Top Five

Top Five 2014

6.10

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.

2014

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass 1998

5.00

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world. There she meets the Red and White Queens, as well as many other amusing friends on her journey across the chessboard countryside onto become a crowned queen.

1998

To Kill a King

To Kill a King 2003

5.70

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I.

2003

Best

Best 2000

6.20

2000

Secret Society

Secret Society 2000

4.00

Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.

2000

Memmortigo?

Memmortigo? 1934

1

Ernest Sant, a depressed and introspective man, wants to kill himself. He wanders the countryside, having bizarre encounters and often provoking hazardous incidents. "Memmortigo?" is and avant-garde surreal amateur film and an absurdist treatment on pessimism (embodied by a man, clad entirely in black, who tries to commit suicide) and optimism (represented by a joyful young woman and her two children).

1934