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A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. The theft of an experimental drug to suppress the immune system reveals a case of virtual reality addiction and forces a detective to confront his nightmares.

In London 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender. Sentenced to life Winters has fits of rage which continue until prison doctors put him in an experimental unit. Flashbacks to his childhood and his history of drug abuse show how this troubled man became a murderer.

En plena Revolución Inglesa, Gerard Winstanley y sus seguidores luchan pacíficamente por un nuevo modelo de sociedad. Sin embargo, no pasa mucho tiempo hasta que los terratenientes lo mandan matar.

A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.

Life through the eyes of an addict.

La versión surrealista de Raoul Ruiz de la novela clásica de Robert Louis Stevenson.

A teenage boy finds all around him has sexual overtones as he lives a teenage life of masturbation.

An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.

Four people - a science fiction illustrator, a saxophonist who moves from busking to Top of the Pops, an analyst of satellite photography and Julian, a PHD student, meet at intervals, their lives set against a background of recession London. They are the focus of a story which begins to unravel the complex threads linking all aspects of life to an ever more desperate economic situation.

A young boy (Barry Malone) whose parents are splitting up is sent away to boarding school

A Bit of Scarlet excavates clips from Britain's cinema archives to create a moving and humorous testament to the closeted gay and lesbian images from filmmaking's earliest days.

Dexter Fletcher and Ewen Bremner portray a pair of morbid fortune-tellers.

A woman unloved by her mother, has a string of affairs with increasingly unsuitable men.

Intrigued by the desire to have been a Bunny Girl, the director takes a look at what it meant. Interviewing several of the original Bunnies she learns the rules and expectations on the girls as well as the more sinister side of a 1976 murder.

A straight man goes into a gay bar in Scotland and sits uncomfortably at the bar as a drag artist sings on stage. The drag artist joins him at the bar and the two talk - angrily at first but with a little more understanding. However neither man is entirely comfortable with his feelings and both react differently when push comes to shove.

A businessman is on his way to a conference when he decides to stop at a service station to get some sleep rather than drive on. While drinking coffee he spots Freya, the girl whom was in the car with his daughter when she crashed and was killed. The two get talking revealing emotional scars in both their lives and leading to a change in the directions of their lives.

It is an end-of-summer afternoon and Kate and Mandy are messing around in a deserted lido. They are bored and it feels like nothing ever happens. In the pool, Ruth is underwater and Kate and Mandy are waiting to see how long she can hold her breath. A short humorous journey to that strange limbo land of uncertainty between being underwater and being above, between childhood and growing up.

A caricature of English family life, in which the characters are deliberately antithetical to the common stereotypes of literature.

A film about Poplar, a district in the East End of London, and the people who live there, seen in their day-to-day lives and organising their own local festivals. Poplar of the 1970s is looked at in the light of the past, the importance of the labour movement in the beginning of the 20th century, highlighted by the events of 1920's when the Poplar Council, headed by George Lansbury, went to prison for none payment of the rates to Central Govenment.