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George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone, a beautiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only S β¦imone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell, the local kingpin. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyindependent film |
Themes: | unrequited lovegangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london englandstrip clubenglandcityurban settingchurch |
Characters: | driverpimpinterracial relationshipprostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | sexual euphemismclimbing stairswhite rabbitbritish noirblack britishteenage prostitutionbritish renaissancelooking at oneself in a mirrordoomed romancecharacter says good nightblack slurdoor knockersophisticationclimbing stepscar park β¦talking in a carsliding doorpornographic filmwoman murders a manpornographic videosaying thank youcorpse with eyes openproverbuse of bloody as epithetunderage girldouble murderbrightonparking a carpet shopcharacter says i'm sorrylooking at pictureprotective malefemale name in titleliftrevolving doormacesong during end creditstalking while drivingwoman with guncockney accentsex shopmurder by gunshoteuphemismmurderessmale protagonistlying on bedmoustachen wordknocking on a doortelling someone to shut upblack manhit in the faceg stringphoto albumchauffeuropening a doorbruisepiertaking a picturestairsremote controlblack womanpromisedriving a carsadomasochismvisitscene during opening creditsbeardtitle based on songice creamwhippingex convictprofanitywigpursuitflowersrabbitracial slurapologybridgename in titlef wordcriminalbritishprostitutionrunningshootingcameracomputerrescueblondeshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingbare breastsviolence (See All) |
The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | unrequited love |
Locations: | london englandenglandcitychurch |
Story: | british renaissancecockney accentmale protagonistopening a doorbruisevisitprofanityapologyf wordbritish |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | pimpprostitute |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorcockney accentsadomasochismscene during opening creditsf wordbritishcamerashot in the chestbeatingchasephotographviolence |
As a child piano prodigy, 'David Helfgott' (qv)'s musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous β¦ childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyindependent film |
Locations: | city |
Story: | climbing stairslooking at picturelying on bedknocking on a doortelling someone to shut upopening a doorvisitscene during opening creditsapologycameracomputerblondecigarette smoking |
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' m β¦erry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyindependent film |
Locations: | city |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | corpse with eyes openlooking at picturelying on bedknocking on a doortelling someone to shut upopening a doorprofanityracial slurapologyf wordrunningcigarette smokingviolence |
Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a ces β¦spool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | cityurban setting |
Characters: | driverpimpprostitute |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortalking while drivingmale protagonistn wordracial slurf wordprostitutionshootingcamerarescueshot in the chestmirrorcigarette smokingviolence |
A frustrated and clumsy bank clerk overhears the conversation of three coworkers in the toilet about a fix in a horse race, and bets a large amount. He loses the bet and owes the money to the dangerous and powerful mobster Fingers. A gangster who works for Fingers has the ability of foreseeing piece β¦s of the future; he is assigned to collect money for the boss, with his troublemaker nephew Tony, and is beaten up by a gang. The manager of pop-star Trista loses her contract to Fingers without her agreement and she is threatened by the gangster. A dedicated doctor seeks a blood donor that might have a rare blood type to save the life of his secret and unrequited passion, a beautiful epidemiologist who's married to a friend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | unrequited lovegangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | strip cluburban setting |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorremote controlpursuitrunningshootingcamerashot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just β¦when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | urban setting |
Characters: | driver |
Story: | black manhit in the facedriving a carscene during opening creditsbeardtitle based on songprofanitypursuitracial slurapologybridgef wordcriminalrunningrescue β¦shot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence (See All) |
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northea β¦st - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother. (Read More)
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrormurder by gunshotknocking on a doorpromiseex convictpursuitapologybridgef wordrunningshootingshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchase β¦photographcigarette smokingviolence (See All) |
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Ze has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bene is the only one to keep him on t β¦he good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | cityurban settingchurch |
Characters: | interracial relationshipprostitute |
Story: | promisepursuitracial slurcriminalprostitutionrunningshootingcamerashot in the chestchasephotographviolence |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | strip club |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorknocking on a doorpromisepursuitrabbitapologyf wordshootingblondeshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasephotographcigarette smoking β¦bare breastsviolence (See All) |
Mickey Knox and Mallory Wilson aren't your typical lovers - after killing her abusive father, they go on a road trip where, every time they stop somewhere, they kill pretty well everyone around them. They do however leave one person alive at every shootout to tell the story and they soon become a me β¦dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrormacecockney accentsadomasochismscene during opening creditsrabbitbridgef wordcriminalshootingcamerarescueshot in the chestbeatingphotograph β¦cigarette smokingviolence (See All) |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and β¦disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | cityurban setting |
Characters: | interracial relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorcockney accentmale protagonistopening a doorblack womanprofanityf wordcriminalrunningshootingshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasecigarette smoking β¦violence (See All) |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen β¦ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyindependent film |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorphoto albumbruisepierapologyf wordbritishrunningcameramirrorbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorpromisebeardex convictprofanityracial slurf wordcriminalrescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographviolence |
In the US-government's special ops, Scott is a shooter, not a planner, doing the job without regard to quaint or obsolete convention. When a Harvard undergrad goes missing (the daughter of a US leader), it's Scott who applies the pressure, first to her boyfriend, then to a madam whose cathouse is th β¦e initial stop en route to a white slavery auction in Dubai. The abductors may not know the girl's identity, but once they figure it out, she's doomed. Deadly double crosses force Scott to become a planner. Through it all, earnest TV newscasters read the drivel they're handed. (Read More)
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorwigpursuitracial slurf wordrunningshootingrescueblondeshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasephotographcigarette smoking β¦violence (See All) |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Locations: | church |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorknocking on a doorpromisescene during opening creditsbeardpursuitapologybritishrunningshootingshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasephotograph β¦cigarette smokingviolence (See All) |
John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Rick β¦y is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyindependent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | cityurban settingchurch |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | n wordtitle based on songex convictracial slurf wordrunningshootingshot in the chestbeatingchasecigarette smokingviolence |
A mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set u β¦p a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | strip clubcity |
Characters: | driverinterracial relationship |
Story: | protective malescene during opening creditsbeardex convictracial slurf wordcriminalshot in the chestbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni β¦e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | london englandenglandchurch |
Characters: | driver |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorcockney accentmale protagonistknocking on a doorpromiseflowersapologyf wordcriminalrunningcameramirrorbeatingphotographcigarette smoking β¦violence (See All) |
Characters: | pimpprostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | bruisepursuitflowersapologyname in titlef wordprostitutionrunningcamerabeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates a β¦nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | interracial relationshipprostitute |
Story: | revolving doormacewigracial slurprostitutioncomputershot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasecigarette smokingviolence |
In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her fath β¦er. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | sexual euphemismparking a carprotective malesong during end creditseuphemismlying on bedknocking on a dooropening a doordriving a carvisitscene during opening creditsapologyblonde |
"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | strip cluburban setting |
Characters: | prostitute |
Story: | bruisepursuitcriminalshootingcameracomputershot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasecigarette smokingviolence |
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. When his new identity β¦becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | city |
Characters: | interracial relationship |
Story: | woman murders a mancockney accentbeardprofanityracial slurf wordcriminalrescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographviolence |
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner wh β¦o has been missing for 30 years. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorwoman murders a manhit in the facebruisepierbeardprofanityf wordcamerarescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smoking β¦bare breastsviolence (See All) |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bosto β¦n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | urban settingchurch |
Characters: | prostitute |
Story: | pierex convictprofanityracial slurbridgef wordcriminalshot in the chestbeatingphotographcigarette smokingviolence |
'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Themes: | unrequited love |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorhit in the facepursuitrabbitbridgef wordrunningshootingshot in the chestmirrorchasecigarette smokingviolence |
Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | urban setting |
Characters: | prostitute |
Story: | beardex convictprofanityf wordcriminalshot in the chestbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Locations: | church |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorhit in the facepromisescene during opening creditspursuitflowersapologyf wordrunningcamerarescuemirrorchasephotograph |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge β¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | strip cluburban setting |
Characters: | interracial relationshipprostitute |
Story: | scene during opening creditsex convictracial slurf wordcriminalcomputershot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingbare breastsviolence |
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the co β¦de to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. (Read More)
Locations: | london englandengland |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorcockney accentmoustacheknocking on a doorscene during opening creditspursuitapologyf wordrunningshootingcomputerrescueshot in the chestmirrorbeating β¦chasephotograph (See All) |
Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot h β¦im, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? (Read More)
Locations: | strip club |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | knocking on a doorg stringstairspromisepursuitapologyf wordrunningshootingshot in the chestmirrorbeatingchasephotographcigarette smoking β¦violence (See All) |
Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention.
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Locations: | strip clubchurch |
Characters: | pimpinterracial relationshipprostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | chauffeurbridgeshootingbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to β¦ rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. (Read More)
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrormale protagonistpromisescene during opening creditsapologyf wordcamerarescuemirrorphotographcigarette smokingbare breasts |
In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the dia β¦ry home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon's driver Nikolai Luzhin gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby. (Read More)
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london englandurban setting |
Characters: | driverprostitute |
Story: | protective malechauffeurbruisecriminalprostitutionblondebeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | urban setting |
Story: | n wordprofanityracial slurf wordcriminalshootingshot in the chestbeatingchasecigarette smokingviolence |
In England, retired Royal Marine Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge pub owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local β¦gang is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten, then stabbed to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london englandurban setting |
Characters: | pimpprostitute |
Story: | cockney accentvisitwhippingf wordcriminalbritishshootingrescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that th β¦ey can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | cityurban setting |
Characters: | pimpprostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | bruisestairssadomasochismwhippingprostitutionmirrorbeatingphotographcigarette smokingbare breastsviolence |
Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). When he wakes up β¦with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and make the deal with him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorcockney accentbeardbridgef wordcriminalrescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a β¦n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | cockney accentex convictpursuitracial slurcriminalbritishshootingbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i β¦mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | london englandengland |
Characters: | prostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | british renaissancecockney accentf wordbeatingchasecigarette smokingviolence |
Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape o β¦f what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon? (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Characters: | pimpprostitute |
Story: | revolving doorwigpursuitrabbitcamerarescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographviolence |
A disillusioned killer embarks on his last hit but first he has to overcome his affections for his cool, detached partner. Thinking it's dangerous and improper to become involved with a colleague he sets out to find a surrogate for his affections. Against the sordid and surreal urban nightscape (set β¦ in contemporary Hong Kong), he crosses path with a strange drifter looking for her mysterious ex-boyfriend and an amusing mute trying to get the world's attention in his own unconventional ways. (Read More)
Themes: | unrequited lovegangster |
Locations: | cityurban setting |
Characters: | prostitute |
Story: | ice creamex convictracial slurshootingbeatingcigarette smoking |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a β¦nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | london englandstrip clubengland |
Story: | british renaissancebruisesadomasochismbritishcameramirrorbeatingcigarette smoking |
Fresh out of prison, Mitchel wants nothing to do with crime but accepts a kip from Billy, a marginal grafter, and accompanies Billy on rent collection trips. He's also old school, wanting revenge on two youths for assaulting a mendicant he's befriended. He's got a strung-out sister to protect, and h β¦e's offered a job protecting a famous actress from paparazzi. The plot lines join when Michael finds himself attracted to the actress and Billy's Mob boss, Gant, finds ways to force Michael work for him. He also warns Michael off revenge against the assailants of his friend. What are Michael's options: is there any way to avoid Gant, protect his sister, and find a path to love? (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | london englandstrip club |
Story: | scene during opening creditsex convictracial slurcriminalshot in the chestbeatingphotographcigarette smokingviolence |
After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is a city in Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. Th β¦ey try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape... (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedyindependent film |
Locations: | london englandenglandcity |
Characters: | prostitute |
Story: | british renaissancescene during opening creditscriminalbritishphotographcigarette smokingbare breasts |
Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in tur β¦n. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | gangster |
Locations: | london englandstrip club |
Story: | cockney accentsex shopblack manbridgef wordbritishshot in the chestbeatingcigarette smokingviolence |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston β¦police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a speβ¦ (Read More)
Subgenre: | tragedy |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | pimpinterracial relationshipprostitutefather daughter relationship |
Story: | n wordwhippingex convictracial slurbridgef wordcriminalrescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate β¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | urban setting |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | bruisescene during opening creditsex convictracial slurbridgef wordcriminalcamerarescueshot in the chestbeatingchasephotographcigarette smokingviolence |