Movies: Michael Smiley

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist....

June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own ...

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government....

Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriou...

Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature....

After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who opera...

A young girl discovers a bewitched necklace on the beach, unaware of the malevolent force linked to it. As she falls under its dark influence, she unwittingly releases a lethal water demon intent on ensnaring her and her loved ones....

With nowhere else to hide, a group of mercenaries and their prisoners take cover inside a long abandoned Bulldog tank. But, while they try to keep the forces outside at bay, the real enemy is already among them, locked inside the 'Belly of the Bulldo...

When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed....

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down a...

Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the villa...

In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld....

Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking...

Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic co...

Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm struggles with his relationship to his own son, whilst at work a recent takeover threatens his job. Unable ...

Orthodox tells the story of Benjamin, an Orthodox Jewish man who alienated himself from his community by becoming a boxer. When his life took a wrong turn he ended up in prison, losing his wife and children in the process. Now he is out and desperate...

Netherlands, 1944 - When three wounded British Paratroopers find themselves behind enemy lines, they take shelter in a remote cottage inhabited by a Dutch mother and daughter. What seemed to be a safe hiding place quickly becomes a deadly prison, and...

A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's happening...

Three misfits embark on a weekend they will never forget....

What would you do if you went to the doctors and discovered that you only had 1500 words left to live? What would you say? Are some words more important than others? '1500 Words' is a funny and moving short film about one man trying to keep his marri...