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Overview

This highly original and inventive British feature won acclaim from critics such as Jonathan Romney and Mark Kermode. When college girl Joy goes missing, her classmate Helen is hired to portray her final movements in an extensive police reconstruction. As Helen becomes more immersed in the role she begins to realise the marked differences between her own disadvantaged upbringing in a care home and Joy’s once comfortable home life.

This extraordinary debut feature from Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor is a continuation of themes explored in their Civic Life series of short films (2003-10).

Director

Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor

Featuring

Annie Townsend , Sandie Malia and Denis Jobling

Genres

Thriller

Certificate

Watch Helen - BFI Player (1)Contains missing person theme and mild sex references

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

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Red Rooms Red Rooms

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In this stylish, dark crime thriller, a policeman’s complex web of underworld relationships is threatened by an internal affairs investigator.

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The Origin of Evil The Origin of Evil

Thriller 2022 123 mins Director: Sébastien Marnier

Laure Calamy stars in this devious, involving French thriller by Sébastien Marnier, playing an outsider tangled in a web of upper-class family malice.

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Police Story Police Story

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Jackie Chan's mind-blowing, high-octane extravaganza of death-defying stunts and action comedy.

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Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of writer's block with this magnum opus about a film director experiencing his own creative crisis.

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James Franco and Travis Mathews recreate explicit footage cut, rumoured to be lost, from one of the most notorious gay features ever made.

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Love and Death on Long Island Love and Death on Long Island

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John Hurt stars in Richard Kwietniowski’s comedy of fame and obsession about an older man (Hurt) who becomes infatuated with a young Hollywood actor (Jason Priestley), and proceeds to track him down.

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The Souvenir The Souvenir

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Leonor Will Never Die Leonor Will Never Die

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Historical drama 2023 98 mins Director: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor

Imogen Poots grounds Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's meditative portrayal of terrorist, disinherited heiress and expectant mother Rose Dugdale.

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