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Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy |
Country | United Kingdom, Czech Republic |
Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | horror, thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:32 |
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:38 |
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:40 |
A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | Australia, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba, he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:28 |
Leanne and Rhona are two ordinary flatmates whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. They find themselves whisked into witness protection, given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat Swindon - and all before they can so much as collect their toothbrushes. Staying undercover doesn’t prove easy…
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:51 |
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head. There are more than 20 Russian-movie stars in the film, but you will not be able to recognize them immediately since they are all in disguise.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | comedy, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:35 |
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it contains.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:29 |
Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
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: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
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: 4 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
After surviving an explosion in Iraq, Mr. Thomas leaves the infuriating desk job the army had created for him and enters the underground world of the contract killer. His brother, Sam, had been caught selling on army secrets to the highest bidder and is now working for the illusive Harry Montagu. They use Mr. Thomas as a very effective way of eliminating problems they encounter in their business. That is until Mr. Thomas begins to question whom these problems are that he is removing, and why they deserve this fate.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | thriller, comedy |
Country | USA |
Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband, Dale’s, criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest double-cross involving the theft of $100,000 from a bank.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, thriller, comedy |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:41 |
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travelers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincent's fritters.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:05 |
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:27 |
Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell breaks loose!
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, in central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing. While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer, Lola. Her complaints about the inadequate footwear for her work combined with one of Charles' ex-employees, Lauren, leads to a suggestion to change the product to create a desperate chance to save the business: make men's fetish footwear. Lola is convinced to be their footwear designer and the transition begins. Now this disparate lot must struggle at this unorthodox idea while dealing both the prejudice of the staff, Lola's discomfort in the small town and the selfish manipulation of Charles' greedy fiancée who cannot see the greater good in Charles' dream.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:34 |
Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His talent is recognized by a gardening guru who encourages him and four other inmates to enter a national gardening competition
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.