Brian Bovell

The Football Monologues tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game. Each of our subjects talks intimately, unveiling their innermost hopes and fears. One by one they touch on themes central to us all: the fragility of our mental selves, the failings of our bodies, the complexities of our relationships and ambitions and our need to connect.

Um gato de rua chamado Tom é contratado por uma garota chamada Kayla, uma jovem empregada que trabalha em um hotel glamouroso em Nova York, para se livrar de Jerry, um rato travesso que se mudou para o hotel, antes que ele seja a ruína de um importante casamento.

Jack Strachan, a shady ex-sports star in hiding out in Norway, is stalked by a mysterious woman he cannot identify who closely resembles his murdered wife, Veronique. Convinced of her evil intent and determined to unmask her, he forces himself to re-live the harrowing events that culminate in Veronique's brutal murder at the hands of violent associate, Karim, and confront the demons that first drove him underground.

O remake de Convenção das Bruxas, clássico de fantasia dos anos 1990, acompanha um garoto de sete anos que se depara com uma conferência de bruxas em um hotel. Lá, ele acaba descobrindo que um grupo de bruxas está fazendo uma convenção, pretendendo transformar todas as crianças do mundo em ratos.

Nos arredores de Londres, o casal português Bela e Jota e seus três filhos lutam para sobreviver. Quando surge um mal-entendido na escola com a sua filha surda, os Serviços Sociais britânicos preocupam-se com a segurança das crianças e inicia-se uma incansável batalha destes pais imigrantes contra a lei para manter a família unida.

Quando Issac acorda dentro de uma sala estranha, ele descobre que é na verdade um prisioneiro, que foi enviado ao espaço para iniciar a primeira colônia da Terra fora do mundo como uma nova punição. Pior ainda, ele descobre que tem uma companheira de cela, Alana, que está decidida a explodi-los e destruir tudo. Solitary é um thriller claustrofóbico de ficção científica britânico que o deixará ansioso até o clímax explosivo.

Kit é uma garota problemática que é enviada ao Internato Blackwood, comandado pela misteriosa Madame Duret. Enquanto explora os corredores da escola, Kit e suas colegas acabam descobrindo que a grande mansão esconde um segredo antigo terrível.

If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive?

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.

After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The only person who takes an interest in his plan is Katie, Noah's wild-hearted next-door neighbor. Noah's parents think his compulsion to turn off taps is foolish, but even they can't deny the growing storms that are threatening their little fishing village.

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.

Cheating Edwardian escape artist Max can escape anything, except his wife's revenge.

Tom, um menino de nove anos amante do natal, descobre que Papai Noel está escondido em sua garagem, após bater o seu novo trenó. Disposto a ajudá-lo, Tom pede auxílio ao seu pai, que concorda em levar o Papai Noel de volta para casa. Mas tudo tudo parece desandar quando o saudoso velhinho é perseguido pela polícia.

Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Richie) and his wife Massie (Natasha Wightman), it's a place where gangsters and aristocrats, home office gents, and loose women can kick back and relax. Thomas' job is to keep everything running smoothly. But when he starts having an affair with singer Butterfly (Joely Richardson), this carefully balanced world disintegrates into blackmail, drugs, and suicide.

O amor paira em Londres. Há um casal que se casa. Há um padrinho de casamento que se apaixona. Há um viúvo que tenta ajudar o enteado a expressar os seus sentimentos por uma rapariga. Uma mãe devota que procura o amor que já não existe. Há amores secretos e outros nem tanto. Em plena quadra natalícia, oito casais têm de lidar com o amor.

In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales from the depths of their hearts. The result is a groundbreaking initiative bringing together the incredibly fresh talents of six female directors from the vast and diverse continent of Africa.

O amor de Penny (Lesley Manville) por seu companheiro, o motorista de táxi Phil (Timothy Spall), secou. Phil é gentil e sem ambições, enquanto que ela trabalha como caixa de supermecado. Rachel (Alison Garland), filha deles, faz faxina na casa de idosos e o filho do casal, Rory (James Corden), está desempregado e desenvolveu uma agressividade acentuada, preferindo ficar sentado o dia todo no sofá a fazer algo produtivo da vida. A alegria abandonou completamente a relação de Phil e Penny. Até que Rory fica doente, é internado no hospital com problemas cardíacos e muda a perspectiva das coisas. O incidente primeiro evidencia os problemas no relacionamento deles, depois acaba aproximando-os pela primeira vez em anos.

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death.

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.

In 1958, a Caribbean couple make the journey to a new life by moving to England.

Após a morte da mãe adotiva, Hortense, uma jovem negra de 27 anos, decide encontrar a sua mãe biológica. Quando finalmente se encontram, Hortense fica espantada ao descobrir que a mãe, Cynthia, é branca e tem uma filha de 20 anos. No início, Cynthia fica perturbada ao ver a filha que havia esquecido há muito tempo. Contudo, mais tarde, decide desenvolver um relacionamento profundo. Cynthia depara-se então com a tarefa de fazer a sua família aceitar o facto de ter uma filha negra...

Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white girlfriend, ran away from an abusive white boyfriend who, after seeing her with Spike, sets up a trap for her. Spike's 11-year old nephew Hector dies as a result of this trap, and Anjela, finding the body of her son, goes on a police-killing rampage. Her apprehension sets off tension between Spike and his brother-in-law, as a race war broods inside the Terrordome.

A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.

Depois da mastectomia pós-parto de sua mãe, Ngozi redescobre seu corpo junto ao corpo dela. Ao se tornar modelo, com sua aparência em evidência, as percepções sexuais, amorosas, raciais e maternais da existência social dos corpos das duas se entremeiam na fabulação das memórias reencenadas por elas.

A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.

A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.