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Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:24 |
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless "shotter", who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:43 |
High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom |
This story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargains for when he moves into an apartment in Limerick with a gay fashion student and becomes a star on the catwalk. A contemporary story embracing the essence of what it is to be young in today's Ireland.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | Yugoslavia, United Kingdom, Italy |
Duration | 02:22 |
In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:39 |
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
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: 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: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, documentary, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:20 |
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:36 |
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:12 |
1994, a small town in central Scotland. Best mates Johnno and Spanner, despite being total opposites, have a deep bond. Now on the cusp of adulthood, life is destined to take them in different directions – Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. But this summer is going to be different for them, and for the country. The explosion of the free party scene and the largest counter-cultural youth movement in recent history is happening across the UK.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
A depressed section of Monterey, California is the backdrop for an offbeat romantic comedy about a pair of mismatched lovers. Doc is a lonely marine biologist and former baseball star. Suzy is a scrappy, abrasive drifter who can't even succeed as a prostitute. Add Cannery Row's band of resident drunken derelicts to the mix and fireworks result, though not the romantic kind.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | action, comedy, drama, adventure, family |
Country | United Kingdom, France, Germany, USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family's stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of "Rambo: First Blood", Lee plans to make cinematic history by filming his own action-packed video epic. Together, these two newfound friends-turned-budding-filmmakers quickly discover that their imaginative ― and sometimes mishap-filled ― cinematic adventure has begun to take on a life of its own!
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:46 |
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
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: 7 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | Netherlands, Ukraine |
Duration | 02:06 |
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:32 |
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo doofuses and those in their orbit.
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: 4.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which also happens to be the title of Savvas D. Michael’s tale of sex, drugs, and guns. An anonymous voice at the start of the film warns, “Once you’ve tasted the devil’s cum, everything else is dull and numb.” The current problem with the Red Devil drug is the supply has dried up. Addicts are so desperate for it they’re willing to kill for it…and they do.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | France, Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime, biography |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:33 |
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:36 |
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway – only to find herself seated with five fellow-unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | action, comedy, drama, western, crime |
Country | Mexico |
Duration | 02:25 |
Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, family, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:40 |
A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Mexico |
Duration | 02:28 |
Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:51 |
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:37 |
Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in hopes it will teach them responsibility. When they are taken hostage and taken for ransom by kidnappers, they will need to utilize every skill they learned to survive.