A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old gir…lfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them... (Read More)
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | human excrement, reference to george best, head twisted backwards, reference to montgomery clift, heroin withdrawal, reference to lou reed, human feces, reference to iggy pop, feces on face, shooting heroin, reference to sean connery, air rifle, covered in feces, filthy toilet, stepping in shit, head in toilet, reference to paul newman, drug culture, methadone, scam artist… |
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Star…ting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant. (Read More)
| Story: | heroin withdrawal, methadone, drug rehabilitation, drug withdrawal, drug overdose, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship |
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 …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)
| Story: | shooting heroin, excrement, social decay, bag of money, drug overdose, hypodermic needle, terminal illness, beaten to death, london england, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Finn and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents and sadistic dea…ler Pooh-Bear. (Read More)
| Story: | methadone, playing pool, bag of money, drug overdose, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, bare chested male |
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…nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | methadone, heroin addiction, drug dealing, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, london england, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
Two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in ov…er their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government. Based on true events. This is why War Dogs (2016) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | suitcase full of money, social decay, bag of money, moral dilemma, con artist, american abroad, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, bare chested male |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
| Story: | reference to lou reed, reference to iggy pop, reference to david bowie, reference to the beatles, drug overdose, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
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.
| Story: | social decay, near death experience, drug overdose, drug dealing, beaten to death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser…ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
| Story: | drug rehabilitation, suitcase full of money, social decay, bag of money, near death experience, drug dealing, drug addiction, beaten to death, throat slitting, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, bare chested male |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | reference to the beatles, reference to elvis presley, marijuana, london england, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship |
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 …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. This is why Criminal (2016) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | bag of money, moral dilemma, hypodermic needle, american abroad, beaten to death, on the run, london england, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, bare chested male |
Cole is an aspiring DJ who spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James, who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, whe…n Cole starts falling for James' much younger girlfriend, Sophie. With Cole's forbidden relationship intensifying and his friendships unraveling, he must choose between love, loyalty, and the future he is destined for. (Read More)
| Story: | reference to david bowie, moral dilemma, drug overdose, drug dealing, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
| Story: | amphetamine, defecation, drug dealing, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, bare chested male |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | reference to the beatles, terminal illness, drug addiction, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship |
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow l…eads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know? (Read More)
| Story: | drug overdose, drug dealing, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, marijuana, husband wife relationship, bare chested male |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra…cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. This is why Catch Me If You Can (2002) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | scam artist, reference to james bond, con artist, american abroad, on the run, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
| Story: | bag of money, beaten to death, on the run, throat slitting, london england, bare chested male |
Despite being no saint herself, Julia Cody has shielded her seventeen year old son, Joshua "J" Cody, from her Melbourne-based criminal relatives who they have not seen in years. After Julia dies in front of J's eyes from a self-inflicted heroin overdose, J, who is slightly detached from life, feels …he has no choice but to contact his maternal grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, the family matriarch, for a place to live. Smurf rules the family with a borderline incestuous love over her three sons, the quietly menacing Andrew "Pope" Cody, the hyperactive Craig Cody, and the barely of age Darren Cody. Pope and his best friend, Barry "Baz" Brown, are armed robbers, with Darren their up and coming apprentice, while Craig is a mid level drug dealer. Melbourne's Armed Robbery Squad is after specifically Pope, who is hiding out. But when the standoff between the Codys and the Armed Robbery Squad is brought up a notch, an all out war ensues, with some casualties and J caught in the middle. The only grounding in J's life is his girlfriend, Nicky Henry. With those casualties comes an investigation by Homicide Detective Senior Sergeant Nathan Leckie, who knows the Codys are involved in some of those deaths. As Leckie tries to get J on his side, J has to figure out how best to get himself out from the middle, where he trusts neither side. J also wants to figure out how to exact what he considers justice in an all around bad situation. (Read More)
| Story: | armed robbery, drug overdose, on the run, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
After Iggy's long-time girlfriend is murdered and the whole town agrees he is the killer, he awakens one morning with horns and the townspeople soon confess their sins. Once knowing the sins of the people, he is facing the true killer of his beloved girlfriend.
| Story: | reference to david bowie, playing pool, near death experience, drug overdose, terminal illness, beaten to death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int…ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
| Story: | reference to elvis presley, moral dilemma, near death experience, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, beaten to death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, bare chested male |
The story of Ray Charles, music legend. Told in his adult live with flashbacks to his youth we see his humble origins in Florida, his turbulent childhood which included losing his brother and then his sight, his rise as pianist in a touring band, his writing his own songs and running his own band an…d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. This is why Ray (2004) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | heroin addiction, drug withdrawal, drug overdose, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, marijuana, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship |
A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
| Story: | moral dilemma, hypodermic needle, terminal illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, …and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. (Read More)
| Story: | drug overdose, drug dealing, drug addiction, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship |
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Archor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begi…ns to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions. (Read More)
| Story: | drug rehabilitation, drug withdrawal, moral dilemma, existentialism, near death experience, drug addiction, marijuana, bare chested male |
Nicky Spurgeon is an extremely accomplished con man who takes an amateur con artist, Jess, under his wing. Nicky and Jess become romantically involved, and with Nicky's profession of being a liar and a cheater for a living, he realizes that deception and love are things that don't go together. They …split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy. (Read More)
| Story: | con artist, bag of money, near death experience, american abroad, father son relationship, bare chested male |
James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in a dynamic and thrilling twist on a legendary tale. Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protege Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But… Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation. This is why Victor Frankenstein (2015) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | moral dilemma, near death experience, beaten to death, on the run, london england, father son relationship, bare chested male |
| Story: | con artist, beaten to death, on the run, throat slitting, london england, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | reference to elvis presley, hypodermic needle, american abroad, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
Jules Winnfield ('Samuel L. Jackson' (qv)) and Vincent Vega ('John Travolta (I)' (qv)) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace ('Ving Rhames' (qv)). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia ('Uma Thurman' (qv)) out a few da…ys later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge ('Bruce Willis' (qv)) is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. (Read More)
| Story: | armed robbery, stolen money, near death experience, drug overdose, drug dealing, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, on the run, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship |
It is Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is unemployed, having, yesterday, been fired. He is lounging around his house with his friend Smokey (Chris Tucker), a rather incompetent weed dealer. Smokey's problem is that he tends to smoke, rather than sell, his product. This has lead to trouble with Smok…ey's supplier, Big Worm, who now wants his money, or his product back, or Smokey is a dead man. Then there's Deebo, the local bully, plus Craig's jealous, psychotic girlfriend, Joi, and Debbie, the neighbour Craig has a crush on. A lot can happen while lounging around your house on a Friday. (Read More)
| Story: | defecation, drug dealing, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa…chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. This is why Across The Universe (2007) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | playing pool, near death experience, hypodermic needle, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the… program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating. (Read More)
| Story: | social decay, reference to the beatles, moral dilemma, near death experience, hypodermic needle, beaten to death, throat slitting, london england, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
| Story: | reference to david bowie, social decay, beaten to death, on the run, husband wife relationship |
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In… the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
| Story: | drug withdrawal, reference to james bond, hypodermic needle, drug addiction, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship |
A lone man, recently released from prison, seeks out the people from his past who he believes betrayed him. While he forces each to atone for their sins, he must also face what meting out vengeance will do to his immortal soul. Meanwhile, he's not the only one looking to settle old scores. Hired by …the man responsible for the events which lead him to prison, an eccentric contract killer follows his every move. Scenes of them crossing paths, sometimes violently, are interspersed with the assassin's self-realizations of how to deal with struggles within his own life. As if old enemies & hired guns aren't enough, a young female detective begrudgingly works alongside a veteran investigator looking to simply survive his last two weeks on the force before retirement, as they seek out the brazen ex-con who has been blazing a path of gasoline-powered destruction in his vintage Chevelle. (Read More)
| Story: | drug overdose, hypodermic needle, throat slitting, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one. Thi…s is why The Way Of The Gun (2000) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | bag of money, existentialism, hypodermic needle, on the run, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find… a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring "the Martian" home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible, rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney's safe return. (Read More)
| Story: | human excrement, human feces, excrement, defecation, moral dilemma, near death experience, london england, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, bare chested male |
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit…s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)
| Themes: | depression |
| Story: | reference to elvis presley, terminal illness, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, bare chested male |
| Story: | drug withdrawal, moral dilemma, beaten to death, on the run, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, bare chested male |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force …performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
| Story: | drug culture, heroin addiction, reference to the beatles, drug overdose, drug addiction, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship |
In California, the former Navy SEAL Chon and his best friend, the peaceful botanist Ben, are successful entrepreneurs producing and dealing high-quality weed. Chon brought seeds from Afghanistan and Ben used his knowledge to develop the best marijuana in the country. Chon and Ben share the pothead l…over Ophelia and she loves both of them since they complete each other - Chon is a powerful and strong lover and Ben is a sensible and loving lover. Their comfortable life changes when the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a partnership in their business. Chon and Ben refuse the deal and the leader of the cartel Elena sends her right-arm in America, Lado, to abduct Ophelia to press the American drug dealers. Chon and Ben ask the support of the dirty DEA Agent Dennis and get inside information to begin a secret war against the Baja Cartel to release Ophelia. This is why Savages (2012) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | marijuana, reference to paul newman, american abroad, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
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…dia sensation thanks to sensationalized reporting. Told in a highly visual style. (Read More)
| Story: | social decay, beaten to death, on the run, throat slitting, london england, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost …limit. (Read More)
| Story: | human excrement, excrement, hypodermic needle, mother son relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
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.
| Story: | playing pool, drug dealing, marijuana, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship |
In 2029 the mutant population has shrunken significantly and the X-Men have disbanded. Logan, whose power to self-heal is dwindling, has surrendered himself to alcohol and now earns a living as a chauffeur. He takes care of the ailing old Professor X whom he keeps hidden away. One day, a female stra…nger asks Logan to drive a girl named Laura to the Canadian border. At first he refuses, but the Professor has been waiting for a long time for her to appear. Laura possesses an extraordinary fighting prowess and is in many ways like Wolverine. She is pursued by sinister figures working for a powerful corporation; this is because her DNA contains the secret that connects her to Logan. A relentless pursuit begins - In this third cinematic outing featuring the Marvel comic book character Wolverine we see the superheroes beset by everyday problems. They are aging, ailing and struggling to survive financially. A decrepit Logan is forced to ask himself if he can or even wants to put his remaining powers to good use. It would appear that in the near-future, the times in which they were able put the world to rights with razor sharp claws and telepathic powers are now over. (Read More)
| Story: | moral dilemma, existentialism, hypodermic needle, beaten to death, on the run, throat slitting, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n…ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. This is why The Dark Knight (2008) is one of the best movies like Trainspotting (1996). (Read More)
| Story: | social decay, reference to elvis presley, bag of money, moral dilemma, near death experience, american abroad, beaten to death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estran…ged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on. (Read More)
| Story: | methadone, drug withdrawal, terminal illness, drug addiction, marijuana, london england, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M…idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
| Story: | social decay, armed robbery, stolen money, bag of money, on the run, mother son relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male |
In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Humankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The child…ren go to school at an army base in rural Britain, where they're subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua), thus forming a special bond. But when the base is invaded, the trio escape with the assistance of Sgt. Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is. (Read More)
| Story: | moral dilemma, existentialism, near death experience, hypodermic needle, american abroad, beaten to death, london england |
1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, John…ny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger? (Read More)
| Story: | playing pool, defecation, marijuana, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, bare chested male |
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