Daniel Newman

Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in one of Norris's narcotic scams with a bent cop, Dunston, Tom is dragged deeper into a vicious circle of blood money, vice and ruthless violence from which their seems no way out. Until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment, Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris's blood, Tom heads downstairs to his neighbors, Max and Nikki his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question, Max and Nikki speed Tom to their desolate cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space, Tom begins to realize a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotion flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki...

Featured in London and L.A. Film Festivals. It was runner up in TCM Classic Shorts competition and was broadcast on TCM. The film was also selected for The First Film Foundation’s New Directions and screened in New York and LA.

Featured in London and L.A. Film Festivals. It was runner up in TCM Classic Shorts competition and was broadcast on TCM. The film was also selected for The First Film Foundation’s New Directions and screened in New York and LA.

Teenager Elias has watched his farming community struggle through season after season of bad crops. When unexplained visions--perhaps from another world--give Elias hope of a coming miracle, he becomes the key to saving his town.

Bafta-winning drama. Following difficulties with her parents, teenager Gemma Brogan leaves home. She falls under the spell of a young woman who introduce her to the world of alternative youth culture and drugs. Initially her new life seems glamorous and exciting but she soon discovers its dark side as she slides uncontrollably into heroin addiction.

The horrors of war are examined from the view points of lifelong friends (Linus Roache, Vincent Perez), who end up on opposing sides in the civil war in Sarajevo. One is an expert marksman, who trains the snipers used to terrify the city and the other becomes a freedom fighter, who rejects his friend's offer to gain an escape from the city. As might be expected, the two eventually have to face-off against one another.

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty of the coastline is captured in stunning panoramas, while strong performances by the young cast help to create a lyrical and poignant drama.

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven through shop windows to aid large-scale looting before the police arrive. For Tommy, it's a business, but for Billy and Jo, it's a labour of love. As the competition between Tommy and Billy grows more fierce, the stakes become higher and the "shopping" trips increasingly risky.

In this inspiring tale from the book of Genesis, young shepherd Jacob (Matthew Modine) falls in love with and wants to marry Rachel (Lara Flynn Boyle), the daughter of his Uncle Laban (Giancarlo Giannini). Lacking a dowry, Jacob toils seven years as his uncle's indentured servant to win Rachel's hand. But calculating Laban dupes him into another seven years of labor. Irene Papas portrays Jacob's iron-willed mother.

A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he runs away with the whipping boy to escape from his first spanking. After being in the real world his life will change making him a prince fit to rule.

성당에서 침묵의 서약을 한 젊은 수도사 키릴은 쫓기고 있는 알바니아 소녀 자밀라를 숨겨주지만 그녀의 말조차 알아듣지 못한다. 어느새 그녀는 그의 마음 속에 자리잡게 되고 무장한 사내들이 그녀를 찾아 성당을 기습할 때도 그는 자신의 평화를 깨트릴 위험에 빠지게 됐다는 사실조차 잊어버린다. 한편 사진편집인 앤은 남편 닉과 종군 사진작가 알렉산더 사이에서 사랑의 갈등을 겪게 되고 알렉산더는 마음의 평화를 찾기 위해 고향으로 돌아간다. 하지만 어느새 그곳도 전쟁의 기운에 휩싸여 있다. 어느날 과거의 연인이었던 안나가 자신의 실종된 딸을 찾아달라고 부탁하자 그는 카메라를 통해서 경험했던 민족분규를 경험하게 된다.

A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.

터키의 침공으로 유럽이 위기에 몰리자 드라큘라 왕자는 십자군을 일으킨다. 드라큘라는 피비린내 나는 아비규환 속에서 목숨을 건지고 귀향하지만 아내인 엘리자벳은 남편이 전사했다는 잘못된 전갈에 이미 자살한 후였다. 드라큘라는 추기경으로부터 자살한 영혼은 구원받지 못한다는 말을 듣고 신을 저주하며 복수를 결심한다. 400년이 지난 1897년 런던, 젊고 유능한 변호사 조나단에게 영국에 땅을 사고 싶다는 트란실바니아 영주 드라큘라로의 편지가 전달된다. 드라큘라는 트란실바니아에 도착한 조나단의 책상 위에서 엘리자벳의 환생한 미나의 사진을 발견하고는 눈물을 흘리는데...

십자군 전쟁에 참가해 포로가 되었던 로빈은 5년만에 무어인 아짐을 같이 탈출시켜주는 조건으로 그의 안내를 받아 탈출에 성공하지만, 그의 죽마고우인 피터는 부상을 입어 동생 메리언을 보살펴 달라는 말을 남기고 죽고 만다. 한편 로빈의 아버지는 로빈의 생사여부를 백방으로 수소문을 하나 사법관 노팅엄과 주교의 간교한 술수에 휘말려 처형되고 일가는 멸문당한다. 사자왕 리차드가 없는 동안 동생 존의 폭정으로 농민들은 가난에 시달리고, 로빈의 고향 노팅검의 주장관은 로빈의 성으로 쳐들어가나 이내 쫓기는 신세가 되고, 셔우드 숲으로 도망을 친다.

Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.