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Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London and owned by Universal Studios. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are now the co-chairs of the company.
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(1994)Filmography of Working Title Films (128 films)
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Paperhouse (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Bernard Rose
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Glenne Headly, Elliott Spiers, Gemma Jones, Ben Cross, Steven O'Donnell, Barbara Keogh
While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds a disabled boy named Marc living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person.
For Queen & Country (1988)
, 1h45Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Denzel Washington, Bruce Payne, Dorian Healy, Sean Chapman, Amanda Redman, Graham McTavish
Reuben James (Washington), although having grown up in London, was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, and joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city life. He serves with the Parachute Regiment, doing a tour in Northern Ireland for three years at the height of The Troubles in the late 1970s, and later fighting in the 1982 Malvinas/Falklands in the South Atlantic for the remainder of his military career, eventually becoming a war hero himself.
Wish You Were Here (1987)
, 1h32Directed by David Leland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Heathcote Williams, Jesse Birdsall, Geoffrey Hutchings, Charlotte Barker
Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and tries to shock other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
, 1h33Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, La précarité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Souad Faress, Shirley Anne Field
Omar Ali is a young man living in Battersea in the Wandsworth area of South London, right by the railway station during the mid-1980s. His father, Hussein, once a famous left-wing British Pakistani journalist in Bombay, lives in London but hates Britain's society and its international politics. His dissatisfaction with the world and a family tragedy have led him to sink into alcoholism, so that Omar has to be his carer. By contrast, Omar's paternal uncle Nasser is a successful entrepreneur and an active member of the London Pakistani community. Omar's father asks his uncle to give Omar a job and, after working for a brief time as a car washer in one of his uncle's garages, he is assigned the task of managing a run-down laundrette and turning it into a profitable business.
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Legend (2015)
, 2h11Directed by Brian Helgeland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Mob film, Crime
Themes Films about families, Gangster films
Actors Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Aneurin Barnard, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palminteri
The film focuses on the life of Reggie Kray as he seeks to control the psychotic tendencies of his twin, Ronald Kray.
Perfect Strangers (2004)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action
Actors Rob Lowe, Anna Friel, Khandi Alexander, Sarah Alexander, Jennifer Baxter, Gabriel Hogan
Lloyd and Susie in London work for the same ad agency, but in different cities. An arrangement is made where they switch jobs and homes for a month. After settling into each other's place they consult each other by phone, it's not long before they fall in love.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
, 2h11Directed by John Madden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes French war films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, David Morrissey, Irène Papas
The bucolic beauty of Greece's Ionian islands has been invaded by Italy, bringing a large Italian garrison and a few Germans to the tranquil island of Cephallonia, which immediately surrenders. Captain Antonio Corelli, a Greek-speaking officer of the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division with an irrepressibly jovial personality and a passion for the mandolin, and who trains his battery of men – who have never fired a shot – in choral singing, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia. The daughter of the village doctor, Pelagia, is an educated and strong-willed woman, and while at first offended by the Italian soldier's behaviour, she slowly warms to his certain charm as they are forced to share her father's home when the doctor agrees to put him up in exchange for medical supplies.
Edward II (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Derek Jarman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan, Kevin Collins, Dudley Sutton, Jerome Flynn
Once installed as king, Edward II summons his friend and lover, Piers Gaveston, to his side and showers him with gifts, titles and abiding love. Their relationship is fiery and passionate, but it is the focus of gossip and derision throughout the kingdom. Upon his return, Gaveston takes revenge on the Bishop of Winchester, who had been responsible for his banishment from England during the previous reign, by personally torturing him. Kent, Edwards’ brother, is the first to protest Gaveston's return. Many others feel the same way, including the Bishop of Winchester and Lord Mortimer, who is in charge of the army forces of the kingdom. Nevertheless, Edward defends his lover from his mounting enemies.