Production

Mike Downey

Born

1959-10-01 (67)

Known for

Production

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Deathwatch poster
5.8

In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.

Deathwatch

2002

Guy X poster
4.7

A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

Guy X

2005

Bathory: Countess of Blood poster
5.7

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to men’s aspirations for power and wealth.

Bathory: Countess of Blood

2008

Goltzius & the Pelican Company poster
6.1

Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

2012

Real poster
8.0

Documentary footage shot in the summer of 2023 by Oleh Sentsov, when his APC was hit by the enemy. Sentsov found himself in a nearby trench and, using radio communication, organized the evacuation of his unit, which was under fire, with ammunition running out. This operation was nicknamed "Real".

Real

2025

The Mortician poster
5.1

Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as part of his parole.Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), and his crew to the mortuary door. The Mortician's attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he's forced to act. They become reluctant allies, struggling for redemption as they run. Through his awkward heroism, the Mortician reconnects with his long forgotten past, and finds the answers he's been searching for. He find redemption and peace.

The Mortician

2011

Film credits

Behind the camera

Deathwatch poster
5.8

In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.

Deathwatch

2002

Guy X poster
4.7

A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

Guy X

2005

Bathory: Countess of Blood poster
5.7

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to men’s aspirations for power and wealth.

Bathory: Countess of Blood

2008

Goltzius & the Pelican Company poster
6.1

Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

2012

Real poster
8.0

Documentary footage shot in the summer of 2023 by Oleh Sentsov, when his APC was hit by the enemy. Sentsov found himself in a nearby trench and, using radio communication, organized the evacuation of his unit, which was under fire, with ammunition running out. This operation was nicknamed "Real".

Real

2025

The Mortician poster
5.1

Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as part of his parole.Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), and his crew to the mortuary door. The Mortician's attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he's forced to act. They become reluctant allies, struggling for redemption as they run. Through his awkward heroism, the Mortician reconnects with his long forgotten past, and finds the answers he's been searching for. He find redemption and peace.

The Mortician

2011

Falcons poster
4.9

Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young women DÚA who he believes might be his daughter. When she gets into trouble with the police Simon represses his death wish and decides to help her out. Together they flee to the city of Hamburg and smuggle with them what used to be the greatest export of the Vikings, an Icelandic Falcon. Their plan is to sell it to wealthy Arabs.

Falcons

2002

Flynn poster
6.8

A gripping and revealing true film exploring the life of General Michael Flynn, from his rise in the US Military, to severe political persecution he faced exposing corruption as the National Security Advisor to the POTUS.

Flynn

2024

No artwork available
NR

Franjo's mid-life crisis isn't made any easier by the recent passing of his best friend and a terrible divorce. Being unable to cope with this in a mature way, he slips into alcoholism, trapping himself in an endless loop of his own making.

Looping

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No artwork available
NR

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana.

Lady D

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No artwork available
NR

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana.

Lady D

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The Parade poster
6.7

The Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade.

The Parade

2011

White Lightnin' poster
6.9

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.

White Lightnin'

2009

Roadie poster
5.8

After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.

Roadie

2012

No artwork available
NR

Follows German-American actress Marlene Dietrich across four decisive days in four different decades, portraying her in shifting cultural and political contexts: Paris in 1937, Bergen-Belsen in 1945, Tel Aviv in 1960, and once again Paris in 1983.

Berlinweh: Yearning for a Home

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The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo poster
NR

Albania's top censorship institution of the 1970s - Comrade Zylo is a genius bureaucrat. He orders the talented writer Demka to draft a speech on ideological issues. Demka realizes that he has become a slave to a Machiavellian propaganda master of his superior. In this absurd world, Demka falls in love with Zylo's wife, Adila.

The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo

2022

Pendulum:  Live At Brixton Academy poster
4.2

After numerous sold out tours and two highly acclaimed albums under their belts, Australian drum 'n' bass outfit Pendulum release their first ever live collection. Recorded at therenowned Brixton Academy in London over two dates in December 2008, the band perform a selection of tracks from their albums including their massive remix of The Prodigy's 'VoodooPeople' and their reinterpretation of Metallica's 'Master Of Puppets'. A DVD of the live set directed by Grammy nominated Paul Caslin is also included.

Pendulum: Live At Brixton Academy

2009

Jumpman poster
4.8

Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.

Jumpman

2018

Lost in Karastan poster
4.6

Washed up British film director, Emil, who is invited by a nascent state to make a national Epic in an obscure Caucasus Republic ruled by an eccentric and corrupt dictator. When down and out Academy award winning British film director Emil Miller receives an invitation to the Embassy of the Autonomous Republic of Karastan, little does he know that he will be embarking on one of the wildest journeys of his already diverse and colourful career.

Lost in Karastan

2014

The President poster
6.7

The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and begins a journey to discover his country in the company of his five-year-old grandson. The two travel across the lands that the President once governed. Now, disguised as a street musician to avoid being recognized, the former dictator comes into contact with his people, which he comes to know from a different point of view.

The President

2014

The Border Post poster
7.0

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. However, when their liuetenant is secretly diagnosed with siphilis, he decides to keep them at their positions in order to ensure a safe and secretive treatment by the medic, inventing a fictional military conflict as a means to keeping them in line.

The Border Post

2006

Loving Glances poster
5.2

Swan is a lonely Serbian refugee in Belgrade. He hopes for a visa to follow his long-lost fiancée to Chicago, but winds up at the Happy Millennium dating agency. A warm romantic comedy with a twist.

Loving Glances

2003

Light Thereafter poster
7.8

Pavel, an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, sets off across Europe in search of his idol, the enigmatic painter Arnaud. Desperately lonely and adrift, Pavel tries to adhere to the host of characters he meets along the way.

Light Thereafter

2017

Proyecto Dos poster
5.0

When a man of identical appearance to him is killed in the street, scientist Diego Durand realises that the flashes of déjà vu that torment him are part of a sinister secret past that he must uncover.

Proyecto Dos

2008

No artwork available
NR

Julie is a young French woman, whose father is of Syrian descent Christian Arab from Mardin, east of Turkey When her beloved father passes she discovers that she has an aunt whose existence is hidden from her. The last wish of her aunt, a victim of her father's fault in the past, is to buried in Syria. Juile is ready to do anything.

The Sun, The Moon and The Eleven Stars

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No artwork available
9.0

Whilst trying to take a break from reality by visiting Mount Srđ nearby Dubrovnik, Ana and her boyfriend Ivan are accosted by Montenegrin paramilitary troops of the Yugoslav People's Army. Ivan is killed and Ana is brutally raped. Years later, whilst looking through the footage of the invasion of Dubrovnik recorded by an amateur reporter named Čačo, she recognizes her rapist, and decides to publicaly shame him during her exhibition.

Dubrovnik Twilight

1999

Song of Goats poster
4.6

Andreas arrives on a remote Greek island to sell a plot of land inherited from his uncle. But who would buy a barren, rocky field with a stone hut? In order to sell the plot Andreas has to pay off a debt his uncle ran up with Yiannis, a local farmer.

Song of Goats

2023