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Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 02:08 |
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
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: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
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: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:36 |
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 03:06 |
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Italy |
Duration | 01:28 |
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:04 |
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:37 |
A British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Hungary, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:48 |
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 02:05 |
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | Afghanistan, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | France, Luxembourg, Belgium |
Duration | 01:35 |
Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne Labrune's drama stars Isabelle Huppert and Bouli Lanners as, respectively, Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | action, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | China, Japan, South Korea, France |
Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany |
Duration | 01:34 |
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play, "Uncle Vanya."
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire playboy who has moved back to the village. William, pressed by James, confesses to the hit and run. But the confession is clouded by Anne's admission of her affair with William.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:19 |
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
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: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:51 |
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:56 |
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a serial killer. Hilditch has murdered several young women, but he has no conscious awareness of the crimes; like Felicia, he doesn't see his true self. Felicia's Journey is a story of innocence lost and regained: Felicia awakens to the world's dangers and duplicities; and Hilditch, who grew up lonely and unloved, comes to realize what was taken from him, and what he himself has taken.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | Canada, USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama, musical, family |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:33 |
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:58 |
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France |
Duration | 01:49 |
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals,influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex. Accepted by the gang for his fast mouth and sense of humor, Dom soon becomes one the boys. But as Bex and his gang clash with rival firms across the country and the violence spirals out of control, Dom realizes he wants out - until he learns it's not that easy to simply walk away.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, India |
The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France |
Duration | 01:38 |
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | Mexico |
Duration | 02:20 |
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.