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Mark | imdb: 8.6 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:41 |
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:48 |
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Netherlands, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:03 |
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 02:19 |
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:04 |
Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 01:37 |
Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has died by suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use both to reinvent her life.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | drama, family |
Country | United Kingdom |
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:52 |
The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France |
The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:47 |
Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Hungary, Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:49 |
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolph Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, adventure, short, sport |
Country | Norway, Denmark |
Duration | 00:15 |
Agnes and Ragnar, a couple in their late 20s, are planning to climb a mountain in Northern Norway. In this potentially deadly situation where trust is an absolute necessity, the relationship is put to the test as Agnes reveals Ragnars disturbing secret.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:48 |
Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Sweden, Denmark |
Duration | 01:53 |
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. In fact already Erik frequently receives a ‘good’ thrashing at the hands of his sadistic stepfather – so he is packed off by his mother to boardingschool
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | drama, crime, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:26 |
Inspired by events that took place in Massachusetts, Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut focuses on a group of bored teenage girls who all make an irrevocable pact. When Camille (Louise Grinberg) accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time, before 17 girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos. Set in the writer/directors' small, seaside hometown of Lorient in Brittany, 17 Girls is a reflection on adolescence, body image, friendship and the perplexing realities of growing up.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain |
Duration | 01:30 |
Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:36 |
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:35 |
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, drama |
Country | Germany, United Kingdom, Romania |
Duration | 02:00 |
A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill. Krabat is not only taught the craft of milling, but is also instructed in the sinister world of the darker arts. When the life of his friend and protector is threatened, Krabat must struggle to free himself from an evil sorcerer's control in a gripping fight for freedom, friendship and love.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:23 |
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:51 |
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:28 |
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:53 |
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Romania, France |
Duration | 01:46 |
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Finland |
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.