny DyerJodie MitchellA struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.Short film - shown a few times on Channel 4 early and mid 2000s
- DirectorAndrew Y-S ChengStarsZhinan LiMian MianYuting YangSet in Shanghai. Everyone panics.Channel 4, probably 2002.
- DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsStellan SkarsgårdLena HeadeyJean JohanssonA mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He's drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.
- DirectorBen HopkinsStarsNoah TaylorStuart TownsendEmbeth DavidtzSimon (Noah Taylor) is an outcast from his Jewish community, because he claims that the devil talks to him, and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid (Stuart Townsend) asks the "Squire" (Rutger Hauer) to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighboring Gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land, so he can "persuade" him otherwise.Shown on Channel 4. Filmfour production, but this film has disappeared off the planet.
- DirectorMichael AlmereydaStarsElina LöwensohnPeter FondaNic RatnerThis ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.
- DirectorLisa CholodenkoStarsRadha MitchellAlly SheedyPatricia ClarksonA young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.Channel 4? - Early 2000s
- DirectorCédric KahnStarsCharles BerlingSophie GuilleminArielle DombasleMartin is a philosophy teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Lacking direction or purpose in his life, he initiates an affair with Cécilia, a young artist's model who might have killed her former lover.Channel 4 - early 00s
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsTheresa RandleIsaiah WashingtonSpike LeeAn aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.Channel 5
- DirectorLloyd KaufmanStarsJane JensenWill KeenanValentine MieleTromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.Channel 4 - Early 00s
- DirectorMichael HerzLloyd KaufmanStarsAndree MarandaMitch CohenJennifer BabtistTromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.Channel 4 - Early 00s
- DirectorMichael HerzLloyd KaufmanStarsRick GianasiSusan ByunBill WeedenA streetwise New York police officer transforms into the world's most unusual superhuman hero.Channel 4 - Early 00s
- DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerDian BacharStephen BlackpoolThe sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh.Channel 4 - Early 00s
- DirectorGeorge MerriweatherStarsMichael McGaharnElizabeth KeyRichard NeilA bumbling detective, along with his loyal sidekick and a man in a dog suit, tracks down a sultry chainsaw murderess!Channel 4 - Early 00s
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsKiyomi ItôMomori AsanoKyôko NakamuraErotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.Shown as part of Japan season in 2000.
- DirectorToshiki SatôStarsDaikei ShimizuMineo SugiuraHotaru HazukiThe story of two men, one middle aged, one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners.Shown as part of Japan season in 2000.
- DirectorBill ForsythStarsCarly McKinnonJohn Gordon SinclairJohn MurtaghBill Forsyth returns to the romantic comedy of 'Gregory's Girl.' 20 years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend. Trapped between his idealism and breaking the law while trying to choose between two girls--a schoolgirl and a full-grown woman--Gregory still has some growing up to do.Obscure sequel to Gregory's Girl. Produced by Channel 4, but rarely seen. Early to Mid 2000s.
- DirectorSkip WoodsStarsThomas JaneAaron EckhartPaulina PorizkovaA former L.A. drug dealer has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts who comes carrying heroin.BBC 2 - Early 00s
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsBernard GiraudeauMalik ZidiLudivine SagnierIn 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.Channel 4 - 2002 or 2003
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsCharlotte RamplingBruno CremerJacques NolotWhen her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.Channel 4 - 2002 or 2003
- DirectorChris MengesStarsDaniel AuteuilNastassja KinskiKatrin CartlidgeXavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He involves a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian," the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.Channel 4 - early to mid 2000s shown after midnight
- DirectorDom RotheroeStarsJenna HarrisonBen WhishawHoneysuckle WeeksA teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a private reality that no-one else can enter.Channel 4 - early to mid 2000s shown after midnight
- DirectorMatthew BrightStarsNatasha LyonneMaría CeledonioDavid Alan GrierA teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on a destructive road trip to Mexico in this twist on the "Hansel and Gretel" fairy tale.Channel 4 early 00s
- DirectorYolande ZaubermanStarsÉlodie BouchezRoschdy ZemBéatrice DalleA young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled drug addict.Channel 4 - Early 00s
- DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.Channel 4 - early 2000s
- DirectorVal GuestStarsRobin AskwithAnthony BoothSheila WhiteAn optimistic and inept window cleaner fully 'satisfies' his customers, bed hopping from one unsatisfied housewife to another, until he meets a successful female police officer, who will have none of his sexual advances.This and all Confessions Of.. films turned up on Channel 5 in the late 90s\2000.
- DirectorFrank LaLoggiaStarsLukas HaasLen CariouAlex RoccoAn author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.BBC 2? I definitely saw it around early 2000s, but possibly screened before.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsUma ThurmanLorraine BraccoPat MoritaSissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the U.S. from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising, and her New York agent, "the Countess" (Sir John Hurt), sends her to his ranch in California to shoot a commercial, set against the background of mating whooping cranes. There, she befriends Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix), one of the cowgirls at the beauty ranch. The cowgirls take command of the ranch from the Countess and drug the cranes with peyote. The Police besiege the ranch.Channel 4, early 00s.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsVanessa RedgraveOliver ReedDudley SuttonIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.Channel 4 - Early 2000s
- DirectorPaul MorrisonStarsIoan GruffuddNia RobertsSue Jones-DaviesA tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish.Film4 - March 2000
- DirectorJulien TempleStarsJames FrainRomane BohringerNicholas BarnesBased on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.Film4 - March 2000
- DirectorÓscar AibarStarsPere PonceJoaquín HinojosaIggy PopIn the near future, the areas between major cities are lawless wastelands. Atolladero is a town run with an iron fist by a corrupt tyrant named The Judge and his murderous enforcer, Madden. One decent cop decides to leave town, but the powers that be don't want that and go after him.Film4 - 28th Feb 2000
- DirectorKatharina Otto-BernsteinStarsSarah CooksonDana DouglasSusanne HoppeA documentary that follows four upcoming models, while showing what the whole world of modeling is all about.Film4 - 22nd Jan 2000
- DirectorBenjamin RossStarsHugh O'ConorAntony SherTobias ArnoldThis film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment is intolerable to him and, in particular, his stepmother torments him. He decides to poison those who annoy him, first with antimony and later with thallium. He smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him, but nevertheless he is caught and sentenced to 'rehabilitation' at a psychiatric institution. Once there, he undertakes to deceive the new eminent psychiatrist sent there to 'cure' him, thereby securing his release.Channel 4 - early morning early 2000s
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsClint EastwoodGeraldine PageElizabeth HartmanWhile recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.BBC 2 - First screening 1991, last shown early 2000s?
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsShabana AzmiNandita DasKarishma JhalaniTwo mentally unstable women who are abandoned by their husbands find love and solace in each other.Channel 4 - possibly late 90s.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu KanaokaA businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.Channel 4 - early 00s?
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsHarry Dean StantonEmilio EstevezTracey WalterA young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.BBC 2 - first shown 1989, last shown early 00s?
- DirectorSeiji MizushimaHiroshi NegishiStarsRobert ChaseElly FairmanMegumi HayashibaraChannel 4 - Around December 2000?
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.Channel 4- mid-late 90s (was originally broadcast before)
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta SerranoA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.BBC 2 - first broadcast 1995, last broadcast 1997
- DirectorDavid HaymanStarsDaryl WebsterThomas TaplinJoshua TaplinHousewife Annie Marsh (Dame Helen Mirren) suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
- DirectorSteven OkazakiStarsMinako OhashiKen NakagawaMitzi AbeWhen her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.Pretty sure it was on Channel 4
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsFernando Ramos da SilvaJorge JuliãoGilberto MouraThe life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.Channel 4 - Red Triangle Film - 24th October 1986
- DirectorGraham EvansAlbert FinneyStarsMichael AldridgeNigel DavenportMark DignamBased on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.Channel 4 - broadcast in 1984, attracted high viewing figures, but no subsequent TV screenings or releases.
- DirectorIvan NagyStarsSally StruthersDavid AckroydDick Anthony WilliamsEmily Cates is left at home alone when a stranger breaks in and holds her hostage.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsJulie WaltersCiarán HindsNuala O'NeillA Belfast, Northern Ireland housewife takes up the peace cause, which causes her family trouble with I.R.A. sympathizers.
- DirectorPape B. SeckStarsPape Oumar DiopKitty GuschmannSabine KueckelmannA Senegalese man searches for a German woman who bought an important mask from him and who is also his lover.
- DirectorMoira ArmstrongStarsNigel AnthonyMichael Graham CoxMichael ElphickLife changes dramatically for radio amateur Norman when he gets in touch with a round-the-world yachtsman who introduces him to a different life - and a taste of fame.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsStephen ReaDudley SuttonDiana HardcastleSet in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year's Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
- DirectorMichael DarlowStarsElspeth CharltonBob SmeatonMichael McNallyThe efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.
- DirectorJean-Pierre PonnelleStarsMirella FreniPlácido DomingoChrista LudwigA young Japanese geisha clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage.
- DirectorDebbie IsittStarsRicky TomlinsonMarion BaileyPhil DanielsMr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving Peach's anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban cul-de-sac home waiting to see who will be moving in next door. Unfortunately, far from their dreams of the ideal couple, a flash, young couple Mr. Chapman (Phil Daniels - Quadrophenia, One Foot In The Grave) and Mrs. Chapman (Rachel Fielding - Cold Feet, Dangerfield) turn out to be their new neighbours... As a mutual hatred for each other develops, the neighbours begin an intensifying bloody feud which climaxes in a bitter ending.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsAntony SherBillie WhitelawPatrick MacneeA young man discovers that not only has he the ability to read minds, but also that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film. He strikes a deal with a wealthy businessman to use his powers, with two conditions: that he will make enough money for a sex-change operation; and that under no circumstances shall his powers be used for military purposes. Things don't work out quite the way he planned.
- DirectorEdouard NammourStarsRory CopusSally PhillipsTim Dutton"Tooth" tells the story of a feisty young Tooth Fairy who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies have forgotten about magic, she decides to give away all of its money and bankrupt her world, two days before Christmas. When she realises how much trouble she is in, she realises the only person who can help is the legendary Mrs. Santa Claus, who disappeared, along with magic over 100 years ago. Teaming up with two human children and a number of fairies who are living incognito among humans, she sets off on the adventure of a lifetime, pursued by the evil, terrifying fairy Plug.
- DirectorMark HanlonStarsAidan GillenEmmanuelle SeignerSusan TyrrellAn introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
- DirectorSol PapadopoulosStarsLenny WoodAndrew SchofieldLisa ParryAll seventeen year-old Magic wants is Paula - the girl of his dreams, but he'll have to save her family, first - not just from the attention of the local gangster but more importantly, from themselves - and there's her imaginary friend Georgina to contend with too.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsXiaodong LiuYe LouHong YuThe Days is Wang Xiaoshuai's 1993 debut. Filmed in black-and-white, The Days follows the life of two married artists who have graduated from the Beijing Art Institute.
- DirectorEugene CorrStarsJon VoightJoBeth WilliamsAnnabeth GishThe story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic stepfather. Her memories of Robin, her first love, are much happier, and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr, whose visit is fun, but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Nevada bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.
- DirectorJeremy PodeswaStarsVon FloresJohn GilbertPascale MontpetitA round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.