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Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, her cars, and climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment — in the middle of nowhere — to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straightforward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.

Four gorgeously dressed women living in different newly wealthy cities entered a pension and gathered at one appointment, showing off their missy looks.

Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.

Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash.

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

New Town documents the progression of this iconic new town through the memory of Mike Kernan, an author who has written novels set in a fictional version of the town, showcasing how unique it was to grown up in Cumbernauld during the 60's & 70's. Originally created to accommodate the Glasgow overspill, Cumbernauld was built using pioneering architecture for its time, especially the town centre, which was the UK's first shopping centre and the world’s first fully enclosed town centre and it will soon be demolished. This film hopes to explore how the environment of this iconic new town has changed and how its defined the generations who grew up there. We'd really appreciate any support you're willing to give to make this film the best it can be.

Elliott Jordan stars as a white collar button pusher whose life gets turned upside down when he gets involved with Nicki (Katharine Peachey), one-time girlfriend of local psycho Si Naylor (Paul McNeilly) This low budget British indie also goes by the title This Is Essex for its DVD release.

What happened when we built Utopia? New Town Utopia is feature documentary about the power of art, architecture, the state of the nation – and some rather angry puppets.

Writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain’s New Towns. He visits Harlow, Letchworth, Peterlee, Runcorn and the youngest and biggest New Town, Milton Keynes, hearing from their architects and residents, and examining their reputation.

Meet Charley, your jovial cartoon guide to Britain’s changing towns and cities.

A man finds himself in the clutches of a strange new town.

A friend group experiences the tragedy of a lifetime, and it unravels their relationships.

Stand-up comedian John Mulaney tackles such red-hot topics as quicksand, Motown singers and an elderly man he once met in a bathroom.

Two exceptional kung fu students leave the mainland to work for their uncle in Hong Kong. Before long the students and their cousin, get mixed up in a drug smuggling ring. They decide to take on the gang in an all-out action fest.

Mikio Osawa, an average 5th grade school boy, lives in the suburbs of Osaka. Mikio likes Haruko Tezuka, a cute little girl in his class. However, Mikio is too shy and withdrawn to tell Haruko that he likes her. One day, Mikio's close friend Megane brings news that Haruko is about to move away to another town...

A husband is a workaholic and doesn't care about his family. The wife is tired of neighborhood relationships such as the neighborhood association of the housing complex that interfere with her privacy. Her husband pretends to be indifferent to the wife. She finally loses her temper and starts a rebellion against her husband, but then her evil seductive hand reaches out...

Made by the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation in 1959, this short records the development of Hemel Hempstead following its assignment of New Town status a decade earlier. Originally this had a narrative track recorded by Wyndham Thomas, but this is now missing. Included as an extra on the BFI Flipside release of I Start Counting

Ji-su, who was returning home late at night, witnesses a hit-and-run traffic accident. There are a young woman and of Jisoo's age and a child in the street.

CittàNovecento is a docufilm that comes from a community of people from all over the country, united by the pleasure of their work and the sense of belonging to the Morandian City of Colleferro, archetype of the '900 City of Foundation.

Exactly one year since debuting on J Records, O-Town is a full-grown supergroup boasting one of the year's bestselling albums. O-Town: Live from New York was captured on the last night of their sold-out summer tour at New York City's famed Hammerstein Ballroom show on October 10. Features songs: Liquid Dreams, All Or Nothing, We Fit Together, Baby I Would, Sensitive, Sexiest Woman Alive, Painter, Shy Girl, Love Should Be A Crime, Every Six Seconds and a surprise version of Girl.

Assigned his toughest mission yet, the Cat must cheer up siblings Gabby and Sebastian as they adjust to life in a new town. Known for pushing boundaries, this agent of chaos must prove himself or risk losing his magical hat forever.

10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.

When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of her private-school world, and it holds the rights to her very soul. On the eve of her 18th birthday, Molly is about to discover the truth of just who or what she is destined to become.

A young woman struggles to pay the hospital bills of her vegetative husband. Despite her hard work, there's no hope for him to ever wake up, until an opportunity arises.

A young man in high school moves in with his Mother to a town in the U.S. Southwest where his father is serving time in prison.

A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.

A teenage boy and his mother are on the run. The father is violent and has a history of beating up his wife. They manage to get away from him and drive far away, until they arrive in a small town where they settle down. They rent a house from a nice man and soon they forget everything that has happened in the past, until the boy begins to have bad dreams of his father.

The suburbs are often portrayed as dull, conformist and hermetic. But with over 80% of the UK population calling these areas home, this playful yet empathetic short film challenges enduring stereotypes by centring the experiences and eccentricities of their numerous residents. The development of these spaces, and the narratives surrounding them, has been captured over the past 100 years by early filmmakers, citizen journalists, amateur documentarians and, most recently, a growing charge of online moving image creators – all brought together here to reveal the multiple identities and realities underneath the cultural image.

What does it mean to be British? Gabriel, a dentist originally from Hong Kong, has lived in Milton Keynes for nearly 50 years. His mixed race son Michael couldn't wait to leave. Now a film-maker, he returns to the city to discover how his father feels about the place he has made home.