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- DirectorShankar MukherjeeStarsDev AnandNutanAnwar HussainCity-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal-dada asks him to go to the village and look after his mother, and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After he comes to know both mother and daughter, they decide to re-locate to the big city to be with Gopal. In the process, Ramu and Chanda fall in love with each other. Chanda wants Ramu to give up his life of crime; Ramu agrees to do so, but will his crime partners allow Ramu to lead a normal life?
- DirectorNida ManzoorStarsAmbreen RaziaMandeep DhillonRobyn Cara
- DirectorMolly Manning WalkerStarsRonke AdekoluejoSaskia ChanaMandeep DhillonThe pandemic crawls on and Aisha shelters in her flat. Doorstep visits from friends and family mark the passing weeks as Aisha struggles with how to tell them what's happening to her.
- DirectorLab Ky MoStarsChi-Lin NimJessica WooAn amateur British-Chinese theatrical group attempt to put on Caryl Churchill's 'Cloud 9' with disastrous, but hilarious, consequences.
- DirectorShezad DawoodStarsHouda EchouafniChen KoTracy BrabinA young Chinese boy and girl are sent on a mission to retrieve the 'Glorious 100' - agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and observe.
- DirectorRaza TariqStarsReiss KershiMoses AlexanderTola OluwoleA British-Asian Teen, JAMAL, goes on a night out with his friends expecting the usual, but finds himself questioning his identity in the process.
- DirectorRaza TariqStarsEva BarclayClive CoenAlice ComerfordA woman lives her entire life in the confines of a modern art gallery, while she is drawn by her friends and family.
- DirectorRaza TariqStarsRaza TariqI left a voicemail to myself.
- DirectorSarmad MasudStarsHimesh PatelEleanor WyldMartin DelaneyGeeky Pavan takes his 'English Rose' on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi.
- DirectorLogan GeorgeCeline HeldStarsLogan GeorgeBhasker PatelIan MacnaughtonAn estranged son discovers an alarming purchase made by his late father.
- DirectorLogan GeorgeCeline HeldMeeting his dad's significant other is one thing; accompanying her on a plane ride is another.
- DirectorKieran ThompsonStarsChristine Kellogg-DarrinElester LathamAn older couple on a first date at the art museum explores love both new and old.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsMelvyn DouglasLouise PlattGene LockhartMichael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers.
- DirectorCaleb FemiStarsGabriel AkamoKhai ShawA tragicomic sci-fi tale about a young man suffering from PTSD who watches a commercial for a tea that claims to cure PTSD.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsBonita GranvilleJohn LitelJames StephensonAfter a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsBonita GranvilleJohn LitelFrankie ThomasNancy Drew, contest-reporter for the local newspaper, clears a young woman of murder charges.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsBonita GranvilleFrankie ThomasJohn LitelWhen a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsBonita GranvilleFrankie ThomasJohn LitelNancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsEdward ArnoldSelena RoyleTom TroutAn unscrupulous woman and her brood prey on soldiers and sailors in an embarkation city.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsJoan FontaineIda LupinoEdmund GwennA man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsAntonio PetruzziStefano Satta FloresSergio FerraninoThe story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmol PalekarBindiya GoswamiDeven VermaA man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss gets suspicious.
- DirectorRobin BakerStarsDaniel RyanNavin ChowdhryColin HowdleColin wants romance. Naveen wants sex. Seafood is a modern metropolitan tale of love, lust and unbearable frustration on the streets of East London.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsSheila McCarthyPaule BaillargeonAnn-Marie MacDonaldScatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsJung Eun-chaeLee Sun-kyunYoo Joon-sangThe secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesKenneth WilliamsCharles HawtreySir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khyber Pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas.
- DirectorAlan TarrantStarsSidney JamesBarbara WindsorJoan SimsThe Carry On gang spoofs the English Civil War.
- DirectorDavid AttwoodStarsNaveen AndrewsSarita ChoudhuryRonny JhuttiA young Pakistani living in England thinks that he is a cowboy and dreams of leading his country-music band to success in Nashville. He meets a young woman who leaves her abusive husband and joins their group as a singer, but when they get a break with a record company, the company is only interested in her. Taking the proceeds of the sale of their family home, they finally set out to achieve their dream in Nashville. There are several comic sub-plots as well, the main one revolving around a biker gang out to get the family.
- DirectorRonny JhuttiStarsGordon BeesKat BhathenaAmeet ChanaAnother Day in Southall as a robbery goes completely wrong by various distractions.
- DirectorPaul SukhijaStarsAmeet ChanaAmeet Chana presents a picture of the key creative industries, recognised as cutting edge both locally and abroad, set against the unique multicultural backdrop of London.
- 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.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsMartin HendersonAishwarya Rai BachchanNadira BabbarA modern adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, that features the lives of four unmarried daughters in an Indian family.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsSanjeev BhaskarSteve MorphewSteve JonesA comedy centered on an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder.
- StarsRosemary Hartill
- DirectorNick AaronsSunny Hundal explores the legacy of his late brother Jagraj Singh, a prominent Sikh leader, and asks if a rise in religious activism points towards a bigger story of Sikh identity.
- DirectorPaul SukhijaStarsAmeet ChanaAnil DesaiAmardeep KaushallTommy cruises the streets of east London with his mates, on his way to a run-in with a local gang.
- DirectorPaul SukhijaObservational doc following a west London promoter, as he risks all to put on the biggest gig of his life - the Ultimate Daytimer
- DirectorPaul SukhijaAsian kids misbehaving on the streets of east London.
- DirectorShaad AliStarsAbhishek BachchanPreity G ZintaBobby DeolA crazy love story full of lies, deceits and a complicated quadrangle where each one has to think quickly and dance around each other's emotions.
- DirectorVikram PradhanStarsAmmy VirkMonica GillKaramjit AnmolAfter getting his visa to Germany denied, a man tries to marry British woman so he can move to England.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsSteven GerayMicheline CheirelEugene BordenParis police detective Cassin has a well needed vacation at a rural inn, where the owners' adult daughter shows interest in him but she has a jealous boyfriend. Will Cassin need his skills?
- DirectorAtul MalhotraStarsRez KemptonSam VincentiMartin DelaneyAmar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
- DirectorVipul Amrutlal ShahStarsAjay DevgnSalman KhanAditya Roy KapoorThe story revolves around two childhood friends Arjun and Munnu who find a way to get from a small village in India to Wembley as Rock stars, having overcome their personalities.
- DirectorOmar KentStarsMamad HeidariRruchiSouthall, July 1981 - With the events of 1978 still fresh in the memory, an Indian couple decide to stay home as skinheads gather in Southall for a punk show.
- DirectorKaamil ShahStarsMiriam BabooramPriya DavdraFraser Fraser1978 - A silent comedy about two women who end up connecting over the milkman's delivery.
- DirectorBlaise SinghStarsAsadbek IkromkhonovMichael MacLeodSautik Chunilal1979 - A bullied boy triggers an uprising against racism on a desegregation school bus.
- DirectorBlaise SinghStarsJerry EzekielNatasha VasandaniAn aspiring actress auditions for a Bollywood director keen on getting her on his casting couch. A film by Blaise Singh shot on 16mm.
- DirectorAfshin Robin RohaniBlaise Singh
- DirectorHeiny SrourThis film is the one and only testimony shot in the depths of the former "Liberated Zone" of Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman, on a totally secular, democratic and feminist social experience in Arab and Muslim lands.
- DirectorJeremy WoodingStarsPreeya KalidasKristian WilkinSam CurtisGeena's friends arrange for her to meet the cute (but white) Jason outside the church at four o'clock. However his brother resents him seeing an Indian while her brothers lock her in the top room in the sari shop. But, in true Bollywood tradition, love will find a way!
- DirectorSaleem HaddadStarsZed JosefMarwan KaabourAmal HaddadWhen a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsAnne CrawfordPeggy CumminsRosamund JohnA pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a petty hoodlum who commits a jewel robbery. The second story tells of a young girl who deserts the Army to marry a boy who needs her and commits bigamy in the process, but it all works out. The third story is about a baby who is mistreated by its father and stepmother, but is reunited, through police work, with its real mother.
- StarsJohn AkomfrahBlack film-maker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. He shows Englishness from the point of view of mixed race English people. Following in the footsteps of J B Priestley, author of English Journey, he visits Liverpool, one of the oldest multicultural communities in England.
- DirectorJag MundhraStarsNaseeruddin ShahGreta ScacchiBrian CoxA Lahore-born London Police Commander deals with personal issues and investigates the shooting death of a fellow-Muslim.
- DirectorMandeep KumarStarsDiljit DosanjhMonica GillNavneet Kaur DhillonA secret agent who is posing as an insurance salesman tries to find an assassin, while also trying to juggle three women.
- DirectorNelson MakengoAs dusk fades and another night without electricity falls, Kinshasa's neighborhoods reveal an environment of violence, political conflict, and uncertainty over the building of a hydroelectric dam.
- DirectorPing WongWong Ping urinates twice before gently pressing your head down with his right foot, giving you a closer look at your own reflection in his urine.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJasmine ThiréMichel JeannèsJacky PatinA 14-year-old girl opens a package containing a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. Jasmine enters the folds of the dress, into a modern anti-fairy tale and everyday empowerment.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsSakura AndôJiji BooWakato KanematsuA girl, Sakura, takes a journey from the enchanted nature of Nara to the chaos of Tokyo, encountering many things and people along the way. Moving like a tree that sways in the wind, the girl expresses a spirit that secretly runs through places and living things.
- DirectorDorian JespersStarsDéni Oumar PitsaevAlexandr PronkinFedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the darkness of the Russian arctic. He wanders from client to client through the concrete alleyways driven by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its inhabitants. His dreams erode his sense of reality, opening the door to a phantasmagorical universe: a second sun rises over the horizon.
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsSophie HannahCory RobertsIan LerchThe movie is about an app called Somebody, if you sent a message through somebody it goes not to your friend but a user nearer to your friend and they deliver your message verbally for you when you can't be there. "When you can't be there, somebody can."
- DirectorLucrecia MartelStarsMaría AlchéJulia AndersonCecilia BarriosIn this contemporary film noir, an elegant crew of female creatures emerges insect-like from portals on board a ship anchored in a tropical sea, their faces obscured from view. The beings sashay like 40s femme fatales, bearing sunglasses which conceal all but the fluttering of their false lashes as a new language is revealed, a Morse code of clicks and vibrations which underscores their private fantasy world of desire and spiritual escapism. Entombed aboard this luxury modernist boat, the female chrysalides prepare for their strange metamorphosis, symbols of evolution, transcendence and escape from the material and ephemeral.
- DirectorJag MundhraStarsAishwarya Rai BachchanMichael WatsonMiranda RichardsonBased on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman, who was abused by her husband for 10 years. After killing her husband in self-defense, Ahluwalia is imprisoned as those close to her fight to set her free.
- DirectorMustapha KseibatiStarsMohammed MansarayBrandon RobinsonJaipal BabraaAn English schoolboy tired of bullies teams with with his two new friends. Together they sing, plan and execute their plan at the school dance to humiliate the bullies and win over the girl.
- DirectorMustapha KseibatiStarsKayvan NovakSophie ThompsonJayden Revri12-year-old Adam finds his 31-year old, superhero obsessed brother with learning difficulties a nightmare - until he sees a chance to use him to gain friends.
- DirectorHumza ArshadMustapha KseibatiStarsHumza ArshadMax WilliamsManpreet BambraA young man has his faith restored and turns away from hate to love, only for this to be challenged on many fronts with consequences.
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsAgam DarshiNimmi HarasgamaSeema BiswasExplores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
- DirectorOlivia EmdenStarsJoey AkubezeTia BannonBradley BantonA non-acrimonious but sudden divorce wrenches the gay, working-class born Emeka out of a decade-long hiatus living the middle-class dream, landing him back in the childhood council house he hoped he'd left behind.
- DirectorBas AckermannStarsChristopher Tijan-SmithMonica DaviesCornelius GomezWhen Modou, a young African deportee, returns to his home country after five years of living illegally in Europe, he keeps being haunted by the traumatic flashbacks of his journey.
- DirectorLotje SodderlandStarsMartin BudnyTomek MichalkiewiczRemi RachubaA true-fiction short about a Polish care worker in London whose humanity is blunted by the demands of his digital boss.
- DirectorDaisy MooreStarsColin BlumenauSarita DavisDaisy MooreDara and Sophie's once close friendship is now only sustained by likes, memes and ever-delayed meet-ups. When Sophie commits suicide, Dara is forced to look behind the surface of Sophie's last messages.
- DirectorRebecca KingStarsBenjamin AlalouffFayez BakhshRaghad ChaarA young Sámi woman faces conflicting emotions of having found a home far away from her family in Sápmi.
- DirectorAbraham AdeyemiStarsIvanno JeremiahParys JordonJoshua CameronTwo lifelong friends meet up at their childhood favorite South London fried chicken shop at a divergent point in their lives. This enchanting tale of friendship treads between both past and present showing how one's promise and talent can struggle to be fulfilled.
- DirectorEdem KelmanStarsHanz GalRobinah KirondeKeren OseiOne day you might find a balloon on the floor and ask: Who did it once belong to? Whose face did it light up? What joy was it once commemorating, now only to be trodden on and wheeled over between alleyways and curbs?
- DirectorOrson NavaStarsLiam BarrBenjamin R. BriggsAllison FellBenny The Boy Atlas is a short drama about a boy who literally takes the weight of the world on his shoulders.
- DirectorAshvin-Kumar JoshiStarsAshvin-Kumar JoshiRuth KastenbaumCatherine MobleyKareem's Vengeance is a dark and gritty tale of Kareem, a man fresh out of prison hunting the streets of Southall looking for Saira, a woman who was once very much a part of his life.
- DirectorGabriel BöhmerBartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery and lonely MRI machines. At least the growing hole in his head is becoming quite beautiful.
- DirectorLuna CarmoonStarsRuby StokesFrankie BoxDemi ButcherDuring a sizzling summer in the noughties, a gang of South London schoolgirls face strange sexual awakenings, which culminate in a visceral fate.
- DirectorSilvain MonneySamuel PattheyTime seems to have stopped around the Villa when suddenly a silhouette passes. Inside the building, we discover weakened bodies, auxiliary nurses and a black cat as the minutes go by, slowly, repetitively.
- DirectorJames ButlerStarsGodfrey Hodgson
- DirectorNicolaas Schmidt
- DirectorSylvia SchedelbauerAn expanding feeling, unfolding new inflections - forever different, forever changing.
- DirectorJohn OgunmuyiwaStarsMichael AkinsulireBradley BantonStevie BasaulaA job is just a job, but as with anything, time flies when you're doing it with your best friend. And today's no different. We follow Ty Malcolm as they go about their daily routine. Just another day for two really good friends.
- DirectorEsme Creed-MilesStarsKate BramleyLouise BrealeyJanet CowlShe was depressed, frustrated from her life. In her train journey she saw a lady commiting suicide which changed her perspective towards life.
- DirectorGavin Scott WhitfieldStarsLiam MooganLibbi-Jean KeeleyTracey MackieWith one terrible act, 12 year old Eric leaves his childhood behind in a bid to help his family survive.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsBernard VorhausStarsBobby BreenAlan MowbrayRalph MorganIn the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
- DirectorConstantine NasrStarsKenneth BranaghLeonard MaltinThomas G. SchatzA look at the movies in the year 1939, considered by many to be one of the greatest years in film history.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsFay BainterIda LupinoLee BowmanSociety-lady Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed 25 cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She sends to New York City for a reformed gangster she had befriended, Frankie O'Fallon, and he hires the manpower needed from the usual Columbia hoods. Her gang hijacks the racketeers, recovers the merchant's money and returns it to them. Lila Thorne, engaged to Hattie's son Fred, throws in with her future mother-in-law when she sees that the old lady is fighting for the American principle of freedom of choice...and action. Lila frames the gang-leader, George Watson, and Hattie's big-city vigilantes kidnap him and extract the information that the town-mayor, Johnny "J.J." Jones, is the brains behind the protection-gang and is getting the big cut of the money. But Hattie must still rob a bank before she can secure the evidence needed to convict the mayor. All in a day's work for a crusading society dame.
- DirectorWilliam Stefan SmithStarsDaniel KaluuyaSeraphina BehChristopher YorkWhen stand-up comedian Jay prolongs his flirtatious post-show drinks with fellow stand-up June he misses his last train home, forcing a more intimate exploration of himself than expected. Can he resist the temptation to escape his reality for a night or stay faithful to the growing number of people waiting for him at home?
- DirectorSophia Di MartinoStarsSiobhán McSweeney
- DirectorHector NorrisLouis NorrisTanya RonderStarsAnastasia HillePenny LaydenHermione NorrisIt's the height of lockdown, and Beth has asked her older sisters for a video call. She's expecting a functional chat about mum's shopping bill, but the conversation takes a darker turn.
- DirectorSasha SvirskyStarsSasha SvirskyNadezhda SvirskaiaGood and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post-narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
- DirectorJenny BradyA crossed telephone line propels heated and intimate conversations in which we encounter scenes of protest at a university for deaf students, a Q&A cross-fire interrogation, vocal confrontations, and lip-reading practice.
- DirectorSophie LittmanStarsMillie AshfordEsme Creed-MilesSam SpruellMia takes her sister Squeeze to walk their dog near their home. The landscape begins to morph around them, plunging them into a powerless limbo of grief and introducing Mia to a strange man lurking at the edge of a dark wood.
- DirectorTal AmiranUnder Paris' glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.