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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 β¦lfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them... (Read More)
Themes: | near death experiencedrug addictiondepression |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | american abroadboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | human excrementreference to george besthead twisted backwardsreference to montgomery cliftheroin withdrawalreference to lou reedhuman fecesreference to iggy popfeces on faceshooting heroinreference to sean conneryair riflecovered in fecesfilthy toiletstepping in shit β¦head in toiletreference to paul newmandrug culturemethadonescam artistreference to david bowieamphetamineheroin addictionanti conformitydrug rehabilitationdrug withdrawalsuitcase full of moneyscreaming womanexcrementsocial decayreference to james bondreference to the beatlesarmed robberystolen moneyplaying poolreference to elvis presleydefecationbag of moneymoral dilemmaexistentialismcon artistdrug overdosedrug dealinghypodermic needleterminal illnessbeaten to deathon the runthroat slittingmarijuanabare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity (See All) |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | heroin withdrawalmethadonedrug rehabilitationdrug withdrawaldrug overdosehypodermic needlemarijuanafemale nuditymale nudity |
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)
Themes: | drug addictiondepression |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | methadoneheroin addictiondrug dealinghypodermic needlefemale nuditymale nudity |
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 β¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experiencedrug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | drug rehabilitationsuitcase full of moneysocial decaybag of moneydrug dealingbeaten to deaththroat slittingbare chested malefemale nudity |
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 β¦ 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)
Themes: | near death experience |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Story: | human excrementhuman fecesexcrementdefecationmoral dilemmabare chested malemale nudity |
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 β¦ns to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experiencedrug addiction |
Story: | drug rehabilitationdrug withdrawalmoral dilemmaexistentialismmarijuanabare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
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 β¦ler Pooh-Bear. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | methadoneplaying poolbag of moneydrug overdosehypodermic needlebare chested male |
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)
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | shooting heroinexcrementsocial decaybag of moneydrug overdosehypodermic needleterminal illnessbeaten to deathbare 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 β¦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)
Themes: | near death experiencedrug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | armed robberystolen moneydrug overdosedrug dealinghypodermic needleon the runmale nudity |
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Themes: | drug addiction |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | american abroadboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | drug withdrawalbare 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 β¦ 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)
Themes: | near death experience |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | social decayreference to the beatlesmoral dilemmahypodermic needlebeaten to deaththroat slittingbare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
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.
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | reference to lou reedreference to iggy popreference to david bowiereference to the beatlesdrug overdosemarijuanabare chested malefemale nudity |
Themes: | drug addiction |
Story: | amphetaminedefecationdrug dealinghypodermic needlebare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
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 β¦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. (Read More)
Characters: | american abroadboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | suitcase full of moneysocial decaybag of moneymoral dilemmacon artistbare chested malemale nudity |
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.
Themes: | near death experience |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | reference to david bowieplaying pooldrug overdoseterminal illnessbeaten to deathbare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but alon β¦g with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | shooting heroinheroin addictiondrug dealinghypodermic needlemarijuanafemale nuditymale nudity |
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.
Themes: | near death experience |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | social decaydrug overdosedrug dealingbeaten to deathbare chested male |
An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his crack-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | drug rehabilitationdrug overdosedrug dealingmarijuana |
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 |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to the beatlesreference to elvis presleymarijuana |
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, β¦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)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | drug overdosedrug dealingmarijuanafemale nudity |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | drug overdosedrug dealinghypodermic needlemarijuanabare chested malemale nudity |
A group of drug users in the 1970's help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. Matt Dillon's character is very superstitious and eventually his luck runs out.
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | drug rehabilitationdrug overdosedrug dealinghypodermic needle |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | methadonedrug withdrawalterminal illnessmarijuana |
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)
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | american abroadmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | bag of moneymoral dilemmahypodermic needlebeaten to deathon the runbare 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 β¦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)
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to david bowiemoral dilemmadrug overdosedrug dealingmarijuanabare 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 β¦split, only to see each other three years later... And things get messy. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experience |
Characters: | american abroadfather son relationship |
Story: | bag of moneycon artistbare 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 β¦d then stardom. Also includes his addiction to drugs and its affect on his working life and family life. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | heroin addictiondrug withdrawaldrug overdosehypodermic needlemarijuana |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | drug cultureheroin addictionreference to the beatlesdrug overdosemarijuanafemale nuditymale nudity |
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 β¦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)
Themes: | near death experiencedrug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | reference to elvis presleymoral dilemmahypodermic needlebeaten to deathbare chested male |
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 β¦ the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | drug withdrawalreference to james bondhypodermic needlemarijuanafemale nudity |
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 β¦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)
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | defecationdrug dealingmarijuanabare 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: | drug addictiondepression |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to the beatlesterminal illness |
A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | moral dilemmahypodermic needleterminal illnessbare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
Themes: | near death experiencedepression |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | drug rehabilitationdrug overdosemarijuana |
Locations: | london england |
Story: | bag of moneybeaten to deathon the runthroat slittingbare chested male |
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Cres β¦t Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthen, and ultimately heals her. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | heroin addictiondefecationhypodermic needleterminal illnessbare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
Camden College. Sean Bateman is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He's also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to "fellow" dealer Rupert Guest, as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde is, β¦technically, a virgin. She's saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson, who's left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara, has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton, who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen, who's dating Candice to prove to Paul that he's not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean. (Read More)
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | playing pooldefecationdrug overdosedrug dealingmarijuanafemale nuditymale nudity |
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 β¦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. (Read More)
Characters: | american abroadboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | scam artistreference to james bondcon artiston the runbare chested male |
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to david bowiedrug rehabilitationreference to the beatlesdrug overdosehypodermic needlebare 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 β¦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. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experience |
Characters: | american abroadboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | social decayreference to elvis presleybag of moneymoral dilemmabeaten to deathbare chested male |
When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.
Themes: | near death experience |
Characters: | american abroadhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | social decaymoral dilemmathroat slittingbare chested male |
At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in sch β¦ool, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | drug overdosedrug dealingmarijuanafemale nudity |
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influenc β¦e of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | heroin addictiondrug overdosehypodermic needlemarijuanafemale nuditymale nudity |
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mon β¦days, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | methadonereference to david bowiedrug dealingmarijuanafemale nuditymale nudity |
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 β¦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. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experiencedepression |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | playing poolhypodermic needlemarijuanabare chested malefemale nuditymale nudity |
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.
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | playing pooldrug dealingmarijuanafemale nudity |
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but t β¦he family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough Boston neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve their case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that could tear them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | drug addiction |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | bag of moneymoral dilemmabare 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 β¦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)
Themes: | near death experience |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | moral dilemmaexistentialismhypodermic needlebeaten to death |
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)
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | social decaybeaten to deathon the runthroat slittingbare chested male |
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)
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bag of moneymoral dilemmadrug dealingbeaten to deathon the run |