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Browse 8 movies from Substantial Films
What sins did we commit in our past lives and will we pay for them in this one?
May 2015
A police detective who finds himself paralysed and close to death after falling from a building, and must master lucid dreaming in order to survive. Plot TBC.
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A mismatched NSA team who kidnap the creator of Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto - and attempt to torture him for the information they need to destroy cryptocurrencies
Jul 2021
An obsessive psychologist attempts to reprogramme her subconscious mind, but when her actions become increasingly uncharacteristic she fears her experiment is dangerously out of control.
Mar 2017
Plagued by hallucinations, a traumatised young woman seeks out a famous therapist, only to discover he’s seeing things too.
Jul 2019
A bittersweet comedy-drama about a struggling actor with multiple personality disorder whose three identities battle for control when he wins the lead role in a West End play and falls for the pretty makeup artist.
Apr 2019
August 1914. Europe has mobilised. The Imperial German Army has executed its Schlieffen Plan, has ploughed through Belgium, and is now deep in France. The British Expeditionary Force is seeing its first action against the Germans. Skirmishes in open countryside are common, and both sides are still learning how a modern war could and should be fought. Two soldiers, one English, one German, both with lives and lovers at home they would rather not have left, find themselves facing each other, alone. Alone, except for the French girl, Françoise…
May 2022
An alien sent to study humans on Earth faces inhumanity when it stumbles upon a college party.
Mar 2021