
Brand Upon the Brain!(2007)
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Matt Barber
Youth

Ruby Bentall
Girl

Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Boy

Rosalind Knight
Lady
The Alchemistic Suitcase is a drama, fantasy, mystery film released in 2009 exploring themes of surrealism, silent film. it stars Matt Barber, Ruby Bentall, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. A nervous and unsettling young boy takes a mysterious old suitcase across London... to a twisted and surreal conclusion.
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