John LeTour is a drug courier with a wealthy Manhattan clientele. Following a series of murders involving the narcotics trade, and his supplier Ann’s decision to try and quit the business, John begins to reevaluate his life. Running into his old flame Marianne, he sees a chance to change for the ...

After being released from prison, drug-lord Frank White (Christopher Walken) faces a fight to keep his empire together. He decides to go for the jugular and employ the most brutal tactics to retain his prominence. But his unstable approach to business management threatens to take down the whole v...

Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura), a BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) officer, is tasked with clearing the drug gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro before a visit from the Pope. Meanwhile, desperate to take on a safer job so that he can be closer to his pregnant wife, he trains up two y...

Obeying the first rule – 'write what you know' - former youth worker turned filmmaker Henry Blake turns in an original, stylish debut feature which premiered at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival.

It exposes the urban-to-rural drugs system of the title, a network which exploits children to use as...

This film is a blunt, brash and blood-smeared revenge tale of two sex workers who decide to go on a killing spree through France. Co-directed by French feminist provocateur Despentes, and based on her book, Baise-moi does not care for cinematic slickness, instead using handheld visuals and raw la...

A retelling of the Hansel and Gretel tale through a tacky tabloid lens and a distinct anti-authority vibe, this early Ozon film is sensationalistic by design. Teenage Alice (Régnier) convinces her boyfriend to murder her lover, but after the deed is done they're both trapped by a strange old man ...

Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of his girlfriend. Framed on a drunk-drive charge and suspended from the force, with his partner and best mate George Carter unable to help, Jack must rely on...

Irreversible is perhaps one of the cruelest films ever made. Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) set off on a blind rage of revenge after the former’s girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci) is raped. The twist is that their revenge spools out in reverse. Noé structured his notorious s...

In Huntleigh prison, a group of cell mates (Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins and David Lodge) plan the perfect burglary. By escaping the day before their release, then breaking back in again, they will have the perfect alibi when they rob a maharajah's palace of its diamonds - they will seemingly ...

When London gangster “Pearly” Gates (Peter Sellers) discovers he has been swindled by a group of criminals impersonating police officers, he teams up with a detective to entrap them. Throw in a rival gang, a double-crossing girlfriend and much identity confusion, and you have a delightfully a...

Basil Dearden directs this classic cop thriller which gave rise to long-running TV drama Dixon of Dock Green and influenced a swathe of British crime dramas. Jack Warner is PS George Dixon, the steadfast bobby approaching retirement, who has to contend with a new breed of criminal in the form of ...

The British New Wave came a decade earlier than advertised with Robert Hamer's downbeat postwar thriller. In a dank East End of ration-book misery, dosshouses and black marketeering, a world-weary housewife is shaken by the sudden reappearance of an old lover, now an escaped convict on the run. R...

1963: When Larry Winters violently murders a Soho barman in cold blood he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Within ten years he is addicted to prescription drugs and feared as Scotland's most violent inmate.

In this delightful fantasy adventure a mild-mannered newspaper columnist (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers who themselves sto...

Stylish first feature from Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) about a young Parisian postal worker (Frédéric Andréi) who secretly makes a bootleg recording of his favourite opera singer (Wilhelmenia Fernandez) performing. But the recording draws the attention of dangerous criminals as he become...

An unemployed Māori living in Auckland’s slums, heavy-drinking Jake has a violent temper that he takes out on his family and strangers alike - especially his wife, Beth. Their eldest son, Nig, has joined a gang; Boogie has been placed in foster care; and Grace retreats into her journal. The un...

Tony (Peter Ferdinando) cuts an odd figure. Wandering the streets of his East London neighbourhood, he quietly observes the people around him, occasionally inviting an unlucky few back to his flat for some squash. Asking a prostitute for a cuddle or reeling off his extensive VHS collection, he is...

A devoted family man, Carrère’s life takes a crushing turn when he is arrested for financial fraud. Confined to a grimy cell with inmates guilty of far darker crimes, he soon discovers they all share a single desire: to escape. Hope emerges when the group uncover a book of black magic once wielde...

When Esse (Nicolas Duvauchelle, in his debut feature role) a young apprentice baker, loses his job, he is drawn in to a dark underworld of gangs and petty crime. Zonca delivers a raw and gripping portrait of life on the margins of society, as a boy on the verge of adulthood is pulled in by the t...

Narcotics officer Lulu (Didier Bezace) and his squad doggedly navigate the grimy underbelly of Paris, contending with red-tape, a lack of resources and an overwhelming in-tray. Co-written with a French police veteran, Michel Alexandre, Tavernier’s film avoids the clichés, delivering an authentic ...

In 1963 LA, two officers were kidnapped in a real-life hostage ordeal that ended with the brutal execution of one in a desolate onion field. Though the other cop escapes, he is forever marked by the traumatic event. As the two assailants appeal their death sentences, they find themselves entangle...

Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a teenager forced into prostitution by her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her ...